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Our services

Four ways to work with us, depending on whether you need a product built, a software partner for a bid, extra engineers or a mentor. Everything we do is for the space sector.

End-to-end product development

  • We start from your customers' problems, not a feature list, and design the smallest product that solves them. Less to build means lower cost and an earlier launch.
  • Applying for ESA BIC or FIERCE funding? We are a registered FIERCE External Service Provider and can be named as the software partner in your application.
  • We run the whole project: business analysis, UX design, development, testing and launch.
  • After launch we stay on for maintenance, support and new features.

Software partner for ESA bids and primes

  • Bidding on an ESA or EU tender? We can write and deliver the software work package, from ground-segment tools to data platforms and user interfaces.
  • We have delivered ESA contracts as prime and subcontractor, and we know the documentation, reviews and reporting they involve.
  • Mainly a hardware company? Hand us the software around your product instead of building a software team for it.
  • Your IP stays yours, and we are happy to sign an NDA before the first call.

Team augmentation

  • Skip a months-long hiring process. You can interview candidates as early as next week.
  • Add one or two engineers when the work peaks, and release them when it is done.
  • You pay a daily rate for days worked. Holidays and sick leave are not billed.
  • One invoice a month, and no payroll for you to run.

Product coaching & mentoring

  • Our mentors have founded companies and worked in the space industry themselves.
  • Our founder has mentored around 300 space startups through ESA BIC, the UK Space Agency Accelerator, Techstars and CASSINI.
  • We match you with the mentor who knows your problem area best.
  • Open to founders of startups and scaleups, and to incubators, accelerators and VC firms.

Our tech stack

React

Swift

WordPress

Laravel

Bootstrap 5

Angular

Firebase

GitHub

Figma

Java

TensorFlow

PyTorch

Keras

Python

Google Cloud

Microsoft Azure

Amazon Web Services (AWS)

TypeScript

JavaScript

Docker

PHP

Babylon.js

Cesium

Node.js

Vue.js

Godot

.NET Core

C++

ArcGIS Online

ArcGIS Pro

NVIDIA

MySQL

PostgreSQL

QGIS

Tailwind CSS

MongoDB

InfluxDB

Deepstream

Gatsby

Grafana

There is space for conversation.

Tell us what you're building. In 30 minutes we'll talk through how we would approach it and whether we're the right team, and you'll get a short written plan afterwards either way.

Book a free 30‑minute call