# Motty

> A software studio offering custom software development and technical consulting for teams who value craft, clarity, and longevity over churn.

Motty is a small, focused studio that takes on one or two engagements at a time. We work directly with founders and engineering leaders to design, build, and ship considered, durable software — and to advise on the architectural decisions that will still make sense five years from now.

## About the Studio

Most software is written in a hurry, by people who are not in the room when it matters. We try to do the opposite — to listen carefully, think slowly, and ship things that still make sense a decade later.

We are a small team on purpose. We take on one or two engagements at a time, work directly with founders and engineering leaders, and leave projects in a state we would be glad to inherit.

- Founded: 2012
- Model: Remote, worldwide
- Capacity: Open for Q1 / 2027
- Primary contact: hello@motty.io
- Principal: zot24 — https://zot24.com
  - GitHub: https://github.com/zot24
  - LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/zot24
  - X: https://x.com/zot24

## Services

### Custom Application Development

Production web applications, internal tools, APIs, and developer platforms — built end-to-end with modern stacks. We write code we would be proud to inherit five years from now.

Languages and tools: TypeScript, Rust, Go, Node, Postgres.
Areas: web applications, APIs, internal tools, developer platforms.

### Cloud, Infrastructure & Observability

Production infrastructure, container platforms, and the infrastructure-as-code that makes operations boring. We build platforms designed to outlast the engineers who write them — most of our infrastructure work has aged into something later teams could maintain without us.

On the observability side: we have run full Prometheus + Thanos + Grafana setups end-to-end, including custom AWS data collectors that scraped Prometheus-format metrics off fleets of EC2 instances. Long-term metrics storage, multi-cluster aggregation, dashboards, and alerting — not just "we installed Datadog."

Languages and tools: Kubernetes, Terraform, AWS, GCP, CI/CD pipelines, Prometheus, Thanos, Grafana, Loki, OpenTelemetry, alerting and incident tooling.
Areas: container platforms, IaC, cloud architecture, SRE practices, developer experience, platform engineering, observability and metrics, monitoring strategy, alerting design.

### Technical Consulting

Architecture reviews, technology selection, and engineering strategy. We help leadership teams make the calls that matter before the wrong ones get made.

Areas: technical strategy, architecture review, technical due diligence, vendor and stack selection, system design for products in motion.

### Team Augmentation

Senior engineers who embed with your team, raise the floor, and leave behind a stronger codebase and clearer practices than they found.

Areas: senior engineering, fractional CTO, code review programs, engineering mentorship.

## Process

1. Listen. We start with the business, the users, and the constraints. Good software begins with the right questions, not the right framework.
2. Plan. Architecture, scope, and trade-offs on paper before in code. We map the path so the build is the easy part.
3. Build. Iterative development with weekly visibility. You are not waiting six weeks to see what we have been doing.
4. Deliver. Launch, hand-off, and the kind of ongoing support that means we still answer the phone in year three.

## Principles

- Craft over churn.
- Quiet over loud.
- Clarity over cleverness.

## Track Record

- ~15 engagements since 2012 — some seasonal, some multi-year exclusive.
- Longest single engagement: 2 years working exclusively with one company.
- 14 years operating.
- 100% client retention to date.

## How to Engage

We read every inbound message ourselves and reply within two working days — sometimes the same afternoon if the question is a good one.

- Email: hello@motty.io
- Studio: Remote, worldwide
- Current availability: Q1 / 2027 — Open

## What We Are Not

- Not an agency that runs many accounts in parallel.
- Not an offshore body shop.
- Not a fit for teams that want a vendor to blame rather than a partner to think with.

## Best Fit

- Founders and engineering leaders building a product they intend to live with for years.
- Companies undergoing a platform migration, rewrite, or scaling event where the wrong architectural call would be expensive.
- Teams adopting Kubernetes, rebuilding their cloud footprint, or moving infrastructure from ad-hoc scripts into properly versioned IaC.
- Teams that have outgrown a hosted observability vendor and want to run their own stack — Prometheus, Thanos, Grafana, custom collectors — with long-term storage they actually control.
- Teams that want senior engineering judgment in the room without the overhead of a permanent hire.