Software studio · Austin, Texas · Remote team, US and UK · Founder-led since 2020

Senior engineering on retainer.
Managed hosting you can hand off to.

Poiema builds, ships and runs software products for funded startups and small companies in the US and UK. One senior engineer stays responsible for your product, and the infrastructure it runs on, for as long as you need.

Book a strategy callHow we work with People Bunch

Three ways to work with us

Pick the one that sounds like your week.

Keep shipping

A senior developer on retainer

I need someone to keep building my product.

Half, one or two senior developers on a monthly retainer, with Alex as technical director. Our longest client has been on this model for over four years.

Retainer tiers →
Run it for us

Managed hosting and maintenance

Nobody owns our production system.

We provision, monitor, patch and maintain your platform on infrastructure we run, with cloud costs included. We also take over platforms other agencies built and walked away from.

Hosting plans →
Build it

A fixed-scope build

I need this to exist by next month.

A contained product or feature with a written scope, a fixed price and a fixed date. Scoped by Alex, shipped by a senior developer, and always paired with a hosting plan.

How builds work →

Clients include

  • People Bunch
  • Fint
  • Wresonate
  • Caution Your Blast
  • Dom & Tom

Where the founder has shipped

  • Bloomberg
  • Kraken
  • UK Foreign Office

Alex Wilton has spent ten years building for financial data, a crypto exchange, government and venture-backed startups. Every Poiema engagement gets that review.

We came to Poiema in 2022 for a one-off build. Four years later they're still our engineering team. Alex reviews the architecture, and we have a senior developer who knows our codebase inside out and ships continuously. They also run our AWS production and staging environments, so backups, monitoring and security are simply handled, all for one predictable monthly number. Most recently they built AI-assisted document upload and extraction into the platform. For a small company that needs software done properly without hiring an in-house team, I can't recommend them enough.

Jarrod AylingFounder, People BunchGiven to Poiema in writing, quoted as written

Work

Relationships that outlast the first project.

WresonateA coaching firm's website, scoped and shipped in a weekA complete marketing site for an Austin leadership coaching firm, built from scratch with the founder over a single week: positioning, copy, six service pages, a resources section and a booking flow.Fixed-scope build, shipped with the owner in the roomSeptember 2026People BunchFour years of shipping for an HR platformPeople Bunch came to Poiema for a project. They stayed for a retained senior developer and a production platform we host, monitor and maintain.Fixed-scope build, then monthly retainer with managed hosting2022 to presentFintA mobile investment app, built and hosted for two yearsA React Native investment app with model portfolios, integrated with the WealthKernel custody and trading platform, and hosted under Poiema management for the life of the engagement.Mobile and backend build, then managed hostingTwo years

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How it runs

Six steps, and the last one repeats.

  1. 01Strategy callThirty minutes on what you are building and where it is stuck.
  2. 02Written scopeWhat we will do, what it costs, and when. Signed before work starts.
  3. 03Build in sprintsWorking software every two weeks, with architecture reviewed by Alex.
  4. 04LaunchOnto cloud infrastructure we provision and run, with the code and data yours throughout.
  5. 05Host and maintainMonitoring, backups and patches, for one fixed monthly price.
  6. 06Keep shippingA retained developer on the roadmap, month after month.

Start with a strategy call

Thirty minutes. You describe the product and where it is stuck. You leave with a recommendation, whether or not it is us.

Book a strategy callhello@poiemasolutions.com