Software studio · Shipping since 2014
Backtick is a senior engineering studio. For twelve years we have designed, built and run the systems other teams turn down: exchanges, layer‑1 blockchains, private clouds, airgapped AI, and computer vision in people's living rooms.
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01 — Thesis
Collect data from many sources. Move it reliably. Act on it, more and more often with AI. That is why the team that shipped a payment gateway can pick up a sensor fleet or an airgapped LLM gateway without starting from zero.
02 — Selected work
A B2B platform that lets merchants accept crypto on ten blockchains. We did all of it: market research, backend, hosted checkout, TypeScript and Python SDKs, documentation, and training the client's support team. We also carried the pager for it.
A self-hosted LLM gateway that gives every employee at a bank, telco or ministry access to generative AI, while prompts and sensitive data stay inside the perimeter. It includes a policy engine, two-pass data-loss prevention, audit and quotas, and runs fully airgapped.
03 — Archive
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An on-prem LLM gateway that keeps regulated data inside the company perimeter.
Computer vision checks that patients do their prescribed exercises correctly at home and reports the results to their doctors.
Virtual visits with either an AI expert or a real specialist.
A self-operated public cloud running customer workloads.
Farm machinery streams to one dashboard, and AI manages some of the machines directly.
Notion-style documents and mind maps in one app for organising tasks and notes.
Revit designs overlaid on the job site through a headset, so teams can compare what was built with what was designed.
A wallet built for universities and their campus communities.
Ten chains, 80+ merchants, and payment failures down from ~100/day to 2–3/month.
Native cross-chain swaps with no wrapped assets.
Built directly on Bitcoin with multi-signature schemes and Bitcoin Script.
A full exchange trading 120 tokens.
Collects listings from many platforms, then uses AI to normalise them and find the best price.
A new chain with web and mobile wallets, a block explorer, validator onboarding, and a point-of-sale app.
Operations and customer relationships managed in one product.
Cloud accounting for small businesses and merchants.
A full storefront with catalogue, cart and checkout. This is where we started.
04 — Capabilities
High-throughput services that stay correct under load and partial failure.
Ingest, normalise, store and serve, with back-pressure and failure recovery.
Turning raw signals into decisions: automation, anomaly detection, control.
Retrieval, agents and gateways, including fully on-prem and airgapped setups.
Perception products that run on-device and in the field.
L1 chains, exchanges, wallets and multi-chain payment infrastructure.
Device fleets that stream to a central platform, reliably and at scale.
Infrastructure we operate ourselves, including OpenStack-based private cloud.
Dashboards and control surfaces that people can actually operate.
99%+ uptime, observability from day one, and runbooks that outlive us.
05 — Process
We work out scope and architecture together, and leave with a plan you could build without us.
We work in short iterations and get to production early, then harden what is there.
Observability and SLAs are in place before the first user arrives, not after the first incident.
Runbooks and hands-on training mean your team can run it without us.
Ways to engage
The problem is clear but the architecture isn't. Two to three weeks to a plan.
A system designed, built and launched end to end.
Senior capacity that joins your team and builds with it.
Something exists and partly works. We make it reliable.
06 — Contact
Tell us what you are trying to solve. You'll get an honest answer about whether we're the right team, and if we are, a concrete architecture and plan.