01 / Custom Software
Bespoke systems,
built from first principles
The engagements that don't fit a vendor. Trading desks, logistics engines, regulated platforms — software with non-negotiable constraints.
Softwareengineered withdevotion.
Virtual Franciscans is a small, senior engineering studio building uncompromising digital products for ambitious companies. Quiet craftsmanship. Cinematic execution. Built to outlast the trend cycle.
94%Client retention
across 5 years
across 5 years
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Manifesto · Devotion in codeI · Vow
The Vow
We take the quiet vow
of senior craft
Every line of code is signed. Every architectural choice is owned. No work leaves the studio that we wouldn't ship under our own name.
The Dissolution
The brief dissolves
into first principles.
Before architecture there is interrogation. We pull the system apart until the constraints are honest, then build outward from what cannot be moved.
The Architecture
What we ship is habitable
Software you can grow into. Surfaces that reward attention. Systems your engineers will thank us for, three years from now.
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Custom Software Web Platforms Mobile SaaS AI Systems Smart Contracts Infrastructure as Code Product Design Senior-only Engineering
05
Years
Compounding craft. No pivots, no rebrands.
147
Products shipped
From quiet internal tools to platforms used by millions.
$4M
Client revenue influenced
Outcomes we can attribute.
22
Senior engineers
Median tenure 11+ years. No juniors, no offshoring.
What we build,
and how.
Eight disciplines, framework-agnostic by default. We pick the stack per engagement, not the other way around — every team in the studio has shipped in three or four substrates at production weight. The lists below are recent ones, not a menu.
Bespoke systems,
02 / Web Platforms
Web platforms with cinematic craft
Marketing, commerce, and product surfaces engineered for performance, accessibility, and a feel of inevitability.
03 / Mobile
Native apps that feel native.
iOS and Android products tuned to the metal — no cross-platform compromises where the user can feel them.
04 / SaaS Products
SaaS, from zero to series B.
We embed as the founding engineering team. Architecture, hiring plan, the first 24 months of product calendar.
05 / AI Systems
AI that holds up
under audit.
Retrieval, agents, and evaluation pipelines for companies whose answers must be right, sourced, and explainable.
06 / Crypto & Blockchain
Software for an irreversible
substrate.
Smart contracts, protocol implementations, and onchain product surfaces — written for the audit, not the demo.
07 / Cloud Infrastructure
Boring infrastructure,
by design.
Terraform, Kubernetes, and observability for teams who want their stack to wake them up only when something is genuinely on fire.
08 / Product Design
Design indistinguishable
from the engineering.
One studio, one team. Designers and engineers in the same files, the same standups, the same standard.
Selected work,
since 2021.
Some engagements are under NDA. The rest, below — products that quietly run inside the businesses you've heard of.
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2024 · Financial services
Multi-asset trading
Trading Terminal
A multi-asset trading terminal rebuilt from the kernel up — Rust execution layer, WebGL rendering, sub-millisecond order paths. Replaced an eight-year legacy stack in nineteen weeks.
3.2×
Execution speed
94%
P99 latency cut
0
Outages, 18 mo.
RustTypeScriptPostgresWebGLKafka
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2025 · Direct-to-consumer
Luxury commerce
Editorial Commerce
A direct-to-consumer atelier rebuilt as a quietly cinematic shopping experience. Editorial pacing. Considered checkout. A storefront that reads like a magazine.
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2025 · Academic medicine
Clinical AI · HIPAA
Clinical Co-pilot
An evaluation-first clinical co-pilot. Every answer is sourced, scored, and traceable to a citation set. Deployed inside two academic medical centers, used daily.
11s
Avg. answer time
0.94
F1 vs. attending
100%
Citation traced
PythonLangGraphpgvectorHIPAASOC2
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2023 · Transportation
Continental logistics
Fleet Routing
Continental fleet routing rebuilt around a streaming optimizer. Real-time adaptation to weather, hours-of-service, and dock windows — the dispatcher's job, made calmer.
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2024 · Portfolio operations
Mid-market private equity
Operator OS
A unified operating system across a private equity firm's portfolio companies — diligence, KPI tracking, and quarterly board materials in one model. Replaces nine vendors.
The Studio
A studio of twenty-two, by design.
Most agencies are pyramids — a thin layer of senior thought, billed against an army of juniors. We're an inversion.
Twenty-two senior engineers and designers. No tier. No throughput model. The person who scopes your problem is the person who ships your code.
Yevgeniy Orlovskiy
Founding Partner · Engineering
01
Senior engineers, only.
Every contributor has shipped at staff or principal level. We don't subsidize learning curves with your roadmap.
02
Product thinking from day one.
We will tell you when a feature is wrong. Discovery is part of the engagement, not a separate sales motion.
03
Speed without compromise.
Quality and pace aren't a tradeoff — they're a function of who is in the room. Our rooms are very small.
04
Architecture you can grow into.
We design for the company you'll be in 36 months. Boring infrastructure, sharp product surfaces.
05
Transparent execution.
Open Linear. Open repo. Open Loom. You see the same view of progress that we do, every Friday.
From first call,
to compounding.
A six-phase engagement model refined across 147 engagements. Every phase has named owners, written deliverables, and an explicit exit gate.
01 / wk 1–2
Discovery
Stakeholder interviews, system audit, written problem statement.
02 / wk 2–4
Strategy
Architecture proposal, risk register, sequenced delivery plan.
03 / wk 4–8
Design
Interactive prototypes, design system, motion language.
04 / wk 6–20
Build
Two-week increments, weekly stakeholder review, continuous delivery.
05 / wk 20+
Launch
Performance hardening, observability, on-call handoff.
06 / ongoing
Growth
Quarterly compounding cycles. Most clients renew indefinitely.
What our clients say,
privately.
A handful are public. The rest live in the room when their CFOs introduce us to their peers.
Virtual Franciscans is the only outside team we've worked with where the engineering felt indistinguishable from our best internal hires.
"Quiet, surgical, and the most senior team I've shipped with in fifteen years."
"They never stop refining the product. Every month brings precise feature notes with the reasoning attached — most of them ship."
