case studies

A Track Record, With the Numbers Attached

New builds and modernizations alike: products built from scratch and priced like the experiments they were, legacy platforms modernized while the business kept operating, and fixed-price rebuilds. The figures are as recorded at the time: timelines, before/after counts.

Healthcare start-up

regression safety net

Aging codebase now facing enterprise security reviews and an end-of-life stack

  • coverage on core business logic 0 tests → 95%+
  • vendor security review failed → cleared
  • of medical data, served without interruption 100s GB / month
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TripHero

rebuild delivery

Goal of growing from 6 to 30 hotels in two quarters

  • production platform, fixed budget <12 weeks
  • certification passed SOC 2
  • staff time saved 2+ hrs/day
Read the study → client-reviewed

Performance-marketing company

the scale it absorbs

Revenue-critical software, every campaign click flows through it

  • at seasonal peak, with no scaling work 10M reqs/month
  • near-zero incidents since the migration, on the same codebase 1+/week → <1/quarter
Read the study → client-reviewed

Truity

MVP delivery

One-time purchase model capping customer LTV

  • fixed-price MVP <12 weeks
  • ongoing work + a full-stack migration Multi-year
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Evolve Edits

downtime · per quarter

Decade-old portal moving terabytes a month through one on-premise machine

  • down from 125, a 90% drop 12 incidents
  • upload throughput ~30 MB/s → uncapped
  • infrastructure cost · per month $1,700 → $300 −80%
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Consumer platform, sensitive data

fixed-price rebuild

Investor-promised B2B milestone blocked by the codebase

  • fixed-price rebuild 7 months
  • of the eventual engagement spend ~1%
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Plunjr

the market question, answered

App live for a year, 100+ installs a day, very few real customer calls

  • the whole MVP, built in a few weeks 1 button
  • to test the thesis, not the feature set $10K
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FanServ

live feed refresh

Official NBA team app serving hundreds of thousands of fans

  • live feed refresh 60s → 5s 12×
  • push to tens of thousands of devices 20–30 seconds
Read the study →
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