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AXIYANA Technologies

SEC.00 — CAPABILITIES

What we do

Eight capabilities covering a product from the first argument about scope to the third year of operating it. Each one lists what it includes, what you end up holding, and when it is the right thing to ask for.

CAP.01

Product strategy & discovery

Deciding what to build, and what not to build, before the first line of application code.

What it includes

  • Problem framing and user research with the people who will actually use the system
  • Requirement specifications written to IEEE-830 and ISO/IEC/IEEE 29148 structure
  • Scope shaping into a sequence that ships something usable early
  • Risk register covering technical, compliance and delivery risk

You receive

  • Requirement specification
  • Prioritised scope with sequencing
  • Risk register

When it applies  You have a problem and a budget, but the shape of the solution is still an argument.

CAP.02

Architecture & platform engineering

Choosing a structure the system can still live inside after three years of change.

What it includes

  • Domain and data modelling, with constraints expressed in the database rather than only in application code
  • Service and module boundaries, and the reasoning for each one
  • Architecture decision records, written down so they can be argued with later
  • Migration strategy for schemas that will need to change under load

You receive

  • Architecture decision records
  • Schema with documented constraints
  • Migration and rollback plan

When it applies  The system has to hold more than one team, one tenant, or one country’s rules.

CAP.03

Application development

Web and mobile applications, typed end to end.

What it includes

  • Web applications in TypeScript, React and Next.js
  • Mobile applications where a native or cross-platform client is genuinely warranted
  • Design systems built from tokens rather than one-off components
  • Accessibility and performance treated as build criteria, not a later pass

You receive

  • Running application
  • Component library and tokens
  • Build and release pipeline

When it applies  You need the product itself built, not just advised on.

CAP.04

Data & backend systems

The part that has to stay correct when everything else changes.

What it includes

  • Relational schema design with real constraints: check constraints, partial indexes, exclusion constraints
  • API design with explicit contracts and versioning
  • Background processing, scheduling and idempotent job design
  • Reporting and analytical read paths kept separate from transactional writes

You receive

  • Documented schema and API contracts
  • Data integrity test suite
  • Operational runbook

When it applies  Correctness matters more than convenience — money, compliance, or records people rely on.

CAP.05

AI integration

Applied where it measurably helps, and deliberately not applied where it does not.

What it includes

  • Retrieval and summarisation over a system’s own documents and data
  • Assistive features inside products, with a deterministic fallback path
  • AI in the delivery pipeline: test generation, migration drafting, code review support
  • An explicit statement of where AI output is checked by a person before it reaches a user

You receive

  • Integration design with evaluation criteria
  • Prompt and model configuration under version control
  • A written boundary for what stays deterministic

When it applies  There is a real task with fuzzy inputs. Not because a roadmap needs an AI line item.

CAP.06

Cloud & DevOps

Infrastructure that a small team can operate without a dedicated ops hire.

What it includes

  • Environment topology and infrastructure as code
  • CI pipelines that run typecheck, lint and tests before anything ships
  • Observability: structured logs, error tracking, uptime and performance budgets
  • Cost modelling before committing to a provider, not after the first invoice

You receive

  • Provisioned environments
  • CI/CD pipeline
  • Monitoring and alerting

When it applies  You are going to production and need it to stay there.

CAP.07

Quality engineering

Testing shaped around what would actually hurt if it broke.

What it includes

  • Automated tests concentrated on domain logic and data integrity
  • End-to-end coverage of the few flows that carry the business
  • Accessibility checks against WCAG 2.2 AA as part of the pipeline
  • Load testing where a specific volume assumption needs proving

You receive

  • Test suites in the repository
  • Accessibility audit
  • Performance baseline

When it applies  The cost of a defect reaching a user is higher than the cost of catching it.

CAP.08

Lifecycle support

Staying with the system after launch, which is when most of its life happens.

What it includes

  • Dependency and security update cadence
  • Incident response with an agreed severity ladder
  • Iterative delivery against a living roadmap
  • Documentation kept current as a condition of merging, not as a quarterly cleanup

You receive

  • Support agreement with response targets
  • Maintained documentation
  • Release notes per iteration

When it applies  The product is live and needs to keep improving without regressing.

Which of these do you need?

Most engagements start with two or three of them. Tell us the problem and we will say which.