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Architecture-first software studio

Architecture Drag to move before code.

Five days to the diagram, the trade-offs, and the call. Six weeks to a live MVP.
Senior engineers only. Mohit reviews every meaningful PR.

Start with the audit See selected work
0 shipped since 2019
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Funded startups and the agencies that hire them. Since 2019. 200+ shipped · London · Rajkot
How an engagement unfolds

From first email to live system.
Predictable, week by week.

No discovery decks. No open-ended retainers. Every engagement runs on the same path. Same milestones, same deliverables, same person on the call. Here’s what each week looks like.

Week 00

The first email

You send one paragraph. What you’re trying to ship, and the constraint you can’t get past. Mohit replies inside 24 hours: a clear yes, a clear no, or the one question that decides it.

  • You send: one paragraph
  • You get: an honest reply, fast
Week 01

The audit

Five working days. We read what exists, talk to your team, draw the system, write down the trade-offs. The work happens on paper before any code is touched.

  • You get: architecture diagram
  • You get: risk register, ranked
  • You get: a 90-day plan
Weeks 02–06

The build

Senior engineers ship into your repo, your stack, your sprint cadence. Weekly demos. Mohit reviews every architectural call. No surprises, no scope drift, no juniors.

  • You get: working software, every week
  • You get: founder-level code review
  • You get: full ownership at the end
Week 07+

Live & supported

We hand off a system your team can maintain. Documented, monitored, defensible at Series A diligence. Monthly advisory keeps the architecture honest as you scale.

  • You get: hand-off pack & docs
  • You get: monthly architecture review (optional)
What we believe 2.6K founders · 200 projects · one belief

The architecture call is the only decision that compounds.

01

Most shops pick a stack first, then bend the architecture to fit it. We work the other way around. Diagram first. Trade-offs written down. The call made out loud, in front of the founder, before a line of code is touched.

02

The bugs you pay to fix in year two are downstream of the call you made in week one. The only way to ship faster long-term is to make that call better, not skip it.

03

We turn down about a third of the projects that reach us. The two-thirds we say yes to become the systems we’re willing to put our name on when the investors come back to read the code.

Architecture-first since 2019
Code is the consequence Architecture is the call Most shops sell hours We sell decisions The audit is the work We say no when no is true Founder-led, always
Capabilities

Five clusters of work.
One spine underneath.

Each row is a class of problem we get hired to fix. The architecture call underneath every one is the same. Click any row to open it.

LangChain, OpenAI, Anthropic Claude in production. Domain RAG, multi-agent orchestration, tool-use that doesn’t hallucinate in front of customers. The pattern matters more than the model.

LangChain Claude OpenAI pgvector Langfuse Evals + Guardrails
Last shipped Compliance copilot · 71% faster review · 7 weeks to live
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SaaS, MVPs, mobile. Architecture call first. Sprint plan second. Code third. 6 to 12 weeks for an MVP that survives Series A diligence.

Next.js FastAPI Flutter React Native Postgres Stripe
Last shipped Construction variation SaaS · 4 months end-to-end · live
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We rescue about 30 AI-codegen builds a year. 3 failure modes show up in 80% of them: database schema, auth, payments. We audit what shipped, refactor what’s salvageable, rewrite what isn’t.

Audit week Schema rebuild Auth & RLS Payments hardening Observability Hand-off pack
Last shipped Lovable rescue · one-user auth multi-tenant in 3 weeks
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Engineers who read Figma the way the designer intended, and tell you which decisions in it will fight the architecture 3 months in. The interface a senior buyer takes seriously.

Tailwind Radix Framer Motion Design tokens Motion choreography A11y baseline
Last shipped Publisher platform · revenue-per-reader 3× in 18 months
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The decisions that decide whether the platform stays alive when traffic doubles overnight. Postgres or Mongo. Monolith or microservices. Vercel or AWS. We make the calls with the trade-off written down so the answer survives the team that inherits the code.

AWS · GCP Cloudflare Vercel Terraform CI/CD Postgres + ClickHouse
Last shipped Logistics network · route opt cut costs 22% · predictive in 6 months
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Why Empyreal

Six reasons funded teams pick us over the cheaper option.

We aren’t the cheapest engineering consultancy and we aren’t trying to be. Here’s what the rate buys you, written plain.

Architecture

The diagram before the code.

5 days of audit work. Diagram on paper, trade-offs written down, decision made out loud. All before a single line ships.

Founder access

Mohit reads every first email.

Not a sales bot. Not a project manager. The founder. Under 24 hours, every time.

Seniority

Senior engineers only.

Seven years average on production systems. No juniors learning on your build. Founder code review on every project.

The hard one

We say no to about 1 in 3 projects that reach us.

If the project doesn’t need to be built, we tell you on the first call. If the architecture call you’ve made is going to age badly, we tell you. The fee for the honesty is zero.

— first-call policy, unchanged since 2019
Timezone

UK by day, India by night.

