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We build solutionsthat give businessesan advantage.

We start with the business problem, not a feature list — then design, build and operate whatever actually solves it. Distributed systems, event-driven services, multi-tenant platforms and mobile products, deployed to your cloud or your own servers, with the source code in your repository from day one.

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  • No hourly billing
  • You own the code
  • Engineers, not account managers
deliverylive
  • discoveryscope · risks · metrics
  • architectureadr-014 accepted
  • buildsprint 6 · 142 commits
  • test418 passing · a11y AA
  • deployedge · 3 regions
  • operate99.98% · p95 180ms
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Systems shipped
40+
Countries served
11
Uptime maintained
99.9%
Median team tenure
6 yrs
Why Devsock

The difference is in how the work is run.

Ten dimensions where engagements usually go wrong, and what we do instead. Every claim in the right-hand column is something you can verify in the first two weeks.

  • Estimates

    TypicalAn hourly rate and a range that grows once work starts.

    DevsockFixed scope and fixed price after a paid discovery. Changes are quoted before they enter a sprint.

  • Communication

    TypicalA weekly status email written by an account manager.

    DevsockDirect access to the engineers building it, a shared board you can read any time, and a demo every second week.

  • Code ownership

    TypicalDelivered at the end, sometimes with a proprietary framework attached.

    DevsockYour repository, your cloud account, from commit one. No proprietary layer, no licensing.

  • Testing

    TypicalManual clicking before launch, if the timeline allows.

    DevsockAutomated suites in CI, load testing at projected peak, and a WCAG 2.2 AA audit before release.

  • Architecture

    TypicalWhatever the available developer knows best.

    DevsockA written architecture decision record explaining what we chose, what we rejected, and why.

  • Security

    TypicalAddressed if the client raises it.

    DevsockDependency scanning in CI, least-privilege access, secrets management and a pre-launch review as standard.

  • Accessibility

    TypicalOut of scope unless legally forced.

    DevsockWCAG 2.2 AA designed in and audited. Keyboard and screen-reader tested, not assumed.

  • Handover

    TypicalA zip file and a phone number that stops answering.

    DevsockDocumented architecture, runbooks, and a paid handover period so your team can genuinely take over.

  • After launch

    TypicalA new quote for every bug.

    DevsockDefect fixes covered for 90 days. Support retainers carry response-time SLAs in the contract.

  • Saying no

    TypicalEvery request becomes a line item.

    DevsockWe'll tell you when a feature isn't worth building, or when the answer isn't software at all.

Services

Fourteen ways we get involved.

Most engagements combine several. Open any row for the problem it solves, how we approach it, and how long it takes.

All services

  • The problem

    Critical operations run on shared workbooks with no audit trail, no validation, and one person who understands the formulas. It works until it doesn't.

    Right for you if

    • Operations running on spreadsheets that have outgrown them
    • Companies paying per-seat for a tool they only use 20% of
    • Businesses whose competitive edge is a process no vendor sells

    How we approach it

    1. 01Discovery1–2 weeks
    2. 02Architecture & design2–3 weeks
    3. 03Build8–16 weeks
    4. 04Hardening1–2 weeks

    Stack

    • TypeScript
    • Node.js
    • NestJS
    • PostgreSQL
    • Next.js
    • Docker
    Timeline
    12–24 weeks
    Team
    Team of 3–6
    Explore Custom

Industries

We learn the constraint before we write the code.

Every sector has one thing that makes software genuinely hard to build for it. These are the ones we've worked inside.

  • Healthcare

    Patient data, audited access, zero tolerance for downtime

    Clinical software carries obligations most products never face. We build with encryption at rest and in transit, complete access auditing, and retention policies that hold up under review — because the compliance conversation happens whether you prepared for it or not.

  • Finance

    Correctness is non-negotiable and every action is evidence

    Financial systems can't approximate. We build with exact decimal arithmetic, idempotent transaction handling, immutable ledgers and reconciliation that surfaces drift immediately rather than at month-end.

  • Education

    Seasonal load spikes and a duty of care to minors

    Enrolment week is a hundred times a normal Tuesday, and the platform has to hold. We build for burst capacity, offline-tolerant learning, accessibility as a baseline, and the safeguarding controls that protect younger users.

  • Logistics

    The field has no signal and the plan changes hourly

    Drivers and warehouse staff work where connectivity fails. We build offline-first mobile clients with conflict-aware sync, live tracking, and routing that reflects reality rather than the plan made at 6am.

  • Construction

    Site conditions, gloved hands, and documents that become evidence

    Software used on a site competes with weather, gloves and glare. We design for large touch targets and high contrast, capture photographic evidence with location and timestamp, and treat document versioning as a legal requirement.

