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Next.jsSupabaseAWS InfrastructureSSO/SAML AuthSOC 2 Compliant

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.

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90+
Lighthouse score
Mobile, production
8-16 weeks
Typical timeline
MVP to full platform
$75K-$500K
Project range
Scope and compliance tier
5,000+
Sites shipped
Since 2012
What Enterprise Software Development Fixes -- And What Vendor Timelines Hide

Your engineering team opens the codebase and sees a monolith that takes 45 minutes to deploy. Enterprise software development means building platforms that don't collapse under real load or fail security reviews -- role-based dashboards, SSO/SAML flows, Postgres row-level security, CI/CD pipelines on AWS, audit trails that pass SOC 2 Type II without last-minute retrofits. We center your stack on Next.js for the application layer -- server components, API routes, edge middleware -- deployed on Vercel or self-hosted AWS depending on your compliance posture. Supabase handles auth, Postgres, real-time subscriptions, storage. AWS fills gaps: S3, SQS, Lambda for background jobs, CloudFront, VPCs when you need network isolation. We've shipped platforms for manufacturing analytics companies, construction tech startups, civil engineering firms managing thousands of concurrent field users. The pattern: teams of 4-8, 8-16 week delivery windows, Lighthouse scores above 90 at launch. If your current vendor quotes a 6-month timeline and a Java monolith, that's probably two quarters and $200K more than your business needs to burn.

Your Current Site May Be a Liability

Common gaps we find in nearly every audit.

Your current platform runs on a monolith that takes 45 minutes to deploy and can't scale individual services.
Risk: Every feature release becomes a full regression cycle, burning $20K-$50K per quarter in QA overhead alone.
Your offshore team shipped code that doesn't pass basic security review, and your enterprise clients are asking for SOC 2 documentation.
Risk: You lose the deal -- or worse, you sign the contract and fail the audit six months in.
Engineers spend more time fighting the framework than building features because someone picked a stack five years ago that nobody maintains anymore.
Risk: Attrition climbs as senior devs leave for teams with modern tooling, and hiring costs double.
Authentication is duct-taped together with a custom JWT system that doesn't support SSO, SAML, or MFA.
Risk: One breach or one failed pen test and your largest customer's security team shuts down the integration.
Your app loads in 8+ seconds on mobile and field teams in low-connectivity environments can't use it reliably.
Risk: Adoption stalls below 40%, leadership questions the investment, and the project gets shelved.
There's no CI/CD pipeline, staging environment, or automated testing -- every deploy is a manual, high-risk event.
Risk: Production incidents happen bi-weekly, and your team spends Friday nights rolling back instead of shipping.

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Enterprise-grade app with SSO/SAML, audit logs, role-based access, and SOC 2 compliance

What We Build

Purpose-built features for your industry.

Stop burning $20K–$50K per quarter on full regression cycles because your monolith can't deploy individual services

Ship features independently with server components and parallel routes -- no full-app deployments, no 45-minute wait times

Kill the custom JWT duct tape that blocks SSO, SAML, and MFA before your largest customer's security team shuts you down

Pass SOC 2 audits on day one with SSO/SAML integration, MFA, and Postgres RLS policies that enforce data isolation at the database layer

End the 8-second mobile load times that strand field teams in low-connectivity zones and stall adoption below 40%

Hit sub-second page loads on mobile with edge middleware and structured codebases that deliver 90+ Lighthouse scores at launch

Escape the offshore codebase that doesn't pass basic security review and puts your enterprise deals at risk

Scale real-time data pipelines with Supabase subscriptions, AWS SQS, and Lambda -- field data and IoT payloads flow without blocking your UI

Replace the framework nobody maintains that drives senior devs to quit and doubles your hiring costs

Deploy with confidence using GitHub Actions pipelines, preview environments on every PR, and automated Lighthouse checks that block merges below threshold

Eliminate manual Friday-night rollbacks because there's no CI/CD, no staging, no automated tests

Reproduce every environment with Terraform-managed VPCs, S3, Lambda, SQS, and CloudFront -- version-controlled infrastructure, zero manual config drift

Our Development Process

From discovery to launch. Quality at every step.

