Software · Product · Engineering
Brevalen is a product and engineering company building web applications, mobile products and the systems behind them — from first idea to production.
atlas / services
Uptime
99.98%
+0.02
p95 latency
142 ms
−18 ms
Error rate
0.031%
−0.004
14:20 UTC
1,284 req/s
| Service | Env | Region | p95 | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| ingest-api | production | eu-west-1 | 142 ms | ok |
| ledger-sync | production | us-east-1 | 88 ms | ok |
| report-builder | staging | eu-west-1 | 310 ms | degraded |
| auth-edge | production | global | 24 ms | ok |
| billing-jobs | production | eu-west-1 | 1.2 s | queued |
Trusted to turn complex ideas into usable software.
We work with a small number of clients at a time, usually as an embedded product team alongside founders and internal engineering.
Software should feel inevitable.
Philosophy
The best products don't feel designed. They feel like the only sensible way the thing could have worked. Getting there is slow, specific work: understanding the problem properly, cutting what isn't needed, then building the rest carefully.
We do that work in small teams, close to the people who will use the software, with a running build from the first weeks.
Work
A few projects that show how we think. Client names are withheld where the work is internal.
Case study · Depot
We took the whole problem — research, interface, architecture, delivery — and shipped it as one product team.
Six depots planned a day on paper. Nobody could see the whole picture.
Depot · Tue 14 Oct
6 routes
One screen for the plan. Everything else moved behind it.
atlas / services
Uptime
99.98%
+0.02
p95 latency
142 ms
−18 ms
Error rate
0.031%
−0.004
14:20 UTC
1,284 req/s
Keyboard-first interactions, designed around how dispatchers already worked.
Depot · Tue 14 Oct
6 routes
Event-sourced routes, so any plan can be rewound and audited.
Request path
A product real users run their day on, rolled out with no parallel spreadsheets.
atlas / services
Uptime
99.98%
+0.02
p95 latency
142 ms
−18 ms
Error rate
0.031%
−0.004
14:20 UTC
1,284 req/s
Services
Four areas of work. Most projects touch more than one.
React · TypeScript · Postgres
React Native · Swift · Kotlin
Today
$18,420
Retrieval · Evals · Guardrails
Triage · queue 42
routed → Billing
routed → Legal
needs a human
Go · Node · AWS · Terraform
Request path
Why Brevalen
Remove complexity before adding complexity. Most product problems are decision problems.
Every interaction deserves attention — empty states, latency, keyboard paths, the second visit.
The system should be as thoughtful as the interface.
Build alongside people, not just for them. We'll tell you when we disagree.
Approach
We learn the problem, the users and the business context before proposing anything.
We turn ambiguity into a clear product direction, written down and agreed on.
We design the experience before over-engineering the solution.
We engineer carefully and iteratively, in production from early on.
We test, measure and keep improving after launch.
We keep the loop short: a working build every week, a decision log you can read, and no phase that ends in a slide deck.
Technology
We choose tools our clients' teams can still maintain in three years — and we design the whole stack, not just the surface.
Interfaces, design systems, accessibility
Product logic, state, integrations
APIs, jobs, events, authorisation
Postgres, analytics stores, modelling
Cloud, pipelines, observability
Each layer is designed to be readable on its own. No hidden magic, no framework that only one person understands.
TypeScript · React · Next.js · Tailwind
Go · Node.js · Python
AWS · Cloudflare · Terraform
React Native · Swift · Kotlin
Retrieval · Evaluations · Structured output
Postgres · ClickHouse · dbt
Docker · CI/CD · Observability
About
Brevalen is a product and engineering studio. Designers and engineers work in the same room on the same problem, which is why our interfaces and our systems tend to agree with each other.
We like problems where the domain is messy and the software has to make it feel simple: operations tools, financial workflows, logistics, anything with real users who spend their working day inside the product.
We take a small number of projects at a time. We say no often. When we take something on, we treat it as ours — including the parts nobody enjoys, like migrations, access control and the third round of edge cases.
We are not interested in being the biggest studio. We are interested in the software still being good two years after launch.
The best software doesn't ask to be noticed.
It simply makes difficult things feel easier.
Contact
Tell us what you're working on. We'll figure out the next step together — even if that step isn't us.