  • Retail

    One day a year pays for the year

    Peak trading is when your platform is most likely to fail and least able to afford it. We load-test to multiples of projected peak, keep inventory reconciled across channels, and make checkout fast on the mobile devices most of your customers actually use.

  • Manufacturing

    Machines that predate the internet still have to be heard

    The plant floor runs equipment older than most software companies. We bridge industrial protocols to modern systems, handle telemetry at volume, and build interfaces that survive a shop-floor terminal.

  • Government

    Accessibility, procurement and permanence are all mandatory

    Public sector software must serve everyone, survive administrations, and satisfy procurement. We build to accessibility standards as a hard requirement, document architecture for handover, and work within established contracting frameworks.

  • Startups

    Runway is finite and the roadmap will change

    Early-stage engineering is a series of bets under a clock. We build the smallest thing that answers the real question, on foundations that survive success — so a good result means continuing rather than rewriting.

Process

Seven phases, and you can see all of them.

No black box between kickoff and delivery. Every phase has named deliverables and a duration you agreed to before it started.

  1. 01

    Discovery

    1–2 weeks

    We interview the people who'll use the thing, map the workflow as it actually runs, and write down the constraints. Nobody estimates before this.

    • Stakeholder and end-user interviews
    • Current-state workflow map
    • Technical and regulatory constraints
    • Success metrics agreed in numbers
  2. 02

    Planning

    1 week

    Scope, sequence and price, in a document you own. Risks are named up front rather than discovered in month three.

    • Written scope with explicit exclusions
    • Delivery plan with milestones
    • Risk register with mitigations
    • Fixed proposal — no hourly surprises
  3. 03

    UI/UX

    2–4 weeks

    Interface design and system design happen together. Every state gets designed — including empty, loading, error and offline.

    • Design system with tokens for both themes
    • Screens at mobile, tablet and desktop
    • Interactive prototype, user-tested
    • Accessibility reviewed before build
  4. 04

    Development

    4–16 weeks

    Two-week iterations against a board you can see. A deployed environment exists from week one and a demo lands every sprint.

    • Working software deployed continuously
    • Sprint demos with your stakeholders
    • Code review on every change
    • Live board — no status-report theatre
  5. 05

    Testing

    1–3 weeks

    Automated coverage, load testing at realistic peak, an accessibility audit and a security review. Before launch, not after.

    • Unit, integration and end-to-end suites
    • Load testing against projected peak
    • WCAG 2.2 AA audit and remediation
    • Dependency and access-control review
  6. 06

    Deployment

    1 week

    Staged rollout with monitoring live before traffic arrives, and a rollback path that has actually been tested.

    • Infrastructure as code, reproducible
    • Staged rollout with health checks
    • Monitoring and alerting live pre-launch
    • Runbooks and team training
  7. 07

    Support

    Ongoing

    We stay on. Response-time SLAs, proactive patching, and a quarterly review of where the system should go next.

    • Defined severity levels and response SLAs
    • Monthly dependency and security patching
    • Uptime and performance reporting
    • Quarterly roadmap review
How we work

Agile when it fits. Something else when it doesn't.

“We're Agile” is the default answer, and it's the wrong one for a regulated fixed-scope build or a support retainer. We run four models and recommend the one that suits your constraints — including the ones we'd rather not use.

A fixed, sequential discovery phase produces a scope and a price you can sign off. Delivery inside that scope then runs in two-week iterations. You get the budget certainty of a phased contract with the adaptability of an agile build.

Cadence
1–2 week discovery, then 2-week sprints
Commercials
Fixed price · milestone billing

We’d pick this when

  • You need a number to take to a board before work starts
  • The problem is understood but the solution detail isn't
  • Procurement requires fixed deliverables and a fixed price
  • You want to change priorities without renegotiating the contract

Not right for

Genuinely exploratory work where even the problem is unclear. If discovery can't produce a scope worth fixing, we'll tell you and propose continuous flow instead.

What you receive

  • Written scope with explicit exclusions
  • Fixed price and milestone plan
  • Sprint demos every two weeks
  • Change requests quoted before they enter a sprint
Stack

Architecture first, then tools.

We're deliberately careful about architecture and deliberately boring about technology selection. Point at anything below to see why it's on the list.

Patterns we build with

Modular monolith

Enforced module boundaries in a single deployable. Our default — most teams get microservice benefits here without the operational tax, and the seams make later extraction cheap.

Microservices

Independently deployable services with their own data. The right call when teams need to ship on separate cadences or one component scales very differently from the rest.

Event-driven

Services communicate through a durable event log instead of direct calls. Consumers can be added or replayed without touching producers.

CQRS

Separate read and write models where the two have genuinely different shapes and load profiles — reporting-heavy systems, high-write ledgers.

Multi-tenant

Row-level security enforced at the database, with a clean extraction path for tenants that outgrow shared infrastructure.

