A manifesto on the art of building
Panenco is a software studio. We combine twelve years of engineering experience and 60+ digital products launched with today's best practices for building with AI. Five beliefs guide how we work.
Startup speed at enterprise scale
We work in small teams of two to four people, without layers of handovers. With AI-driven development, a small team ships what used to take a much larger one, at the pace of a startup. Twelve years of building for scale-ups and enterprises bring the security, architecture and reliability that large organisations need.
Boots in the mud
Great products can't be built from a distance. We sit next to your team and shape the product with the people who will use it. We think like founders: we treat every product as if it were our own and make decisions for its long-term health and the revenue it has to bring in. You own the software, the IP and the knowledge behind it.
The art of product definition
The most expensive mistake in software is building the wrong thing perfectly. Product definition is a discipline of its own. We work out the why and the how before we write a line of code, so every day of engineering goes into something that matters to your users and your business.
AI-assisted engineering, not vibecoding
Speed without quality is just technical debt. Our engineers get the most out of AI agents within strict rules and guardrails, backed by automated testing and review that run in the background. Every week, working software that we stand behind lands in front of users.
Radical sincerity
Building products is complex and things will go wrong. We say so early, bring you into the process and give you the full picture, also when it's uncomfortable.
“Twelve years has taught us that the best products are built by people who care more about the solution than the contract. We are those people.”
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