You have a business that works, a team that runs it, and software that's falling behind — internal tools held together with spreadsheets, a legacy system that's expensive to maintain, or a product you've outgrown. We build the next version, integrated with what's there, on a timeline you can plan around.
01.
We start by understanding the business
Before we write code, we spend time inside the work. Where the friction actually is. What the team has already tried. What "good" looks like for your operators, your customers, and the people who'll keep this running after we're gone. The output is a written scope, a technical plan, and a fixed price — paid, short, and credited against the build if it goes ahead.
02.
We build it as one team, end-to-end
Discovery, design, engineering, and delivery happen inside one small team — the same people from kickoff to handover. No agency-to-vendor handoffs. No three rounds of re-scoping when design meets reality. Fixed price, fixed milestones, weekly demos in writing, and a date on the wall before we start.
03.
We hand it over cleanly
Software is only useful if someone can keep running it. Every engagement ends with documentation your team can use, observability your operators can trust, and a thirty-day post-launch window where we're still on call. When the work warrants it, we stay longer — on retainer, not on auto-pilot.
01.
We start by understanding the business
Before we write code, we spend time inside the work. Where the friction actually is. What the team has already tried. What "good" looks like for your operators, your customers, and the people who'll keep this running after we're gone. The output is a written scope, a technical plan, and a fixed price — paid, short, and credited against the build if it goes ahead.
02.
We build it as one team, end-to-end
Discovery, design, engineering, and delivery happen inside one small team — the same people from kickoff to handover. No agency-to-vendor handoffs. No three rounds of re-scoping when design meets reality. Fixed price, fixed milestones, weekly demos in writing, and a date on the wall before we start.
03.
We hand it over cleanly
Software is only useful if someone can keep running it. Every engagement ends with documentation your team can use, observability your operators can trust, and a thirty-day post-launch window where we're still on call. When the work warrants it, we stay longer — on retainer, not on auto-pilot.
Why teams choose us
We modernise what's holding you back. We integrate with what isn't.
Established businesses already run on something — an ERP, a CRM, a warehouse system, a stack of spreadsheets the operations team knows better than any vendor.
We start by deciding what actually needs to go. Where a legacy system is the real bottleneck, we modernise or replace it — properly, in stages, with a path out. Where it isn't, we integrate cleanly and leave it alone. The discipline is in the judgement call before the project, not in selling everyone the same rebuild.
We modernise what's holding you back. We integrate with what isn't.
Senior engineers from day one to handover
There's no junior hand-off after the kickoff call.
The people you meet when you're scoping the work are the people writing the code. We keep the team deliberately small — typically two to six engineers per engagement — because that's the shape that lets senior people stay hands-on, and it's the shape that ships.
Senior engineers from day one to handover
Fluent in regulated and operationally complex environments
The team has shipped inside financial services, payments, healthcare operations, and B2B platforms where uptime and audit trails are not optional.
We ask the compliance, security, and operational questions early — because retrofitting them at the end is where most software projects quietly fail.
Fluent in regulated and operationally complex environments
Predictable commercials, written-down dates
Fixed-price engagements ship to the date on the wall, or we tell you in writing — a week before, not the day of — why they won't.
Retainers and embedded pods are scoped weekly, with capacity and cost on a single page you can forward to finance. Surprises are the exception, not the business model.
Predictable commercials, written-down dates
We modernise what's holding you back. We integrate with what isn't.
Established businesses already run on something — an ERP, a CRM, a warehouse system, a stack of spreadsheets the operations team knows better than any vendor.
We start by deciding what actually needs to go. Where a legacy system is the real bottleneck, we modernise or replace it — properly, in stages, with a path out. Where it isn't, we integrate cleanly and leave it alone. The discipline is in the judgement call before the project, not in selling everyone the same rebuild.
We modernise what's holding you back. We integrate with what isn't.
Senior engineers from day one to handover
There's no junior hand-off after the kickoff call.
The people you meet when you're scoping the work are the people writing the code. We keep the team deliberately small — typically two to six engineers per engagement — because that's the shape that lets senior people stay hands-on, and it's the shape that ships.
Senior engineers from day one to handover
Fluent in regulated and operationally complex environments
The team has shipped inside financial services, payments, healthcare operations, and B2B platforms where uptime and audit trails are not optional.
We ask the compliance, security, and operational questions early — because retrofitting them at the end is where most software projects quietly fail.
Fluent in regulated and operationally complex environments
Predictable commercials, written-down dates
Fixed-price engagements ship to the date on the wall, or we tell you in writing — a week before, not the day of — why they won't.
Retainers and embedded pods are scoped weekly, with capacity and cost on a single page you can forward to finance. Surprises are the exception, not the business model.
Predictable commercials, written-down dates
Numbers we'll stand behind
Of shipping software other people had to live with afterwards
20 yrs
Four startups, built from line one. Two through to an exit.
4 → 2
Clients live on yarn.ai — our own product, built the same way we'd build yours
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Many paths.
One
shared
momentum
Established businesses
Product teams
Founders & early-stage
You have an idea, a budget that's smaller than the enterprises on this page, and a window to prove something works. We take on a small number of founder engagements a year — when the problem is real, when the scope can be honest, and when you'd rather have a senior team for twelve weeks than a junior team for six months.
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What a paid discovery actually produces — and why established businesses prefer it that way
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AI features we evaluate during discovery shouldn't be built. We tell clients which — before the build budget is spent, not after.
Tell us what you're trying to ship.
The first conversation with Nova Aurisia is a working call, not a pitch. Bring an MVP you can't size, an AI feature that won't ship, or a stack decision you can't make — and you'll leave with a one-page memo on how we'd approach it. No deck. No follow-up sequence.