We take a product from an initial brief through to a system your team can operate. That means the unglamorous parts as well as the interesting ones — schema design, deployment, error handling, and the tests that catch a regression before your customers do. We work in short increments with something demonstrable at the end of each, so you are never waiting on a big reveal.
- A working, deployed application
- Source code and infrastructure you own outright
- Automated tests around the parts that matter
- Documentation for running and extending it
- A handover session with your team
Founders without an engineering teamBuilding alongside a full roadmapPrototypes that have outgrown themselves
Software shipped under pressure accumulates a particular kind of debt: the parts everyone avoids. We work out what the system actually does, then make it safe to change again — characterisation tests first, then the refactor, in an order that keeps you shipping throughout. No rewrite unless a rewrite is genuinely cheaper, and we will tell you honestly which it is.
- A written assessment of what is actually wrong, ranked by risk
- Tests around the behaviour you cannot afford to break
- Incremental refactors, each independently shippable
- A maintenance plan your own team can carry on with
Releases that have quietly stalledSystems with no original authors leftWhen you have been told to rewrite
A short, focused engagement answering one specific question: will this design hold. We read the code, talk to the people maintaining it, and come back with findings you can act on — what will break first, what will cost most to change later, and what is fine as it is. Useful before a funding round, a migration, or an acquisition.
- A findings document, ranked by severity and effort
- Specific remediation steps, not general advice
- A walkthrough session with your team or your board
Technical due diligencePlanning a major migrationGetting an outside read
Custom quoteContact for a quote
Typical turnaround: One to two weeks
Arrange a reviewA fixed-price sprint whose real product is a read on how we work. Bring one idea — an internal tool, a workflow, a proof of concept — and we build as far toward it as a single focused sprint allows. It is the low-risk way to see how Coherent Constructs scopes, builds and ships, and to judge whether the code we write is the code you want holding your business together before you commit to a larger build.
- A working prototype you can click through and show around
- A clear read on how we scope and build
- An honest estimate of what a full build would take
- Your prototype hosted for two months so you can keep testing it
Founders testing an ideaTeams evaluating a studioProofs of concept
