London software consultancy
We build software that cannot afford to break.
Nine years inside broadcast and streaming platforms, where a fault is visible to millions of people at once. We bring that standard to whatever you are building.
The specialism
Broadcast and streaming
Where we contract most, and the reason the reliability work below is not a claim. A fault on a streaming platform is visible to millions of people at once, so it gets found and fixed to a standard most systems never need.
Video playback engineering
Players that work on the devices your audience actually owns, including the awkward ones.
Adaptive bitrate streaming
Buffering, rendition flapping and a slow first frame, treated as the bugs they are.
Content protection
Digital rights management that protects the content without breaking playback.
Advertising integration for video
Adverts that play without stalling the stream or leaking the revenue.
Live event readiness
The audience arrives in ninety seconds, not over a morning. Be ready for that.
The practice
What we build once we are in the building
Product engineering
Web and mobile products, from a first version to the thing that carries real load.
Platform and cloud
Infrastructure as code, delivery pipelines, and making a deploy boring.
Reliability engineering
Observability, alerting and load testing, so failures surface before customers find them.
Work
Where the work has been
ITV
A player that has to work on every screen in the country
Playback engineering for a national broadcaster, across the whole spread of devices its audience actually owns.
castLabs
Advertising that has to arrive without breaking the stream
Research and prototyping on how adverts are placed into live and on demand video without stalling playback.
Sky
Buffering is a decision the player made
Adaptive bitrate work: how a player estimates the network it is on, and what it does when the estimate is wrong.
Platforms we have worked inside
- ITV
- Sky
- Peacock
- NBCUniversal
- DAZN
- castLabs
- Utility Warehouse
- Plentific
Have something that cannot go down?
Tell us what it is and what is worrying you about it. If it is not something we should take, we will say so.