Software Consulting

Software that holds up under real operating conditions.

ZA ALB LTD advises and builds custom web platforms, mobile apps, and cloud infrastructure for teams that can't afford flaky software. Nine years, forty-one shipped products, zero missed handoffs.

Average client uptime 99.98%
Products shipped to date 41
Avg. time to first release 11 weeks
Engineers on staff 14
Client retention (5yr) 92%
Industries we work with
Logistics Healthcare Financial Services Retail & E-commerce Manufacturing
What we build

Six disciplines, one accountable team.

No handoffs between agencies. The people who design your product are the ones who ship and maintain it.

WEB

Web Applications

Custom platforms built on React, Next.js, and Node — from internal admin tools to public-facing products handling real traffic.

APP

Mobile App Development

Native iOS and Android apps, and cross-platform builds with React Native and Flutter, shipped to the App Store and Google Play.

OPS

Cloud & DevOps

AWS and GCP infrastructure, CI/CD pipelines, containerization with Docker and Kubernetes, and monitoring that pages a human first.

AI

AI & ML Integration

Production LLM integrations, retrieval pipelines, and applied ML features — built to a measurable accuracy target, not a demo.

SEC

Application Security

Threat modeling, penetration testing, and secure architecture reviews for teams handling regulated or sensitive data.

UX

Product & UX Design

Research-driven interface design, design systems, and usability testing that ships alongside the engineering, not before it.

41
Products shipped
9 yrs
In operation
14
Engineers on staff
99.98%
Avg. client uptime
How we work

A process built to survive contact with reality.

Week 1–2

Discovery & scoping

We interview your team, map the current system, and write a scope document you can hold us to — with a fixed price or a capped hourly range.

Week 3–4

Architecture & design

Technical architecture and interface design happen in parallel, reviewed with your stakeholders before a single production line is written.

Ongoing

Build in two-week cycles

You get a working, deployed increment every two weeks — not a status update. Staging environments are yours to test from day one.

Post-launch

Support & maintenance

A named engineer stays on-call for the first 90 days after launch. After that, support is a retainer you can scale up or down monthly.

Tooling

The stack we actually ship with.

Chosen for maintainability, not novelty. We'll recommend something outside this list only when your problem genuinely needs it.

TypeScript React / Next.js Node.js Python / Django PostgreSQL Swift / Kotlin React Native AWS Docker / Kubernetes Terraform GraphQL Figma
Recent work

Chosen when the deadline was real.

Logistics platform · 6-month build

"ZA ALB LTD rebuilt our dispatch system while it stayed live. We went from routing 200 deliveries a day by phone to 3,000 a day through the platform, with zero downtime during the switch."

Operations Director, regional freight carrierWeb + Cloud
Clinical scheduling app · 4-month build

"They pushed back on features we thought we needed and shipped the ones patients actually used. No-show rates dropped 22% within the first quarter after launch."

Product Lead, outpatient care networkMobile + UX
Get started

Tell us what's broken, slow, or missing.

A 30-minute scoping call, no deck, no sales pitch. We'll tell you honestly if we're the right fit.