Platform Development · New Zealand
Platform Development across New Zealand — the backend, data and infra your product scales on.
We design and build the platform underneath the product: APIs, data, cloud and the reliability work that decides whether you scale or stall. Built for New Zealand teams who'd rather ship than re-platform in a year.
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Why New Zealand teams call us
The work you can't afford to get wrong.
A platform-engineering practice delivering across New Zealand trans-Tasman in your timezone — the same team and playbook from Auckland's commercial HQs to Wellington's public sector to Christchurch agritech.
Our backend was built to get to launch and it's now the thing slowing every release down.
We're going multi-tenant / enterprise and our architecture wasn't designed for it.
Our data is spread across five systems and nobody trusts the numbers in the dashboard.
We're paying per-seat for Tableau / Power BI / Looker and the bill scales worse than our revenue.
We have outages we can't explain and no real observability to find out why.
What we do
What platform engineering actually covers.
Every engagement starts with a 30-minute call. If we can't tell you something useful in that window, we don't take it on.
Platform & backend architecture
APIs, services and data models designed for where you're going, not where you launched — the structure that lets you add features without adding fragility.
Data platform
One source of truth: pipelines, warehouse/lakehouse and a semantic layer, so the dashboard, the product and finance all agree on the numbers.
Embedded analytics & BI
Replace per-seat Tableau / Power BI / Looker with Apache Superset and ClickHouse, embedded inside your product — the reference architecture we run for our own platforms.
Cloud & DevOps
AWS, GCP or Azure done properly: IaC, CI/CD, environments, secrets and cost guardrails — so deploys are boring and the bill is predictable.
Multi-tenant SaaS
Tenant isolation, row-level security, per-tenant config and the data architecture that lets you sell to enterprise without re-platforming.
Reliability & observability
SLOs, tracing, logging and alerting that tell you what broke and why — before the customer does. Performance and caching that hold up under load.
Why New Zealand
Built for New Zealand teams.
We deliver platform engineering across New Zealand and tune it to each market: commercial and financial for Auckland, public-sector sovereignty for Wellington, agritech and aerospace for Christchurch, supply-chain for Tauranga, agritech for Hamilton, and research-grade for Dunedin. The city pages below go deeper on each.
We're an Australian-headquartered firm working trans-Tasman, remote-first in NZ time with onsite for kickoff and milestones, and we run Apache Superset and ClickHouse in our own products — NZ data residency under the Privacy Act 2020 by default.
What "good" looks like.
We measure ourselves on what your team is doing differently — not on hours billed.
Typical BI licensing reduction when we replace per-seat Tableau / Power BI / Looker with embedded Superset + ClickHouse.
Architecture that lets you sell to enterprise — tenant isolation and row-level security — without a rebuild.
CI/CD, IaC and observability so releases are routine and outages are explainable, not mysteries.
Everything lands in your repo and your cloud account. No black box, no lock-in to us.
How we engage
Three ways to start. All begin with a call.
Engagement
Platform Audit
2-week diagnostic of your architecture, data and reliability — what to fix first, what to retire, what'll break at the next scale step. Fixed scope, fixed fee.
from NZ$10K
Engagement
Platform Build
6–12 week engagement: re-platform, data platform, embedded analytics or multi-tenant migration, delivered in your repo and infrastructure.
from NZ$50K
Engagement
Embedded platform team
An embedded platform squad that builds alongside your engineers and hands the keys back. 2–4 days a week, quarterly outcomes.
from NZ$12K/mo
FAQ
Direct answers to what New Zealand teams ask before they book.
Do you work across New Zealand?
We're an Australian-headquartered firm working trans-Tasman. For New Zealand we work remote-first in your timezone, with onsite visits for kickoff and key milestones. We work with teams in Auckland, Wellington, Christchurch, Hamilton, Tauranga and Dunedin.
How fast can you start?
A 2-week Platform Audit can start the Monday after the scoping call. Larger engagements typically begin 1–2 weeks out, depending on team availability.
Do you work in NZD and to New Zealand compliance?
Yes — we contract and price in NZD. We design for the NZ Privacy Act 2020, ISO 27001 and SOC 2. We're an official Vanta partner for the evidence side.
Do you work in our existing stack or impose your own?
Your stack. We meet the codebase, cloud and tools you already run, and we only recommend a change when the cost of staying is clearly higher than the cost of moving.
Can you help with the embedded analytics / Superset piece specifically?
Yes — it's a core competency. We run Apache Superset and ClickHouse embedded inside our own venture-studio products, so the reference architecture is one we operate, not just recommend.
Are you NZ-based?
We're Australian-headquartered and work trans-Tasman, remote-first in NZ time with onsite visits for kickoff and key milestones. Each city page covers the local industry focus in detail.
NZ data residency and Privacy Act 2020?
Yes — NZ cloud regions, Privacy Act 2020-aligned, with ISO 27001 and SOC 2 evidence for the security side.
Do you actually build, or just advise?
Both — and we never advise without being willing to build. If we tell you the answer is Apache Superset, we'll stand it up. If we say hire a senior engineer, we'll write the spec and sit on the panel.
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