Full-stack builds, platform migrations, and fractional CTO services — delivered by a 10-year veteran, not account managers farming work to graduates. Fixed prices. Direct access. No surprises.
From $750/day · Fixed-price projects available
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Every engagement comes with a clear deliverable list, a price you can hold us to, and a named senior engineer — not a rotating cast of graduates. Pick a package, pick a start date.
Know exactly where your tech stands — and what's costing you money. Automated + manual audit with a prioritised remediation roadmap.
Your app is slow. In 5 days, it won't be. We target Core Web Vitals, database queries, and rendering bottlenecks — with guaranteed results.
From 'it works on my machine' to production-grade in 2 weeks. CI/CD, containerisation, infrastructure-as-code, monitoring, alerting.
Strategic tech leadership at a fraction of a full-time hire. Architecture decisions, roadmap planning, code review, and team mentoring.
From idea to live product in 4 weeks. Core feature set, CI/CD, monitoring, and a codebase your next hire can actually own.
Stop paying the tax on yesterday's decisions. We modernise PHP, Java, Python, Node — polyglot advantage, incremental delivery, zero rewrites.
Selected work
Full migration for a UK lifestyle brand — 2,400 SKUs, 40,000 customers, 12 years of order history. Parallel-run cutover. 22 minutes of total downtime.
ResultLoad time cut from 4.2s to 1.4s. Conversion rate up 23%.
MVP for a UK digital health startup — care matching, appointment engine, Stripe billing — built in 7 weeks, one week ahead of a seed-round investor demo.
Result£800K seed round closed. 120 users onboarded in month one.
12-year-old PHP monolith processing £2M/month, replaced piece by piece using the Strangler Fig pattern. No big rewrite. No downtime. No data loss.
ResultResponse time down 91% (4.2s → 380ms). Monthly deploys → 12 per day.
The Vanguard way
Enterprise-grade engineering. Startup-speed delivery. We've shipped platforms for automotive, fintech, healthcare, and e-commerce — on time and built to last.
What We Do
Vanguard Systems
Every engagement is staffed with senior engineers only. No handoffs to juniors. No surprise substitutions. The people on the discovery call are the people writing your code.
How We Work
Vanguard Systems
We push back when your spec is wrong, keep you unblocked when things get complicated, and deliver systems you can actually maintain after we leave.
What Makes Us Different
Vanguard Systems
Process
Every engagement follows the same disciplined process — because predictability is a feature, not a promise.
We learn your business, audit your tech, and identify the real problem — not just the one you came in with.
1–3 days
Fixed-price scope document. What's in, what's out, what it costs, and when it ships. No ambiguity.
2–5 days
Weekly updates. Working software at the end of every sprint. Direct access to the engineer building it.
Varies by scope
Go-live support, post-launch monitoring, and 30 days of included bug fixes. We don't disappear after deployment.
Ongoing
Ready to start?
We'll tell you how we'd approach it and what it'll cost — usually within 24 hours. No pitch decks. No sales calls. Just a straight conversation with the engineer who'd be doing the work.
Typical response within 24 hours · No sales pressure