Two principals doing the work end-to-end. A trusted bench on call when the brief gets wide. The same hands that quote your project write the production code and stay on after launch.
Damian and Arian had spent years shipping production software — POS platforms, payment integrations, mobile apps, and the products they founded. Different companies, same recurring pattern: a brief that needed senior engineers from day one kept getting handed to junior teams, supervised by people who hadn't written code in years.
The work that came out the other side was expensive, late, and built on top of stacks that nobody could maintain six months after launch. Clients were paying agency rates for contractor-grade work.
D&A is what that looks like when you remove the chain. Two principals do the work. The same hands that quote the brief write the code, deploy the infrastructure, and stay on the pager after launch. No delivery team. No silent hand-off. No surprise invoices.
— the kind of studio we'd hire if we were on your side of the table.
The people whose hands touch your work — start to finish.
The technical lead. A decade across payment integrations, POS platforms, and production web and mobile apps. Founder of Peacify — the product studio behind Stranded and Farewell — and a product engineer at Munch Software. Writes the production code, owns the deployment, stays on after launch.
Peacify — founderMunch SoftwareStranded · Farewell
“The best software disappears into the workflow.”
The creative lead. Works across design, systems, AI and fintech. Currently building ZAP — a South African payments product in development. Owns the brief from interface to infrastructure, and the visual language everything ships in.
ZAP — founderDesign + SystemsAI / Fintech
“Ship less. Ship better.”
If a deliverable can't be pointed at, it doesn't exist. Every brief lands on a one-page spec, every release has a written changelog.
We tell you what won't work, what we don't know, and what we'd build differently if we owned the business. Quietly, and on the record.
Postgres, TypeScript, Next.js, n8n. The exciting part should be the product — not the framework you're betting the company on.
The studio that launches your product is the studio that maintains it. The pager rotates back to us — that's the deal.
The two of us cover most briefs. When the work asks for specialists we've worked with for years, we pull them in — vetted, contracted, and answerable to us, not to you.
When the brand needs to be invented or extended into film, not just a website.
iOS / Android / Flutter specialists for production-grade native work.
Applied ML engineers for retrieval, embeddings, agents — not generic prompts.
Penetration testing, SOC2 / POPIA / GDPR readiness, threat modelling.
When the deployment footprint outgrows what two engineers should own.
Editorial, technical and UX writing. Customer research, usability studies.
Thirty minutes. One workflow on the table. An honest read on whether it's worth automating — and what the real engagement would look like if it is.