Small studio. Senior people.

Devora started in 2016 because two platform engineers kept being handed the same job: rescue an app that had been built by people who had never really used the platform they were building for.

The pattern was always similar. A team that knew the web had been asked to produce something for a phone, and had produced something that technically worked. It launched, it got two stars, and the fix cost more than the original build. The problem was almost never effort — it was that mobile has its own physics, and you cannot reason your way to them from a browser.

So we built a studio that only does this. Swift and Kotlin, iOS and Android, with the design and backend work that a real app needs sitting around that centre rather than competing with it. Ten years later the shape has not changed much, which we take as a reasonable sign it was the right shape.

We are deliberately small. Four to six senior people on a project, one team from pitch to launch, and a hard limit on how many engagements run at once. It means we turn work away. It also means the person who promised you something is the person who has to deliver it, which turns out to matter more than almost anything else.