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> We build just about any software a small or medium business needs.

Limit Break software from a cooler timeline.

Decades of real production experience, now amplified by AI — so languages and frameworks stop being barriers. Heavy test automation keeps quality high and bugs fixed fast. The promise: better, faster, and cheaper than you'd expect, without lowering the bar. Or we'll teach your team to do it themselves.

// 01 — capabilities

What we ship

One studio, full stack. We pick the right tool, not our favorite tool — and we'll tell you straight, even if the answer is "not us."

[ 001 ]

Web & product engineering

Full-stack builds across modern and legacy stacks — PHP/Laravel/WordPress, Ruby/Rails, Vue/React, Tailwind. New products or codebases that need rescuing.

  • Laravel · WordPress core comfort zone
  • Modern SPA + component work
  • Modernizing older codebases
[ 002 ]

APIs & SDKs

Full backends with queues and background processing, plus the tooling that makes them a pleasure to consume — for humans and machines alike.

  • OpenAPI specs + doc sites
  • Robust CLIs & SDKs, multi-language
  • Human- and AI-friendly docs
[ 003 ]

DevOps & automation

Reproducible, secure infrastructure at sane scale — plus the deployment and dev tooling that keeps a team moving without surprises.

  • CI/CD · GitHub Actions · Dependabot
  • Cloudflare · CDN · DNS
  • Infra-as-code · CLIs in bash/Go
[ 004 ]

Testing & performance

Automated test suites handed over as a free artifact — wired into CI so changes ship without regressions. Then we make it fast.

  • QA + automated suites on GitHub
  • Caching (app · HTTP · CDN)
  • DB query + schema optimization
[ 005 ]

Security & Vibe Check

Code, architecture, security and dependency reviews. We clean up AI slop and take it from "localhost this weekend" to genuinely production-ready.

  • Security hardening & audits
  • Dependency & architecture review
  • Forensic analysis when it's on fire
[ 006 ]

CMS & migrations

WordPress installs, custom plugins and themes, and clean host-to-host or CMS-to-CMS migrations — with ongoing maintenance and scaling.

  • Custom WP plugins & themes
  • Host + CMS migrations
  • Maintenance & scaling contracts

Mobile

Straightforward CRUD apps for the "we need an app" crowd. Not games or deep sensor work — just a solid, shippable app that does the job.

AI & Claude automation

Bring your own Claude subscription — we automate the workflows, wire up MCPs and connectors, and make AI approachable for teams told to "just use AI."

// 02 — how we work

AI as leverage, not a shortcut

The engineering judgment came first — from decades of shipping real production software. AI just removes the friction. Here's the operating model.

  1. 01

    Amplified by AI

    Languages and frameworks stop being blockers. We move quickly across stacks while keeping a human hand on architecture, security, and the hard calls.

  2. 02

    Tested by default

    Heavy automated testing isn't an upsell — it's how we stay confident and fix bugs fast. The suite ships with your code, free.

  3. 03

    Or we'll teach you

    Rather own it in-house? We'll coach your team to build and maintain it themselves — and tell you straight if that's the better call.

// 03 — code rescue

The Vibe Check

Shipped a prototype on vibes and now it's running your business? We take it from "made localhost:8000 this weekend, bro" to something you can actually trust in production.

We read the whole thing — code, architecture, dependencies, security — clean up the AI slop, harden what's shaky, and hand it back with tests so it stays fixed.

  • Full code & architecture review
  • Security & dependency audit
  • AI-generated slop, refactored properly
  • Tests added so it doesn't regress
Book a Vibe Check
vibe-check — zsh

limit-break:~$ vibe scan ./app

▸ analyzing 412 files ............ done

⚠ 7 critical · 14 high · 31 medium

  • SQL built with string interpolation
  • Secrets committed to .env in git
  • No input validation on /upload
  • 0% test coverage

limit-break:~$ vibe fix --hand-off

✓ hardened · ✓ refactored · ✓ 84% coverage

ready for production_

// optional flavor

Goodbye, SaaS

Most teams overpay for mass-market software built for everyone but them. With AI we can understand your actual problem and build a custom, secure, cheap tool that evolves with you — and your subscription bill quietly disappears.

// 04 — the studio

A precision
instrument from
a cooler
timeline

Limit Break is a boutique software studio. We've shipped real production software for decades — long before AI was a thing — and that judgment is the part that actually matters. AI is the amplifier, not the engineer.

We're small on purpose. That means you talk to the people building your software, decisions get made fast, and nothing is lost in a handoff. It also means we say no to work we shouldn't take.

We'll tell you straight, even if the answer is "not us." Better that than sell you something we can't deliver properly.

Experience
Decades
Test suite
Free
Straight talk
Always

// 05 — transmission

Start a build

Tell us what you're trying to ship. We'll come back with a straight answer on whether we're the right studio — and how we'd approach it.

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