Tech stack & integrations
What we build with, what we connect to, and the reasoning behind choosing boring technology on purpose.
What we build with, what we connect to, and the reasoning behind choosing boring technology on purpose.
React and Next.js on the front end; Node.js, Python, PHP and Laravel on the back end; React Native for mobile; PostgreSQL and MySQL for data; AWS and Azure for infrastructure; and the major AI providers alongside open-weight models.
The most interesting technology choice is usually the wrong one. Newer frameworks have thinner documentation, smaller hiring pools and uncertain support horizons, and the cost of those lands on you two years after we have finished.
We choose widely adopted, well-supported technology and reserve novelty for the places where it earns its risk. That makes projects less exciting to write about and considerably easier to maintain.
This is where we usually start rather than a fixed menu. Where your team already runs something well, we would generally work with it instead of migrating you to our preference.
| Front end | React, Next.js, TypeScript, Tailwind CSS |
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| Back end | Node.js, Python, PHP and Laravel |
| Mobile | React Native, with Swift and Kotlin where native is justified |
| Data | PostgreSQL, MySQL, BigQuery, dbt, Airflow |
| AI | Anthropic and OpenAI APIs, Llama and Mistral, LangChain, vector databases |
| Infrastructure | AWS, Azure, Docker, Terraform, GitHub Actions |
| CMS and commerce | WordPress, Shopify, Strapi, WooCommerce |
| Blockchain | Solidity, Polygon, Ethereum, Hyperledger Fabric |
| Testing | Playwright, Cypress, Jest, PyTest |
Most engagements involve connecting to systems you already run. These are the connections we build most often, and unfamiliar systems are usually reachable through an API, a database or scheduled file exchange.
We will not build on a stack your team cannot maintain, adopt a framework with an unclear support future for a long-lived system, or introduce Kubernetes for a workload that does not need it. Each of those decisions costs us nothing today and costs you for years.
Usually, and often that is the better answer. Migrating a working system to our preferred technology is expensive and rarely justified. We assess what you have before proposing to replace any of it.
We will tell you honestly whether we have real depth in it. Where we do not, we would rather bring in a specialist or point you elsewhere than learn on your budget and call it delivery.
A discovery call is a working session on your constraint, not a sales pitch.
A short note is enough. You'll hear back from the team, not a bot — usually within one working day.
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