Document
Studio Brief
Issued
May 2026
Studio
Remote · Worldwide
Capacity
Q1 / 2027 — Open

Motty is a software studio.
We build things, carefully.

Custom software development and technical consulting for teams who value craft, clarity, and longevity over the perpetual rewrite.

One or two clients at a time. Senior engineering, in the room, for the duration of the work.

Accepting work Q1 / 2027

Most software is written in a hurry, by people who are not in the room when it matters.

We try to do the opposite. We listen carefully before we plan, plan thoroughly before we build, and build with the intention of being proud of the code five years on. There is no other way to do work that lasts.

We are a small studio on purpose. Engagements are limited to one or two at a time so that each client gets a senior engineer in the room, not a junior on a roster. The work is direct, the meetings are short, and the deliverables are the things you can actually ship.

~15 engagements / 14 years operating / 100% client retention

What we do, and the shape of the work.

# Service Scope Stack
01 Custom application development Production web applications, internal tools, APIs, and developer platforms — end-to-end. TS · Rust · Go
Postgres · Node
02 Cloud, infrastructure & observability Production infrastructure, container platforms, and the metrics stack to know what they're actually doing. IaC, dashboards, and alerting — built to outlast the engineers who write them. Kubernetes · Terraform
Prometheus · Grafana
AWS · GCP
03 Technical consulting Architecture review, stack selection, due diligence, and engineering strategy for leadership teams. Strategy · DD
Architecture
04 Team augmentation Senior engineers who embed with your team and leave the codebase stronger than they found it. Senior eng
Fractional CTO

A straightforward way of working, kept on every project.

01 — Listen

Understand the business before the build.

We start with the people, the constraints, and the work to be done. Good software begins with the right questions, not the right framework.

02 — Plan

Map the path on paper before in code.

Architecture, scope, and trade-offs are agreed in writing. We commit to the boring decisions early so the build is the easy part.

03 — Build

Iterative, with weekly visibility.

You see real progress every week. No multi-month black boxes. Code is reviewed against the plan, and the plan is updated against reality.

04 — Deliver

Ship, hand off, and stay reachable.

Launch, knowledge transfer, and the kind of long support that means we still pick up the phone in year three.

If there is a thing you are trying to build — write to us.

We read every inbound message ourselves. Tell us what you are building, where you are in the work, and what is in the way.

Email
hello@motty.io
Studio
Remote · Worldwide