Productized Rails Engineering

We deliver defined engineering outcomes for production Rails apps — at fixed scope and fixed pricing.

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Selected Outcomes

Rails 4.2 → 8.1

40-person fintech team · 5 weeks

Upgraded a 6-year-old monolith. Resolved 42 gem deprecations, migrated from Sprockets to Propshaft, and restored CI from 62% to 94% passing.

18 min → 3 min deploy time

Mid-stage SaaS platform · 3 weeks

Eliminated N+1 queries across 12 endpoints, added database indexing, and reduced average response time by 74%.

60% hosting cost reduction

Series A startup · 4 weeks

Consolidated background job workers, optimized memory-heavy queries, and cut monthly hosting from $8,400 to $3,200.

How We Engage

Every engagement has defined scope, a fixed price, and a concrete deliverable.

Fixed Price

You know exactly what you're paying before we start. No hourly billing, no change orders, no budget creep.

Fixed Scope

Every engagement has a clearly defined deliverable. You know what you're getting and when you're getting it.

Production-Ready Code

We deliver tested, reviewed pull requests — not prototypes. Merge it and ship it with confidence.

Rails Specialists

We don't do everything. We do Rails — upgrades, performance, and feature builds — and we do it well.

Who We Work With

Startups Shipping Fast

Your team is shipping product. You don't have cycles for an upgrade or a deep performance pass. We handle it so you stay focused on features.

Teams Without Rails Depth

Maybe you inherited a Rails app, or your team's strength is frontend. We bring the Rails expertise you need without a full-time hire.

CTOs Who Need Predictability

No open-ended retainers. No surprise invoices. You get a fixed quote, a clear timeline, and a deliverable you can hold us to.

Our Insights

March 9, 2026

Structuring a Rails Monolith That Survives Decades

The monolith gets a bad reputation it doesn't deserve. Somewhere along the way, the industry decided that a single Rails application serving an entire business was a problem to be solved rather tha...

14 min read

March 5, 2026

How We Audit a Rails Application

Every new engagement starts the same way. Before any code gets written or any recommendations get made, the application gets audited. Not a cursory glance at the README — a structured evaluation of...

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March 4, 2026

Beyond N+1: The Performance Problems That Don't Show Up Until Production Scale

You've fixed the N+1 queries. You've added database indexes. You've moved email delivery to background jobs. Your app runs beautifully in development, passes CI without issue, and performs well in ...

9 min read

February 27, 2026

Why Your Rails App Is Slow (And How to Fix It)

Every slow Rails app I've profiled has the same story. The team assumes the problem is deep and architectural — maybe they need to extract microservices, maybe they need to rewrite a critical path,...

11 min read

February 25, 2026

The Hidden Cost of Staying on Rails 5 or 6

Your Rails app still works. Requests come in, responses go out, customers pay their invoices. From a business perspective, everything looks fine. So when your engineering team raises the upgrade co...

9 min read

February 23, 2026

Upgrading Legacy Rails Applications Without Breaking Production

When a client comes to us with a Rails 4.2 app that's been running in production for years, the question is never "should we upgrade?" — it's "how do we upgrade without torching the business?" It's...

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Every Engagement Starts with an Assessment

We begin every project with a $2,000 flat-fee assessment to evaluate your codebase and deliver a fixed proposal. If you proceed, the assessment fee is deducted from the project cost.

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