Product engineering studio
Software that survives contact with real users
We are the engineering team companies bring in when the product has to work. SaaS platforms, mobile apps, AI systems and the cloud infrastructure underneath them, built by senior engineers who stay on the project until it ships.
60+
Products shipped to production
14
Countries our clients operate in
8 yrs
Average senior engineer experience
94%
Of clients extend past the first contract
Trusted by product teams across healthcare, fintech, mobility and enterprise software
Services
Six practices that ship together
Real products rarely need one discipline. A payments platform needs backend, mobile, cloud and data on the same team, in the same standup. That is how we staff every engagement.
View all servicesProduct engineering
01Multi tenant SaaS, B2B portals and consumer web products, from the first schema to the production release.
Mobile engineering
02Native and cross platform apps with offline support, real device testing and release pipelines that do not require a person.
Agentic and generative AI
03Retrieval systems, agent workflows and LLM features with evaluation, guardrails and cost controls built in.
Cloud and platform engineering
04AWS, Azure and GCP infrastructure as code, Kubernetes, CI/CD, observability and cloud cost work.
Data engineering and analytics
05Pipelines, warehouses, semantic models and reporting that reconcile with the source systems.
Technology consulting
06Architecture reviews, technical due diligence, build versus buy analysis and modernization roadmaps.
Why teams pick us
Engineering, not headcount
Most outsourcing sells hours. We sell working software and the judgment that gets it there.
Senior engineers, no bait and switch
The engineers in your kickoff call are the engineers who write the code. We do not staff a pitch with architects and deliver with juniors.
Scope you can hold us to
Every engagement starts with a two week architecture sprint that produces a real plan: milestones, risks, cost bands and a working skeleton you can run.
You own everything
Repositories, cloud accounts, infrastructure definitions and documentation live in your organization from the first commit. There is no lock in to unwind later.
Timezone that actually overlaps
Our day covers the European morning and the Australian afternoon, with a committed four hour overlap for North American teams. Standups happen live, not in a document.
Tests and observability from day one
CI, integration tests, structured logging and dashboards ship with the first feature, not in a hardening phase that never gets funded.
We say no
If a feature will not move your numbers or an architecture will not hold at your projected scale, we tell you before you pay for it.
Selected case studies
Products in production, numbers attached
Every case study below names the problem, the decisions we made and what measurably changed afterwards.
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How we work
Five stages, no surprises
The same sequence runs on a six week prototype and an eighteen month platform build. The depth changes, the order does not.
Stage 01 · 2 weeks
Architecture sprint
Two weeks. We map the domain, pressure test the requirements, pick the stack and hand you a technical plan with cost bands and a running skeleton.
Stage 02 · 3 to 5 weeks
Foundation
Repository, CI, environments, authentication, observability and the first vertical slice of real functionality. You get a deployed URL in the first month.
Stage 03 · Ongoing
Build
Two week iterations against a visible backlog. Demo every second Thursday, staging deploy every merge, production release when you say go.
Stage 04 · 2 to 4 weeks
Harden and launch
Load testing, penetration testing, accessibility audit, runbooks and an on call rotation. We launch with you, not by handing over a zip file.
Stage 05 · Your call
Run or hand over
We either operate the platform on an agreed SLA or train your in house team over a documented transition. Both are planned before launch, never improvised.
Industries
Domain knowledge you do not have to explain
We have shipped in regulated healthcare, in payment rails, in vehicle telematics and in student information systems. You will not spend the first month teaching us your vocabulary.
Explore industriesHealthcare and life sciences
Clinical software that clears compliance and clinicians will use
Financial services and fintech
Money movement that reconciles to the cent
Automotive and mobility
Software for vehicles, fleets and everything they emit
Education technology
Platforms that work in a computer lab on a bad connection
Enterprise software
Systems that carry the business, not just a department
Professional services and consulting
Turning billable expertise into a product
Engagement models
Three ways to work with us
Pick the one that matches your certainty about scope, not the one that sounds cheapest.
A cross functional team that works only on your product
Dedicated pod
Four to eight engineers plus a product designer and a delivery lead, reporting into your roadmap. Best when you have a long product horizon and want continuity.
- Four to eight engineers plus design and delivery
- Works only on your roadmap
- Continuity across quarters
- Billed monthly per pod
Defined outcome, defined budget, defined date
Fixed scope build
We agree the scope in the architecture sprint and commit to it. Change requests are priced openly. Best when the requirements are stable and the deadline is real.
- Scope agreed in the architecture sprint
- Milestones you can hold us to
- Change requests priced openly
- Billed against milestones
Senior review without a build commitment
Advisory and audit
Architecture reviews, cloud cost audits, security assessments and due diligence for investors. Two to six weeks, ending in a written report and a working session.
- Two to six weeks, no build commitment
- Written report you can hand to a board
- Costed options including doing nothing
- Fixed fee
In their words
What partners say after launch
We had been through two agencies before Altus. The difference was that their architect pushed back on our own spec in week one and was right. That saved us a rebuild.
Director of Engineering
Series B healthcare platform, United States
Blog
Notes from live projects
Written by the engineers doing the work, about decisions that cost us something to learn.
Read all articlesYour RAG system does not have a retrieval problem
Teams rebuild their retrieval pipeline three times while the real failure is that nobody can tell whether a change made the answers better. Build the evaluation harness first.
July 9, 2026 · 7 min read
Four multi-tenancy decisions you cannot undo later
Tenant isolation, identity, data residency and the billing boundary are cheap to decide in week one and brutally expensive to change in year three. Here is how we choose.
June 18, 2026 · 7 min read
We cut a 41,000 dollar AWS bill to 16,400 without touching the product
A line by line account of a six week cloud cost engagement: what we found, what we changed, what we deliberately left alone, and what it cost to do the work.
May 27, 2026 · 9 min read
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Tell us what you are building
Send a short brief and a senior engineer will read it. You get a written response with our honest read on scope, risk and cost within one business day. No discovery call required to get a real answer.
- A senior engineer reads every brief
- NDA signed before you share anything sensitive
- No sales sequence, no automated follow ups