r&d partnerfor established companies
forma is the R&D partner for mid-sized companies that know what’s slowing them down — but don’t have the team, the time or the appetite to bet a big budget on fixing it.
Every established company has one. A process that runs on spreadsheets and goodwill. A system nobody dares to touch. A fix that has been “next quarter” for two years.
Your people run the business. Modern software, automation and AI aren’t their day job — and hiring a team for one initiative is slow and risky.
Approvals, committees, procurement. By the time something gets a green light, the momentum is gone and the budget has moved on.
Big upfront contracts make everyone careful. So the idea everyone likes never gets an owner — and the workaround becomes the process.
That’s the gap we work in.
$5M+
Annual revenue — or $1M+ profit and the will to put a real share of it into change.
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Financial services, trading, blockchain, logistics, manufacturing, insurance and real estate.
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People you need to recruit. We bring the engineers; you keep the code and the knowledge.
not a fit —pre-revenue startups, hourly staff augmentation, agencies reselling work as their own, year-long public tenders.
You never commit to more than the evidence supports. Proof comes first — budget follows.
01find the problemweek 0
We start by learning how your company actually runs — where money moves, where people wait, which workaround quietly became the process. A short discovery then pins down the one bottleneck worth fixing first.
A clear problem statement, a measurable goal and a pilot plan.
02test the ideaweeks 1–3
We build a lean MVP with your team, on your real data, measured against the goal you set — money saved or hours returned. Your existing processes keep running while we do it.
A working proof of concept with full technical documentation.
03go full productmonth 2+
With the idea proven, we build it properly: production-grade, integrated with the systems you already run, shipped in months — not years. We improve how you work. We don’t replace it.
Production software with warranty, SLA and a complete handover.
monthly revenue, 0 → today
A financial superapp that plugs into multiple trading platforms and aggregators: a built-in trading journal, interactive charts, deep performance metrics — and automated guardrails that stop brokers from making erroneous or high-risk moves.
01prototype
Fast, high-frequency loops proved the integrations were possible and locked in the product vision.
02full build
The complete platform — billing on Stripe webhooks, lifecycle email on Loops, guardrails in the core.
03launch prep
Bug fixing, polish, and the tech aligned with the marketing plan for a stable launch.
$1,000+
Saved immediately. We built an LLM-powered financial news scraper instead of paying for an expensive third-party tool.
Market data
For the backtesting feature we introduced a reliable data provider from our own network — cutting licensing and integration costs.
Every client came with one of the same three blockers. Each left with working software.
2weeks
No in-house expertise to validate a complex new concept. Competitors pitched expensive, black-box fixed-price contracts. We delivered a working prototype and full technical documentation in two weeks — and the confidence to move forward.
1month
Internal approvals were killing momentum. We set up direct, fast feedback loops with the key decision makers and built a cross-platform resource management app in one month.
3months
Heavy internal processes would have meant endless delays. We designed, built, published and handed over a market-ready mobile app in three months. They started selling ahead of plan.
our practice
AI agents work end to end inside deterministic guardrails. Our architects step in exactly where judgment matters. You get the speed of a specialised team and the quality of an enterprise firm — and the system stays reliable as it grows.
our ai blueprint
The blueprint maps your process step by step: what machines should do, and where human judgment has to stay. It protects you from the two classic mistakes — over-automating, and underusing modern tech.
Pragmatic guarantees, matched to the stage you’re in. We’re turnkey — from the first call to the handover.
You know the cost before we start. No hidden fees, no bloat, no scope creep — just the deliverable we agreed.
Post-release support to fix bugs and keep the system stable.
Clear, guaranteed response and resolution times for ongoing operations.
Code, documentation and technical context — all handed over. Your team is fully equipped and never vendor-locked.
What project does your team keep pushing to next quarter?
Best fit: established companies with $5M+ revenue and a process that’s overdue for a fix.
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