Got an idea, a half-built app, or one nobody’s paying for?

We build or finish your app. Then we find your customers.

Senior engineers build it from scratch, or finish what you started with AI tools, a freelancer or an agency. Real payments, real security, hosting that holds up. Already launched? We go straight to the marketing that brings in people who pay, and track every dollar to actual sales.

Get your free Production Gap Review

30 minutes. A written gap map. No pitch unless you ask for one.

or just book the call

Product live but empty?
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YOUR FIRST VERSIONSENIOR REVIEWAUTHsessions · RBAC · audit logPAYMENTSwebhooks · refunds · taxDEPLOYcanary · rollback · monitoringGROWTHtracking · attribution · ROIPRODUCTION · BUILT BY SENIOR ENGINEERS

Client work and our own ventures — labeled, always

More client work Sigma Environmental Services House of Marley Aquavis E-Health Checkup

our own products and ventures — we run them on the rails we sellreal client, named only with written permission

The wall

Building an app got easy. Getting paid didn’t.

A first version is easier to get than ever: an AI tool, a freelancer, a few weekends, and it works. If that’s still carrying you, keep going. We mean it. Founders with real traction tend to hit the same five walls.

  • Payments

    The first version can’t take real money. Stripe in production is webhooks, refunds, disputes and tax, not a pasted API key.

  • Auth & security

    “Login works” is not the same as auth you’d trust with a stranger’s data.

  • Integrations

    Your business runs on systems a first version can’t reach: CRMs, ERPs, carriers, the phone.

  • Deployment

    A preview URL is not infrastructure. Production means backups, monitoring and a rollback plan.

  • Customers

    Even duct-taped live, nobody shows up. A launched product with no growth engine is just a prettier prototype.

Hitting the limits of a first version isn’t failure. You didn’t fail — you graduated. You proved the idea is worth building properly. What comes next is a different kind of work. It’s the kind we do.

Same tools, further

We build with the same tools you used. Then we engineer past them.

We’re not the agency that calls AI builders toys. We start projects the way many founders start theirs, which is exactly why we know, line by line, where those tools stop.

That’s why the Production Gap Review is free: we can look at your prototype and tell you what stands between it and production, because we cross that gap for a living.

6

of our repos started as scaffolds in Bolt.new, an AI app builder, before our engineers took over

Four web front-ends and two product prototypes. We start where many founders start.

receipt

SOURCE · Synaptech portfolio repositories

METHOD · .bolt project directories found during the September 2026 portfolio audit, counted conservatively: four web front-ends and two product prototypes. More of our repositories carry .bolt folders and are not counted here.

VERIFIED · 2026-09

CLASS · repository

✓ every number on this site opens its receipt

CLAIM · bolt-scaffolds

How we count
American Engineering's shipped homepage on desktop: the serif headline "Land Surveying & Civil Engineering Services in California" over a dusk aerial of graded land, with a Request a quote button.
Drag the line. Left: an illustrative wireframe of the page, the way a prototype starts. Right: the site we shipped for American Engineering, a California land-surveying and civil-engineering firm: per-service SEO pages, an llms.txt for AI answer engines, and a rate-limited lead pipeline on Cloud Run.

Before you talk to anyone

Is your prototype production-ready? Six questions. Sixty seconds.

Answer plainly. You get a readiness score and a preview of your gap map: the same ground the free review covers, in writing.

Readiness check · six questions · no sign-up

Question 1 of 6 · PaymentsCan it take real money, and give it back?

Live checkout, refunds, failed payments, and the webhooks that tell your app what actually happened.

Tip: press 1, 2 or 3

The readiness check needs JavaScript.

It scores six areas: payments, auth & data security, deployment, integrations, measurement, lifecycle email & sms. The free Production Gap Review covers the same ground, in writing.

Get your free Production Gap Review

The graduation path

From idea or prototype to platform, in the order it actually happens.

Most clients graduate in stages: production first, then the growth engine once there’s something to fill. The review ends with a fixed, scoped price, so you know the cost of graduating before you commit.

  1. Start here

    Free

    Production Gap Review

    Bring your prototype, or just the idea. Leave with a written map of everything between it and production, before you spend a dollar.

    30 minutes. A written gap map. No pitch unless you ask for one.

  2. Graduate to production

    Launch Engineering

    Your idea, built from scratch, or your validated prototype becomes a deployed, secured, integrated product that real customers can pay for.

    116 operations in a dealer-management SOAP integration, write-safe by construction

    receipt

    SOURCE · Integration client repository for a 12-rooftop auto group

    METHOD · Operation registry generated from the vendor’s WSDLs across six services; read operations verified live against staging.

