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Your Enterprise Platform Ships in Quarters, Not Years

If you're an engineering director watching vendor roadmaps slip while your backlog compounds, you've hit the build-or-buy inflection point.

We build enterprise-grade Next.js and Supabase platforms for engineering organizations that cannot afford another missed quarter. Our teams of four to eight engineers deliver SOC 2-ready, 90+ Lighthouse-scoring systems on AWS without monolithic rewrites or six-month kickoff phases.

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Enterprise Platform Engineering

Enterprise platform engineering is the practice of designing, building, and shipping production-grade software systems -- internal tools or customer-facing products -- that meet your organization's security, compliance, and performance requirements from day one. Not month six. Not after three rounds of revisions. Here's the thing: most engagements in this space either give you bodies (staff augmentation) or give you a plan (agency retainers). Neither of those actually ships software. Enterprise platform engineering is different because you get a scoped, accountable team that owns the architecture decisions, owns the release milestones, and owns the outcome. If something breaks before launch, that's on us to fix -- not yours to reprioritize. In practice, what this means is a working platform in production within quarters. Not a 47-page requirements document that'll be outdated before anyone reads it. Not a proof-of-concept that falls apart when real users hit it. Actual software, running in production, doing the thing it's supposed to do. I've seen what happens when this model is done right and when it isn't. Done right, your internal engineering team inherits a codebase they can actually operate. Done wrong, you're six months in, $300K lighter, and still looking at a staging environment. The difference is almost always whether someone took real ownership of the architecture from week one -- or just took the contract.

What is holding your current website back?

Common gaps we find in nearly every audit.

Your chosen SaaS vendor just pushed the feature your roadmap depends on -- again
Risk: Third consecutive quarter. Two downstream engineering teams are blocked, and nobody's giving you a straight answer on when it'll actually ship. And here's what nobody says out loud: every sprint your team spends writing workarounds around that vendor gap is technical debt they'll own permanently. The pressure to ship builds up, a brittle patch makes it to production, and six months later some engineer is reverse-engineering code they never wanted to write in the first place. That's the real cost -- not the subscription fee.
Internal estimates keep landing at 18 to 24 months because "full rewrite of the monolith" is the only option anyone's put on the table
Risk: So the timeline looks impossible, leadership loses confidence, and nothing moves. But long build timelines don't just hurt morale. Competitors ship first. The team that finally crosses the finish line inherits a codebase nobody's touched in two years. And the engineers who scoped it originally? Half of them have moved on. There's a better way to think about this -- and it doesn't start with rewriting everything.
Your procurement team needs SOC 2 Type II evidence and 99.9% uptime SLAs before any new platform gets near production data
Risk: Totally reasonable. And most vendors can't produce either on a short timeline -- or at all. So the compliance gap sits there, quietly pushing your go-live date back by months. Audit findings pile up. And somehow engineering gets blamed, even when the root cause is vendor immaturity that your team had no control over. It's a frustrating position to be in, and it's more common than most engineering leaders want to admit.

How We Build This Right

Every safeguard, built in from Day 1.

SOC 2-Ready Authentication

Every platform we ship includes role-based access control, audit logging, and session management patterns mapped directly to SOC 2 Trust Service Criteria. So when your security team asks for evidence artifacts, they've got them from release one -- not after we've patched things together in release five.

Infrastructure as Code on AWS

All environments are provisioned through version-controlled Terraform modules. Least-privilege IAM policies, encrypted storage, automated drift detection -- all of it's there from the start. Your compliance team gets a reproducible, auditable infrastructure record they can actually hand to an auditor without scrambling.

Lighthouse and Core Web Vitals Guarantees

Every release has acceptance criteria that include a minimum Lighthouse score of 90 across performance, accessibility, and best practices. It's documented in CI, which means scores can't quietly regress between deployments -- a failing build catches it first. No surprises three months after launch when someone runs a performance audit.

What We Build

Purpose-built features for your industry.

Fixed-Size Engineering Teams

Each engagement runs with four to eight engineers covering frontend, backend, infrastructure, and QA. That headcount is deliberate. Small enough that daily coordination doesn't turn into a logistics problem, large enough to actually parallelize work across a realistic enterprise scope. We've tried both extremes -- this range is where things actually ship.

Next.js and Supabase as the Default Stack

We build on Next.js App Router and Supabase -- Postgres, auth, real-time subscriptions, the whole thing. The combination ships fast, handles enterprise traffic without heroics, and keeps the codebase approachable for whoever inherits it internally. Your team doesn't need to hire specialists to keep the lights on after we hand off.

Incremental Delivery Over Big-Bang Rewrites

We scope the first production release to the smallest slice of functionality that displaces real user pain. Ship that. Then iterate. It sounds obvious, but honestly most enterprise projects skip this step and go straight to building everything at once -- which is how you end up in the rewrite trap two years later. Getting working software into users' hands in the first quarter changes the entire dynamic of an engagement.

Handoff-Oriented Documentation

Architecture decision records, runbooks, and environment setup guides get written as we build -- not retroactively in the last week of the engagement. So when we're done, your engineering team can operate the platform, extend it, and onboard new hires without us in the room. That's the goal. We're not trying to make ourselves permanent.

Our Development Process

From discovery to launch. Quality at every step.