Architecture calls happen in London hours with Mohit. Build velocity comes from a senior India team that ships overnight. 12 productive hours, not 8.

Cadence

Weekly demos, not slides.

Every Friday you click the thing we built that week. Status reports replaced by working software. No theatre, just progress you can touch.

Hand-off

You inherit a system, not a dependency.

Documentation your team can read. Architecture diagram from day one. The why behind every call. No black-box. No lock-in.

Process

The shape of a week.

Every project starts the same way. The diagram on paper. The trade-offs written down. The decision made out loud, before any meaningful code ships. What changes is what we build after that.

  1. 01
    Audit Five working days

    We don’t write a line of code in week one. That’s deliberate. The first 5 days go to paper. Reading what exists, drawing the system as it is, writing the trade-offs down in language the founder will recognise.

    You walk away with architecture diagram, risk register, and a 90-day plan you can take anywhere.

  2. 02
    Decide One call · 90 minutes

    One call. We tell you what we’d build first, what we’d push back on, and what we wouldn’t build at all. Then we lock the scope, the milestones, and the definition of done.

    You walk away with a clear yes, a clear no, or the deciding question, agreed out loud.

  3. 03
    Build · the main event Six to twelve weeks · weekly demos

    Senior engineers ship into your repo, your stack, your sprint cadence. Mohit reviews every meaningful PR. Weekly demos replace status reports. Every Friday, something you can click.

    You walk away with a live system, code review on every architectural call, and working software in your hands every week.

  4. 04
    Hand-off Final day · live thereafter

    We walk your team through the architecture line by line. Documentation is the kind a developer joining six months later can read once and understand. We stay on call for the first month, free.

    You walk away with a system your team owns. No black-box, no lock-in, no surprise invoices.

Proof

What seven years compounded into.

We’re not the cheapest. We’re not the loudest. The numbers below are the ones we earned by staying in the room when other shops handed the project back.

Track record 0

engagements shipped since 2019 across fintech, healthtech, edtech and B2B SaaS.

Currency 0/yr

AI-codegen builds we rescue and rebuild each year. Three failure modes repeat in 80% of them.

Access 0h

first-email reply window from Mohit. A clear yes, a clear no, or the deciding question.

Empyreal Infotech 2019 — 2026 Founder-led on every project
Who we work with

Both sides of the table.

Two engagement shapes. One bar of work. Whether you sell to your own clients or you raised money to ship a product, the architecture call we make in week one doesn’t change. What changes is whose name goes on it.

01 · Engagement White-label partner

Agencies& studios

“You sell to your clients. We’re the senior engineering pod that delivers the work under your name. Quiet, on-brand, on-deadline.”

Who hires us in this mode
  • Design agencies
  • Brand & creative studios
  • Development studios
  • Marketing agencies
  • Product & innovation studios
  • Strategy consultancies
38% of engagements run under a partner’s brand Talk about a white-label partnership
02 · Engagement Direct partner

Foundersfunded & building

“You raised money to ship a product. We’re the architecture team you’d hire full-time, if you could.”

Verticals we ship in
  • Fintech & payments
  • Healthtech & wellness
  • B2B SaaS
  • EdTech
  • E-commerce & marketplace
  • Creator economy
62% of engagements run with the founder directly Talk about your build
The stack

Model-agnostic. Cloud-agnostic. Opinionated where it matters.

We pick the right tool for your latency, your cost ceiling, and the compliance regime your auditor reads. Never the one with the partnership badge on our website. Below is the diagram we draw on day one, layer by layer.

L5

Surface & Application

what the user sees
Next.js React Flutter React Native FastAPI tRPC
L4

Orchestration & Workflow

how requests flow
LangGraph LangChain LlamaIndex Vercel AI SDK DSPy Custom agents
L3

Intelligence

where the brain lives
OpenAI GPT-4o Anthropic Claude Google Gemini Meta Llama 3 Mistral Open-source fine-tunes
L2

Data & Retrieval

where memory lives
Postgres + pgvector MongoDB Atlas Redis Pinecone Weaviate Qdrant Milvus Chroma Elastic Hybrid search
L1

Infrastructure

where it runs, what it costs
AWS · GCP · Azure Cloudflare Vercel Supabase Terraform CI / CD
In their words

What founders say after the audit lands.

Six months after the system goes live, we run a debrief. These are the lines that came back. Real teams, real numbers, attributed by role and engagement window.

22% operating costs cut
James Thompson COO · Logistics Network
Route optimisation cut costs 22%. We went from reactive to predictive operations in six months. The audit they delivered in week one is the document we still reference in board meetings.
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No-strings-attached trial

Send us your codebase. We’ll send back a one-page diagnostic.

Handing over a codebase to a stranger is a real ask. So we make it small and safe. NDA on the table from day one: your template or ours, signed inside the hour. Read-only access scoped to the repos you choose, revocable any time. If the read doesn’t earn its place, walk away.

01 What you send

A scoped, revocable peek at the repo.

