Small on purpose
Solace Labs started as a two-person team building a handful of internal tools for former colleagues, and grew slowly from there. We're still small: five people, a short client list, and no plans to change either. Staying small means every project gets attention from someone who was there at the start of it, and stays through the parts that come after launch — the bug reports, the slow migrations, the year-two rewrite nobody budgeted for.
Most software studios grow by taking on more clients. We've tried to grow by getting better at the clients we already have: fewer handoffs, fewer people rotating on and off a project, and a habit of saying no to work that doesn't fit what we're good at. That's meant slower growth, but it's also meant we rarely lose a client to someone offering to do it cheaper.
How we work
Every engagement starts with a short, unpaid conversation about what's actually needed — sometimes that's a full application, sometimes it's a single well-placed integration that saves a team from months of manual work. We bill by the month rather than the hour, keep the same two or three people on a project throughout, and write things down so the client isn't dependent on any one of us remembering how something works.
We don't keep a public portfolio. Most of what we build handles something specific and internal for a client — billing, scheduling, inventory, a customer-facing dashboard — and isn't ours to show off. If you want to know whether we're a fit for something, the fastest way is to ask.