Cymbiote is an enterprise software studio. For nine years we have designed, built and operated payment ledgers, clinical AI systems, logistics platforms, cloud estates, developer APIs for companies where downtime is measured in revenue, not inconvenience.
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We are organised around what clients actually buy — a working system in production — rather than around billable disciplines. Every practice ships, operates and hands over to the same standard.
Three of the platforms we designed, built and still help operate. Every number below was measured in production, not modelled in a pitch deck.
No black boxes and no status theatre. Every stage has named deliverables and a duration we commit to at kickoff, and the risk register goes to you weekly whether or not the news is good.
We interview your team, read your code and map the constraints nobody wrote down. You get a clear-eyed assessment, including the parts you may not want to hear.
Decisions get made and written down. Every significant trade-off becomes an architecture decision record, so the reasoning outlives the people who made it.
Interaction design and a tokenised system, prototyped in code. We test with real users before a single production component gets written.
Two-week iterations, demoed live. The pipeline, tests and observability go in with the first feature, not at the end.
Progressive rollout behind flags, with a rehearsed rollback. We sit with your on-call rota through the first two weeks of real traffic.
We hand over properly — documentation, pairing and a support period — then stay available under an SLA for as long as you want us.
Engagements typically run 14–32 weeks end to end. Programmes run longer and follow the same structure per workstream.
Long-form write-ups of what we actually did, including the trade-offs we made and the parts that did not go to plan.
We optimise for what your team can operate after we leave. Anything on this list has been in production under our care for years — not evaluated in a spike and written into a proposal.
The number beside each is years we have run it in production, not years since we first read about it.
Collected at the close of every project, published unedited. The uncomfortable ones are here too.
“Three consultancies told us this migration was impossible without a weekend freeze. Cymbiote spent the first month telling us exactly why those attempts had failed, then spent ten more proving their alternative worked before they asked us to trust it.”
Essays by the people doing the work — what we learned, what it cost, and the decisions we would make differently.
If yours is not here, ask us directly — we answer these the same way in a meeting.
A thirty-minute call with an engineer, not a salesperson. If we are the wrong fit we will say so and point you somewhere better.
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