An engineering firm that took a side.
SoftBuilds began as a broad digital transformation shop. We narrowed. AI and data is now the practice we lead with, and the rest of what we do exists to make that work land, because the failures we kept seeing were never model failures. They were data, permissions and operations failures.
Technologies we work with
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How we work
Small senior teams, one accountable lead per engagement, and written decisions rather than remembered ones. We work in your repositories and your ticketing system wherever we can, so there is no separate reality to reconcile at handover.
We would rather lose a deal than sell a programme we do not think will work. That has cost us revenue and saved clients considerably more.
What we hold ourselves to
Say the number first
Acceptance thresholds and cost ceilings are agreed before the build, in writing.
No black boxes
You get the code, the evaluation results, the traces and the documentation.
Leave a team behind
Handover includes training and a runbook, not a final invoice and a link.
Recommend against ourselves
If a product, a rule engine or nothing at all is the better answer, we will say so.
Disciplines in the firm
Working here
We hire engineers who want to own a system end to end, including the unglamorous parts. Open roles are listed on our careers page.
Start with a conversation, not a proposal.
An hour with the people who would actually do the work.
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