Techsity helps startups and growing teams launch new products, modernize platforms, and add AI features with appropriate controls. Our engineers work with you from planning through delivery and handover.
Your first conversation includes someone who can assess the technical requirements. An initial brief is helpful, but not required.
Who you work with
We have developed software for careers, marketing, payroll, and payments. That operating experience informs how we approach architecture, monitoring, and maintainability.
Software company and product lab. Fully remote, working in your time zone.
In production: averil.ai · lobestack.com
Our engineers have built software at
We support new product development, modernization, AI features, and the transition from an external build team to internal ownership.
“The prototype worked. A real business depends on it now and we are afraid to touch it.”
How we can help
We assess the current system, identify the highest-risk components, and plan incremental changes to reduce disruption while the product remains in use.
How we modernize a product“We shipped quickly, and the person who wrote the login code has left the company.”
How we can help
We document the existing system, review security and operational risks, and establish a maintainable path for the team taking ownership.
How we take over a messy codebase“We have an AI feature that demos beautifully and nobody here trusts it.”
How we can help
We define evaluation criteria, measure the feature against representative cases, and add human review where errors carry meaningful risk.
How we add AI you can check“The last team delivered, invoiced, and disappeared. We cannot maintain what they left us.”
How we can help
The repository remains under your ownership. We involve your team throughout delivery and agree on documentation, training, and support requirements for handover.
Plan a product buildIt depends on where your product is today. Pick whichever one is closest, or ignore the labels and just describe the problem.
Zero to launch
Product planning, design, engineering, and launch support, with your team involved in the decisions that affect long-term ownership.
Best for. Founding teams and growing companies that need a first version their own people can run.
First milestone. An initial plan covering scope, technical approach, risks, and delivery stages.
Plan a product buildFull service pageScale what works
A platform with real traction that needs more users, more markets, or more channels without downtime.
Best for. A product with real users that is starting to creak, or a prototype that now has to carry a business.
First milestone. An assessment of the current system and a staged modernization plan.
Plan a product buildFull service pageAI inside
AI features added to existing software with defined use cases, evaluation criteria, permissions, and human review where appropriate.
Best for. Teams with software that already works, and a feature they do not trust yet.
First milestone. A defined use case, risk assessment, and evaluation plan.
Plan a product buildFull service pageAI is a tool we use when it earns its place. We recommend AI only when it is appropriate to the use case, operating requirements, and expected value.
What we can build
The product your customers log into, and the admin tools your own team needs behind it.
Cross platform or installable web, chosen for what the product has to do rather than what is fashionable.
AI features with defined evaluation criteria, monitoring, and human review for higher-risk decisions.
Connecting the systems that never quite agree with each other, without losing data in the gap.
Getting the numbers out of the product and in front of the people who make decisions on them.
The manual process somebody is currently doing in a spreadsheet at the end of every month.
Timing depends on scope, existing systems, integrations, and review requirements. We provide a delivery estimate after the initial assessment.
Phase 01
We review the users, workflow, data, constraints, and expected outcome before defining the initial scope.
Deliverable: A scoped plan, initial technical approach, and identified risks.
Decision: Proceed, revise the scope, or conduct further discovery.
Phase 02
We test the assumptions that carry the most product or technical risk before expanding the build.
Deliverable: A prototype or technical validation and an agreed baseline.
Decision: Continue, adjust the approach, or reconsider the scope.
Phase 03
Work is released in reviewable increments. Monitoring, access controls, and operational requirements are added as the system develops.
Deliverable: A production release, monitoring, operating documentation, and security review.
Decision: Release, limit availability, or complete additional work.
Phase 04
We complete the agreed documentation and knowledge transfer, then provide ongoing support if the engagement includes it.
Deliverable: Repository access, architecture documentation, and an agreed support plan.
Decision: Transition to your team or continue with defined support.
Why us
Modern development tools can shorten implementation time, but they do not replace decisions about architecture, data, permissions, or ongoing operation.
We address those decisions during planning and revisit them as the product develops. The same approach is used on the products we operate ourselves.
An engineer involved in assessing the work remains part of the delivery conversation.
Client work is maintained in a repository the client can access, with ownership terms agreed in the engagement.
Monitoring, access requirements, documentation, and handover are included in delivery planning.
Four decisions we make first
Two products are live and two remain in development. The write-ups cover the product decisions, implementation, current status, and lessons from delivery.
Careers
LiveCareer software designed around the needs of the candidate.
What this proves: A live product with documented product boundaries, evaluation criteria, and a maintainable operating model.
Marketing
LiveMarketing that studies a brand, publishes for it, and learns from the results.
What this proves: A live platform that drafts with a model, waits for a person, publishes to eight networks, and feeds results back into the next brief. Client teams see evaluation, approvals, and integrations in production, not in a slide.
HR and payroll
In developmentHR and payroll for small teams hiring abroad.
What this proves: Still in development, no launch date. The notes show how we design payroll and country rules before the screens, which is the same order we use when a client team has to pay people correctly.
Cross-border payments
In developmentCanadian dollars to US dollars, built as a ledger.
What this proves: Still in development, no launch date. Client teams see why a payments product starts as a ledger with customer money kept separate, not as a screen over someone else's dashboard.
The ones that come up on almost every first call, including the awkward one about the last agency.
A software company that builds and runs its own products. Averil and LobeStack are live, Korvahr and Curripay are still in development, and the same team builds platforms for a small number of other companies.
We use AI-assisted development tools where they are useful, but code remains subject to engineering review and testing. Access control, data separation, dependencies, and database changes are reviewed according to the risks of the system.
Timing depends on the scope, existing systems, integrations, and review requirements. We use an initial assessment to define the delivery stages and provide a more reliable estimate before the main build begins.
Our engagement model includes client access to the repository, direct technical involvement, documentation, and a planned handover. The scope of training and post-launch support is agreed before delivery.
About three partner products a year. We limit concurrent client work so the proposed team can remain involved throughout the engagement. Current availability is confirmed during the initial conversation.
There is no charge for the initial conversation. We use it to understand the problem, constraints, timing, and whether there is a reasonable fit. Any paid discovery or scoping work is proposed separately.
Client work is maintained in a repository the client can access. Source-code ownership, third-party components, and any licensing terms are documented in the engagement agreement.
An engineer participates in assessing the work and remains involved during delivery. We identify the proposed team and responsibilities during scoping and communicate any necessary staffing changes.
We complete the agreed documentation and knowledge transfer, then transition responsibility to your team. Ongoing maintenance or support can be included as a defined extension to the engagement.
We provide an estimate after reviewing the scope, technical context, data, integrations, and delivery risks. If more discovery is required before a useful estimate is possible, we explain that work and its cost separately.
Contact
A product build, or extra senior engineers on a system you already run. You do not need a spec. We reply within two working days, and if we are not the right people we will say so.
Or email info@techsity.com
I started Techsity to build software I would still be proud of two years after it went live. We build yours the same way.