Product design and software development, run on agents and a bushi code.
Key services.
In the early stages, when everything is unknown and you are still hunting for validation, the thing that decides the outcome is not headcount. It is how fast you can change your mind and how well you choose the tool for the actual problem.
Product strategy and designProduct Strategy & Discovery · UX & UI Design Decide before you build.
Discovery, product definition, UX and UI design for new and existing digital products. We shape the thing before we make it, so the first release answers a real question instead of guessing at one.
MVP and custom software developmentProduct Development · Custom Software · Web · Mobile · Backend · Solution Architecture MVPs that survive their own success.
Web, mobile and backend engineering in TypeScript, React, React Native, Next.js, Node.js, Python and AWS. Built to be extended, not thrown away the week after the pitch lands. Typical first release: 10–16 weeks.
How an engagement starts →Proof of concept to productionPOC to Production · Product Launch & Support Your demo works. Production is a different animal.
Hardening a working prototype into a production system: architecture, authentication and authorisation, a real data model, automated tests, CI/CD and observability, until it can carry real users, real data and real money.
Vibe code rescueVibe Code Rescue Auditing, stabilising and hardening apps built with AI coding tools.
Apps built with Lovable, Bolt, Cursor, Replit or v0: security, authentication, data model, automated tests, CI/CD and documentation, with an honest refactor-or-rebuild verdict. Free audit; stabilisation from $10k; full rescue $20k to $50k.
How the rescue works →AI features and agents in productsAI Agents & LLM Features · Agentic Delivery AI you can measure before it meets a user.
Retrieval, evaluations, guardrails, tool use and human-in-the-loop review, built with a measurement harness before the feature reaches a user. AI that cannot be evaluated is a demo, not a feature.
How we run agents →Web3 and smart contract developmentWeb 3.0 Development · Smart Contract Development Solidity, wallets, custody and on-chain provenance.
Solidity, ERC-20 and ERC-721, wallet flows, custody integrations and on-chain provenance. We shipped a crypto-to-fiat gateway and a token rewards marketplace, both live.
See the Web3 case studies →Webflow to Astro migrationWebflow to Astro Migration Off the page builder, onto Astro.
Migrating marketing sites off Webflow, WordPress and page builders onto Astro, with redirects, structured data and Core Web Vitals carried over — and a repository you own outright.
Team augmentationTeam Augmentation Engineers who join, not orbit.
Builders and designers embedded in an existing product team: in your standups, your board and your codebase, not a resource pool at the end of an email chain. For one stealth client we had two engineers contributing inside two weeks.
How embedding works →We take on your vision as our own — experience, judgement and agentic firepower, from proof of concept to a product with users on it.
How three people ship what used to take twelve.
*An agentic workflow is one where AI does the work and a builder who has shipped before decides what “done” means.
What does agentic delivery look like in practice?
Agents do the volume work and builders do the deciding. Research and competitive scans, design exploration across many more directions than a person would draw by hand, implementation of well-specified work, first-pass code review, generated test suites, and documentation that stays current. What is left for the humans is the part that was always the job: architecture, product trade-offs, edge cases and taste. Same quality bar, a third of the calendar.
Boutique is a deliberate constraint, not a stage we are growing out of. We are a product team of builders raised in startup action, shipping products of our own since 2017 — every engagement is staffed with people who have shipped this kind of thing before, and whoever designs a flow is on the same call as whoever builds it. That is why a six-month, three-sided payment platform with a WooCommerce plugin ran on three engineers and one delivery manager.
Speed is the easy part. Anyone can generate a thousand lines an hour; the discipline is knowing which ten to keep. We do not ship what we have not read, we do not hand over a codebase nobody on the team can explain, and we will tell you when the fastest path is the wrong one.
Four ways this usually starts.
Design and build
From nothing to a product people use
Discovery, product definition, UX and UI, then engineering through to launch. One team, one contract, no handoff between a design vendor and a build vendor. Typical first release: 10–16 weeks.
Harden
Prototype to production
Your demo works and production is a different animal. We rebuild what has to be rebuilt and keep what works: production architecture, auth and permissions, a real data model, automated tests, CI/CD, monitoring and a security pass.
Migrate
Off the page builder, onto Astro
We move marketing sites off page builders onto Astro. You get static-fast pages, real Core Web Vitals, semantic HTML, structured data for search and AI answer engines, redirect maps that preserve rankings, and a repository your team owns outright.
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Engineers who join, not orbit
Builders in your standups, your board and your codebase — not a resource pool at the end of an email chain. For one stealth client we had two engineers contributing inside two weeks.
Vibe code rescue. For the app that works right up until it doesn’t.
*Vibe coding is building software by prompting an AI tool — Lovable, Bolt, Cursor, Replit, v0, Claude Code — and keeping whatever runs.
What is vibe code rescue?
Vibe code rescue is how we take an app built with AI coding tools and make it safe to put real users, real data and real money on. You got further in a weekend than a team used to get in a quarter, and that part was not a mistake. What the tools skip is everything a demo never shows: authentication that actually checks, secrets kept out of the browser, a data model that survives the second feature, tests, and a deploy you can roll back. We read what was generated, fix what will hurt you first, and hand back a codebase a human can explain.
We are not here to tell you that you should not have vibe coded it. We run agents every day. The difference was never the tool — it is that every line an agent writes gets read by a builder before it ships. A rescue is that step, applied after the fact.
