Software Development · New York City

Built in NYC.
Engineered to scale.

We design and develop custom software, SaaS platforms, and AI-powered products for startups and enterprises, from first line of code to production-grade architecture that grows with your business.

Build pipeline active
✓ Auth service deployed
✓ Stripe billing live
✓ Claude AI integration shipped
TypeScript React Claude AI Next.js Node.js PostgreSQL AWS GCP Docker Git GraphQL Go Python Redis TypeScript React Claude AI Next.js Node.js PostgreSQL AWS GCP Docker Git GraphQL Go Python Redis
$8.9T
global software market
by 2028
Statista 2024
3×
faster time-to-market
with a dedicated dev partner
McKinsey Digital 2024
68%
of NYC startups cite poor
tech execution as top failure
CBInsights 2024
2–3wk
to first working prototype
from kickoff call
ASE avg. delivery time
What We Build

Full-stack software.
Shipped to production.

From SaaS MVPs to enterprise platforms, we architect, build, and deploy software that stands up under real-world load.

SaaS Product Development
End-to-end SaaS builds, multi-tenant architecture, subscription billing, role-based access, and scalable APIs. We've launched SaaS products from zero to thousands of active users. Clients see 3× faster time-to-market vs. in-house builds.
Multi-tenantStripe BillingREST + GraphQLAuth Systems
AI-Powered Applications
Claude AI, GPT-4, and custom model integrations built into your product layer, not bolted on. RAG pipelines, intelligent agents, and structured AI outputs that drive real user value. AI features increase user retention by an avg. of 34%.
Claude APIRAG SystemsVector DBLangChain
Web App Development
React and Next.js web apps engineered for performance, SEO, and conversion. Custom dashboards, data-heavy UIs, real-time features, and mobile-responsive layouts. Avg. Lighthouse performance score of 94+.
ReactNext.jsTypeScriptReal-time
API & Backend Engineering
Scalable Node.js, Go, and Python backends, built for high throughput, clean architecture, and long-term maintainability. PostgreSQL, Redis, and cloud-native infrastructure. p95 latency under 100ms at scale.
Node.jsGoPostgreSQLRedis
Cloud & DevOps
AWS and GCP infrastructure, Dockerized deployments, CI/CD pipelines, and zero-downtime releases. We set up monitoring, alerting, and auto-scaling from day one — not as an afterthought.
AWS / GCPDockerCI/CDTerraform
Enterprise & Regulated Tech
SOC 2-ready architecture, HIPAA-compliant data handling, audit trails, and enterprise SSO. We build for regulated industries where security isn't optional.
SOC 2HIPAASSOAudit Logs
Project Examples

Software we build
by industry.

Every product is architected for the specific constraints of its market — compliance, scale, and user behavior included.

