Shipped from Surry Hills. Owned by you.

Yes. The founder lives and works in Sydney. For any build above the starter tier we will sit down with you in Surry Hills, the CBD, Pyrmont, Redfern, North Sydney, or a cafe near your office inside the first week. No travel budget, no minimum spend, no six figure day rate. A Sydney agency that insists on Zoom-only for a $34,997 build is a Sydney agency that cannot afford to put a senior engineer in front of you. We can. Most builds still run the fastest when day two starts with code on a shared GitHub, not a whiteboard in a meeting room, but the door is open either way.

Next.js (App Router) on Vercel, PostgreSQL via Neon or Supabase, Stripe for payments, TypeScript end to end, Tailwind for styling, shadcn or Radix for primitives. Auth via Clerk, NextAuth, or a custom JWT implementation depending on requirements. It is the same stack that runs Vercel, Linear, Cal.com, Cursor, Notion, and Loom in production. Your CTO has probably suggested Remix, Astro, SvelteKit, or a Rails monolith, and there is a legitimate case for all of them. Next.js earns the default slot because it has the largest React ecosystem, edge deployment on Vercel, typed server actions, preview URLs on every pull request, and a talent pool in Sydney bigger than any other framework. If your technical lead has a strong preference for a specific stack, we can have the conversation in the 15 minute scope call. We do not religiously defend defaults.

Because we scope tightly, reuse proven architecture patterns across auth, billing, multi-tenancy, and data modelling, and use AI to accelerate the repetitive code while the senior engineer handles the decisions that actually matter. We have shipped this stack across dozens of projects. A client portal has a known shape. A Stripe subscription engine has a known shape. A document parsing pipeline has a known shape. If your project lives inside those shapes, we quote firm and stick to the number. If it genuinely does not, we say so in the scope call and quote a fixed discovery sprint instead. No hourly billing, no scope creep invoices, no six month Figma phase.

Your database lives wherever you want it. Neon and Supabase both offer Sydney (ap-southeast-2) regions for Australian data residency. Vercel runs on global edge with an option to pin backend compute to Sydney. If you have APP entity obligations, government contracts, or sector-specific compliance (health, legal, financial), the architecture is set up to meet it from day one. This is real infrastructure, not a marketing claim. You get Vercel, Neon, Stripe, and Cloudflare accounts in your name with billing in your name. You see the data at rest. You control the keys. If you need on-soil AWS or Azure Sydney regions instead, we deploy there too, the code is standard Next.js and does not care.

Yes, completely. Your GitHub organisation, your Vercel team, your Neon project, your Stripe account, your domain, your environment variables. We invite ourselves in as collaborators for the build, and the moment the project ends you revoke our access if you want. There is no proprietary CMS, no hosted builder tool, no platform we control. The codebase is a standard Next.js monorepo any Sydney dev can open in VS Code or Cursor and understand in an afternoon. This is the opposite of a WordPress theme with twenty plugins, or a low-code SaaS platform that charges you forever for the right to keep logging in.

Every build ends with a handover document and a Loom walkthrough of the architecture, file by file. The document covers the data model, the auth flow, every environment variable and what it does, the deployment pipeline, the test suite, how to run it locally, and where every third-party integration lives. Your internal dev or a new Sydney contractor can be productive inside a day. 30 days of post-launch support is included. After that, maintenance from $497 a month covers bug fixes, dependency updates, and small feature additions. Most clients stay because we already know the codebase and can ship changes faster than a new hire can read it, but the door is unlocked the day we ship. No 36 month hosting contract, no retainer hostage situation.