Available for new projects

We build the
SaaS other teams
say can't ship.

Manta is a product and engineering consultancy for software companies. Strategy, architecture and delivery from one senior pair of hands, from blank repo to paying customers.

Founder-ledThe person you meet builds it
Fixed scopeCosted discovery before you commit
Your repoCode and decisions stay with you
UK basedOne timezone, no relay
01 — Services

Four ways we plug in.

Take one, take all four. Every engagement is run by the person who writes the code.

/ 01

SaaS product build

Greenfield platforms taken from whiteboard to production. Multi-tenant from day one, so you are not rebuilding at customer twelve.

  • Discovery
  • MVP
  • Scale-up
/ 02

Cloud & platform

Infrastructure that stays cheap as you grow. IaC, CI/CD, observability and a cost model your CFO can actually read.

  • AWS
  • Azure
  • Kubernetes
  • Terraform
/ 03

AI integration

LLM features that survive contact with real users. Retrieval, evals, guardrails and a spend ceiling that holds.

  • RAG
  • Agents
  • Evals
/ 04

Modernisation

Legacy monoliths carved into something maintainable, without a big-bang rewrite or a feature freeze.

  • Strangler fig
  • Data migration
  • Re-platform
02 — Recent work

800,000 reservations. No UI.

Segment data remediation across a 28-property hospitality portfolio.

/ The problem

Reporting nobody could trust

Hundreds of thousands of historical reservations were sitting on retired business segment codes in the group's property management system. Revenue could not be reconciled consistently across three brands, so every portfolio-level report started with a caveat.

/ The approach

API first, no manual edits

We mapped and validated the PMS Connector API in Postman, then built a suite of Python scripts to pull every reservation, match each one against a master rate mapping to determine its correct current segment, and push corrections back in batches. PowerShell handled orchestration and logging.

  • Python
  • REST API
  • PowerShell
  • Batch processing
/ The result

Over 800,000 records corrected

The full portfolio was processed programmatically, with hundreds of thousands of segment mismatches identified and fixed. Not one record was touched through the user interface, and the whole run was logged and repeatable.

03 — How we work

Founder-led. Specialists on call.

You deal with the person doing the work. Every engagement is run directly by Manta's founder, from the first discovery call through architecture, code and launch. No account manager sits in between and nothing gets passed down to a junior.

Where a project needs a skillset outside that range, we bring in a specialist from a small network of established IT professionals we have worked alongside for years. You are told who they are and what they are doing before they start.

  • Fixed-scope discovery sprint before anyone signs a long contract
  • Weekly demos on real environments, not slides
  • We work in your repo and your board, so nothing is a black box
  • Documented handover and 30 days of post-launch support included
04 — Process

Ten weeks to something real.

Every engagement runs to the same rhythm, with dates agreed up front.

01

Chart

Two weeks. Users, constraints, architecture options and a costed plan you own regardless of what happens next.

02

Dive

Four weeks. Core platform, auth, tenancy and the one workflow that proves the product.

03

Surface

Four weeks. Hardening, billing, observability and a production launch with real traffic.

04

Glide

Ongoing. Iteration against usage data, or a clean handover to your internal team.

05 — About

Why "Manta"?

Manta rays cover enormous distance with almost no wasted motion. That is the standard we hold ourselves to: large problems, small teams, very little drag.

Manta exists because too many good software projects stall inside layers of process. The fix was not another framework. It was fewer people, more senior, closer to the work.

We are deliberately small and take on a limited number of engagements at a time. If we are not the right fit, we will say so early and point you somewhere better.

06 — Contact

Tell us what you are building.

A short note is enough. We reply within one working day.

We use your details only to reply to this enquiry. See privacy.

Or email hello@mantaconsultancy.com

07 — Privacy

How we handle your data.

When you submit the form we collect your name, email address, company and whatever you write in the message. We use it for one thing: replying to your enquiry and discussing potential work. We do not sell it, share it for marketing, or add you to a mailing list.

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Under UK GDPR you can ask us for a copy of your data, ask us to correct it, or ask us to delete it. Email hello@mantaconsultancy.com and we will action it within 30 days.