We also build and run software for others.
The architecture, AI integration and AWS operations behind AdviceGenie, Assetwise and RateScan are available to non-technical founders and financial-services firms as a service.
Cognify Labs is primarily a product company. Read about the products.
Finding technical talent shouldn't stall your idea.
Great technical co-founders are rare, expensive, and want equity before you've proven anything. Agencies bill by the hour and disappear at launch. Cheap offshore shops leave you with code nobody can maintain. There's a gap in the middle — and it's exactly where good ideas go to wait.
You don't need a co-founder yet
You need a working product to test the idea and win your first customers — without giving away half the company to get it.
Speed without shortcuts
Vibe-coded apps ship fast, then break in production. Roughly 45% of AI-generated code ships with common security flaws. Fast only helps if it holds.
Someone who stays
The build is the easy half. Keeping it secure, patched and improving is where most projects quietly fall over. We build to run it.
Senior engineering, priced and paced for founders.
One experienced pair of hands across strategy, build and run — the way a technical co-founder would work, without the equity or the hiring.
Idea to product
Proof of concept in 7 days, MVP in 2 weeks, a real platform in 4 weeks — then ongoing iterations and platform management. Web-responsive, architected to grow.
Rescue & productionise
Inherited a no-code or vibe-coded app that's stalling? We make it secure, maintainable and ready to scale.
Data & AI
Practical AI and automation that removes manual work — with governance, not just a chatbot bolted on.
Tech strategy
Build-vs-buy calls, architecture, and a roadmap tied to commercial outcomes — fractional CTO on tap.
Financial services
Advice, lending and wealth tooling built by someone who knows the domain — and its compliance.
Compliance & resilience
CPS 230-aware builds, operational visibility and AI governance for regulated businesses and their vendors.
Platform & modernisation
Legacy running the business but slowing it down? Assessment, cloud-native re-architecture, and infrastructure management — migrated without breaking what already works.
Build + Run.
- 01Architecture firstBuilt on solid foundations, so it survives real users, real data and real growth.
- 02Run means all of itPerformance, security, processes and finance — not just patched and monitored: tuned for performance, controlled through proper change process, and managed with an eye on what it costs to run.
- 03An operational consoleYou see what's happening in your own product. No black boxes, no lock-in.
- 04No equity grabA partner who works like a co-founder, on commercial terms that keep the company yours.
Anyone can ship a demo now. The rare part is a product that's secure, maintainable and still yours a year later.
— The Cognify Labs thesis
Platform Management, priced in tiers.
Productised "Run": we keep the platform we built for you secure, fast and improving. Pick the altitude — from keep-it-alive to a fractional CIO owning your whole technology function.
Essential
Keep it alive, secure & cheap to run.
Billed monthly
Billed annually · save ~17%
Start with Essential →- 1 AWS account management
- Monitoring & alerting
- Monthly security patch reviews
- Backup verification
- SSL certificate management
- DNS management
- Cost optimisation (monthly review)
- Monthly health report
- Email support
- Up to 2 hrs/mo platform maintenance
Growth
Ship, tune and defend it.
Billed monthly
Billed annually · save ~17%
Choose Growth →Everything in Essential, plus:
- Up to 10 hrs/mo operational engineering
- Unlimited application releases
- Multi-account AWS (dev / staging / prod)
- Active AWS cost optimisation
- Performance tuning
- Release management
- Incident response (defined SLA)
- Disaster recovery testing
- Security reviews
- Monthly strategy meeting
- Vendor management & capacity planning
Fractional CIO
Executive ownership of your tech function.
Billed monthly
Billed annually · save ~17%
Talk Fractional CIO →Everything in Growth, plus:
- Named fractional CIO · ~3 exec days/mo
- Dedicated engineering capacity + priority
- Technology strategy & multi-year roadmap
- Tech budget ownership & board reporting
- Architecture governance across all products
- Team leadership & hiring
- Org-level compliance & risk (CPS 230, AI governance)
- Vendor & contract negotiation
- 24/7 critical incident escalation
- Weekly strategy + board attendance
Free application migration & redesign. Commit annually and we migrate your app onto Cognify Labs hosting and bring it up to production standard — at no cost. On monthly plans, migration & redesign is quoted separately.
Application design & build · penetration testing · migrations & modernisation · data & AI projects · other specialist work.
Platform Management covers applications designed, built and hosted by Cognify Labs. Inherited apps are assessed via a Rescue & Productionise engagement first, then move onto a plan.
Founders and firms who need it built right, now.
Non-technical founders
You've validated the idea and want a real product to raise on or sell — not a pitch deck and a maybe.
SMBs & scale-ups
You need senior technical leadership and AI direction, but can't justify a full-time CTO yet.
Financial-services firms
Advice, lending and wealth businesses that need tooling built with the domain and compliance in mind.
Enterprises & regulated institutions
Running critical platforms on ageing infrastructure. You need modernisation and operational resilience delivered by someone who's carried enterprise platform accountability before — not a vendor learning on the job.
Questions founders actually ask.
Can you really build a proof of concept in a week? +
Yes — a clickable wireframe with realistic mock data, so you can see and test the idea before committing to a full build, typically within 7 days. The MVP follows in around 2 weeks, and a production-ready platform in around 4 weeks, depending on scope — then we stay on for ongoing iterations and platform management.
Do you take equity? +
No. This works on straightforward commercial terms. You get the senior partnership of a technical co-founder while keeping full ownership of your company and your code.
Do you build mobile apps? +
The focus is fully web-responsive applications that work beautifully on phone, tablet and desktop. That covers the large majority of products founders need to launch and validate. Native mobile isn't the specialty — and I'll tell you plainly if that's what your idea genuinely requires.
I already have a vibe-coded or no-code app. Can you help? +
Often yes. Apps built quickly on AI tools tend to hit walls around security, data and maintainability. We assess what you have, then rebuild the shaky foundations into something production-grade you can scale on and raise on.
What happens after launch? +
That's the point of Build + Run. We keep the product patched, secure and improving, and give you a console so you can see how it's performing. The build is only the first half of the job.