FirstBuild

How we work

A short path from decision to shipped.

Four phases, one senior team, no hand-offs. Here's what each phase actually looks like, and the standards we hold on every engagement.

01

Orient

We start with the decision you're actually trying to make, not a feature list. We agree the scope, the constraints, and the single outcome that matters, and we write it down.

02

Design

Interface, system, and content are designed together. You see real screens early, on real data, not a deck of mockups, so the shape of the thing is right before we scale it.

03

Build

One senior team writes production code from week one. Fast feedback, visible progress, and nothing thrown over a wall. The people who designed it are the people who build it.

04

Ship

Launched, measured, and handed over clean. Performance budgets met, accessibility verified, docs written, so the work keeps holding up long after we've gone.

The standards, held on every project.

Core Web Vitals, held greenAccessible to WCAG 2.2 AAOne senior team, end to endFixed-scope sprints, no surprisesYour code and IP, always yoursInstrumented and documented at handover