Offline-first

Local persistence with conflict-aware sync. Non-negotiable for field software where connectivity fails.

Technologies

Front end
Back end
Mobile & desktop
Data & messaging
Infra & deployment
AI

We’ll recommend the simplest stack that meets the requirement, and tell you plainly when a technology you asked for is the wrong fit.

Where it runs

Your cloud account

AWS, Azure or GCP under your billing and your IAM. We build it, you hold the keys.

Your own servers

On-premise or a VPS you control. Same containers, same pipeline — no cloud lock-in and no per-seat platform fee.

Managed edge

Vercel or similar, where the product is front-end heavy and global latency matters more than control.

Work

What we've built, and what it changed.

Live products you can open and use. Each one names the constraint, the approach and what shipped.

All case studies
SaaS · Waste management

Roll Off Rolodex

rolloffrolodex.com
  • Next.js
  • TypeScript
  • React Native
  • PostgreSQL
  • Redis
  • Stripe
  • AWS

Multi-tenant SaaS platform and driver apps for dumpster rental operators

Challenge

Dumpster rental operators run bookings, fleet position, driver assignments and invoicing across spreadsheets, whiteboards and phone calls. Nobody knows where a container actually is, proof of service arrives days after the job, and billing gets reconstructed from memory at month end.

Solution

A multi-tenant SaaS platform with self-serve signup, subscription billing and tiered plans, paired with native driver apps on iOS and Android. Operators get real-time container status, driver scheduling with route optimisation, customer and contract management, and automated invoicing. Drivers receive job assignments and upload proof of service from the field.

What shipped

  • Native driver apps published to both the App Store and Google Play
  • Multi-tenant architecture with per-operator data isolation
  • Self-serve onboarding with a 15-day trial and three subscription tiers
  • Real-time inventory and container status tracking
  • Driver scheduling with route optimisation
  • Automated invoicing and payment processing
Renewable energy

ISSC

issc-int.com
  • Next.js
  • TypeScript
  • Tailwind CSS
  • Vercel

Corporate platform for an independent renewable-energy consultancy

Challenge

An independent monitoring and evaluation consultancy for renewable energy projects needed to establish credibility with government, industrial and hospital buyers — a sector where procurement turns on verifiable regulatory standing and a demonstrable track record, not on marketing copy.

Solution

A structured corporate platform built around proof rather than persuasion: service definitions for independent oversight and technical training, a credentials section surfacing regulatory compliance across SECP, FBR, PRA and PEC, team profiles establishing sector experience, and a documented track record of verified installations. Enquiries route directly to the consultancy team.

What shipped

  • Structured service architecture across oversight and training lines
  • Regulatory credentials surfaced as the primary trust signal
  • Track record documented across government, industrial and public-health installations
  • Team credibility profiles with sector experience
  • Enquiry capture routed to the consultancy team
  • Server-rendered and fully indexable
Training & certification

Global Consulting for Safety and Environment

globalconsulting-int.com
  • Next.js
  • TypeScript
  • PostgreSQL
  • Tailwind CSS
  • AWS

Training platform with multi-country scheduling and certificate verification

Challenge

A QHSE training provider delivering internationally accredited certifications across Saudi Arabia, the UAE and Pakistan needed to publish a constantly moving multi-city schedule, take registrations online, and let employers independently verify that a certificate is genuine — the last of which is what makes an accreditation worth anything.

Solution

A training platform combining a published course schedule across multiple countries with online registration, a separate corporate training enquiry path, and a public certificate verification tool employers can use to authenticate credentials. Accreditation bodies and trainer profiles are presented as structured, checkable content rather than a logo wall.

What shipped

  • Public certificate verification for employers
  • Multi-country training schedule with online registration
  • Separate paths for open-enrolment and corporate training
  • Course catalogue spanning ISO, OSHA, IOSH, NVQ and Lean Six Sigma
  • Accreditation bodies and trainer credentials as structured content
  • Server-rendered and fully indexable

Further work sits behind NDAs. We can walk you through the architecture and measured outcomes of those engagements under mutual NDA.

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FAQ

Questions people ask before they hire us.

The ones that actually decide it. If yours isn't here, email us and we'll answer it directly.

Still unsure? hello@devsock.com

It depends on scope, so we don't publish a price list that would be wrong for everyone. As a rough guide: an MVP typically runs 6–12 weeks with a small team, a custom platform 12–24 weeks with a larger one, and consulting engagements 2–6 weeks. We run a paid discovery first, then give you a fixed scope and a fixed price. If your budget can't reach a useful outcome, we'll say so before you spend anything on discovery.

Next step

Ready to build something worth owning?

Tell us what you're trying to change about your business. We'll tell you whether software is the right lever, what it would take, and what it would cost — before you commit to anything.

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