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Independent Software Engineering Firm — Paris & Remote

Engineering software systems
built to endure.

We design, build, and modernize web platforms, software applications, and AI integrations for organizations that take their IT infrastructure seriously. Senior software engineers, not a low-cost agency.

Web EngineeringSoftware PublishingAI Integration
30
Years IT experience
100%
Senior engineers
48h
Response to your brief
3
Complementary Practices

Web platforms, software publishing, and AI engineering: three distinct intervention modes tailored to your needs.

30 yrs
Combined Experience

Banking, insurance, mission-critical industries. We bring enterprise standards to agile, human-scale projects.

Senior
100% of Contributors

You work directly with the architects who design and write the code. No account managers or junior tiers.

Practices

Three disciplines,
the same standard of engineering rigor.

Most requested
Pillar 01

Web Engineering

Institutional sites, business-critical platforms, and internal enterprise tools.

  • Modern architectures (Next.js, TypeScript)
  • High performance, accessibility, technical SEO
  • Legacy system redesigns & modernization
  • Maintainable, documented codebases

For organizations demanding a website or application engineered to product-grade standards, not marketing fluff.

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Pillar 02

Software Publishing

Local-first, durable applications respecting user privacy and data sovereignty.

  • Mathery — scientific computing notebook
  • NexusFile — dual-pane file management
  • PdfCommander — local PDF processing
  • Perpetual licenses, zero mandatory subscriptions

An active software publishing division, driven by the exact same engineering discipline as our consulting services.

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Pillar 03

AI Integration & Studio

Local-first Code Buddy, enterprise copilots, and autonomous agents connected to your systems.

  • Code Buddy — AI studio & open-source coding agent
  • Production-ready use cases with measurable ROI
  • Clean integration into existing enterprise IT
  • Strict data privacy, sovereignty, and guardrails

For engineering teams seeking to move from exploratory POCs to reliable, hardened AI in production.

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Key Practice

Regain full mastery over your
software heritage.

When original authors have departed, documentation is obsolete, and nobody dares touch the codebase, we rebuild a trustworthy, authoritative map of your system based strictly on what is running in production.

  • Navigable dependency map
  • Comprehensive audit report
  • Prioritized refactoring plan
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Credibility

Engineering challenges we solve,
backed by verifiable track record.

Representative engagement contexts based on real engineering scenarios, not fabricated marketing claims.

Client profiles
  • — Independent software vendors (ISVs)
  • — Mid-market industrials modernizing legacy IT
  • — Fast-growing scale-ups consolidating tooling
  • — Professional firms & consultancies
  • — Product teams requiring a senior technical partner
Engagement types
  • — Modernization of aging business-critical applications
  • — Multi-tenant SaaS architectures & platforms
  • — High-traffic corporate & transactional platforms
  • — Enterprise integrations (CRM, ERP, payment gateways)
  • — Production AI agents with safety guardrails
What we handle
  • — Multi-million line codebases with complex topologies
  • — Distributed architectures under performance constraints
  • — Zero-downtime progressive database migrations
  • — GDPR compliance, data sovereignty, audit trails
  • — Rescue of stalled projects delivered by prior agencies
01
Modernization

Aging .NET Enterprise Monolith

Challenge

Application increasingly brittle to evolve, costly to maintain, and suffering from latency bottlenecks under load.

Engineering Action
  • Static analysis & software topology mapping
  • Progressive modular decoupling into services
  • Automated regression test pipeline
  • Team coaching & engineering handover
Outcomes
  • Clarified system architecture
  • Prioritized remediation roadmap
  • Autonomous internal team
  • Production deployment secured
02
Scale-up

Fast-Growing MVP Requiring Hardened Foundations

Challenge

Initial prototype achieved product-market fit, but architectural fragility threatened upcoming user growth.

Engineering Action
  • Core foundation & database schema review
  • Targeted architectural restructuring
  • Implementation of scalable domain patterns
  • Hands-on mentorship of developer staff
Outcomes
  • Hardened MVP codebase
  • Clear technical trajectory
  • Self-sufficient dev team
  • Prioritized engineering backlog
03
Secure AI

Enterprise Q&A Copilot for Sensitive Documents

Challenge

Internal legal & ops teams needed instant search across internal documents without leaking data to public APIs.

Engineering Action
  • On-premise RAG pipeline on internal infrastructure
  • Automated response accuracy benchmark suite
  • Strict hallucination guardrails & audit logging
  • Phased internal pilot rollout
Outcomes
  • Strictly defined usage perimeter
  • Measured quality against evaluation datasets
  • Documented governance & security guardrails
  • Confident enterprise production deployment

Software where operations happen

A ticket kiosk, a paint-tinting system: concrete settings where software reliability matters.

Consulting assignments from Patrice's earlier career, as documented in his 2013 commercial brochure.

SNCF

Maintenance and testing of a ticket kiosk

Development of maintenance and test software for SNCF's new mainline ticket vending kiosk.

Technical environment

C on Windows XP Embedded, C on PIC microcontroller, .NET Framework, VB6.

RIVAL

La Color Station — paint tinting

La Color Station is a miniature colour factory offering a wide palette of shades, produced on demand by the tinting system according to the required paint volume.

Technical environment

VB.NET, C#, ASP.NET, VB6, SQL Server 2000, Transact-SQL, Access, Component One.

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Why Agile Up

Four core commitments,
all verifiable before partnering.

01

Deep industry craftsmanship

Thirty years of combined experience in high-stakes environments where errors carry significant cost: banking, insurance, and large industry.

Patrice Huetz — BNP Paribas, Credit Suisse, AXA, Natixis. Sébastien YGE — software architecture and complex distributed projects.

02

Direct access to those who build

No layers of account managers between you and technical decisions. Architectural arbitrations are made directly with the firm's founders.

If we are not the right partner for your project, we will clearly tell you and refer you elsewhere.

03

Proprietary analysis engine for audits

Our internally developed engine automatically maps dependencies and code topology directly from actual source code, not stale diagrams.

An internal technical asset applied to concrete consulting deliverables, not a piece of vaporware.

04

Committed for the long term

We structure engagements around sustainable lifecycles: continuous maintenance, evolutionary upgrades, periodic health audits.

Transparent commitments on scope, cost, and timelines. Absolutely no hidden markups or lock-ins.

Field Observation

An engineering discipline designed to make constraints, verifiable evidence, and decisions crystal clear.

Regulatory compliance, technical debt, and data sovereignty must be addressed during discovery, not as an afterthought.

Real-world impact must be measured directly in your specific context, starting with a concrete, testable proof of value.

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Have a serious project
? to discuss ?

Describe your context, engineering constraints, and target timeline. We will reply within 48 hours with an honest assessment: what we can do, what we will not take on, and the engagement format that makes the most sense.

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Also available on LinkedIn — Patrice Huetz · Sébastien YGE