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Platforms

Business Platforms

Platforms that power a whole market or workflow — the kind of product we also build and operate for ourselves, like QBISA and Orchanto. We architect business platforms for scale, security, and longevity, turning a category insight into software a market depends on.

Engineered to production standard · fully owned

The problem

Owning a category means software an entire market depends on — and most teams can't architect for many participants, high stakes, and years of operation.

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Our approach

We design and operate vertical platforms — like our own QBISA and Orchanto — engineered for scale, trust, and longevity.

Your business, as a platform.

Vertical platforms that run your whole operation — storefront, back-office and data on one core.

TargetUptime
99.9%
TargetFaster launch
3×
TargetTooling cost
−50%
TargetOrders / day
10k+

Figures are targets we engineer to on a typical engagement — not averaged client results.

A platform, not a website

  1. Storefront
  2. Operations
  3. Data
  4. Integrations
  5. Growth
QBISA — CRM sales pipeline by stage
QBISA — quote to cash: receivables, overdue balances and cash received

Our own product

QBISA

A next-generation ERP for companies of up to 10,000 employees

Read the case study

Who this is for

  1. Founders building a marketplace

    Get the identity, payments, and trust & safety infrastructure a multi-sided platform needs from day one.

  2. Industry incumbents digitizing a workflow

    Turn a workflow your market already runs on paper or spreadsheets into the platform it depends on instead.

  3. Teams ready to own a category

    Architect for years of operation and many participants, not a single tenant — with us operating alongside you.

Where teams put it to work

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  1. Marketplaces

    Two-sided platforms with payments, payouts, and trust between parties.

  2. Vertical portals

    Software an entire industry logs into to get work done.

  3. Operator platforms

    The system you operate as the business itself.

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Why this, why now

Platforms that own a category compound — every new participant makes it more valuable.

Getting the architecture right at the start is the difference between owning a market for a decade and renting space in someone else's platform instead.

Typical timelines

Ballpark, for a focused first version — not a guarantee, a starting point for scoping.

  • Single-sided directory / platform MVP8–10 weeks
  • Two-sided marketplace with payments12–16 weeks
  • Full platform (trust & safety, search)16–20 weeks
  • Multi-market operator platform20+ weeks

How we build Business Platforms

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  1. Define

    Turn a category insight into a platform architecture.

  2. Build

    Multi-sided flows, identity, payments, and trust & safety.

  3. Launch

    Go live with the reliability a market depends on.

  4. Operate

    Scale, support, and evolve the platform over years.

What we ship

  • Multi-sided platform architecture
  • Identity, payments & payouts
  • Trust, safety & moderation
  • Search, matching & discovery
  • Analytics & operator tooling
  • Long-term operation & support

Typical stack

  • Next.js
  • PostgreSQL
  • Stripe Connect
  • Search
  • Queues
  • Vercel
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Related work

Questions, answered

  • Both. We build and run our own platforms, so we engineer for operation from day one.

  • Marketplace payments, escrow, and payouts via providers like Stripe Connect.

  • That's the point — we architect for participants and load, not a single tenant.

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Tell us about your Business Platforms project

Let's turn it into something that earns its place in production.

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A specialist reads every message personally — usually within one business day.

Running a business on spreadsheets?

Book a strategy call. We'll discuss your goals, the architecture, and how we'd build it.