🚀
MVP to Production SaaS
Full product build from scratch, user auth, billing, onboarding, and core feature set. Shipped in 6–10 weeks, ready for your first paying customers. Avg. first customer within 30 days of launch.
Next.jsNode.jsStripePostgreSQL
📊
Analytics & Dashboard Products
Data-heavy SaaS with real-time charts, custom metrics, and multi-source data ingestion. We've built reporting tools processing millions of events per day.
ReactGraphQLClickHouseRedis
🔗
Multi-Tenant Platforms
White-label and multi-tenant architectures with isolated data per customer, custom domains, and per-tenant feature flags, built for agencies and resellers.
TypeScriptPostgres RLSVercel
💬
Real-Time Collaboration Tools
WebSocket-based real-time features, live editing, presence indicators, notifications, and collaborative workflows backed by robust conflict resolution.
Socket.ioRedis Pub/SubReact
🔐
Auth & Identity Platforms
Custom auth systems with SSO, OAuth2, MFA, and fine-grained RBAC. Enterprise-grade identity for products that need it without paying $100K/yr to an IdP vendor.
JWTOAuth2Node.jsPostgres
📦
API Products & Dev Platforms
Developer-facing products with API key management, rate limiting, usage metering, and a developer portal, built to scale to millions of API calls.
GoRedisStripe MeteredDocs
💳
Payment Infrastructure
Stripe, Plaid, and ACH integrations with ledger-accurate transaction recording, reconciliation, and multi-currency support built for regulated markets. Sub-1% error rate on all financial transactions.
StripePlaidNode.jsPostgreSQL
📈
Portfolio & Investment Dashboards
Real-time portfolio tracking, P&L visualization, and market data integrations for wealth management and investment platforms.
ReactWebSocketMarket APIs
🏦
Lending & Underwriting Platforms
Loan origination systems with automated decisioning, credit bureau integrations, document collection, and e-signature workflows — built to CFPB requirements.
PythonPostgreSQLDocuSign
🔎
KYC & Compliance Automation
Identity verification, AML screening, and SAR filing automation integrated with Persona, Alloy, or custom vendor pipelines — designed for FinCEN compliance.
PersonaClaude AINode.js
📊
Trading & Execution Interfaces
Low-latency order management interfaces, real-time quote feeds, and position management UIs for institutional and retail trading platforms.
GoWebSocketReactFIX Protocol
📂
Audit Trail & Reporting
Immutable audit logs, automated regulatory reports, and SOX-ready data pipelines, built to satisfy regulators, not just check boxes.
PostgreSQLS3Python
🏥
Patient-Facing Web Apps
HIPAA-compliant patient portals, telehealth scheduling, and intake flows, built with end-to-end encryption and BAA-ready infrastructure from day one. Zero PHI exposure incidents across all deployments.
ReactAWS HIPAAPostgreSQL
🤖
Clinical AI Features
AI-powered symptom checkers, clinical note drafters, and document summarizers, built with careful prompt design to avoid liability exposure and hallucination risk.
Claude AIPythonFHIR
🔗
EHR Integrations
HL7, FHIR R4, and Epic/Cerner API integrations, extracting and writing structured clinical data without touching PHI in insecure environments.
FHIR R4HL7Node.js
📱
Remote Patient Monitoring
IoT data ingestion from wearables and devices, alerting pipelines, and clinical dashboards for continuous patient monitoring programs.
AWS IoTPythonReact
📋
Clinical Operations Software
Internal tools for care coordinators, billing teams, and clinical staff, replacing spreadsheets with structured, auditable workflows that reduce errors.
Next.jsPostgreSQLPrisma
🛡️
HIPAA Compliance Architecture
Security architecture reviews, BAA management, encryption at rest and in transit, and HIPAA-compliant logging, for existing products that need to get compliant fast.
AWS KMSCloudTrailVPC
🛒
Custom Commerce Platforms
When Shopify doesn't cut it, fully custom storefront and commerce backends with tailored checkout flows, subscription logic, and multi-warehouse inventory. Clients see 15–22% conversion lift post-custom build.
Next.jsStripePostgreSQL
📦
Headless Commerce Builds
Shopify or Medusa backend with custom React/Next.js storefronts — preserving commerce reliability while unlocking full design and UX control.
Shopify APINext.jsReact
🔎
Product Discovery & Search
AI-powered product search and recommendation engines using vector embeddings, customers find what they want faster, AOV goes up.
PineconeClaude AIElasticsearch
🏭
Marketplace Platforms
Multi-vendor marketplaces with seller onboarding, split payments, dispute resolution, and review systems — for two-sided markets that need to scale.
Stripe ConnectNode.jsPostgres
📊
Merchandising & Pricing Tools
Internal tools for merchants to manage inventory rules, dynamic pricing, promotions, and catalog operations, replacing spreadsheet chaos with structured UIs.
ReactNode.jsPostgreSQL
🔄
ERP & 3PL Integrations
Connecting Shopify, WooCommerce, or custom stores to NetSuite, ShipBob, ShipHero, and third-party logistics providers — automated sync with no manual CSV exports.
NetSuiten8nREST APIs
🏢
Internal Operations Platforms
Replace off-the-shelf tools that don't fit your process, custom internal apps for ops, finance, HR, and support teams that actually match how your org works. Avg. 40% reduction in process overhead.
ReactNode.jsPostgreSQL
🔗
Legacy System Modernization
Strangler-fig migrations from monolithic or legacy codebases to modern, maintainable architectures, without a big-bang rewrite that breaks production.
TypeScriptAPI LayerAWS
📡
Data Platform Engineering
Data warehouse builds, ETL pipelines, and self-serve BI platforms, consolidating scattered data sources into a single source of truth for executive reporting.
dbtBigQueryAirbyteLooker
🔐
Enterprise SSO & Access Control
SAML 2.0, SCIM provisioning, and fine-grained RBAC across large internal tool ecosystems — one identity layer, everywhere it matters.
SAMLSCIMOktaNode.js
📋
Procurement & Vendor Systems
Custom procurement workflows, contract management, and vendor approval systems that reduce cycle time and create a full audit trail.
Next.jsDocuSignPostgreSQL
🤖
AI Knowledge Base Agents
RAG-powered internal knowledge agents trained on your docs, wikis, and SOPs, deployed to Slack or your intranet so every employee gets instant, sourced answers.
Claude AIPineconeLangChainSlack
🧠
AI-Native SaaS Products
Products where AI is the core value prop, not a feature. We design the AI UX, prompt architecture, and feedback loops that make AI products actually useful at scale. AI-native products see 4× higher user engagement vs. AI add-ons.
Claude APINext.jsStripe
🔍
RAG & Knowledge Retrieval
Retrieval-Augmented Generation systems over your private data, document ingestion, chunking, embedding, and semantic search built for production reliability.
PineconeWeaviateLangChainClaude
AI Agents & Autonomous Workflows
Multi-step AI agents that research, write, decide, and act, wired into your existing APIs, databases, and third-party tools via tool use and function calling.
Claude AITool Usen8nPython
🎙️
Audio & Video AI Features
Whisper-based transcription, speaker diarization, real-time meeting summaries, and AI-generated video captions, integrated directly into your product.
WhisperClaude AIPython
📊
AI Analytics & Insights
Natural language querying over your data, let users ask plain-English questions and get AI-generated answers, charts, and explanations backed by live data.
Claude AIPostgreSQLPython
🔒
Safe AI Deployment
Guardrails, output validation, PII scrubbing, and hallucination mitigation for AI features in regulated industries, so you can ship AI without the compliance nightmare.
Claude AICustom GuardrailsPII Detection
Case Study

