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Our beliefs
We’re a senior web engineering studio. We build software that’s meant to last for people who rely on it.
Who we are
three shade is an independent web engineering studio. We partner with founders, product teams, and established companies on work that needs a careful hand: platform rewrites, thorny integrations, systems that have outgrown their first draft.
Every engagement is led by someone with 25 years of production experience. We don’t run a staffing pyramid. The person you talk to in the first meeting is the person developing the application.
What we believe
Architecture is a decision. Not an afterthought.
Most of what makes software painful to maintain is a choice made in the first week. We treat those early decisions with the care they deserve.
Boring technology. Exciting results.
We reach for tools that are proven, well-documented, and understood by the people who will inherit the codebase. Novel frameworks earn their place only when they solve a real problem the boring ones can’t.
Ship! Then stay.
A launch is the start, not the finish. We stay close after release to fix the things only real users surface, and to hand off a codebase that the next team can pick up without a translator.
How we work
- Small engagements. Three to four active projects at a time, never more. Focus is how the work gets done well. It's about quality, not quantity.
- Fixed scope, fixed price. We write the statement of work together, and we hold ourselves to it. No change-order gamesmanship.
- Weekly demos. You see the project as it’s built; not at the end.
- Your code, your repo. Everything we write lives in your source control from day one. No black boxes, no licensing to untangle later.
What we don’t do
- Offshoring, subcontracting, or other practices that may dilute quality.
- Greenfield projects without a clear sense of who will own the code after us.
- Rewrites driven by fashion rather than a concrete problem worth solving.
- Work we wouldn’t be proud to put our name on.
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