Senior engineering firm · Vancouver
DIGI117 is a firm of senior engineers. We move systems off ageing platforms before support ends, ship first versions on a scope fixed in writing, put AI to work where the numbers justify it, and stabilise products that break under real users. Every engagement is led by senior engineers and reviewed by our founder, who has been making software since 1994. AI agents do the typing. An engineer reviews every change, and DIGI117 answers for the result.
What we do
We work where there is a deadline, a mess, or both. Each service starts with a short, fixed-price first step, so you see how we work and what the full job costs before you commit to it.
Off Drupal, Joomla, Kentico, Umbraco, old WordPress and old PHP before the security fixes stop. We inventory every page, integration and URL first, then quote the move as a fixed price. Every old URL answers with a page or a single redirect, so search rankings and bookmarks survive the move.
A first version real users can sign up for, in 8 to 12 weeks. The scope is fixed in writing after a paid scoping sprint, and you see a working demo every week. We cut features before we cut quality, and we tell you which ones we cut.
Internal tools, client portals and integrations that join the systems you already run. Built to be operated and changed by your people after we leave, with tests, documentation and a runbook, not only a demo.
AI inside a product or a process that already exists. We map the tasks, measure the cost per task by hand and with a model, and only then propose a pilot. Data stays in your accounts. Every AI feature ships with a test set it must pass.
An application that slows down, fails or loses data once real users arrive, often one built quickly with AI tools. A five-day audit finds the causes and ranks them. Then we fix them at a fixed price, starting with whatever is costing you users or money.
Named senior people inside your team, for as long as you need them. They join your stand-ups, work in your repositories and follow your process. Every invoice shows who worked, at what level, on what.
Why companies bring us the hard ones
Plenty of firms say senior. Ours learned the trade below the framework, and still read the code before they quote.
Our engineers learned on infrastructure, low-level code, backends and data before they learned frameworks. Legacy holds no mystery for people who wrote software when it was new.
Parallel AI agents write code and drafts from a written spec. A senior engineer reviews every diff, and no agent merges its own work.
Prices on the website. Quotes before work starts. Decisions written down where you can read them. If an upgrade beats a move, we say so on the first call, even when it means a smaller job for us.
How an engagement runs
The same four stages for a move, an MVP or a rescue. You can stop after any of them and keep everything we produced.
Days 1 to 5
We read the code, the data and the infrastructure, or work the idea through with you. You get a written inventory and a list of risks, ranked.
Week 2
Scope, price, schedule and the people on the job, in writing. Changes to scope get their own written quote before anyone builds them.
Every week
Working software every week, in your repository. Ten-minute stand-ups, a shared channel, and a written status you can forward to your board.
Handoff
Code, tests, documentation and a runbook in your accounts. Your team can run and change it without us. Support continues only if you want it.
Selected work
A complete case study with the research, the numbers and every cut, plus systems we built that are in use today. Clients are not named unless they agree to it.
Case study · Research to MVP plan
How we researched, cut, designed and priced a meetup platform for Vancouver. Each finding has its source and date, the business model is a calculator you can change, and the architecture is mapped part by part.
CRM · AI agents
Agents research, qualify and prepare. People decide who gets a call. Runs on the client's own servers.
In daily useAI assistant · Leadership
Triage, reply drafts, meeting briefs and follow-ups. The assistant prepares; a person sends.
In daily useMVP · Hardware market access
Buyers check a robot or device by brand, model or serial number: where it can be sold and whether the unit is genuine.
Live in five languagesEngagement models and pricing
Three ways to work with us. Every job is quoted in writing before work starts. All prices in US dollars.
| Model | Best for | How it is priced | First step |
|---|---|---|---|
| Fixed-price project | Moves, MVPs, custom software, AI pilots with a clear goal | Fixed price per agreed scope. Changes quoted separately, in writing. | Moves: a five-day inventory at no charge. MVPs: a $4,500 scoping sprint. |
| Audit, then fix | Applications that break, slow down or worry you | $4,500 audit over five days, counted toward a fix that starts within 60 days. | A call and read-only access |
| Senior engineers | Teams that need senior capacity inside their own process | From $150 an hour, billed monthly, itemised by person, level and task. | A short brief and an intro call with the engineer |
Large programs that need more people run together with our sister company, Intersog, under one written agreement.
Since 1994
Every language, database and platform from the ZX Spectrum to today's AI agents. Moving off any of them is familiar ground.
BASIC on the ZX Spectrum, Assembler on early x86 PCs and their 640K.
C, C++, Pascal, Perl CGI, HTML from before CSS existed.
Java, .NET, PHP, Oracle, SQL Server, stored procedures, nightly batch.
Swift, Kotlin, Python, Node.js, PostgreSQL, MongoDB, AWS.
TypeScript, React, Kubernetes, Cloudflare, vector search, AI agents with a person reviewing every diff.
Same habit, thirty-two years apart: nothing ships unread.
For your procurement team
DIGI117 Ltd. is a British Columbia company. We sign before we scope, and we write down how we handle code, data and AI.
The first step starts once the NDA is signed and we have read access to the code. If we cannot start when you need us, we say so on the first call, not after the contract.
Named senior engineers, introduced before the quote is signed. The founder reviews every engagement. When a program needs more people, it runs together with our sister company, Intersog, under one written agreement.
Agents write code and drafts from a written spec, inside your accounts. A senior engineer reviews every change before it merges. We use model vendors named in the proposal, on terms that exclude training on your data.
We stop and tell you in writing before doing unquoted work. You get the reason, the options and a price for each. Nothing is billed that you did not approve.
Start a conversation
A senior engineer reads every message and replies within one business day with a first view of the problem and the right first step. No sales sequence.
595 Burrard St, VancouverBC V7X 1J2, Canada. US and Canadian business hours.