The studio
We sit with the spec until a stranger could pour it.
Architecture as hospitality. We write the platonic specification, read the running system against POUR, and leave a recipe the team can use on a quiet Tuesday.
Specification partnership
We sit with you until the universe is named. Invariants, failures, and the stranger test — written so a team can pour without us in the room.
Architecture review
A POUR reading of what you have. We score predictability, observability, universality, and replay — then leave a spec, not a slide.
Rebuilds and greenfields
When the carafe is the problem, we design and pour the next system: a pure core, thin edges, and a history you can replay.
Residencies
A few weeks inside the team. We teach the school by doing the work — reviews, specs, and the habits that survive after we leave.
How we pour
- 01
Read the universe
We listen, we read the running system, we write down what actually exists. No theater. No discovery workshop with stickies.
- 02
Write the platonic spec
Invariants first. Failures as first-class. A document a stranger could implement, and you could replay.
- 03
Pour a thin slice
One path, end to end, predictable and observable. We do not decorate the carafe before there is coffee.
- 04
Leave the recipe
Tests that travel, a spec that stays, and a team that can pour again on a quiet Tuesday.
A few honest answers
Start a conversation
Tell us the universe you keep. We’ll write back with whether we can help, and how we would pour.