We take what you've built with AI and make it real.

You got further than you expected with Claude Code, Lovable, or one of the other AI builders. Now you're stuck between "it mostly works" and trusting it within a core area of your business. That's exactly where we come in. Someone who you can get hold of 24/7 when things are breaking and you can't wait for an AI prompt. The risk isn't worth it - trust us, we've heard the horror stories.

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Clutch Awards — Top Software Developers, 2022

ScotlandIS — Digital Tech Business of the Year, 2020

Edinburgh Chamber of Commerce — Net Zero Shortlist, 2024

TechBehemoths — Top UX/UI Design Agency, 2025

TechBehemoths — Top UK Mobile App Development Agency, 2025

TechBehemoths — Top Custom Software Dev Agency, 2025

You got it to 80%.
That's the hard part done.
Right?

Getting a working prototype out of an AI coding tool is a genuine achievement. It proves the idea works, it shows people what you mean, and it gets you further than a spec document ever could.

What we see, again and again, is that the "last 20%" turns out to be closer to half the job. Proper architecture, real infrastructure, security, app store submission, something your team can actually maintain once it's live. That's not a knock on what you built. It's just a different skill set, and one that matters a lot more once real customers and real data are involved.

We take what you've built and treat it as the spec. Then we build it properly from there.

What we typically find

When we open up an AI-built prototype, the same handful of issues turn up again and again:

Duplicated logic, because the AI agent didn't have visibility of an existing part of the app

Database queries that work fine with ten test records and fall over under real traffic

Missing or inconsistent auth on routes added later in the build

UI components that don't share state properly, causing bugs that only show up in specific flows

No real deployment pipeline, so every change is a manual, risky process

None of this means the prototype was wasted effort. It means someone now needs to go through it with real engineering judgement before it runs a real business.

AI coding agents are great at boilerplate.
But they don't know your product.

AI tools are excellent at scaffolding, CRUD, glue code, the repetitive parts of a build. What they're not good at is understanding how the rest of your product fits together. Left alone, an AI agent will confidently make a decision that ignores your existing architecture, and hand you technical debt you won't see until it breaks in production.

That's where we come in. We steer the AI using our years of hard earned development experience, catch the wrong turns before they compound, and make the architecture and product decisions that keep your codebase sane six months from now.

Code is cheap. Expertise isn't.

Bad Dinosaur took the time to understand our mission upfront and translated that into a technical design that could help us test our hypothesis with real customers quickly. At the first co-design meeting, it was great to see the service taking shape at this milestone and it was a good opportunity to reassess the direction and priority of work still to be done with the time we had left. In the co-design process it could be frustrating at times not to be involved with all the discussions that take place when building a product like this, as ordinarily I'd be very close to the team and technical/UX discussions - that way you understand the t...

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Tom Harries

Founder, Vocal

How it works

We review what you've built

A short technical audit of your prototype, so we understand what's there, what's usable, and what needs rework.

We plan the real build

Using your prototype as the spec, we map out the architecture, infrastructure, and any gaps (auth, data model, integrations) it still needs.

We build it properly

Same team, same day rate as any of our projects. You get a production-grade codebase your business can rely on and grow with.

We stay close after launch

Because we built it, we know it inside out. If something breaks, you get a developer who understands your product, not a support queue.

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Human expertise. AI speed.

Here are some projects to check out

We've helped launch over 100 tech startups. Here's a few we like to really shout about but there's tons more you can check out too.

The Lang Cat - Web App

An intuitive financial directory and comparison platform that allows financial advisors to perform due diligence reports against a range of financial providers.

WatchKeeper - Mobile App

Watchkeeper is a cross-platform mobile app for iOS and Android that gives yacht crew a straightforward way to log sea time, track qualifications, and generate reports required to progress in their maritime career.

Pour - Web App

An web-based customer service web-app for the hospitality industry, introducing a new way to order and pay for food and drinks.

tell Gem - Web App

A web application developed to increase disclosure rates of sexual assault, abuse and rape within structured organisations.

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