About

A small studio that ships.

Senior engineers, opinionated about quality, built around a simple idea: most software fails because the team didn’t care enough about how it was made.

Story

Why CodeByte exists.

CodeByte is a small, senior software studio — and a product house. The same engineering standard that goes into client work goes into our own products. One discipline, two outputs.

It started the way most good things do — out of frustration. Too many projects inherited from a previous agency arrive the same way: shipped but not working, scaled but unmaintainable, or delivered without the keys at the end. The technical talent existed; the discipline didn’t. CodeByte exists to close that gap.

The studio runs on a handful of rules that don’t bend: senior-level work only, code review on every line, boring tech on purpose, honest timelines, and the customer owns everything at the end. Those rules cost us shortcuts up front — and earn the kind of trust that lasts.

We also build for ourselves. Asistry, Better Prompt and myvaad are CodeByte products — held to the same standard as the client work, and the clearest proof that we ship what we preach.

Principles

The eight things we don’t compromise on.

Senior-level work, every time

Every line is written by someone who has shipped production systems before. No learning on your codebase, no junior output behind a senior invoice. The work carries senior judgement from the first commit.

Code review on every line

Every change gets a deliberate review pass before it merges. No exceptions for “small fixes” or “urgent hotfixes.” The discipline is the value.

Boring tech on purpose

Boring tech is the tech you can hire for in three years. We pick from a small, deliberately unfashionable set 95% of the time. The 5% needs a good reason in writing.

Honest timelines

We quote what we can ship. If we don’t know, we say so and propose a discovery sprint. We have never moved a delivery date because we underestimated; we have moved them because the scope changed in writing.

The customer owns everything

Code, IP, infrastructure, credentials, design assets — all transferred at handover. We keep nothing. There is no “our infrastructure your data” caveat hidden in the SOW.

Production isn’t a milestone

It’s a starting line. Monitoring, alerts, runbooks, and handover docs are part of the build — not bolted on at the end as an upsell.

Code is for humans first

Compilers don’t care how it reads. The engineer on call at 2am, or the one taking over six months after we leave, does. We optimise for them.

Disagree in writing

If we think a decision is wrong, we say so on paper — once, clearly, with the trade-offs spelled out. After that we execute. No silent reservations, no “I told you so” later.

Location

Hadera, Israel. Working globally.

Our office is in Hadera (UTC+2/+3). We have meaningful daily overlap with Europe, the US East Coast, and — at the boundaries — the US West Coast and East Asia.

Base — Hadera, IL
Remote-first — working with clients worldwide

Philosophy

How we think about the stack.

Stack decisions are five-year decisions. The framework you pick today is the one your customer’s engineer will be hiring against in 2029. We optimise for that engineer, not for the announcement we’d make on Twitter today.

Postgres beats every newer database for 95% of products. React, Next.js, and Node beat every newer frontend or runtime for the same reason — talent depth, ecosystem, and the simple fact that they will still be supported when your second-generation engineering hire arrives.

On AI: we believe in the layer, we are sceptical of the hype, and we are uncompromising about the engineering around it. A prompt without an eval suite is a prototype. A workflow without fallback routing is a demo. We ship the parts that earn the word system.

On every other choice: pick the one with the largest hiring pool in three years, the smallest surface area today, and the longest list of public production deployments in the last six months. Almost every winner falls out of that filter.

Want to work with us?

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