Haas & Reed Software, since 2017
The practice

What we do, precisely.

Four kinds of engagement, one way of working: read first, draw the system, build in small batches, and hand off honestly.

01

Architecture & engineering

We design system shapes that survive the second year. Service boundaries, data contracts, deployment topology — drawn deliberately and documented before the first commit.

  • System and data-flow diagrams
  • A written decision log with trade-offs named
  • Deployment topology and cost model
02

Bespoke build-outs

Internal tools, back-offices, ingestion engines, control planes. The unglamorous core that decides whether a business actually scales — built end-to-end, deliberately.

  • Back-offices and operator tooling
  • Ingestion, processing and media pipelines
  • Integrations with payment, identity and messaging
03

Audits & recoveries

We come in when something has gone quiet, expensive, or weird. Read the codebase, name the rot, write the path out. Honest, written deliverables — no theatre.

  • Codebase and infrastructure review
  • Cloud cost and reliability findings
  • A prioritised, written recovery plan
04

Long-term stewardship

For organisations without a dedicated technical lead, we hold the technical north star. Quarterly reviews, on-call counsel, and a small group that knows your system cold.

  • Quarterly architecture reviews
  • On-call counsel for incidents and decisions
  • Hiring and vendor due diligence
How we work

Four movements.

I

Read & listen

Two weeks of deep listening: stakeholders, codebase, tickets, dashboards. We arrive with a written hypothesis, not a deck.

II

Draw the system

Architecture, data flow, decision log. Trade-offs named in plain English. Approval before code, always.

III

Build, restrained

Small batches, frequent demos, written changelogs. Tests where they earn their cost. No surprise debt.

IV

Hand off, honestly

Documentation a successor can read, an on-call window, and a final memo on what is — and isn’t — finished.

Have a system in mind?

Send the problem, the system and the deadline. We reply within five working days.