We design the architecture, set up the AI software factory and ship your full product with agents, under senior engineering. You get production software, plus the code, the agents and the product brain.
Portals where members, investors or partners log in, see what is theirs, and act on it. Roles, permissions and relationships that survive contact with the real org chart.
A platform that works but can no longer be changed. We rebuild it on current foundations without stopping the business running on it, and migrate the data that matters.
Pipelines with stages, approvals, documents and an audit trail, where the process is the product and the reporting has to be trustworthy.
The outside-facing surface of an operation: onboarding, documents, status, self-service, and the back office that keeps it honest.
Content, progress and licensing at scale, for publishers and education businesses whose catalogue is the asset.
The spreadsheet that became load-bearing. Replaced by something with a data model, permissions and a future.
A team of five, a discovery phase, then sprints. You pay for the people, not the output, and the first usable version lands late.
Fast, and then it falls apart in production: no tests, no architecture, nobody who understands the code. You rebuild within a year.
Agents do the volume under a senior architect, with test-driven development, architecture decision records, CI/CD and senior code review. Speed without the production debt.
Two to four weeks, fixed price. We map what you need, write the architecture decision records, design the data model, and set up the factory: the agents, the product brain, the repo, CI/CD and environments. You end Phase 0 with a working foundation and a priced plan for the build, not a slide deck.
Agents pick up tickets with acceptance criteria and open pull requests. Senior engineers review and merge every change. You see progress in your own repo and on a live preview environment, continuously, not at the end of a sprint.
The code, the agents and the product brain are yours, documented, with your team able to run them. Keep shipping on your own, or keep us on the monthly subscription.
Turns ideas into tickets with acceptance criteria and test steps.
Takes the Product agent's output - a feature with its acceptance criteria - and builds an interactive prototype from your design system. You click it before anyone writes code.
Picks up “ready” tickets and opens a pull request for review.
Your way in and out of the product brain: it asks you to approve what goes in, and it answers your questions about what the product already knows.
Backed by real engineering: test-driven development, architecture decision records, CI/CD, and code review by senior engineers. Everything lives in your repo, runs on your own AI subscription, and stays yours if we leave.
Discovery, architecture decision records, the factory set up and a priced plan for the build. 2–4 weeks.
Quoted once Phase 0 tells us what we're actually building, paid per milestone.
Optional, after handover: agent tuning, evaluation of new models, a monthly review. 6-month minimum.
Cash only. Phase 0 is paid. We don't build products for equity.
We work inside your repository and your cloud from day one. Nothing is held hostage in ours.
Your code and your data are never used to train AI models, by us or by anyone we use.
We host where you need us to, and every agent action is logged so you can see what changed and why.
Before we see a line of your code. The same standard we are held to on every due diligence.
I worked closely with Above The Clouds' team of full stack architects and developers for 5 years on client projects from 2013 to 2018. Our main projects included Groovy Music, a children's music learning and creativity app, and the MusicFirst Application Cloud, a user authentication and management system that became a central hub for many of the client's apps - still accessed every day by thousands of educational users.
The team at Above The Clouds are excellent communicators. They quickly understand client needs and create clear, meaningful development pathways that give all stakeholders visibility into deliverables, timeframes, and costs. They have the rare ability to prototype UI in real time while also thinking deeply about the technical challenges required to make features stable and scalable in production environments. Over the years working together, Above The Clouds developed a broad expertise in large-scale systems - both from an organisational perspective and through refining the development methodologies needed to build robust yet flexible, scalable platforms.
I wholeheartedly recommend Above The Clouds and look forward to the opportunity to collaborate with them again.
Our experience working with Above the Clouds has been fantastic. Essentially, we re-developed our educational music app, O-Generator, to become OGenPlus. From understanding our goals, objectives and budget, to finding the right technical solutions (admin tool, music app), building a prototype (custom interface / SVG graphics, etc.), creating and leading a custom / specialised team, launching the product in a tight time frame we have been so impressed.
We continue to work with Above the Clouds improving the SLA. Good communication, flexibility, technical ability and creativity are the key components to working on a project like this. Above the Clouds are exemplary in all these areas. OGenPlus has been nominated for the Music & Drama National Awards for Outstanding Educational Resource in 2025. Our relationship working closely with Above the Clouds has contributed to where OGenPlus is now.
We were supported by one of Above The Clouds' Fractional CTO during a major transition within our company: migrating our technology to a white-label solution. Their team took the time to understand our business goals, provided a clear tech overview, and even helped us write the tender to select the right partner.
After years of mixed guidance from various agencies and developers, we trusted Above The Clouds' analysis because it was 100% business-focused, enabling us to make smart, sound decisions. Their follow-up was impeccable, with the added bonus of excellent communication - a rare quality in this industry. We are very pleased to have benefited from their 360-degree business vision, and we wouldn't hesitate to work with them again.
I worked with Above the Clouds while at the Music Sales Group on a platform called Soundwise, which provided online support for printed music publications. The product was delivered efficiently and on budget, with Nico and team providing excellent ongoing support and a great user experience. Above the Clouds are a pleasure to work with: responsive, positive, and always bringing creative solutions to problem solving.
We'll tell you what it takes, and what it would cost.