Product design and software development, run on agents and a bushi code.
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In the early stages, when everything is unknown and you are still hunting for validation, the thing that decides the outcome is not headcount. It is how fast you can change your mind and how well you choose the tool for the actual problem.
We take on your vision as our own — experience, judgement and agentic firepower, from proof of concept to a product with users on it.
How three people ship what used to take twelve.
*An agentic workflow is one where AI does the work and a builder who has shipped before decides what “done” means.
What does agentic delivery look like in practice?
Agents do the volume work and builders do the deciding. Research and competitive scans, design exploration across many more directions than a person would draw by hand, implementation of well-specified work, first-pass code review, generated test suites, and documentation that stays current. What is left for the humans is the part that was always the job: architecture, product trade-offs, edge cases and taste. Same quality bar, a third of the calendar.
Boutique is a deliberate constraint, not a stage we are growing out of. We are a product team of builders raised in startup action, shipping products of our own since 2017 — every engagement is staffed with people who have shipped this kind of thing before, and whoever designs a flow is on the same call as whoever builds it. That is why a six-month, three-sided payment platform with a WooCommerce plugin ran on three engineers and one delivery manager.
Speed is the easy part. Anyone can generate a thousand lines an hour; the discipline is knowing which ten to keep. We do not ship what we have not read, we do not hand over a codebase nobody on the team can explain, and we will tell you when the fastest path is the wrong one.
Four ways this usually starts.
Design and build
From nothing to a product people use
Discovery, product definition, UX and UI, then engineering through to launch. One team, one contract, no handoff between a design vendor and a build vendor. Typical first release: 10–16 weeks.
Harden
Prototype to production
Your demo works and production is a different animal. We rebuild what has to be rebuilt and keep what works: production architecture, auth and permissions, a real data model, automated tests, CI/CD, monitoring and a security pass.
Migrate
Off the page builder, onto Astro
We move marketing sites off page builders onto Astro. You get static-fast pages, real Core Web Vitals, semantic HTML, structured data for search and AI answer engines, redirect maps that preserve rankings, and a repository your team owns outright.
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Engineers who join, not orbit
Builders in your standups, your board and your codebase — not a resource pool at the end of an email chain. For one stealth client we had two engineers contributing inside two weeks.
What our partners
have to say about us
The questions that come before the contract.
What services does Bushido offer?
Product strategy and discovery, UX and UI design, web and mobile development, backend and solution architecture, AI features and agents, Web3 and smart contract development, POC-to-production hardening, Webflow-to-Astro migrations, and embedded team augmentation. One team covers all of it.
Do you do design as well as development?
Yes, and not as an add-on. Product strategy, UX and UI sit inside the same team as engineering, so interface decisions are made by people who know what they cost to build and what they cost to change later.
What does agentic delivery look like in practice?
Agents do the volume work: research, design exploration, implementation of well-specified tasks, first-pass code review, test generation and documentation. Builders do the deciding: architecture, product trade-offs, edge cases and taste. Same quality bar, roughly a third of the calendar.
Do agents write the code you deliver?
They draft it. A builder on the team reads every line before it merges and owns it afterwards. Generated code that nobody understands is a liability with a short fuse, and we are usually still around when it goes off.
Can you build AI features or agents into our product?
Yes. Retrieval, evaluations, guardrails, tool use and human-in-the-loop review. We start with how the feature will be measured, because AI that cannot be evaluated is a demo rather than a feature.
What does a typical MVP engagement look like?
Two to four weeks of discovery and product definition, then design and engineering running together toward a first usable release - usually 10 to 16 weeks in total. CachePay, a three-sided crypto payment platform with a WooCommerce plugin, took six months end to end with three engineers and a delivery manager.
Can you take over a proof of concept built by someone else?
Yes. We start with a short technical audit - architecture, data model, security, test coverage, deployment - and come back with what to keep, what to rewrite and what it costs. Then we harden it until it can carry production traffic.
Why migrate from Webflow to Astro?
Page builders own your markup, your hosting and your performance ceiling. Astro gives you static-fast pages, control over semantic HTML and structured data, genuine Core Web Vitals, no per-seat lock-in, and a repository your own developers can extend. We handle the content migration, the redirect map and the SEO carry-over.
Which technologies do you work in?
TypeScript, React, React Native, Next.js, Astro, Node.js, Python, Solidity, Hasura and GraphQL, PostgreSQL, and AWS including Lambda, API Gateway, Cognito, S3 and CloudFront. We choose per problem rather than defaulting to one stack.
How big is the team on a project?
Two to four builders plus a delivery manager, usually. Small is not a phase we are growing out of - it is why decisions take minutes instead of meetings. Being AI-native is what lets a team that size take a scope that used to need a floor.
How do we start?
Book a 30-minute call or email vision@bshdo.co. The first call is with an engineer, not a salesperson, and we will tell you if we are the wrong team for the problem.