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Who we are

A studio built
by engineers.

Solid Arrow started in 2023 with a simple bet: that small, senior teams who actually run what they build ship better software than big ones who don't.

// mission

We help teams put AI, data, and cloud into production — and keep it there.

The hype cycle is loud. The hard part is the boring, durable engineering underneath: clean data, real evals, observable infra, code you can change in two years. That's the part we're obsessed with, and the part we don't outsource.

How we operate

Principles we don't bend on.

01

Ship, then scale

Something real in production beats a perfect plan on a slide. We earn the right to optimize.

02

Senior by default

The people who scope your project are the people who build it. No bait-and-switch staffing.

03

Own the outcome

We run what we build. On-call, evals, and metrics keep us honest long after launch.

04

Boring tech wins

We reach for proven tools first. Novelty is a cost we only pay when it clearly pays back.

05

Show the work

Open repos, readable PRs, honest status. You always know exactly where things stand.

06

Leave it better

You should be able to run, extend, and reason about everything we hand over. No lock-in.

2023
founded
40+
engineers
120+
systems shipped
Our approach

Small team. Senior calls.

We staff lean, pods of three to five engineers who own a problem end to end — from the data model to the dashboard to the pager.

  • Direct access to the people writing the code
  • Weekly demos against your real data, not mockups
  • Documentation and handover built in, not bolted on
  team/pod.config
# how a Solid Arrow pod ships
pod = {
  size: "3–5 senior engineers",
  owns: ["data", "agents", "infra", "app"],
  cadence: "weekly demo",
  on_call: true,
  handover: "docs + repos, no lock-in"
}
# → first ship in ~14 days
Work with us

Want a team that
owns the outcome?

Tell us what you're building. We'll tell you how we'd ship it — and who'd be on it.