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Silka

About

We learn the detail. We see it through.

There is no layer of juniors behind the people you meet. The engineer in the kickoff call is the engineer writing the code, and they are still there at launch.

We started building things for other people because we kept seeing the same failure: a product that was designed well, built badly, and abandoned quietly a year later — or the reverse.

The gap is almost never talent. It is that strategy, design, engineering and operations were handled by four groups who never had to live with each other's decisions. So we do all four, and we live with them.

That constrains how much work we take on at once, deliberately. It also means the person who decided how the data model works is the person who has to answer for how the interface feels three months later.

17
Products shipped

Every one live and linked

14
Industries

Aviation data to dentistry

8
Disciplines in-house

Strategy through infrastructure

34
Client reviews

Public, since 2023

Kyiv · Remote across EU · Working since 2019

The team

Eight disciplines, held by a small group of people.

We are not going to put stock photographs and invented job titles on this page. Here is what is genuinely in-house — and when something is not, we say so and bring in someone who does it properly.

  • Product strategy

    Scoping, prioritisation, and knowing what not to build

  • UX & research

    Flows, prototypes and testing with the people who do the job

  • Interface design

    Design systems, not folders of screens

  • Frontend engineering

    React and Next.js, performance and accessibility budgets

  • Backend engineering

    Domain modelling, services, queues, real-time

  • Mobile

    React Native with native modules where it counts

  • AI engineering

    Retrieval, evaluation harnesses, human-in-the-loop design

  • Infrastructure

    Docker, CI/CD, infrastructure as code, observability

Want to meet the people rather than the list? Ask for a call — you will be talking to whoever would actually do the work.

Process

Seven steps, and none of them are a surprise.

You always know what is happening this week, what is happening next, and what would have to change for the date to move.

  1. 011–2 weeks

    Discover

    Understand the business before the brief.

    We sit with the people who will use the thing. What does a day look like, where does work stall, what is the spreadsheet everyone actually relies on? Requirements written without that are guesses.

    • Stakeholder interviews
    • Process map
    • Constraints & risks
    • Success criteria
  2. 021–2 weeks

    Define

    Turn the problem into a scope you can commit to.

    We cut the work into what must exist for the product to be useful and what can wait. Every item has an owner, an estimate and a reason. Scope you cannot defend is scope that will slip.

    • Domain model
    • Prioritised scope
    • Architecture direction
    • Timeline & budget
  3. 033–6 weeks

    Design

    Design the flows first, the pixels second.

    Wireframes and prototypes against the real jobs, tested with the people who do them. Then a design system rather than a folder of screens — components, states, tokens and rules.

    • Flows & prototypes
    • Design system
    • UI for critical screens
    • Content model
  4. 046–20 weeks

    Build

    Ship in vertical slices, not layers.

    Every two weeks something works end to end and is deployed to a real environment. You use it, not review a screenshot of it. Architecture decisions are written down as they are made.

    • Working increments
    • Preview environments
    • Decision records
    • API documentation
  5. 05Continuous

    Test

    Prove it works where it matters.

    Automated coverage on the paths that cost money if they break, plus performance, accessibility and security review. Manual testing goes to the things automation cannot judge.

    • Test suites
    • Performance budget
    • Accessibility audit
    • Security review
  6. 061–2 weeks

    Launch

    A release, not an event.

    Staged rollout, migrations rehearsed on production-shaped data, monitoring and alerting live before the first real user. Rollback is planned before it is needed.

    • Migration plan
    • Monitoring & alerts
    • Runbook
    • Team handover
  7. 07Ongoing

    Scale

    The product starts here.

    Instrumentation tells you what people actually do. We iterate against that, keep dependencies current, and expand the system as the business changes shape.

    • Product analytics
    • Iteration roadmap
    • Maintenance & SLAs
    • Capacity planning

Philosophy

We don't start with code.

A good product does not begin with a React component. It begins with understanding what the business is trying to change — and everything downstream is a consequence of that.

  1. 01BusinessWhat is the company actually trying to change?
  2. 02ProblemWhere does the work break down today?
  3. 03StrategyWhat is worth building, and in what order?
  4. 04UXHow does a person get the job done?
  5. 05ArchitectureWhat must be true for this to hold up?
  6. 06DesignHow does it look, read and feel?
  7. 07DevelopmentBuilding it, in working slices
  8. 08LaunchInto production, with a way back
  9. 09GrowthIterate against what people really do

Code is the seventh link. Everything before it decides whether the product holds.

By the time anyone writes code, the hard decisions are already made — and written down. That is why the estimate holds.

What we care about

Things you can hold us to.

Praise is easy to collect and hard to act on. These are the commitments underneath it — say them back to us if we drift.

  • 01

    We say what something will cost before you commit

    Estimates come with the assumptions they rest on. When an assumption breaks, you hear about it that week — not at the deadline.

  • 02

    Senior people do the work

    There is no layer of juniors behind the people you meet. The engineer in the kickoff call is the engineer writing the code.

  • 03

    Architecture is a decision, not a default

    We write down why a system is shaped the way it is. If a choice turns out wrong, the record tells you what to change and what it affects.

  • 04

    You own everything we build

    Code, infrastructure, accounts, documentation. No proprietary runtime, no hostage keys, no dependency on us to keep running.

  • 05

    Working software beats status reports

    Every increment is deployed somewhere you can use it. Progress is something you click, not something you read about.

  • 06

    We tell you when not to build

    Sometimes the answer is a configuration change, a different tool, or nothing at all. Saying so costs us a project and keeps a relationship.

See what that produced

Got a product that should exist by now?Tell us about it.

Describe what has to change in your business. We will work out what that actually takes — including when it takes less than you think.