Now taking projects for Q4 2026

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

Manta is a product and engineering consultancy for software companies. Strategy, architecture and delivery in one pod, from blank repo to paying customers.

10wksIdea to first release
100%Senior engineers only
0Handover documents lost
24/7Production ownership
01 — Services

Four ways we plug in.

Take one, take all four. Every engagement is run by the people who write 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 — How we work

One pod. Full ownership.

No account managers, no offshore relay. You get a small senior team that designs the thing, builds the thing and stays on when it goes live.

We write code in your repo, in your board, in your standup. When the engagement ends, nothing is a black box.

  • Fixed-scope discovery sprint before anyone signs a long contract
  • Weekly demos on real environments, not slides
  • Your team pairs with ours so the knowledge stays in-house
  • Documented handover and 30 days of post-launch support included
03 — Process

Ten weeks to something real.

A rhythm we have run enough times to put dates against it.

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.

04 — 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.

We started Manta after too many years watching 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 we 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.

05 — Contact

Tell us what you are building.

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

Thanks. Your enquiry is ready to send.

hello@mantaconsultancy.com