01

Technical Discovery and Scope Definition

1-2 weeks

The first two weeks are about understanding before building. We review your existing systems, interview engineering and product stakeholders -- usually 8 to 12 people across both groups -- and produce a written scope document. That document identifies the minimum viable platform, the integration points with your current infrastructure, and the compliance requirements that have to be met at launch. No surprises later because we didn't ask the right questions early.

02

Architecture Design and Environment Setup

1-2 weeks

Before a single line of product code gets written, we establish the AWS account structure, CI/CD pipeline, Terraform baseline, and Next.js monorepo. This phase ends with a staging environment that mirrors production and an architecture diagram your internal team can actually review and push back on. Building on a shaky foundation is how projects fall apart at month four -- so we don't do that.

03

Iterative Build and Weekly Releases

6-10 weeks

Engineering runs in one-week cycles with a standing demo every Friday. Each cycle targets a shippable increment -- something real, not a status update. All work tracks against the agreed scope document, so you can see exactly where the engagement stands relative to the first production release date at any point. No mystery, no "we're almost there" for three months in a row.

04

Production Launch and Handoff

1-2 weeks

The final two weeks cover production deployment, load testing against your stated traffic targets, a security review, and a structured handoff with your engineering leads. We walk through the runbooks line by line, answer every question, and stay available for a defined support window after go-live. The goal is a team that feels confident operating the platform -- not one that's quietly hoping we'll stay on retainer because they're afraid to touch it.

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Frequently Asked Questions

Most of our enterprise engagements land between $75K and $500K. A focused internal tool -- auth, dashboards, a handful of integrations -- runs $75K to $150K over 8 to 10 weeks. A full customer-facing platform with SSO/SAML, SOC 2 compliance, real-time data, and multi-tenant architecture pushes $200K to $500K over 12 to 16 weeks. The variable isn't our rate -- it's your scope. We'll give you a fixed-price proposal after a paid discovery sprint so there aren't surprises halfway through. No "we need to revisit the budget" conversations in week eight.
Traditional enterprise stacks -- Spring Boot, .NET, Angular -- come with real overhead. Slow builds, heavy infrastructure, teams of 15 or more just to keep things running. We've worked in those environments. They're not fun. Next.js gives us server-side rendering, API routes, and edge middleware in one framework. Supabase gives us Postgres, auth, real-time, and storage without standing up a separate backend service. The result is a four-to-eight person team shipping in 8 to 16 weeks what a traditional stack takes 6 to 12 months and twice the budget to deliver. And the maintenance cost drops significantly after handoff -- fewer moving parts means fewer things break at 2am.
Compliance gets baked into the architecture from day one. Audit logging on every mutation, encryption at rest via AWS KMS, TLS 1.3 in transit, Supabase row-level security policies for data isolation, SSO/SAML with MFA for access control. We generate the evidence artifacts -- access logs, change management records, incident response procedures -- that your auditor actually needs to see. We've supported teams through SOC 2 Type I and Type II audits. We don't conduct the audit ourselves, but we build the platform so it passes. That's a meaningful distinction -- plenty of shops say they're "SOC 2 ready" and then your auditor finds gaps on day one.
Typically four to eight people: a technical lead, two to four engineers, a DevOps and infrastructure specialist, and a project manager. For SOC 2 engagements, we add a security engineer. Everyone on the team has shipped production Next.js and Supabase code before -- we don't staff juniors on enterprise work. Period. You'll have a single point of contact and async Slack access to the full team during business hours. No ticketing systems, no account managers filtering your questions.
Yes -- and honestly, this is where a lot of projects get complicated. Most enterprise engagements involve integrating with somewhere between 3 and 10 external systems: ERPs, CRMs, SCADA platforms, legacy REST APIs, SFTP file drops. We've connected to SAP, Salesforce, Procore, Autodesk, and dozens of proprietary internal APIs built by teams who are long gone. We build integration layers using Next.js API routes and AWS Lambda, with SQS for async processing and dead-letter queues handling failure cases. If it has an API or exports a file, we can connect to it.
An offshore team typically quotes 30 to 50% less upfront. Sounds good. But in practice they deliver in two to three times the timeline with two to three times the rework. We've rebuilt platforms that offshore teams started -- it's a pattern we see every quarter, not occasionally. Our stack advantage is real. Next.js, Supabase, and AWS lets a team of six outpace a team of twenty on a heavier stack. So you'll spend less total, ship faster, and hand off code that your in-house engineers can actually read and maintain. The math usually works out pretty clearly once you factor in the full picture.
Every enterprise engagement includes a 30-day post-launch support window with a defined SLA -- four-hour response for critical issues, 24-hour for non-critical. After that, we offer monthly retainers starting at $5K/month covering ongoing feature development, infrastructure management, and on-call support. About 60% of our enterprise clients move to a retainer. The other 40% take the codebase, documentation, and runbooks and run it themselves -- the stack is specifically designed for that outcome. We're fine either way, and we'll tell you honestly which path makes more sense for your team size.
We guarantee 90-plus Lighthouse scores on mobile at launch -- it's written into the contract, not just a verbal commitment. For uptime, we architect for 99.9% availability using Vercel's edge network or multi-AZ AWS deployments depending on your hosting requirements. Load testing happens before launch at 3x your projected peak traffic. Chicago-based client, 40,000 concurrent users projected? We test at 120,000. And if performance drops below agreed thresholds within 90 days of launch, we fix it at no additional cost. You're getting a production system that holds up under pressure -- not something that looks great in a demo and falls over the first Tuesday after launch.
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