    VERIFIED · 2026-09

    CLASS · repository

    ✓ every number on this site opens its receipt

    CLAIM · soap-operations

    How we count
  3. Build what builders can’t

    Product Engineering

    For ambitions that outgrow any prototype: multi-tenant SaaS, fintech, marketplaces and operations platforms.

    2 paid risk vendors replaced by a first-party, explainable underwriting model

    receipt

    SOURCE · Underwriting-model repository for a consumer-fintech client

    METHOD · Model design documents and serving code; both third-party scores are blocked from training and serving by a guard in code.

    VERIFIED · 2026-09

    CLASS · repository

    ✓ every number on this site opens its receipt

    CLAIM · vendor-replacement

    How we count
  4. The second half of graduation

    The Growth Engine

    Your product is live; now fill it. Campaigns tuned every day, measurement that tells the truth, and email and SMS built into the product.

    614 retail locations in a store locator generated from distributor data

    receipt

    SOURCE · Rivergreen Cocktails site repository (store-locator build pipeline)

    METHOD · Geocoded retail accounts rendered by the build scripts.

    VERIFIED · 2026-09

    CLASS · repository

    ✓ every number on this site opens its receipt

    CLAIM · store-locations

    How we count

The work

Built past the wall: payments, platforms, mobile apps.

Shipped software, each with the one number we can prove. Our own ventures wear their label, clients who haven’t cleared their name stay anonymous, and private screens are drawn, never faked.

TriaPet homepage on desktop: "Move a case in one message." beside a spoken case about a French bulldog, parsed into patient, presenting and stability rows and sent to five clinics that reply in 11, 24 and 37 seconds.

Veterinary care marketplace

A stalled MVP became an AI referral platform.

281,949 veterinary board records across 30 states and DC behind the clinician verification gate

receipt

SOURCE · TriaPet license index, as served by the live counter on triapet.com

METHOD · Row count of the verification index across 31 veterinary licensing boards (30 states plus DC), read from the live counter on 2026-09-28. It counts every credential the boards publish (technicians, clinic premises, permits and lapsed licenses included), not only active veterinarians.

VERIFIED · 2026-09

CLASS · platform account

✓ every number on this site opens its receipt

CLAIM · license-records

How we count
Venture we operateTriaPet
Willow homepage on desktop: the headline "Split any bill into 4 easy payments" beside a $150 internet bill split into four payments, three marked paid and one scheduled.

Consumer fintech (bill financing)

Real money rails, and attribution that refuses to flatter.

18,576 SMS delivered in 30 days, at a 91.1% delivery rate

receipt

SOURCE · Twilio messaging records for a consumer-fintech client's production account

METHOD · Delivered-message count and delivery rate for a trailing 30-day window, verified independently against the Twilio API.

VERIFIED · 2026-09

CLASS · platform account

✓ every number on this site opens its receipt

CLAIM · sms-volume

How we count
ClientWillow
Craveble Pizza storefront on desktop: "Mix & match America's best pizzas, all in one box" beside a photo of an open box holding five different pizzas, with Build Your Box and Browse Pizzerias buttons.

Food commerce and fulfillment

Four food brands, one backend, and books that classify themselves.

4 brand storefronts on one multi-tenant backend, plus the flagship store

receipt

SOURCE · Craveble platform monorepo

METHOD · Storefront apps deployed against the shared API.

VERIFIED · 2026-09

CLASS · repository

✓ every number on this site opens its receipt

CLAIM · storefronts

How we count
Venture we co-operateCraveble
SkillSchedule homepage on desktop: "Free for coaches. Forever. Your schedule, handled." beside a photo of young soccer players around a coach's tactics board, with a "You keep 100% of your rate" badge.

Coaching and youth-sports SaaS

A coaching platform on web and mobile, with billing that survives refunds.

v1.0.4 SkillSchedule’s iOS and Android app, built on Expo alongside the web portals

receipt

SOURCE · SkillSchedule mobile repository (app version and EAS build configuration)

METHOD · Version string from the app’s production build configuration.

VERIFIED · 2026-09

CLASS · repository

✓ every number on this site opens its receipt

CLAIM · app-store-live

How we count
ClientSkillSchedule
Platinum Hyundai Tent Sale landing page: "The Platinum Hyundai Tent Sale, Massive Savings!" over five Hyundais parked in front of a red-and-white big top, with Get In Touch and View Deals buttons.

Automotive retail

One bilingual campaign engine, tracked from click to sales floor.

11 channels in one documented UTM matrix, every link in English and Spanish

receipt

SOURCE · Campaign repository for a new-car dealership (documented UTM link matrix)

METHOD · Count of distinct channels with pre-built tracked links in the campaign’s written attribution plan.

