Clear Cut Coding

Engineering and AI consultancy

Engineering leadership that ships.

Clear Cut Coding leads engineering teams and builds web platforms end to end, from the interface to the AWS infrastructure underneath. We also design agentic AI systems that hold up in production.

A typical platform: web and mobile apps reach an API through a CDN edge; the API uses a database and a queue; the queue feeds workers and agents; agents call tools through MCP servers, write to an audit log for human review, and are measured by evaluations. Web and appsAngular, ReactCDN edgeCloudFrontAPIPHP, SymfonyQueueSQSDatabaseRDSWorkersECSAgentsLLMs and toolsAudit logHuman reviewToolsMCP serversEvaluationsTests and rubrics
The kind of system we design, build and run.

What we do

Engineering leadership

Technical leadership that stays close to the code.

We set the technical direction, plan the delivery and raise the team’s standards. That means code review, CI, automated releases and proper test coverage. We build alongside the team while we do it. It suits teams without a lead and projects that have slipped. It also suits founders who need senior technical judgement in the room.

Web and app development

Complete web platforms and apps, from the interface to the API.

We build web and app frontends in Angular and React, written in TypeScript. That includes headless storefronts. We also build the PHP/Symfony APIs behind them. You get one product rather than two halves, with automated tests across both.

Cloud and DevOps

The AWS platforms your software runs on, and the pipelines that ship it.

We move platforms onto AWS infrastructure that is defined in code, highly available and scales automatically. We break monoliths into services that scale on their own. We set up the pipelines that make releases routine. And we build the integrations that keep orders, stock and deliveries flowing as volumes grow.

Agentic AI

Agentic AI systems built like any other production system.

That means clear architecture, automated tests, audit trails and human review where it matters. We build agentic AI into your own products and systems: MCP servers, agent integrations and the evaluations that keep them honest. We help you decide where agentic workloads should run. We also set engineering teams up to work with agentic coding tools, while planning, review and merging stay in human hands.

Claude Code / Perplexity Enterprise / MCP servers / AWS Bedrock AgentCore / LLM evaluation

Selected work

Open-weight language model

Evaluation scenarios and rubrics for model training

Evaluation design for a team training an open-weight model to give sound guidance without a system prompt. Each realistic scenario turns on values the person never states. Each comes with a weighted rubric that works as both the grader and the training reward.

  • Scenarios that test behaviour the prompt never spells out
  • Weighted rubrics with penalty items and quick human review
  • Questions sourced at volume from open datasets, hand-writing and scripted LLM generation

LLM evaluation / Rubrics / Open-weight models

eCommerce group, several Shopify Plus brands

Technology leadership and a fulfilment platform

Technology strategy, development and delivery across the brands. The work covers a custom fulfilment platform that connects the stores to a third-party fulfilment provider.

  • Order fulfilment automated end to end
  • Fewer manual fixes as order volumes grow
  • Changes decided by A/B test results

Symfony / Shopify Plus / Integrations

VR entertainment

Platform redesign and engineering leadership

Leadership of the client’s engineering team and a redesign of the platform’s architecture.

  • Hardware costs cut substantially
  • An in-house headset player the company owns
  • A scalable AWS platform, analytics dashboards and an AI-powered sales chatbot

AWS / APIs / Web and mobile

Nutrition and supplements

Personalised nutrition and headless commerce

A meal-planning platform that generates plans from each customer’s targets. Alongside it sit headless storefronts on the Shopify Storefront API and a coaching platform for weekly client check-ins.

  • Personalised plans generated automatically
  • Full control of the storefront experience
  • Coaching check-ins, progress photos and measurements in one place

Shopify Storefront API / Angular / Integrations

Legal technology

Turning professional networks into fee-earning work

A platform that helps law firms win new work from the connections they already have.

  • Designed so later phases can extend it safely
  • Network analysis optimised for speed
  • Continuous delivery from the first release

Symfony / Angular / AWS / D3.js

How we work

  1. Talk it through

    Tell us about the project, the role or the problem. We’ll say plainly whether we’re the right fit.

  2. Agree the terms

    We agree the scope, the time commitment and what success looks like.

  3. Get up to speed fast

    We get to know your codebase, team and infrastructure early. Then we agree what ‘done’ looks like.

  4. Deliver, then hand over

    You get plain progress updates and code that is reviewed and tested. At the end you get documentation and a handover, so nothing depends on us once we’ve gone.

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