01

Architecture & Threat Modeling

Week 1-2

We map your data model, auth requirements, compliance constraints, and integration points into a technical spec and infrastructure diagram.

02

Foundation Sprint

Week 3-5

We stand up the Next.js app, Supabase project, AWS infrastructure, CI/CD pipeline, and SSO/SAML auth -- a working skeleton your team can log into.

03

Feature Build Cycles

Week 6-12

Two-week sprints delivering 3-5 features per cycle with preview deployments, stakeholder reviews, and automated test coverage expanding with each merge.

04

Security Hardening & Load Testing

Week 13-14

Pen testing, RLS policy audit, load simulation at 3x projected traffic, and SOC 2 evidence collection for your compliance review.

05

Launch & Handoff

Week 15-16

Production cutover, runbook documentation, team training sessions, and a 30-day post-launch support window with defined SLA.

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Frequently Asked Questions

Most of our enterprise engagements land between $75K and $500K. A focused internal tool with auth, dashboards, and a few integrations runs $75K-$150K over 8-10 weeks. A full customer-facing platform with SSO/SAML, SOC 2 compliance, real-time data, and multi-tenant architecture pushes $200K-$500K over 12-16 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.
Traditional enterprise stacks — Spring Boot, .NET, Angular — come with massive overhead: slow builds, heavy infrastructure, and teams of 15+ just to keep the lights on. 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 managing a separate backend. The result is a 4-8 person team shipping in 8-16 weeks what a traditional stack takes 6-12 months and twice the budget. Your maintenance cost drops too — fewer moving parts means fewer things break.
We bake compliance into the architecture from day one. That means audit logging on every mutation, encryption at rest via AWS KMS, encryption in transit via TLS 1.3, Supabase RLS policies for data isolation, and SSO/SAML with MFA for access control. We generate the evidence artifacts — access logs, change management records, incident response procedures — that your auditor needs. We've supported teams through SOC 2 Type I and Type II audits. We don't do the audit ourselves, but we build the platform so it passes.
Typically 4-8 people: a technical lead, 2-4 engineers, a DevOps/infrastructure specialist, and a project manager. For SOC 2 engagements we'll add a security engineer. Every person on the team has shipped production Next.js and Supabase code before — we don't staff juniors on enterprise work. You'll have a single point of contact and async Slack access to the full team during business hours.
Yes. Most enterprise projects involve integrating with 3-10 external systems — ERPs, CRMs, SCADA platforms, legacy REST APIs, SFTP file drops. We build integration layers using Next.js API routes and AWS Lambda, with SQS for async processing and dead-letter queues for failure handling. We've integrated with SAP, Salesforce, Procore, Autodesk, and dozens of proprietary internal APIs. If it has an API or exports a file, we can connect to it.
An offshore team typically quotes 30-50% less upfront but delivers in 2-3x the timeline with 2-3x the rework. We've rebuilt platforms that offshore teams started — it's a pattern we see quarterly. Our stack advantage is real: Next.js + Supabase + AWS lets a team of 6 outpace a team of 20 on a heavier stack. You'll spend less total, ship faster, and get code that your in-house engineers can actually maintain after handoff.
Every enterprise engagement includes a 30-day post-launch support window with a defined SLA — typically 4-hour response for critical issues, 24-hour for non-critical. After that, we offer monthly retainers starting at $5K/month for ongoing feature development, infrastructure management, and on-call support. About 60% of our enterprise clients move to a retainer. The rest take the codebase, documentation, and runbooks and run it themselves — the stack is designed for that.
We guarantee 90+ Lighthouse scores on mobile at launch — it's in the contract. 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. If performance degrades below agreed thresholds within 90 days of launch, we fix it at no additional cost. You get a production system that performs under pressure, not a demo that looks good on a projector.
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