VERIFIED · 2026-09

CLASS · repository

✓ every number on this site opens its receipt

CLAIM · utm-matrix

How we count
ClientPlatinum Hyundai of Tracy

Automotive retail (multi-rooftop dealer group)

Four legacy apps became one platform for a 12-rooftop auto group.

41 API modules in one operations platform, replacing four legacy apps

receipt

SOURCE · Platform monorepo for a 12-rooftop auto group, plus the legacy-system inventory

METHOD · Module count from the API source tree; legacy figures from the pre-migration inventory.

VERIFIED · 2026-09

CLASS · repository

✓ every number on this site opens its receipt

CLAIM · platform-modules

How we count
Clienta 12-rooftop auto group
See all work

Every project in the ledger, including the ones without a case study yet.

In their words

The receipts are ours. The words are theirs.

What clients said about the work, word for word, with their names and titles attached. When someone also has a business tie to our founder, we say so right under the quote.

  • The logistics software Synaptech developed has improved our delivery operations. We’ve seen better route optimization and our drivers appreciate the user-friendly interface. Solid technical team to work with.

    Zac WilsonLinkedInDirector of Digital Commerce · Raley’s
  • Synaptech developed a project management system that helps us track our civil engineering projects more efficiently. The reporting features are useful and the interface is clean. They delivered on time and stayed within budget.

    Chris Duffey, PEPartner · American EngineeringDisclosure Chris and our founder, Veer, also work together at American DVBE, where Chris is a partner and Veer is CTO.
  • Synaptech built a solid food delivery app that works well for our business. The ordering system is straightforward and our customers find it easy to use. Good communication throughout the project.

    Darren McAdamsLinkedInFounder · FoodJetsDisclosure Darren is also Veer’s co-founder at Craveble, a venture we co-operate, and the two work together at American DVBE.

The growth engine

Your last agency sent you reports. We show you receipts.

Campaigns tuned every day, audited line by line, and every change reviewed before it ships. Measurement honest enough to publish the unflattering numbers. Every figure below opens its source.

  • Google campaigns, tuned daily
  • Meta, measured full-funnel
  • Conversion tracking rebuilt
  • Persona landing pages
  • Email + SMS lifecycle
  • SEO + answer engines
  • Forensic audit · first pass

    $1,094

    a month of ad spend leaking, found in a line-by-line account audit

    receipt

    SOURCE · Google Ads account data for a DTC pet-food brand, delivered as a written audit

    METHOD · Campaign-level cost against real purchase conversions over a 30-day window, as reported in the written account audit.

    VERIFIED · 2026-09

    CLASS · platform account

    ✓ every number on this site opens its receipt

    CLAIM · spend-leak

    How we count
  • Persona landing system

    6.7% vs 1.7%

    purchase rate: shoppers who clicked through from the landing pages vs the store-wide average

    receipt

    SOURCE · Store analytics, order data and landing-page server logs for a DTC pet-food brand

    METHOD · Store sessions that entered from the landing pages, and their purchases, over a 30-day window, compared with the store-wide purchase rate for the same window. It counts shoppers who clicked through to the store, not every landing-page visit.

    VERIFIED · 2026-09

    CLASS · platform account

    ✓ every number on this site opens its receipt

    CLAIM · landing-lift

    How we count
  • Honest attribution · on purpose

    ~33–40%

    of funded bills are Google-attributed. We publish it on purpose.

    receipt

    SOURCE · Channel-attribution dashboard for a consumer-fintech client, reconciled against its funded-bill database

    METHOD · Ad-platform conversions compared with funded bills in the system of record over rolling windows. Absent data never renders as zero; immature cohorts are labeled, not counted.

    VERIFIED · 2026-09

    CLASS · platform account

    ✓ every number on this site opens its receipt

    CLAIM · attribution-honesty

    How we count
  • Attribution plan · English + Spanish

    11

    channels in one documented UTM matrix, every link in English and Spanish

    receipt

    SOURCE · Campaign repository for a new-car dealership (documented UTM link matrix)

    METHOD · Count of distinct channels with pre-built tracked links in the campaign’s written attribution plan.

    VERIFIED · 2026-09

    CLASS · repository

    ✓ every number on this site opens its receipt

    CLAIM · utm-matrix

    How we count
  • Tracking rebuilt · one real sale

    4 → 1

    actions Google Ads was counting as a sale, cut to the one real store purchase

    receipt

    SOURCE · Google Ads conversion settings for a DTC pet-food brand, before and after (account change log)

    METHOD · Primary conversion actions in the account before and after the change, confirmed by re-reading the account’s conversion settings.

