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Partnering with high-velocity teams to design, deliver, and refine software that scales.

I need a plan

I Need a Plan

We help define your goals, articulate what success looks like, and provide a step-by-step plan to deliver and meet your strategic objectives.

Proficiencies
  • Codebase Architecture
  • Engineering Leadership
  • Product Roadmapping
  • Stakeholder Interviews
  • Technical Documentation
  • User Research & A/B testing
I need a plan
Proficiencies
  • Accessibility Auditing
  • Application Development
  • Cloud Migration
  • Code Audit Refactoring
  • DevOps & Infrastructure
  • Project Management
  • Security Auditing
  • UX Research + Design
I need code
I need code

I Need Code

Mach Five will partner with you from ideation to launch. We craft performant web and mobile apps that delight users and exceed expectations. We have the tools and the skills to give you a sustainable technology advantage.

I need a quality culture

I Need a Quality Culture

Our leadership experience nurtures a culture of innovation and excellence. Leveraging thought leadership and hard earned expertise we inspire a quality first sense of ownership that unlocks your team's productivity and enables excellence.

Proficiencies
  • Code Style and Hygiene
  • Developer Mentoring and Training
  • Development Process Tuning
  • Engineering Leadership
  • Hiring Process Assistance
  • Leadership Coaching
  • Programming Workshops
I need a quality culture
Proficiencies
  • Application Development
  • Codebase Architecture
  • DevOps
  • Performance Tuning
  • Project Management
  • UI Refactoring
  • UX Research & Design
I need great minds
I need great minds

I Need Great Minds

We slot in high-trust engineers: full-stack architects, UX specialists, and project leads who move fast, sweat the details, and take ownership like it's their product.

I need to future-proof

I Need to Future-Proof

We have vast experience refactoring software inundated with Technical Debt. We can identify and refactor software patterns that lead to unreliable, unstable, and difficult to maintain applications. We can lead you to the place where your software infrastructure stands the test of time.

Proficiencies
  • Automated API and end-to-end Testing
  • Codebase Architecture
  • Codebase Audits
  • DevOps
  • Performance Tuning
  • Sustained Development Service
  • Tech Stack Upgrades
I need to future-proof
Proficiencies
  • Casino Loyalty
  • Co-op Leaderboards
  • Event Kiosks
  • Mobile Games
  • Multi-player Bingo
  • Shopify Engagement
  • Wordle Style Puzzles
I need to delight
I need to delight

I Need to Delight

Gamification that drives loyalty. Our mobile games make your brand interactive, memorable, and worth sharing. We design playful experiences that match your brand's style and give visitors a reason to come back, share, and spread the word.

The Standard We Operate At

These moments define your trajectory. The difference between scaling smoothly and scrambling to catch up often comes down to having the right technical partner when it matters most. Smart leaders don't wait for the crisis. They prepare for the opportunity.

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"Ship it in 8 weeks"

The board promised customers a feature that doesn't exist yet

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THE 8-WEEK REALITY CHECK

Week 1: Cut the fluff

Most "urgent" features aren't. We identify what actually moves the needle and what's just noise. One tech lead, direct stakeholder access, zero PowerPoints.

Week 2-7: Build smart, not fast

Fast means making the right technical decisions upfront. We use patterns we've proven at scale, not whatever's trending on HackerNews. Our embedded team ships daily while your original timeline was measuring in months.

Week 8: Launch with confidence

Real monitoring, real rollback plans, real user feedback loops. Not just "it worked on my machine."

WHAT YOU GET

A feature that actually works in production
Code your team can maintain and extend
Processes that prevent the next crisis
warning

"Every deploy breaks something"

Your technical debt just became business debt

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BREAKING THE DEPLOY FEAR CYCLE

Stop the bleeding first

We don't start with grand refactoring plans. We identify the three things causing 80% of your production fires and fix those immediately. Your deploy anxiety should drop within two weeks.

Systematic debt elimination

Technical debt isn't just messy code. It's architectural decisions that made sense then but hurt now. We've seen this pattern across dozens of codebases. There's usually a clear path out.

Build confidence, not just tests

Automated testing is table stakes. We build deployment confidence through incremental rollouts, feature flags, and monitoring that tells you what's actually broken instead of just that something is broken.

WHAT CHANGES

Deploys become boring routine, not Friday night disasters
Your team starts shipping features again instead of fighting fires
New engineers can be productive in days, not months
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"We're on TechCrunch tomorrow"

Traffic spike will either make you or break you

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SURVIVING SUCCESS

Find the real bottlenecks

It's rarely the database. Usually it's something embarrassingly simple that everyone assumed was fine. We profile first, optimize second. Most scaling problems are solved with better caching and database indexes, not microservices.

Scale the right layer

Premature optimization kills more startups than slow websites. We scale the constraint, not everything. Sometimes it's adding read replicas. Sometimes it's CDN configuration. Usually it's not rewriting everything in Go.

Build for the next spike

Auto-scaling that actually works requires more than spinning up servers. We implement circuit breakers, graceful degradation, and monitoring that predicts problems instead of just reporting them.

