Fragmented tools
Teams stitching data by hand across four or five disconnected systems.
Feature — 001
Software that holds its shape
years after launch.
Four & More GmbH is an engineering studio for organisations that treat software as long-term infrastructure. We design, build and maintain the custom applications, web platforms and cloud systems that run day-to-day operations — quietly, reliably, and for a long time.
§ 02 — About the studio
We work with founders, product teams and internal engineering groups to translate operational problems into software that actually gets used. Every engagement starts with the same questions: what does this system need to do in five years, and who has to live with it every day?
§ 03 — Technology capabilities
Index
- 01
Backend systems
TypeScript, Go, Python, Node — durable services and data pipelines.
- 02
Web platforms
React, Next, TanStack — SSR-first customer and internal apps.
- 03
Cloud architecture
AWS, GCP, Azure and hybrid deployments with clear cost boundaries.
- 04
Databases
PostgreSQL, MySQL, ClickHouse and event stores with disciplined schemas.
- 05
Integration
REST, GraphQL, gRPC, message queues and webhook orchestration.
- 06
Delivery
Containers, IaC, observability and CI/CD you can hand back to your team.
§ 04 — Feature
The problems we usually inherit.
Most projects start after something has already stopped working. A tool has outgrown its spreadsheet. A monolith has become impossible to change. A vendor platform has stopped fitting the business. These are the situations we're built for.
Aging codebases
Applications written years ago that nobody wants to touch anymore.
Slow releases
Deployments that take days because the pipeline was never finished.
Unclear ownership
Systems where nobody can explain what runs where, or why.
Data trapped in silos
Reports that only work if a specific person opens a specific file.
Security drift
Environments that quietly stopped matching their original policies.
§ 05 — What we do, in one page
A studio, not a body shop.
We take on a small number of engagements at a time, each with a senior lead who stays with the project from discovery through operation. The work covers six overlapping practices, described in more detail on the services page.
Custom software development
Web platform development
Cloud & infrastructure
System integration
Cybersecurity engineering
Software maintenance
§ 06 — Practice
Custom
software.
We build the internal tools, back-office systems and operational applications that don't exist as off-the-shelf products. Typical projects replace a mesh of spreadsheets and manual work with a single, well-modelled application: booking systems, quoting engines, workflow tools, dashboards, admin consoles.
The result is software that fits the business exactly — because it's shaped around actual processes, not the assumptions of a generic vendor.
§ 07 — Practice
Web platforms that behave under load.
Marketing sites, customer portals, dashboards, catalogues, admin apps. We build them with modern React frameworks, server-rendered where it matters, structured for accessibility and search, and instrumented so you can see how they perform in production.
§ 08 — Practice
Cloud & infrastructure with a bill you can read.
We design cloud environments the way we'd want to inherit them: infrastructure described in code, environments that mirror each other, deployments that don't require someone to be on call at midnight, and monitoring that tells you the truth about what's running.
Whether the target is AWS, GCP, Azure, or a mix, the emphasis is on clarity, predictable cost, and the ability to hand operations back to your own team when the time comes.
§ 09 — Practice
Integration.
Most businesses already run on a dozen systems. Value often shows up not from adding another one, but from making the existing ones talk to each other reliably. We build the API layers, event pipelines and connectors that turn a landscape of tools into a coordinated system.
- — REST, GraphQL, gRPC
- — Kafka, RabbitMQ, SQS, Pub/Sub
- — Webhook orchestration & retries
- — ERP, CRM and payment integrations
§ 10 — Practice
Cybersecurity & reliability as design decisions.
Security and reliability aren't a phase near the end of a project. They're a set of decisions made from the first data model onwards: how identities are handled, how secrets move, how failures are absorbed, how audit trails are built.
We build applications with authentication, authorisation, encryption, backups and observability designed in from the start, and review them against recognised practices such as OWASP ASVS and CIS benchmarks where they apply.
§ 11 — How we work
Six movements
Step 01
Discovery
We map the actual workflow, users and constraints — not the sanitised version.
Step 02
Shape
A written technical brief with architecture choices, trade-offs and unknowns.
Step 03
Prototype
A running slice of the system, thin end-to-end, used to validate direction.
Step 04
Build
Iterative development with weekly demos and short feedback loops.
Step 05
Harden
Security review, performance work, documentation and operational runbooks.
Step 06
Operate
Ongoing maintenance, upgrades and enhancements — as long as you need it.
§ 12 — Approach
Boring technology, chosen deliberately.
Long-lived stacks
We favour tools with predictable roadmaps and healthy communities over the latest release cycle.
Fewer moving parts
The best architecture is one your team can still explain in two years.
Automate what repeats
Deployments, tests, migrations and infrastructure — all scripted, all reproducible.
Own your data
Schemas, exports and audit logs stay under your control, not locked into a proprietary layer.
§ 13 — Environments we work in
The kinds of organisations we work with.
Financial services
Health & medtech
Logistics & supply chain
Manufacturing
Professional services
Public sector
Media & publishing
Education & research
Retail & e-commerce
Mobility
Real estate & construction
Non-profit & NGO
§ 14 — Closing
Write to us.
If you're planning a software project, modernising an existing platform, or looking for a team to take over the ongoing engineering of something you already run, we'd like to hear from you.
brandyguzman171@gmail.com
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