    VERIFIED · 2026-09

    CLASS · platform account

    ✓ every number on this site opens its receipt

    CLAIM · conversion-actions

    How we count
  • Product live but empty?

    Start with a forensic audit of what you already spend.

    Bring your live product and your last agency’s reports. We check spend, tracking and attribution line by line against what actually sold, and hand you the write-up either way.

The ceiling

You won’t outgrow us.

Small is why you get senior engineers instead of a junior bench. And the ceiling is proven: the team that finishes prototypes also engineers systems like these, in production today.

~450

employees across ~12 rooftops, served by one platform

HR, hiring, e-sign, commissions, inventory and finance in a single system.

receipt

SOURCE · Employee records in the platform for a 12-rooftop auto group

METHOD · Active employee records at the time of the audit.

VERIFIED · 2026-09

CLASS · repository

✓ every number on this site opens its receipt

CLAIM · dealer-group-scale

How we count

Since Aug 2021

a consumer bill-financing fintech in production on rails we engineer

Funded-bill history in the production database begins August 16, 2021.

receipt

SOURCE · Funded-bill records in a consumer-fintech client's production database

METHOD · Earliest funded-bill record in the system of record. This is a history claim, not an uptime claim.

VERIFIED · 2026-09

CLASS · platform account

✓ every number on this site opens its receipt

CLAIM · fintech-since

How we count

281,949

veterinary board records across 30 states and DC behind the clinician verification gate

A doctor claims a license against the state board roll, then passes an SMS possession check.

Venture we operate
receipt

SOURCE · TriaPet license index, as served by the live counter on triapet.com

METHOD · Row count of the verification index across 31 veterinary licensing boards (30 states plus DC), read from the live counter on 2026-09-28. It counts every credential the boards publish (technicians, clinic premises, permits and lapsed licenses included), not only active veterinarians.

VERIFIED · 2026-09

CLASS · platform account

✓ every number on this site opens its receipt

CLAIM · license-records

How we count

How we build

AI drafts. Senior engineers decide.

AI takes the first pass across our engineering work, so you keep the speed that made AI tools feel like magic. Every change that ships is reviewed by a named senior engineer who is accountable for it.

One number, told once

7–8 weeks → 1 day

a role-based access system scoped at 7–8 weeks, shipped in one AI-assisted day

69 permissions, 6 roles, 145 role-permission mappings. Every employee migrated across dev and production with no breaking changes.

receipt

SOURCE · Build session records for a 12-rooftop auto group’s employee platform

METHOD · Original scope estimate vs the documented build session. One build, told once; not a general rate.

VERIFIED · 2026-09

CLASS · repository

✓ every number on this site opens its receipt

CLAIM · rbac-velocity

How we count

Not every build compresses like that. We publish one documented example instead of a blanket percentage, because nobody can honestly stand behind the blanket version.

Guardrails we ship in client AI products

The model extracts. The server decides.

  • Read-only data roles

    The AI can look; it cannot touch. Plain-English questions run through a database role that can only read, and every answer shows the query behind it.

  • Audit logs

    Sensitive actions leave a trail. Permission overrides need a written reason, and every message sent lands in a ledger row someone can inspect.

  • Kill-switches

    Features that move money or message customers ship disarmed, behind an explicit switch a person has to turn on, and can turn off.

  • Penny-exact validation

    Financial data has to balance to the cent against its own printed totals, or it is quarantined for review. Never silently included.

Skin in the game

We run our companies on the same rails we sell you.

Pour Path and SurroGet are our own products. TriaPet is a venture we operate. When our engineering is bad, we feel it in our own revenue first.

A bottle of Hornbrook Ten-Point Gin beside a coupe cocktail and a stag skull with antlers, on white marble against a black backdrop.
Our own product

Pour Path

Alcohol brands’ stores on one commerce platform: Square payments, ShipStation and FedEx logistics, and double-entry books that reconcile to the cent.

Visit pourpath.com (opens in a new tab)
SurroGet homepage on desktop: "Surrogacy matching begins with trust." with verification checks, beside a photo of hands cradling a newborn's feet and a Profile verified card.
Our own product

SurroGet

A surrogacy matching marketplace with server-enforced verification gates, and a matching engine that returns nothing rather than a fake score.

Visit surroget.com (opens in a new tab)
TriaPet homepage on a phone: the headline, the licence-verification form and the start of a spoken case card.
Venture we operate

TriaPet

Veterinary referrals, rebuilt from a stalled MVP: AI urgency triage, real-time clinic routing and a license-verified clinician network.