RESULT

Your success story doesn't become a cautionary tale
Infrastructure that grows with your user base
Team that understands their system's limits
psychology

"The team keeps burning out"

Smart people, wrong processes, diminishing returns

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FIXING THE BURNOUT CYCLE

Diagnose the real problem

Burnout isn't caused by hard work. It's caused by futile work. When smart people feel stupid, when simple tasks take forever, when every victory is temporary. We identify what's making your team feel ineffective.

Fix the process, not the people

Your developers aren't lazy or incompetent. They're fighting a system that makes good work nearly impossible. We embed with your team to identify what slows them down and systematically remove those obstacles.

Build momentum through wins

Nothing fixes morale like shipping good software regularly. We help your team experience what high-velocity, low-stress development feels like when the tools and processes actually support the work.

TRANSFORMATION

Teams that want to come to work again
Engineering that attracts talent instead of burning it out
Sustainable velocity that compounds over time
transform

"We need to be a product company"

From services business to platform play overnight

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THE PIVOT THAT WORKS

Validate before you build

Most pivots fail because teams build the wrong thing really well. We help you test assumptions with real customers before writing production code. An MVP isn't about building faster—it's about learning what to build.

Architecture for change

Platform businesses need different technical foundations than service businesses. We design systems that can evolve as you learn what customers actually need, not just what they say they need.

Bridge the gap

Your existing customers still need support while you're building the future. We help you manage both: keeping revenue flowing while building the platform that scales.

NEW FOUNDATION

Product architecture that supports rapid iteration
Team that thinks product-first, not project-first
Platform that compounds value instead of just delivering it

Select a scenario to see our approach

THE 8-WEEK REALITY CHECK

Week 1: Cut the fluff

Most "urgent" features aren't. We identify what actually moves the needle and what's just noise. One tech lead, direct stakeholder access, zero PowerPoints.

Week 2-7: Build smart, not fast

Fast means making the right technical decisions upfront. We use patterns we've proven at scale, not whatever's trending on HackerNews. Our embedded team ships daily while your original timeline was measuring in months.

Week 8: Launch with confidence

Real monitoring, real rollback plans, real user feedback loops. Not just "it worked on my machine."

WHAT YOU GET

A feature that actually works in production
Code your team can maintain and extend
Processes that prevent the next crisis
BREAKING THE DEPLOY FEAR CYCLE

Stop the bleeding first

We don't start with grand refactoring plans. We identify the three things causing 80% of your production fires and fix those immediately. Your deploy anxiety should drop within two weeks.

Systematic debt elimination

Technical debt isn't just messy code. It's architectural decisions that made sense then but hurt now. We've seen this pattern across dozens of codebases. There's usually a clear path out.

Build confidence, not just tests

Automated testing is table stakes. We build deployment confidence through incremental rollouts, feature flags, and monitoring that tells you what's actually broken instead of just that something is broken.

WHAT CHANGES

Deploys become boring routine, not Friday night disasters
Your team starts shipping features again instead of fighting fires
New engineers can be productive in days, not months
SURVIVING SUCCESS

Find the real bottlenecks

It's rarely the database. Usually it's something embarrassingly simple that everyone assumed was fine. We profile first, optimize second. Most scaling problems are solved with better caching and database indexes, not microservices.

Scale the right layer

Premature optimization kills more startups than slow websites. We scale the constraint, not everything. Sometimes it's adding read replicas. Sometimes it's CDN configuration. Usually it's not rewriting everything in Go.

Build for the next spike

Auto-scaling that actually works requires more than spinning up servers. We implement circuit breakers, graceful degradation, and monitoring that predicts problems instead of just reporting them.

RESULT

Your success story doesn't become a cautionary tale
Infrastructure that grows with your user base
Team that understands their system's limits
FIXING THE BURNOUT CYCLE

Diagnose the real problem

Burnout isn't caused by hard work. It's caused by futile work. When smart people feel stupid, when simple tasks take forever, when every victory is temporary. We identify what's making your team feel ineffective.

Fix the process, not the people

Your developers aren't lazy or incompetent. They're fighting a system that makes good work nearly impossible. We embed with your team to identify what slows them down and systematically remove those obstacles.

Build momentum through wins

Nothing fixes morale like shipping good software regularly. We help your team experience what high-velocity, low-stress development feels like when the tools and processes actually support the work.

TRANSFORMATION

Team that looks forward to Monday
Sustainable pace that increases output
Engineers who grow instead of just cope
SERVICES TO PLATFORM EVOLUTION

Extract the platform from the chaos

Your platform already exists buried in your services business. It's the stuff you keep rebuilding for each client. We identify the common patterns and extract them into reusable components.

Build product thinking into engineering

Services teams optimize for client happiness. Product teams optimize for user outcomes and business metrics. The technical architecture needs to change to support this shift from custom solutions to scalable products.

Transition without breaking current revenue

You can't afford to stop serving existing clients while building the new platform. We create migration paths that let you serve both models simultaneously until the platform proves itself.

EVOLUTION

Revenue that scales beyond billable hours
Products that improve from user data, not client requests
Team that thinks platform-first

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