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About

A studio, not an agency.

Devsock is a technology solutions studio based in Faisalabad, working with companies worldwide. We start with the business problem and stay through the whole life of whatever solves it — not a deliverable handed over at a milestone. We’re small on purpose, which is why we take fewer projects and go deeper on each one.

Principles

What we actually believe.

Positions with a cost attached, rather than values nobody would argue with.

01

We'd rather lose the project than the argument

If we think what you're asking for is the wrong thing to build, we'll say so before the contract, not after. Some of those conversations end the deal. The alternative is billing you for something we knew wouldn't work.

02

Boring technology, deliberately

We choose tools with large hiring pools and long support horizons over whatever is interesting this year. It means your system stays maintainable by people who aren't us — which is the point.

03

The estimate is the commitment

Fixed scope means fixed price. If we misjudge the work, that's ours to absorb. This is only sustainable because we do paid discovery first and refuse to quote from a one-page brief.

04

Documentation is part of the deliverable

Architecture decisions, runbooks and onboarding notes are written for an engineer who has never met us. Handover isn't a phase at the end — it's a property of how we work throughout.

05

You talk to the people building it

There's no account management layer translating between you and the engineers. It's faster, and it means nothing gets lost in the retelling.

06

Accessibility isn't a line item

WCAG 2.2 AA is our baseline on every project, quoted or not. Excluding people from software is a defect, and we don't charge extra to not ship defects.

Difference

How this differs from a typical engagement.

Same dimensions, two honest descriptions. The left column is what clients tell us they experienced elsewhere.

  • Estimates

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

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

  • Communication

    A weekly status email written by an account manager.

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

  • Code ownership

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

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

  • Testing

    Manual clicking before launch, if the timeline allows.

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

  • Architecture

    Whatever the available developer knows best.

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

  • Security

    Addressed if the client raises it.

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

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
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.

  • 30 minutes

    No slide deck, no sales team

  • An engineer

    You speak to someone who builds

  • A straight answer

    Including when it's don't build it