Kindling
Small startups. Big fires.
We called it Kindling for a reason. Give a new idea — or a stalled one — the right hands and a little oxygen, and the thing catches.
No middlemen
Honest scope
Code that ships
Built to outlast
Bias for clarity
AI integrations
Web platforms
Automation
SaaS MVPs
API design
Vector search
We're a tight Sofia crew — EU-focused — engineers who left full-time chairs to plug straight into the product teams doing the work. Whether you're shipping your first release or adding AI to a platform with years on it, we work directly with whoever's actually building.
Direct contact, no agency overhead
You talk to the engineers actually building the work. No account managers, no project managers, no relay. The first email is from a developer and so is the last.
Honest scope before code
We won't quote until we understand what you're building. Discovery calls and rough estimates are free. If a project isn't a fit, we'll say so and point you somewhere better.
Production-grade defaults
Sensible architecture, typed code, tests where they earn their keep, deployment your team can actually run. We build the way we'd build for our own products.
AI used where it helps
We integrate Claude, OpenAI, and open-source models when the use case is real — semantic search, agents, structured extraction. We don't bolt LLMs onto things that don't need them.
Long-term partnership over one-shot delivery
Most of our clients work with us for months or years. We optimise for what your codebase looks like in year two, not what looks fast in week three.
Got an idea in the dark? Let's bring it to light.