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Your hardest technical problems aren't solved by more hands — they need engineers who've seen the problem before. Flamingo Research & Development embeds senior engineers in your team to get the hard calls right and ship working software.

An eight-week spike to de-risk a technology bet, a six-month greenfield build, an eighteen-month transformation, a two-week performance firefight. Our clients bring us in when they can't afford to get it wrong.

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No pitch, just honest technical counsel on your specific situation.

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Bigger challenge? Our discovery workshop maps the full landscape in one to two days.

What we do

Agent Systems Engineering. Companies are betting their product roadmaps on AI agents that haven't left staging. We get them to production: orchestration, cost control, fault recovery, observability, security. We've been building supervised, concurrent systems for years — the agent era just gave that work a new name. Read more Software Spikes & Pilots. Got a hypothesis but not enough evidence to bet the roadmap on it? We run fixed-scope, time-boxed explorations that deliver production-grade code and a clear recommendation. Read more Discovery Workshop. One to two days of working sessions that map your technical landscape, find the biggest wins, and produce an action plan you can act on immediately. Read more Fractional & Interim CTO. Your company needs architecture direction and engineering leadership, but a full-time CTO doesn't make sense yet. We step in, set the technical direction, and build the team that outlasts the engagement. Read more Software Development. Greenfield builds, legacy modernisation, platform migrations. We pick the right technology for the problem — Ruby, Elixir, TypeScript, Python — then ship software your team can maintain long after we leave. Read more

Technologies we work with

Ruby
Elixir
TypeScript
Python
Go
PostgreSQL
Redis
Rails
React
Node.js
Google Cloud
Terraform
Nomad
Docker
Kubernetes
AWS
Consul
Linux
Tailwind
Azure
dbt

How we think

We don't start with a technical blueprint. We start with your business — how it works today, where it needs to go, and what's in the way. The software is just the transformation between those two points. Get that right, and the technology decisions make themselves.

Speed isn't about cutting corners. It's about finding out faster whether something works. Working software over slide decks. Small deployments over big reveals. The sooner real users touch it, the sooner you know if you're building the right thing.

Half the features on your roadmap won't matter. We'd rather build the smallest version that solves the real problem than the complete version that solves the imagined one. Less software means less to maintain, less to break, and less standing between you and the next change.

AI is changing what engineers spend their time on, not whether you need good ones. Models handle more of the routine work every month. The decisions that determine whether a project succeeds — architecture, technology bets, what to build and what to skip — still require experience you can't shortcut. We use AI in our own work. We also know where it stops being useful.

"Every engagement, they deliver what most consultancies promise but rarely do — real answers and code our team can maintain long after the engagement ends. They have the depth of specialists with the pace of a startup."
Papierkram.de

Dr. Michael Kaiser

CEO, Papierkram.de

Let's talk about what you're building. Get in touch for a free 30-minute discovery call. No pitch, just honest technical counsel on your specific situation.

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