Read the case study : TriaPet

Straight answers

What founders ask us first.

Including the answers that don’t flatter us.

Something we didn’t cover? Ask on a call, or read how we count.

My first version works. Why not keep building it myself with AI tools until it doesn’t?

You should, as long as it’s working. We use AI app builders ourselves: several of our own repos started as scaffolds in Bolt, one of the popular ones. But there is a line they don’t cross: auth you’d trust with strangers’ data, real payments, integrations with the systems your business runs on, and deployment with backups and a rollback plan. If you haven’t hit that line, keep building. We mean it. If you have, the free Production Gap Review shows exactly where the line is and what crossing it takes.

Who actually writes the code, AI or people?

Both, in a specific order: AI drafts, senior engineers decide. Every change that ships is reviewed by a named senior engineer who is accountable for it. The AI features we build into client products follow the same discipline: the LLM extracts, the server decides, with read-only data roles, audit logs and kill-switches. You keep the speed that made AI tools feel like magic, without handing your product to a model.

Will you throw away what I built and start over?

No. Your prototype is the most valuable spec you could hand us: validated product decisions, made cheaply. Sometimes the honest path is rebuilding parts of it on production foundations, and when it is, we’ll say so in the review and show you why. What we won’t do is quote a from-scratch rebuild to pad the invoice. Part of our portfolio is finishing projects other developers left mid-stream, including one whose own README admitted every phase was incomplete.

I’ve been burned by an agency before. Why are you different?

Three structural differences, not promises. The diagnosis is free, so you see our thinking before you spend anything. We’re founders too: we run our own products on the same rails we sell, so bad engineering costs us personally. And we’re not an offshore body shop: you work with the senior team, directly.

What actually happens in the Production Gap Review?

You bring what you have so far: just the idea, an app started in an AI app builder like Lovable or Bolt, a freelancer’s or agency’s half-finished project, or a product that’s already live. We walk it together for 30 minutes, and afterward you get a written gap map across deployment, security, data, payments, integrations and growth readiness. It’s yours to keep, act on, or take to another shop. If there’s a fit, we’ll quote a fixed, scoped path. If there isn’t, we’ll say that too.

Every agency claims marketing results. Why should I trust yours?

Because our favorite number is the unflattering one. On a consumer-fintech account, we publish that most funded bills are not Google-attributed; the measurement exists to tell the truth, not to flatter the invoice. On another account, a line-by-line audit found a monthly spend leak, and the data behind it showed the real blocker: a reorder rate too low for any ad budget to fix. Both figures, with their sources, are on How we count. We hold this site to the same standard: every number on it is registered with its source, method and verification date, and a check in our build pipeline blocks the deploy if a banned claim slips into the copy.

What does this cost? I’m bootstrapped, not enterprise.

The review costs nothing and ends with a fixed, scoped price, so you know the cost of graduation before you commit a dollar. AI-assisted delivery is why the math can work at your size. We don’t publish blanket discount percentages; we publish one documented delivery velocity example, with its receipts. Most clients graduate in stages: production first, then the growth engine once there’s something to fill.

You’re a small team. What happens when I grow?

Small is why you get senior engineers instead of a junior bench. And the ceiling is proven: this same team built an operations platform of dozens of modules for a 12-rooftop auto group with hundreds of employees, and has engineered the rails of a consumer fintech in production for years. The graduation path doesn’t end at your first launch.

Veer Singh, founder of Synaptech, in a stone-colored shirt on a sunlit city street.
Veer Singh · Founder · Pleasanton, CA

From the founder

When you show me your prototype, I’m not going to sneer at it. I’m going to recognize it.

I’m Veer. I studied computer engineering at Sacramento State and I’ve been shipping software ever since. For the last few years I’ve started projects the same way you probably started yours: describing what I want and letting an AI take the first pass. Scaffolds from Bolt, one of the AI app builders, sit in our own repos right now.

Synaptech is not an offshore development house with a sales layer on top. When we work together, you work with me and the senior team: partnership, not outsourcing. And we have skin in the game in a way most agencies don’t. We run our own companies on the same infrastructure and the same growth systems we sell, so when our engineering is bad, we feel it in our own revenue first.

One more thing, because you’ve probably been burned before. The diagnosis is free, the price is fixed before you commit, and every number on this site traces to a repo, a platform account or a client’s sign-off, with its receipt one tap away. A check in our build pipeline blocks banned claims before they reach this page, and lists every figure still waiting on a client’s sign-off. I hold our website to the standard I’m asking you to trust.

Veer Singh

Founder, Synaptech

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Find out what it takes to get your app paid for.

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30 minutes. A written gap map. No pitch unless you ask for one.

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