01 · Audit
Read it before we touch it
Architecture, data model, auth and permissions, secrets, dependencies, test coverage and deployment. You get a written report ranked by what breaks first and a straight answer on refactor or rebuild, with what each one costs. It is free, and the report is yours whether or not you hire us.
02 · Stabilise
Stop the bleeding
Security holes and the bugs your users already hit come first: exposed keys, open endpoints, missing validation, the fix that breaks two other things. Tests go around what works, so the next change cannot quietly undo it.
03 · Harden
Make it carry weight
Untangle the architecture, give the data a real model, add CI/CD, logging and monitoring. Done in increments, so your roadmap keeps moving while the ground under it turns solid.
04 · Hand back
Rails, not a rewrite you cannot read
Documentation, a pipeline that gates every merge, and agent workflows your team can keep using without sliding back into the mess. Keep building with us or take it in-house — the code is yours either way.
The audit is free. Stabilisation starts at $10k. A full rescue — stabilise, harden, hand back — runs $20k to $50k, priced from the audit rather than from a guess.
Send us the repo. The first call is with a builder, not a salesperson, and if starting over is cheaper than saving it, you will hear that before you pay for either.
What our partners say.
*Each quote carries a hanko, the personal seal a name is signed with in Japan, and the quality it speaks of.
“Their understanding of the product. I’ve worked with many developers, but this team is very curious beyond just how the app will work. They want to know what its purpose is, what the value is, etc., and then they will use that information to serve you new feature ideas or give their input into how the application should be designed.”
“The speed of ramping up engineering resources was amazing. It took Bushido a week or two to get 2 engineers to join us. The quality of their work was top notch. They were quite flexible to keep up with the changes and always lined up with the product proactively.”
“The consistent level that Bushido delivers every product and their continuously positive attitudes.”
“Throughout the entire six-month process, Bushido displayed unwavering commitment and professionalism. They demonstrated an exceptional level of expertise, helping us with rigid prioritization, core feature identification, and cost reduction. Their guidance in product development and solving business problems was invaluable, setting us up for long-term success.”
“Bushido has been able to surpass all of our expectations. They were able to scale our web app and our mobile app. One of the things that we appreciate the most is that they are honest and they give us ideas about how to improve our entire system. They get things done and they go above and beyond what is expected, plain and simple.”
“One of the things that exceeded my expectations was their ability to accurately estimate the timeline and effort required for each feature, which helped us plan and prioritize our work effectively. Their technical expertise, collaborative approach, and commitment to delivering top-notch results are unmatched.”
The questions that come before the contract.
What services does Bushido offer?
Product strategy and discovery, UX and UI design, web and mobile development, backend and solution architecture, AI features and agents, Web3 and smart contract development, POC-to-production hardening, vibe code rescue for apps built with AI coding tools, Webflow-to-Astro migrations, and embedded team augmentation. One team covers all of it.
Do you do design as well as development?
Yes, and not as an add-on. Product strategy, UX and UI sit inside the same team as engineering, so interface decisions are made by people who know what they cost to build and what they cost to change later.
What does agentic delivery look like in practice?
Agents do the volume work: research, design exploration, implementation of well-specified tasks, first-pass code review, test generation and documentation. Builders do the deciding: architecture, product trade-offs, edge cases and taste. Same quality bar, roughly a third of the calendar.
Do agents write the code you deliver?
They draft it. A builder on the team reads every line before it merges and owns it afterwards. Generated code that nobody understands is a liability with a short fuse, and we are usually still around when it goes off.
Can you build AI features or agents into our product?
Yes. Retrieval, evaluations, guardrails, tool use and human-in-the-loop review. We start with how the feature will be measured, because AI that cannot be evaluated is a demo rather than a feature.
What does a typical MVP engagement look like?
Two to four weeks of discovery and product definition, then design and engineering running together toward a first usable release - usually 10 to 16 weeks in total. CachePay, a three-sided crypto payment platform with a WooCommerce plugin, took six months end to end with three engineers and a delivery manager.
Can you take over a proof of concept built by someone else?
Yes. We start with a short technical audit - architecture, data model, security, test coverage, deployment - and come back with what to keep, what to rewrite and what it costs. Then we harden it until it can carry production traffic.
Can you fix an app we built with Lovable, Bolt or Cursor?
Yes, that is our vibe code rescue programme. It starts with a free written audit ranked by what will break first: security, auth, data model, tests and deployment. Then we stabilise the urgent issues, harden the rest in increments while your roadmap keeps moving, and hand back a codebase with tests, CI and documentation. Stabilisation starts at $10k; a full rescue runs $20k to $50k. If rebuilding is cheaper than repairing, we say so before you pay for either.
Why migrate from Webflow to Astro?
Page builders own your markup, your hosting and your performance ceiling. Astro gives you static-fast pages, control over semantic HTML and structured data, genuine Core Web Vitals, no per-seat lock-in, and a repository your own developers can extend. We handle the content migration, the redirect map and the SEO carry-over.
Which technologies do you work in?
TypeScript, React, React Native, Next.js, Astro, Node.js, Python, Solidity, Hasura and GraphQL, PostgreSQL, and AWS including Lambda, API Gateway, Cognito, S3 and CloudFront. We choose per problem rather than defaulting to one stack.
How big is the team on a project?
Two to four builders plus a delivery manager, usually. Small is not a phase we are growing out of - it is why decisions take minutes instead of meetings. Being AI-native is what lets a team that size take a scope that used to need a floor.
How do we start?
Book a 30-minute call or email vision@bshdo.co. The first call is with an engineer, not a salesperson, and we will tell you if we are the wrong team for the problem.