Read-only GitHub access, scoped to the repos you pick. Revoke whenever: no escalations, no awkward email chain. Prefer not to connect a repo at all? A zipped snapshot on a private link works just as well.

  • NDA on request · yours or ours
  • Read-only · only the repos you choose
  • Revoke any time, no questions asked
02 What we do

2 hours of read. 1 founder, no relay.

One pair of senior eyes on your system. The founder you’d talk to if you ever picked up the phone is the same person writing the note. No analyst chain, no offshore handoff, no template-stuffing.

  • Mohit Ramani · founder, signed
  • Architecture-first review
  • Zero handoffs · zero juniors
03 What you get back

1 page worth 3 meetings.

The 3 brittle decisions we’d address first. The 2 trade-offs worth the rebuild. The 1 thing to leave alone. PDF in your inbox in 72 hours.

  • 3 brittle decisions to address
  • 2 trade-offs to rebuild
  • 1 thing to leave alone
£0 · 72 hours · founder-signed

“If what comes back doesn’t show you something you didn’t already know, walk away, and tell your network we wasted your time.”

— Mohit Ramani, founder
Send the codebase Book a 20-min intro
Selected work

Real systems. Real stakes.

5 picks from the last 24 months. Each one carries the architecture call we made on day one, the stack we ran with, and the number the founder still tracks today.

Sinq construction variation SaaS platform 4mo site settlement,
end-to-end
Construction SaaS · UK · 2026

Sinq

A variation platform that turns the audit trail into a side-effect, not a chore.

Flutter · Node · MongoDB · AWS
Chance AI dating app with video profiles 3.4× match relevance
Consumer AI · 2025

Chance AI
N1 Payments fintech merchant settlement platform <24h settlement
Fintech / Payments · 2024

N1 Payments
ARCC smart cycling app with BLE hardware 1,200km field-tested pre-launch
IoT & Mobile · 2025

ARCC

A cycling computer that talks to the bike and the rider at once.
Gather Being FCA-compliant investment platform 14wks whiteboard FCA-ready
Fintech / Investment · UK · 2025

Gather Being

Consumer investing built FCA-compliant from the schema.
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Common questions

The questions every founder asks before the call.

Answered the way we’d answer them across a coffee table. Not the way a sales deck would.

What does Empyreal actually do?

Architecture-first software development. We make the diagram first. Then we write the trade-offs down. Then we make the call out loud. Only then does code get written. Funded startups and the agencies that hire us. Web, mobile, AI, infrastructure: 5 clusters of work, 1 spine underneath every one of them.

Do you work with small or big teams?

Both, but we’re honest about the fit. Pre-seed founders without a paying customer yet: we’ll tell you to wait and ship the cheapest version yourself. Series A onwards: this is exactly the moment the architecture call compounds. Agency partners building for their own clients: we run as your white-label senior team, quiet and on-brand.

What does an engagement cost?

The architecture audit is a fixed price for 5 working days: the diagram, the risk register, the 90-day plan. After that, build engagements run weekly against scope. Long-term advisory is monthly. Full pricing lives on the conversation thread once we know your project.

How fast can you start?

Usually within 2 weeks. The first email goes back inside 24 hours. The intro call (only if the email tells us it’s worth your time) happens within 5 working days. Audit week begins as soon as access is sorted. We don’t run pipelines. If we say yes, we mean it.

Can you adapt to our processes and tools?

Yes. We will inherit your Linear / Jira / GitHub / Slack setup, run inside your sprint cadence, and conform to your code review standards. The one thing we will not adapt: the architecture call always gets made out loud at the start. That is the work.

What if my project is already in trouble?

We run ~30 AI-codegen and inherited-code rescues a year. Same shape: audit week first, then rebuild what’s salvageable, then replace what isn’t. The pattern is consistent enough that we can usually tell you in week one whether the rescue is worth it, or whether starting from scratch is the cheaper call.

Do you offer post-launch support?

Yes. Monthly advisory once the system is live. Weekly standups, architecture reviews, scaling decisions. We treat this as the most important part of the engagement. It’s the place where the year-two bugs would have shown up.

Who actually writes the code?

Senior engineers with seven-plus years on production systems. Mohit reviews the architecture call in week one and reads every PR that touches the spine. No juniors, no contractors-on-contractors, no bench filler. Same team start to finish.

What if I have more questions?

Email Mohit directly. Under 24 hours, every time, with either a clear yes, a clear no, or the question that decides it.

Start here

One paragraph. That’s it.

Send what you’re trying to ship and the constraint you can’t get past. Mohit reads every first email and replies inside 24 hours: a clear yes, a clear no, or the one question that decides it. No discovery call until the email says the call is worth your time.

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What happens after the email lands
  1. < 24h

    A personal reply.

    Yes, no, or the deciding question. Straight to your inbox, not a team thread.

  2. 5 days

    The audit week begins.

    Architecture diagram, trade-offs on the table, the call we’d make. In plain English.

  3. Week 6

    Working software.

    Shipped, instrumented, measured against the number you said you wanted to move.