Custom software development · San Francisco, CA
Custom software development for San Francisco companies
The Bay Area needs no description of its software industry. What is less obvious is how much of the AI work here is now maintenance: systems built quickly in the last two years that have to be made durable, governed and affordable.
Taking over what exists. A good part of our work arrives as something already built that has become hard to change, and we would rather read it honestly than sell a rewrite.
Founded
2017, and still independent
Bench
115+ people, 80 Databricks-certified
Experience
Fifteen years average, per engineer
Serving
San Francisco, Oakland, San Jose, Palo Alto
What custom software development covers
Web applications
Applications built to be changed safely years after the original team has moved on. That means tests that mean something, seams where the business logic can move, and a deployment nobody is afraid of.
Mobile applications
iOS and Android, built as products rather than as ports. The maintenance story is decided at the start, because that is when it is cheap.
APIs and integration
The seams between systems, done once and properly. Most of the expensive failures we are called into are integration failures wearing another name.
Data platforms
The layer underneath the application, on Databricks, Azure, AWS or Google Cloud. If the reporting and the application disagree, the platform is the reason.
Modernisation of what exists
Often the work arrives as something already built that has become hard to change. We would rather read it and tell you honestly whether it is worth keeping than sell a rewrite you may not need.
Durable, auditable workflows
Processes that take days, call several systems and must never half-complete. Getting that right is a different discipline from getting a request handler right, and it is where we spend most of our time.
Work a San Francisco buyer would recognise
The AI system we built, run in production, and gave away under Apache-2.0. For a technical buyer here, what we operate is a more useful answer than what we have advised on.
AI systems · Our own product
Fabric
Fabric is a context store, memory and agent runtime built on Databricks, and it is the clearest evidence of what we build: across our clientele, work that took a team of ten now takes three.
The bill arrives before the governance does
Systems built quickly in the last two years tend to reach a model spend somebody is now questioning, and an audit requirement nobody designed for. Instrumenting cost and evidence at build time is what stops the second version being a rewrite.
None of that is unusual for San Francisco, and none of it is a reason to build slowly. It is a reason to decide where the evidence comes from before the first handler is written, because the alternative is reconstructing it later from logs that were not designed to answer the question.
How an engagement runs
01
A technical conversation
Not a sales call. An engineer, asking what you are trying to do, what has been tried and what it will actually take. Where the work needs them, product and design people join the same conversation.
02
Two weeks, fixed fee
A short assessment ending in a written plan with a scope, a sequence and a number. You own the document whether or not you carry on with us.
03
Build with your team in the repo
Senior throughout, and no pyramid with one architect over a floor of juniors. The person in your standup is the person writing the code.
04
Run it
We stay on the pager. Nobody designs a fragile thing they will personally be woken by, which is most of why this arrangement produces different software.
Where we work from
TechFabric is headquartered in Gilbert, Arizona, in the Phoenix metropolitan area, and works with companies across the United States. We do not keep an office in San Francisco and are not going to pretend otherwise on a page you found by searching for one.
Arizona does not observe daylight saving, so from March to November we are on the same clock as you and from November to March we are an hour ahead. Either way the working day overlaps almost completely.
Most delivery is remote or hybrid because that suits the work. We travel for the parts that go better in a room, which is usually discovery, workshops and the opening weeks of a build.
Headquarters
1530 E Williams Field Rd, Ste 201Gilbert, AZ 85295
Phone
+1 (480) 681-6806Also
Amsterdam, Dnipro, Hyderabad
FAQ
Custom software development in San Francisco: common questions
Do you work with San Francisco companies?
Yes. TechFabric is headquartered at 1530 E Williams Field Rd, Ste 201, Gilbert, AZ 85295, and works with companies across the United States. Arizona does not observe daylight saving, so from March to November we are on the same clock as you and from November to March we are an hour ahead. Either way the working day overlaps almost completely.
Do you have an office in San Francisco?
No. We have one office and it is in Gilbert, Arizona. Most of this work is remote or hybrid because that is what suits it, and we travel for the parts that go better in a room, usually discovery, workshops and the opening weeks of a build.
We built this fast and now the model bill is a problem.
That is the most common brief we get here. Model spend, retrieval infrastructure and the human review a system still needs get instrumented, and then the architecture questions become answerable. Usually the fix is durability and caching rather than a different model.
What kinds of custom software do you build?
Web applications, mobile applications, APIs and the data platforms underneath them. The work we do best is the sort that has to be governed and auditable, where a wrong write is expensive and somebody has to be able to explain afterwards what changed and why.
Do you take over an existing codebase?
Often, yes. A good part of the work arrives as something already built that has become hard to change. We would rather read it and tell you honestly whether it is worth keeping than sell you a rewrite you may not need.
Custom software development elsewhere
Nine of the metros we publish for. The full list is here.
New York, NY
New York, Brooklyn, Queens
Boston, MA
Boston, Cambridge, Somerville
Atlanta, GA
Atlanta, Alpharetta, Marietta
Miami, FL
Miami, Fort Lauderdale, Coral Gables
Charlotte, NC
Charlotte, Concord, Gastonia
Philadelphia, PA
Philadelphia, King of Prussia, Wilmington
Detroit, MI
Detroit, Ann Arbor, Dearborn
Tampa, FL
Tampa, St. Petersburg, Clearwater
Chicago, IL
Chicago, Naperville, Evanston