An engineering practice for the work that matters.
We are a small, partner-led studio. Every engagement is delivered by someone who has shipped systems in production for a decade — and only by that person.
Why we exist
Most teams have a list of important engineering work that never makes it onto a sprint. The migration. The audit. The AI feature that has to be right. The Core Web Vitals fix the marketing team keeps asking about. The architecture decision your senior engineers keep rescheduling.
SmartyDevs exists for that list. We're the team you bring in when the work matters too much to staff with whoever is free this quarter — and too narrow to justify a full-time hire.
We don't sell hours. We sell shipped systems. We don't sell decks. We sell written diagnoses, working code and the documentation to operate it. We don't hand you off. The partner you talk to first is the one who writes the production code.
What we don't bend on.
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Senior or nothing
No staffing pyramid. If we're on your project, we're writing the code.
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Boring technology
We choose stacks you can hire for in five years, not what trended last week.
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Outcomes, not hours
Fixed price, fixed scope. If we're slow, that's our problem.
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Documentation is part of done
Code without a runbook isn't shipped. We hand over what we wish every team had handed us.
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Honest assessment
We will tell you when the answer is “don't build it.” Often it is.
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No lock-in
You own the code, the cloud account, the credentials. Walk away whenever you want.
Where the studio is sharp.
- Production TypeScript at scale
- Python services and data tooling
- Distributed systems on Postgres + Kafka
- Edge-first frontend engineering
- Payments, billing, subscription engineering
- Real-time and collaborative systems
- Retrieval-augmented generation at production scale
- LLM evals, cost control and observability
- Agentic workflows with guardrails
- Analytics engineering with dbt + warehouse-native modelling
- AWS, GCP and Cloudflare in production
- Kubernetes for teams that need it (and self-managed where they don't)
- FinOps and cloud cost reduction
- SOC 2, ISO 27001 and GDPR engineering
- Fractional CTO and technical advisory
- Technical due diligence for investors
- Engineering hiring scorecards and interview design
- Founder-mode product decisions when you're stuck
Ready to talk about the work?
Tell us what you're trying to ship. We'll tell you what's realistic — in writing, within a week.
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