How we work
Every change goes through the same loop.
Every Polargate engagement runs through four phases: Discover, Build, Grow and Care. Every change inside them runs through the same delivery loop, and it does not stop until two audit passes in a row come back clean.
The method
How a project moves forward.

For example: 33 confirmed findings fixed in the August 2026 audit cycle. Hotel Marien
The four phases repeat
Discover, Build, Grow and Care run in order the first time. After that they repeat, because a product that stops changing starts to rot. Every engagement starts with a paid, fixed-price Discovery Sprint, and the document it produces is yours even if you build with someone else.
The delivery loop
Inside every phase, each change goes through the same five steps.
1. Build. One change, against a stated acceptance criterion. 2. Audit in parallel. Several AI agents review the same diff at once, each with a single brief: correctness, architecture and reuse, interface and interaction detail, accessibility, responsive behaviour, performance, security (tenant isolation, input validation, secrets). 3. Verify adversarially. Every finding goes to a separate agent whose only job is to refute it. Most findings do not survive. On a recent site build, the first round produced 37 findings, of which 4 held up; the second produced 26, of which 3 held up. Acting on all 63 would have been busywork with a price tag. 4. Fix. Confirmed findings only. 5. Re-audit. Back to step two.
The loop stops on two consecutive clean passes, with the production build, the type checker and the automated tests green, and the interface opened by a human on a desktop screen and on a phone. Hard problems take more rounds than anyone would like.
What you see each week
- A short written update: what shipped, what is next, what needs a decision from you.
- A link to the working environment, real and clickable, not screenshots of it.
- Open questions with our recommendation attached, so deciding takes minutes.
- The state of the plan, including the parts that slipped.
Between updates the client portal stays open: ticket status, hours used and remaining, releases. You should never have to ask where things stand.
Where we stop and ask
Reversible decisions are ours to make, and we make them without calling a meeting. Irreversible ones are yours: production deploys, deleting data, changing authentication or roles, spending money on your behalf. Those stop and wait for you, every time.
We also say no. If a feature does not survive the Discovery Sprint, you hear it before it is built rather than after. And nothing is called done because someone said so: it is done when the checks are green and a person has used it on a phone.
How we work
From brief to production.
Every project starts with a paid Discovery Sprint that closes scope and price, and every change goes through the same loop of building, auditing and fixing until two passes come back clean.
01The four phases
- 01
Discover
Two paid weeks that end in a closed scope, an architecture and a fixed price.
- 02
Build
Senior engineers with AI, a review on every change and a production release in weeks.
- 03
Grow
Search, AI assistants and paid media, measured from the first week.
- 04
Care
Monthly maintenance with a first answer within 48 business hours.
02The stack
- Web
- ReactTypeScriptViteTailwind CSS
- Data
- SupabasePostgreSQLDenoVercel
- Apps
- CapacitoriOSAndroid
- AI
- AnthropicClaudeMCP
- Operations
- GitHub ActionsResend
For example: 4 days from award to technical close. B2B services company, Europe
FAQ
Questions we get asked.
How does Polargate's development process work?
Do I have to start with the Discovery Sprint?
How do you use AI agents without shipping worse code?
What do I actually get every week?
How long does a project take?
What happens after the site or app goes live?
Who actually does the work?
For example: 327 bilingual pages in the sitemap accepted by Search Console. KD.tech
The studio
Get to know the studio.
Who runs it, how a project moves, the AI we already have running, what your security team needs and the questions people ask before they sign. Each page answers one thing.
- 01Who we areThe studio, who runs it and how it is set up.
- 02You are hereHow we workFrom the Discovery Sprint to production.
- 03AI at workAI already running for our clients.
- 04Trust and securityData, access and what your IT team will ask.
- 05How we quoteNo price list. The quote reaches you privately after a call.
- 06FAQContracts, timelines and who owns the code.
For example: 105,212 characters of body text readable by AI crawlers across 65 URLs, up from zero. Malacca Tables
Get started
Tell us what you want to build.
Websites, apps, custom systems and AI for companies that need them in production in weeks. Fill in the form or book a 30 minute call: a senior engineer answers within 48 business hours with a first take on scope, timeline and price.
First step
Two weeks to close scope, architecture and price before anything is built.
No price list. You get a private quote, in writing, after a short call.
Then, to build, always at a fixed price
Not ready yet?
- AI visibility auditOne-off, fixed price.