Your business works. Your software doesn't.

Altoby rescues failed builds, replaces outgrown tools, and modernizes legacy systems — into software your business owns. A fixed scope agreed before any code. A working demo every Friday, or that week is free.

Six operators handed over the system their business runs on — every one is still running it today.

6systems delivered and live in production

4 countriesGermany, Cyprus, the US and Kenya

Every Fridaya working demo, or that week is free

You've probably tried already.

Maybe a developer took a year and shipped nothing you can use. Maybe the spreadsheets and off-the-shelf tools that got you here are now the reason you can't grow. Maybe there's a system nobody dares touch because the person who built it is long gone. Different stories, same result: a good business, throttled by its own software — and a well-earned suspicion of anyone who says they can fix it.

That suspicion is fair. So everything at Altoby is built to survive it: you approve a written spec before code exists, the scope is agreed before work starts, and you watch the system grow in a live demo every single Friday.

Which one is you?

Most clients arrive in one of these situations. None of them were looking for "a developer" — they were looking for a way out.

Recovering from a bad build

You paid, they built, nothing works. Get a keep-or-rebuild verdict and a fixed scope to finish — in one week.

Outgrowing your tools

The process is solid; the spreadsheets and off-the-shelf apps can't scale with it. Get the system built around how you actually work.

Modernizing a legacy system

It still runs, nobody knows how, and every change is a risk. Get it on a modern stack without betting the business.

Starting from an idea

You can see it. You just can't build it. Get the spec, the architecture, and a fixed quote before you bet real money on anyone — including me.

Drowning in spreadsheets

The business runs on Excel, WhatsApp, and one person's memory. Every month-end is a rescue operation. Get one system your team actually uses.

Turning your operation into a product

You know your industry cold and want your operation to become software others pay for. It is the route the care-operations platform took.

One week and a written plan, before anything else.

Three steps, each with its scope agreed before it starts. No proposals-by-negotiation, no hourly meters.

The standing promise: nothing is built before you've approved a written spec, the software is live in production from the first week, and you see a working demo every Friday. If a week ends with nothing to show, that conversation happens in the demo — not in month three.

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01The Blueprint

We map how the business runs, audit whatever software exists, and specify the system you need.

—Full written specification
—Architecture & fixed build quote
—Yours to keep — take it to any developer
—If it doesn't end in a plan you could hand any developer, it's free

02The build

The system, built module by module against the approved spec.

—Live in production from week one
—A working demo every Friday, or that week is free
—Tested, documented, deployed
—You own code, data, and infrastructure

03The partnership

The system grows with the business — and someone senior answers when it matters.

—New modules & improvements
—Monitoring, maintenance, hosting
—A direct line to your engineer

Nothing stays a mystery for longer than a week.

The loop is the product. You approve a spec, one module gets built, and on Friday you watch it run against your own data — then you decide what next week is for. A bad week shows up in the demo, not in month three when the money is gone and the answers have stopped coming.

Built like a product. Run like a promise.

One senior engineer, end to end.

The person you brief architects it, builds it, and answers when it breaks. No account managers, no juniors learning on your budget.

Spec first, always.

Nothing is built that you haven't read and approved. It's why the scope can be fixed.

You own everything.

Code, data, infrastructure, docs — in your accounts. Leaving me is a decision, never a hostage negotiation.

Scope agreed before anything starts.

You approve what gets built and what it costs before the first commit. No renegotiation halfway, no hourly meter running while we work it out.

Six operators. Six systems still running.

Logistics in Germany, hospitality in Cyprus, care in California, and government, healthcare and ecommerce in Kenya — every one delivered and still in production. Two are written up in full below, including the parts that went wrong. The rest follow as each client signs off.

Read the case studies

What you own when it's over.

The repository, the database, and the hosting accounts are created in your name in week one — not handed over at the end, when handing over has quietly become leverage.

The specification lives in the repo beside the code it describes, and the tests are written from the acceptance criteria you approved. Hand the whole thing to another engineer tomorrow and they have everything they need to continue. That's the test worth applying to anyone you hire, and it's the reason it's built in.

Built with AI. Answered for by a human.

Altoby builds with AI — Claude Code, specifically — and doesn't hide it. It's how one senior engineer ships at the pace of a team, and it's why fixed scope and Friday demos are possible at all. Open your repository and you'll see it in the commit history. No surprise, no fine print.

What AI never does here: decide what to build, approve a spec, or merge code nobody read. Every feature starts from a specification you approved, every change is reviewed by the engineer who answers to you, and nothing ships until the automated tests built from your own acceptance criteria pass. You pay for judgment and accountability. The machine supplies speed — and the speed is already in the quote.

The questions you're actually thinking.

How does working with you compare to a US agency?

No downtown office, no account managers, no bench of juniors billed to your project. One senior engineer, AI-accelerated, working from Nairobi with clients in the US and Europe. The structure costs less, and the margin goes to you — the contracts, the process, and the code are what you'd expect from a firm charging several times as much. It's not a discount. It's a different shape of company.

You're in Kenya — how does that work for us?

The way it already works for my clients in Cyprus and the US: contracts on your jurisdiction's terms, invoices in USD, IP assigned in writing, your code in your GitHub organization from the first commit, your infrastructure in your accounts. Nairobi is 3 hours ahead of London — full UK overlap — and US East Coast mornings are my afternoons. The Friday demo is a call; everything else is asynchronous and documented.

How do I know you won't disappear like the last developer?

You can't know it from promises — mine or anyone's. So the structure protects you instead: you own the repository from day one, every week ends with a live demo or that week is free, the spec and docs live in your repo, and payment is staged against delivered scope. If I vanished tomorrow, you'd hold everything any engineer needs to continue. That's the test worth applying to anyone you hire — including me. (For what it's worth: the worst rescue I've done was a build from a developer in Canada. Geography doesn't cause bad software. Missing process does.)

Find out what fixing it actually costs.

One week. One price. A spec and a fixed quote you can take anywhere — even away from me. That's the point.

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