Yes. Many of our engagements are structured around augmenting in-house teams. We embed directly into your existing Slack, Jira, and GitHub environments — handling maintenance overhead, security cycles, and infrastructure work so your engineers stay focused on product development. Our team works across the full stack your developers are already using: Laravel 10–13, Inertia.js, Vue, React, Tailwind CSS, Redis, Docker, and GitHub Actions. We adapt to your workflow, not the other way around.

We do this regularly. Every engagement begins with a codebase audit — we document what exists, identify what’s problematic, and establish a realistic maintenance baseline before committing to ongoing work. That includes a review of your database layer (MySQL, PostgreSQL, or MongoDB), your caching strategy, your DevOps setup on AWS or DigitalOcean, and any REST or GraphQL APIs in use. We’ll be direct about what we find, including technical debt and version risk, before anything is signed.

Response SLAs are defined in your agreement and tied to your engagement tier. Active Retainer clients have a 24-hour response commitment; Embedded Engineering clients receive a 4-hour emergency acknowledgment. We use uptime monitoring, Sentry-based error tracking, and Laravel Telescope to catch issues before they surface to users. When something does break in production, there’s a defined escalation path — not a ticket queue. Our “do no harm” approach means every patch and hotfix goes through staging validation with a rollback plan in place before it touches production.

We actively maintain applications running Laravel 8 through 13, including those on older unsupported versions that need migration planning. Our engineers work across the full modern Laravel stack — Eloquent ORM, the TALL stack (Livewire, Alpine.js), Inertia.js with Vue or React, Redis and Memcached caching, and containerized deployments via Docker and Kubernetes. For applications still on Laravel 8, 9, or 10, we scope version migrations as structured projects with staging environments, dependency audits, and zero-downtime deployment targets.

Yes. Standalone codebase audits are available as a scoped project engagement — commonly requested before a fundraise, acquisition, platform rebuild, or major feature initiative. The audit covers framework version risk, Composer dependency health, database and query performance, DevOps and deployment configuration, and SEO technical foundations including URL structure, canonical tags, schema integrity, and site speed. If a migration or rebuild follows, our approach preserves your existing SEO equity — we don’t treat a Laravel upgrade as a reason to break rankings you’ve already earned. No retainer commitment is attached to the audit unless you choose one.

It can — but only if it’s handled carelessly. Version upgrades and rebuilds are one of the most common causes of unintentional SEO loss, typically through broken URL structures, dropped canonical tags, missing redirects, or degraded page speed after deployment. Our process includes a comprehensive sitewide SEO audit before any migration begins, strategic preservation of existing URL patterns, schema markup review, and site speed optimization across every layer — Eloquent queries, Redis caching, and front-end asset delivery. Your organic search performance is treated as a system dependency, not an afterthought.

Yes. Design and UX work can be incorporated into an Active Maintenance Retainer or Embedded Engineering engagement. Whether that’s refining existing interfaces built with Tailwind CSS and Alpine.js, rearchitecting a decoupled frontend in React or Vue via Inertia.js, or conducting a full UX audit with recommendations — it fits within the same engagement structure. We don’t treat design as a separate silo from engineering. For organizations moving toward a headless or decoupled Laravel architecture, front-end design and API development are scoped together from the start.

Both. When off-the-shelf solutions fall short, we build custom Laravel features and modules tailored to your exact business logic — within the same retainer that handles your ongoing maintenance. Feature requests are scoped, estimated, and slotted into sprint cycles without the overhead of a new engagement each time. For larger initiatives — a new decoupled frontend in React or Vue, a custom workflow engine, or a new API surface — we scope those as structured projects alongside your retainer, so maintenance continuity is never interrupted.

We start with profiling rather than assumptions. That means Eloquent query analysis, N+1 detection, slow query logging at the database level (MySQL or PostgreSQL), and a review of your caching architecture — Redis, Memcached, or Laravel’s built-in cache drivers. On the infrastructure side, we audit your AWS or DigitalOcean configuration, CDN setup, and Docker container resource allocation. Front-end asset delivery — Vite build output, CSS bundling, lazy loading — is reviewed alongside the backend. The result is a prioritized remediation plan with measurable targets, not a list of generic recommendations.

Our pricing depends on the plan and features selected for your engagement. Introductory plans range weekly, and can scale to five times that depending on the complexity of your application, the size of your team, required response SLAs, and the scope of active development work included. A high-traffic e-commerce platform with a dedicated senior engineer, CI/CD pipeline management, and compliance documentation sits in a different tier than a stable B2B application that needs monthly security patches and quarterly performance reviews. We scope every engagement after a codebase review so the number reflects what your application actually requires. Contact us to get a realistic estimate within one business day.

A technical SEO audit at the application layer covers more ground than a standard crawl report. We review URL routing logic, canonical tag implementation across dynamic routes, schema markup and structured data outputs, XML sitemap generation, and page speed across core web vitals — all within the context of how Laravel renders and serves content. For applications using server-side rendering, Inertia.js, or headless architectures with a React or Vue frontend, we assess how search engines are indexing JavaScript-rendered content and whether hydration patterns are creating crawl or indexing issues. You receive a prioritized findings report with implementation guidance your development team — or ours — can act on directly.