About

Small on purpose.

Novacendia is nine engineers and designers who got tired of watching good ideas die in delivery. We stayed small so that the people you meet in the first call are the people who write the code.

The studio

How we're run

We take on a handful of engagements at a time. That's a deliberate ceiling, not a stage we're trying to grow out of — it's what makes it possible to put a senior lead on every project rather than a manager and a rotating cast.

There is no sales team. The person who scopes your project is the person who'll be accountable for delivering it, which tends to make estimates more honest than they otherwise would be.

We work remote-first across European and US hours, with real overlap written into every engagement. If your team is in the room, we're in the room with them.

What we believe

  • Working software beats a convincing deck. Progress is something you can click on.
  • Say the uncomfortable thing early. A hard conversation in week one is cheaper than a rescue in month six.
  • Boring technology, interesting problems. Novelty in the stack is a cost you pay forever.
  • You own everything. Code, infrastructure, accounts, documentation. No lock-in dressed up as a partnership.
  • Leave the team better. If your engineers can't maintain it after we go, we didn't finish.

What we turn down

Work we can't staff with someone who's done it before. Projects where the deadline was set before the problem was understood and can't move. And anything where we'd be asked to say a thing is ready when it isn't.

By the numbers

Where things stand.

2019
Studio founded
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People, all senior
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Products shipped
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Countries we work from

Working with us

What you can expect, week to week.

A named lead

One senior engineer accountable for the outcome, reachable directly, for the whole engagement.

Weekly deploys

Something you can use every week, in an environment that mirrors production closely enough to matter.

Plain-language reporting

What moved, what's at risk, what we need from you. Short, written, every Friday.

Come talk to the people who'll build it.

No sales call, no discovery deck. Half an hour with an engineer who'll tell you what they actually think.