Legacy LLMs
2025A research interface for interrogating older language models side by side — streaming comparisons, reproducible prompts, exportable transcripts.
- Product design
- Edge streaming
- Evaluation tooling
The Bee Applications
Pro Apps.
Built differently.
We design and build independent software — focusing on speed, privacy, and an uncompromising user experience.
Selected Work
Systems in production.
Three of the builds we can talk about publicly. Most of what we do runs quietly inside other people's companies.
Hive Ops
2025Internal operations console for a logistics operator: live fleet state, exception queues, and a permissions model that survived an external audit.
- Realtime data
- RBAC
- Design system
Pollen
2024A billing and entitlement layer rebuilt from a spreadsheet-shaped legacy system, migrated live with zero downtime and no lost invoices.
- Payments
- Migration
- Observability
How we work
We don't just write code.
We engineer systems meant to last.
01Architecture
We start with the shape of the problem.
Before a line of product code exists, we map the data, the states and the failure modes. Most software rots because nobody drew the boundaries. We draw them first.
- Domain & data modelling
- Boundary and API design
- Threat and failure mapping
02Craft
Then we build it small, and build it right.
Tight surfaces, typed end to end, tested where it counts. We ship in weeks, not quarters, because the system stays small enough to reason about. Every interaction is designed.
- Typed React & edge runtimes
- Design systems, not screen dumps
- Performance budgets from day one
03Scale
And we hand it over ready to grow.
Observability, migrations, runbooks and documentation ship with the product. When your team takes the keys, nothing is undocumented, and nothing depends on us still being in the room.
- Instrumented from launch
- Zero-drama deploys
- Full handover, no lock-in
The Studio
A small team of engineers who design, and designers who ship.
The Bee Applications is deliberately small. No account layer, no delivery managers, no handoff between the person who drew it and the person who built it. We take on a handful of engagements a year and treat each one like it carries our name — because it does.
6
weeks to first production release, typically
100%
of code handed over, documented and owned by you
0
outsourced teams — the people you meet build it
Next Step
Tell us what you're building.
Send the problem, not a spec. We'll reply within two working days with an honest read on scope, risk and whether we're the right team for it.