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Infranest

How we work

Five steps. Weekly demos. No surprises.

The same shape whether the engagement is a six-week build or a multi-year platform: understand first, design before code, show working software every week, launch quietly, operate under an SLA.

Monday

Sprint planning or mid-sprint check-in. Priorities confirmed in writing.

Daily

Async written stand-up in your channel. No meeting required.

Thursday

Demo of working software to stakeholders. Feedback captured as tickets.

Friday

Written progress update: what shipped, what is at risk, what we need from you.

011–2 weeks

Discover

We start by understanding the problem, the constraints and the people, not by proposing a solution. Discovery ends with a written brief you can hold us to.

What happens

  • Stakeholder and user interviews
  • Review of existing hardware, code and infrastructure
  • Constraint mapping: budget, regulation, connectivity, timeline
  • Risk register with mitigation owners

You get

  • Written project brief
  • Prioritized scope with acceptance criteria
  • Estimate with milestones
021–3 weeks

Architect

System design, security model, data flow and cost, reviewed with your team before production code exists. The cheapest place to fix a design mistake is here.

What happens

  • Architecture and data-flow diagrams
  • Protocol, platform and vendor selection with rationale
  • Threat model and security controls
  • Cloud cost model at target scale

You get

  • Architecture decision records
  • Security model
  • Cost projection
  • Delivery plan
03Iterative sprints

Build

Weekly demos of working software. Everything typed, tested and reviewed. You see the product take shape every Thursday, not in a status deck.

What happens

  • Two-week sprints with a Thursday demo
  • Shared repositories in your organization from day one
  • Continuous integration with automated tests and security scans
  • Firmware and cloud developed in parallel against a shared contract

You get

  • Working software every sprint
  • Test suites and CI pipelines
  • Documentation as we go
041–2 weeks

Deploy

Staged rollouts with monitoring in place before launch, runbooks written and rollback rehearsed. Launch day should be uneventful.

What happens

  • Environment provisioning via infrastructure as code
  • Observability: dashboards, alerts, SLOs
  • Cohort-based rollout for devices; canary releases for cloud
  • Rollback rehearsal and go/no-go review

You get

  • Production environment
  • Runbooks and on-call guide
  • Launch report
05Ongoing

Operate

SLA-backed support, scheduled improvements and a named engineer who knows the system. Launch is the start of a product's life, not the end of the project.

What happens

  • Monitoring and incident response under a defined SLA
  • Monthly reliability and cost review
  • Scheduled firmware and platform releases
  • Roadmap planning with your team

You get

  • Monthly operations report
  • Release schedule
  • Continuous improvement backlog

Principles

The rules underneath the process.

01

Written over verbal

Decisions, estimates and scope changes are written down. Memory is unreliable; documents are not.

02

Working software over reports

The only honest status update is a demo. We show progress every week, in your environment.

03

Boring technology

We choose well-supported, well-understood tools by default and reserve novelty for where it earns its keep.

04

Your repositories, your keys

Code lives in your organization from the first commit. Credentials are yours. Leaving us should be easy, which is why clients don't.

How long does discovery take?

Usually one to two weeks. For a product with existing hardware and code it can run to three, because we review what exists before we recommend anything.

Can we skip discovery if we already have a specification?

We can shorten it, but not skip it. A short discovery validates the specification against reality and almost always finds something that changes the estimate.

What if requirements change during the build?

They will. Changes are written up with their impact on scope, timeline and cost, and you decide. Fixed-scope projects have a change process; dedicated teams simply reprioritize.

Do we have to use your process?

The rhythm is adjustable: some clients prefer fortnightly demos or their own ticketing tool. The principles (written decisions, working software, your repositories) are not.