PROPRIETARY PLATFORMSSoftware you can adopt,from a team that runs it.
Products we own, operate, and are accountable for. Each is in production today, improves for every customer at once, and comes with one team behind it rather than a project that ends.
WHY A PLATFORMBought, not built. Run, not handed over.
Some problems are the same in every organisation that has them. For those, a platform we own beats a custom build: it is in production on day one, it gets better for every customer at once, and there is one accountable operator behind it. Everything else, we build to order.
WHAT WE OWNAdditional platforms are in development. We announce them when they reach customers, not before.
HOW OWNERSHIP WORKS HERESeparate products. Explicit boundaries.
A studio that owns products and also builds for clients has to be disciplined about which is which. These are the rules we hold ourselves to.
01Client work stays the client’s
Systems and data we build under contract belong to the client. We do not fold a client’s confidential information or configuration into a product of ours.
02Platforms stand alone
Each platform is independently deployable, independently owned and independently operable. None requires access to another company’s system in order to work.
03Integration is by documented API
Where a platform connects to something else it does so through a published interface, credentialed per customer, and removable without breaking anything.
04Brands and data stay distinct
Separate products carry separate names, separate security boundaries and separate data. Shared engineering happens at the Rocky Dev Co level, never by quietly merging two customers’ worlds.
PLATFORMS AND PARTNERSHIPSInterested in one of our platforms,
or in building one?
We work with operators who have the problem and the data, and with organisations that want a system of record built for their industry.
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