blunt & snakes - Tailored applications, fractional CTO & scale engineering
blunt & snakes, tailored applications

Five senior people who ship the software other teams call impossible, then stay to run it.

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What we actually do

Tailored applications

Full-stack products built to a business, not to a template. Node, TypeScript, PHP, Vue, with front-end integration treated as craft rather than chore.

Fractional CTO

Technical direction, hiring, architecture and roadmap for founders who need a CTO's judgement without a CTO's headcount. Eight years in the seat, three companies.

Scale & performance

Socket engines, caching, load testing with k6, Kubernetes, observability. We take systems that buckle at five hundred users and remove the ceiling entirely.

Legacy migration

Ten-year-old platforms moved to modern stacks without downtime, with the back-end rebuilt underneath and every piece of content intact.

Product & UI/UX

Design in-house, from Figma to shipped interface. Design systems, responsive behaviour, PWA and native wrappers with Capacitor.

Trust & quality

Security audits, SSO and SAML, end-to-end and unit tests with Cypress and Playwright, CI/CD, SEO and SSR, documentation you can hand to anyone.

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Selected work

Clients stay unnamed on purpose: NDAs, and frankly the stack matters more than the logo. Names available in conversation.

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Five people, no layers

Friends before colleagues, remote for sixteen years. Everyone you meet in the kick-off writes, designs or decides. There is nobody to escalate to, because you already have them.

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How we work

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We audit before we quote

A short paid discovery on the real codebase and the real constraints. You get a written technical read either way, useful even if you never hire us.

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One team, one thread

Kanban, weekly demo, direct access to the people building. No account manager relaying your question to someone who relays it back.

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Tested, documented, yours

CI/CD, end-to-end coverage and documentation ship with the feature. Nothing we build depends on us staying, though clients tend to keep us for years.

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We stay on call

Ad-hoc retainers, yearly challenges, an on-call CTO for the board meeting. Long relationships are the whole business model.

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Tell us what’s stuck.

A migration nobody wants to touch, a platform that falls over under load, a product with no technical owner. Those are our three favourite emails.

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