Web, app and AI development in Washington

Built to survive a technical evaluation

When an engineering lead joins the vendor call, the questions change: how is state managed, what is the render strategy, where does the data live, what happens to Core Web Vitals when the marketing team adds a third-party script, how are LLM outputs evaluated and cost-controlled. We answer those in writing during scoping rather than deflecting to a designer. Architecture decisions are documented in plain English, the repository is yours from day one, and the same engineers who answered the questions are the ones in your standup afterwards.

Accessibility and security as defaults

Washington buyers, particularly in healthcare, enterprise software and anything touching public-sector procurement, expect accessibility and security basics to be built rather than bolted on. We design and build to WCAG 2.2 AA, test with keyboard and screen reader rather than only an automated scanner, and ship standard security headers, dependency hygiene and access-controlled data flows as part of the build. That is cheaper than remediating after a review, and it is the difference between passing an evaluation and restarting one.

Senior capacity without the Seattle hiring premium

Local talent competition in the Puget Sound region is intense, and agency rates carry the cost of competing with large technology employers for the same engineers. Working with a California studio on shared Pacific hours keeps the same-day working rhythm and the U.S. contract, while a fixed-price scope replaces hourly billing padded for hiring risk. You still interview the specific people who will do the work, and the monthly or milestone commitment scales up and down instead of becoming permanent headcount before the workload justifies it.