// Systems engineering for operators — not another agency
Your business works. Your software doesn't.
Altoby rescues failed builds, replaces outgrown tools, and modernizes legacy systems — into software your business owns. Fixed prices. A written spec before any code. A working demo every Friday, or that week is free.
You've probably tried already.
Maybe a developer took a year and shipped nothing you can use. Maybe the spreadsheets and off-the-shelf tools that got you here are now the reason you can't grow. Maybe there's a system nobody dares touch because the person who built it is long gone. Different stories, same result: a good business, throttled by its own software — and a well-earned suspicion of anyone who says they can fix it.
That suspicion is fair. So everything at Altoby is built to survive it: you approve a written spec before code exists, the price is fixed before work starts, and you watch the system grow in a live demo every single Friday.
Which one is you?
Most clients arrive in one of these situations. None of them were looking for "a developer" — they were looking for a way out.
One week and one price, before anything else.
Three steps, each with a price you can see. No proposals-by-negotiation, no hourly meters.
The Blueprint
$1,000 · one week · fixed
We map how the business runs, audit whatever software exists, and specify the system you need.
- —Full written specification
- —Architecture & fixed build quote
- —Yours to keep — take it to any developer
- —If it doesn't end in a price you could hand anyone, it's free
The build
from $3,500 · fixed scope, quoted in your Blueprint
The system, built module by module against the approved spec.
- —Live in production from week one
- —A working demo every Friday, or that week is free
- —Tested, documented, deployed
- —You own code, data, and infrastructure
The partnership
from $1,500/mo · cancel monthly
The system grows with the business — and someone senior answers when it matters.
- —New modules & improvements
- —Monitoring, maintenance, hosting
- —A direct line to your engineer
Operators we've unstuck.
From aging listing site to paying platform
A marketplace founder spent a year paying for a build that never shipped. We took it over: today it's a live CRM + CMS platform where hoteliers hold accounts and pay to market their properties.
bad build → paying platform · ongoing partnership, 2+ years
An operation becoming a product
An operator had the process mastered in spreadsheets and Google Workspace — and couldn't take on the next facilities because of it. We built the ERP around their process; it now runs the facilities and is becoming a product other operators will buy.
off-the-shelf ceiling → scalable system · productization track
Built like a product. Run like a promise.
One senior engineer, end to end.
The person you brief architects it, builds it, and answers when it breaks. No account managers, no juniors learning on your budget.
Spec first, always.
Nothing is built that you haven't read and approved. It's why the price can be fixed.
You own everything.
Code, data, infrastructure, docs — in your accounts. Leaving me is a decision, never a hostage negotiation.
Public prices.
They're on this page because proposal-roulette wastes your week and mine.
Built with AI. Answered for by a human.
Altoby builds with AI — Claude Code, specifically — and doesn't hide it. It's how one senior engineer ships at the pace of a team, and it's why fixed prices and Friday demos are possible at all. Open your repository and you'll see it in the commit history. No surprise, no fine print.
What AI never does here: decide what to build, approve a spec, or merge code nobody read. Every feature starts from a specification you approved, every change is reviewed by the engineer who answers to you, and nothing ships until the automated tests built from your own acceptance criteria pass. You pay for judgment and accountability. The machine supplies speed — and the speed is already in the price.
The questions you're actually thinking.
Why are your prices a fraction of US agency quotes?
No downtown office, no account managers, no bench of juniors billed to your project. One senior engineer, AI-accelerated, working from Nairobi with clients in the US and Europe. The structure costs less, and the margin goes to you — the contracts, the process, and the code are what you'd expect at five times the price. It's not a discount. It's a different shape of company.
You're in Kenya — how does that work for us?
The way it already works for my clients in Cyprus and the US: contracts on your jurisdiction's terms, invoices in USD, IP assigned in writing, your code in your GitHub organization from the first commit, your infrastructure in your accounts. Nairobi is 3 hours ahead of London — full UK overlap — and US East Coast mornings are my afternoons. The Friday demo is a call; everything else is asynchronous and documented.
How do I know you won't disappear like the last developer?
You can't know it from promises — mine or anyone's. So the structure protects you instead: you own the repository from day one, every week ends with a live demo or that week is free, the spec and docs live in your repo, and payment is staged against delivered scope. If I vanished tomorrow, you'd hold everything any engineer needs to continue. That's the test worth applying to anyone you hire — including me. (For what it's worth: the worst rescue I've done was a build from a developer in Canada. Geography doesn't cause bad software. Missing process does.)
// The first step is one week and one price
Find out what fixing it actually costs.
One week. One price. A spec and a fixed quote you can take anywhere — even away from me. That's the point.