Software engineering
Get your stalled software moving again.
We're the engineers who take a drifting project and get it back to shipping.
Better People, Better Software.
We hire for soft skills first; the hard skills can be trained. Our hiring principles are published, so you can hold us to them.
Autonomous
The team manages itself. You only ever manage the goal. Problems reach you early, while there is still room to act, and the work keeps moving without you chasing it.
Perceptive
Never argue with a technical person again — we hire the ones who listen before they build. Most of what you need never fits inside the ticket; the team hears the request underneath and answers the person who wrote it.
Craftsman
Code still running untouched years into production. Stability is the deliverable. The build stays small, every part earns its place, and what ships holds together under real use.
Start with you, not us.
Communication is the most important factor in delivering successful software projects. Don't let anyone else fool you into thinking otherwise. Fast execution is meaningless if the goals don't align first.
Understand
Understanding comes before anything else. We talk to everyone the work touches.
Assess
Goals first, in order. Then the arithmetic: how much time and how many people each step gets.
Ship
Small first release, low stakes, quick read on how we work. After that the rhythm is sustainable by design — we ship at a pace we can keep.
Bootstrapped and scalable senior teams.
We staffed multiple small and scalable teams that have successfully bootstrapped ideas into profitable startups without requiring the usual astronomical payroll of a full Scrum team.
An AI agent that answers a business's customers on web chat, LINE, Messenger, Instagram, and WhatsApp, in 80+ languages, trained on the business's own documents.
See how we built it →Transport management software that runs a Thai fleet operator's day, handling dispatch, live GPS tracking, vehicle maintenance, payroll, and OCR that reads container numbers and odometers from a photo.
See how we built it →Mechanical standards, through AI
ACE shares and distribute learnings from all engineers in all projects to all other engineers in every other projects we build. PRODIGY9 School is not just the way we teach, it's the same high bar we apply, mechanically, in every project.
See how ACE works →$ ace status school prod9/school · 10 skills linked · no drift $ ace explain general-coding general-coding ← prod9/school @ main provenance verified · trace complete