Software, cloud & cybersecurity · Victoria, BC
We’re software and cloud engineers.
We build your apps, set up the cloud they run on, and keep it all secure.
- App developmentWeb apps, internal tools and AI features, built for your business.
- Cloud infrastructureAWS, Google Cloud or Azure, set up properly and kept running.
- CybersecurityThe technical side: hardening, monitoring, and a plan for when something goes wrong.
Tell us what you need built, moved or secured. You get scope, cost and timeline in writing within two business days.
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The whole stack, one studio.
Three things, one team: we build your apps, run the cloud they live on, and keep it all secure.
We build the software your business runs on — web apps, internal tools, and the connections between the programs you already pay for. When AI can do a real job, like reading forms or answering questions from your own documents, we build that in too, and we test it before your team relies on it.
We set up the cloud your apps run on — AWS, Google Cloud or Azure, or our own managed hosting when that's all the job needs — and keep it running. Every account and server is set up so it can be checked and rebuilt, backups are tested by actually restoring them, alerts reach a person, and the monthly bill makes sense.
The technical, hands-on side of security. We lock down your servers and cloud accounts, watch for trouble so a break-in is caught in hours rather than months, check your code for known weak spots, and write a plan for the day something goes wrong — including the new risks AI brings, like a chatbot that can be tricked into leaking data.
We also design, build and host websites on Minservers, our managed platform — mostly for businesses we already work with.Websites
Built here. Run here. Engineered to hold up.
Every engagement can continue onto managed infrastructure we operate ourselves.
Security leadership, compliance, risk and AI strategy sit with our sister company, Signal & Soil.
Where it starts
Sound familiar?
Your team still does by hand what a simple app could do.
You added an AI feature, and nothing stops it from saying or sharing the wrong thing.
Your app runs on one cloud account that someone set up and then left.
Nobody has ever checked that the backups actually restore.
A big customer sent a long security questionnaire, and the honest answer to most of it is no.
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Four ways to start.
Each one has a fixed shape, a written result and a length you can plan around. They follow the same order as what we do: build, run, secure.
Build Sprint
Teams with an app, tool or AI feature to build — and no one free to build it.
Cloud Foundation
Teams whose app runs on a cloud account that was set up in a hurry — or by someone who has left.
Exposure Review
Companies about to face a big customer's security questions, an audit or an investor.
Incident Readiness
Anyone whose plan for a break-in or outage is “call someone”.
How it works
Scope first, in writing.
A 30-minute call, or just the form. Scope and cost in writing within two business days.
Start with one fixed-shape offer. What it hands over is yours to use with us, your team or anyone else.
Keep going month to month, or walk away. You keep the code, the accounts and the instructions for running them.
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What it looks like in practice.
How we watch our own platform
Scheduled audits watch every site we host, and when something goes down an AI investigator reads the evidence and posts a diagnosis — read-only, with a person deciding the fix.
Read the case study
RustyMedic
Paramedic training delivered online — courses, interactive clinical scenarios and a production learning platform. Teaching medicine demands the same rigour as practising it.
Read the case study
Boundary Condition
A venture accelerator's public face and its application intake — the first impression a founder gets, taken seriously.
Read the case study
Have something to build, run or secure?
Track record
Proven at a much larger scale.
Most of our team comes from Microsoft, and has since run security, cloud infrastructure and AI-assisted operations for platforms with millions of users. This is experience our people bring from before and alongside the studio, not a list of studio clients. The same discipline goes into a five-person business’s cloud.
Microsoft
Kept Microsoft's products and its customers' data secure — from Trustworthy Computing to protecting data across hundreds of applications.
Paris 2024 Olympic & Paralympic Games
Owned cybersecurity for ticketing, hospitality and logistics.
The iPhone launch at AT&T
Helped launch the iPhone, keeping tens of millions of connections secure.
Very large internet services
Owned cybersecurity for internet services used by millions — dating, sports and more.
Contact
Start something.
Tell us what you need built, moved or secured — an app, a cloud setup, a security check. You get scope, cost and timeline in writing within two business days.