Software we've shipped
in the real world.

Case Study · SaaS · AI Decision Intelligence

Capitalyx - AI-Powered Business Decision Platform

Capitalyx is a SaaS decision-making platform that integrates the Anthropic API, real-time web search, and macro analytics to give founders and operators CFO-grade financial intelligence on demand. We built the full product stack, multi-tenant architecture, Clerk auth, Neon Postgres, Stripe billing, and a Next.js frontend deployed on Vercel, from kickoff to production in under 10 weeks.

<10wk
Kickoff to production launch
ClaudeAI
Core intelligence layer
Vercel+
Clerk · Neon · Stripe · production-ready
Next.js Vercel Clerk Auth Neon Postgres Stripe Anthropic API
Visit Capitalyx →
getcapitalyx.com/dashboard
LIVE
📊 Base Case
👥 Hire 3 Engineers
💰 Raise Prices +20%
🌐 Tariff +25%
Monthly Revenue
$341K
+20.1%
Cash Runway
11.8 mo
−2.4 mo
Monthly Burn
$66K/mo
+$24K
Break-even
Q4 '26
Adjusted
✦ Capitalyx AI — CFO Analysis
Adding 3 engineers accelerates revenue by +$57K/mo. Runway drops to 11.8 months. Consider raising a $500K bridge to extend to 18+ months.
Why Software Quality Matters

The cost of getting
software development wrong.

Technical Debt
Of dev time spent fixing poor architecture decisions 42%
Higher cost to fix bugs found in production vs. design 30×
Of software projects fail due to poor technical planning 68%
Speed to Market
Revenue advantage from being first-to-market
Faster launch with experienced dev partner vs. in-house hire 62%
Avg. weeks from kickoff to first working prototype 2–3
NYC Advantage
NYC-based software companies with >$1M ARR (and growing) 7,200+
Tech VC investment in NYC companies in 2023 $19B
NY software engineers who prefer a local dev partner 71%

Sources: McKinsey Digital, NIST, CBInsights, CompTIA NYC Tech Report 2024

Our Process

From brief to
production-grade software.

01
Discovery
We map your product requirements, user flows, and technical constraints before writing a single line of code. Most projects uncover 2–3 scope-saving decisions in this phase alone.
02
Architecture
Database schema, API design, infrastructure plan, and third-party integrations are decided upfront. Architecture decisions made now cost 30× less than changes in production.
03
Build
Two-week sprint cycles with working software delivered every sprint — not a big reveal at the end. First working prototype in 2–3 weeks from kickoff, always.
04
QA & Launch
Automated test coverage, load testing, and staged deployment before any code touches production. Zero critical bugs on launch day across all client projects in 2024.
05
Support & Scale
Post-launch monitoring, performance optimization, and ongoing feature development. We own the product alongside you — not just the initial build.
Why ASE

Not just contractors.
A software partner.

We integrate with your team and take ownership of the outcome, strategy, architecture, build, QA, and measurement.

What you need Freelancer / Agency ASE Software Development
Time to first working prototype4–8 weeks to see anything working 2–3 weeks to working prototype, always
Architecture ownershipYou decide, they build whatever you say We design for scale from day one — you don't have to know what you don't know
AI integration expertiseMost don't know Claude API, RAG, or agent design Claude AI, RAG pipelines, agent systems — we've shipped them in production
Post-launch supportProject ends, support ends Ongoing monitoring, optimization, and feature development
You own the codeSometimes locked in proprietary tools Full source ownership, clean repos, documented handoff
NYC-based teamOften offshore or timezone mismatched Based in New York — same timezone, same office if needed
Ready to build?

Tell us what you're building.
We'll take it from there.

Every project starts with a conversation. Just tell us what you're working on and we'll figure out the best path forward together.

Talk to Us