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About us

Engineers who stand behind
what they hand over.

A small team with no layer of managers. We take on what we do well and say “no” to the rest. The client gets all of it: code, access, rights.

Philosophy

Three things
we don't compromise on.

01

A working screen instead of a promise

A demo every 2–3 days. The gap between what you meant and what we understood surfaces in the second week and costs hours. At handover the same gap would cost weeks.

02

We understand every line we hand over

Every line goes through review by a person. If an engineer cannot explain why a solution works, it does not go into the project. That is slower and more expensive. We have found no other way to keep a system maintainable a year later.

03

Nothing ties you to us

The source code, the infrastructure and the rights are yours under the contract. A good contractor is one you can walk away from in a day. We would rather you did not want to.

Principles

Four rules
the work runs by.

Speed

The first demo on day 3–5. A working screen is easier to discuss than a promise.

Transparency

An estimate broken down line by line, access to the repository from day one, a weekly report with the risks. Bad news comes from us, early.

Security

A dependency check on every project, and an audit before launch on the ones that involve money or personal data.

Code ownership

The source code and the rights are yours. You can walk away from a good contractor in a day, and that is how it should be.

Team

Who does the work
and what they answer for.

Below are roles. We do not publish names and photographs yet, so the team is shown this way.

Lead engineer

Architecture, backend, code sign-off

No name yet

Answers for the system holding up under load and for it still being maintainable a year from now. Reviews every merge and has the right to say “this is not going out”.

GoPostgreSQLDockerKubernetes

Front-end engineer

Interfaces, accessibility, performance

No name yet

Counts Core Web Vitals as part of acceptance, the same as buttons that work. Checks every screen from the keyboard and at 320 px.

Next.jsTypeScriptTailwind CSSPlaywright

AI engineer

Agents, knowledge bases, quality evaluation

No name yet

Builds agents and measures them on labelled datasets. Reckons 80% of answer quality comes from the knowledge base and only the remainder from the choice of model.

PythonLangChainQdrantLangfuse

Security engineer

Penetration testing, AI red teaming, compliance

No name yet

Breaks colleagues' work before an outsider gets the chance. Maintains an internal catalogue of attacks on LLM agents.

OWASPBurp SuiteMITRE ATLASSemgrep
Path

How we got here
without a garage origin story.

  1. 2025

    First projects as a team

    We put together a small team of senior engineers and our own library of standard blocks: authentication, payments, an admin panel. We measured that rebuilding them from scratch on every project is the most expensive habit in the industry.

  2. Early 2026

    IT&SOFT as an agency

    We formalised the practice: a brief with the economics worked out, a demo every 2–3 days, mandatory review of every line by a person.

  3. Spring 2026

    AI red teaming lab

    We built a test rig with a catalogue of attacks on LLM agents. We run our own rollouts through it before handing them to the client.

  4. Now

    Voice agents and digital twins

    Two areas in progress: voice where it is easier for the customer to speak, and simulation where a decision is too expensive to test on a live business.

Numbers
5 days
to the first working demo
10
areas of work we report on with numbers
100%
of projects handed over with the source code
2 hours
average response time to an enquiry
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Work with us
or join us.

Tell us about the task and we reply within two hours. Or look at the open roles if you would rather be on our side of the table.