// The operator manifesto
Built for the people who run things.
Altoby exists for operators — the people with working businesses and failing software, who deserve better than the agency lottery.
Why Altoby exists
Good businesses get throttled by their own software every day — a failed build, an outgrown tool, a system nobody dares touch. The industry that should fix this is optimized for billable hours and heroic rebuilds. Altoby is built as the counter-shape: a written spec before any code, a fixed price before any work, and ownership that transfers to you completely.
One engineer, on purpose
The person you brief is the person who architects, builds, and answers when it breaks. No account managers translating, no juniors learning on your budget, no telephone game between what you said and what got built. Small is not a limitation here; it is the quality-control mechanism.
Built like a product, run like a promise
Every system gets the discipline commercial products get: automated tests from your own acceptance criteria, documentation any engineer can pick up, a live demo every Friday. That's product engineering applied to business software — and it's why the fixed price can be promised at all.
The name
Alto — high. Byte — the unit software is made of. Altoby builds the elevated version of the systems businesses usually settle for. Also: it's short, and nobody else had it.
Where
Remote-first from Nairobi, working with operators in the US, UK, and Europe — full UK overlap, US East Coast mornings in the afternoon. The Friday demo is a call; everything else is asynchronous and documented, which is exactly how distributed work stays honest.