Software Studio • 2026

We build the software
other companies
wish they could.

A development studio that operates at the intersection of engineering precision and design craft.

Trusted by teams from
Portland Design Co.
Voxel Digital
FinLayer Inc.
Sprintly Health
CloudPay Solutions
Pulse Analytics
What We Believe

Most agencies overpromise and underdeliver. Most dev shops ship spaghetti code. We figured there had to be a better way.

We built Ragen to be the kind of studio we wished existed when we were on the other side — hiring engineers, managing vendors, and cleaning up after teams that cut corners.

Every engineer who touches your project has at least six years of experience. We take on fewer projects than we could so we can be obsessive about the ones we commit to.

We are not trying to be the biggest. We are trying to be the one you call when it actually matters.

40+
Projects shipped
4+
Avg. years per engineer
92%
Client return rate
Capabilities

Engineering that lasts longer than the sprint it was built in.

The kind of code you do not have to rewrite six months later.

01

Full-Stack Development

React, Next.js, Vue on the frontend. Node, Python, Go, or .NET on the backend. We pick the stack that fits the problem — not the one trending on Twitter.

ReactNext.jsNode.jsPythonGoPostgreSQL
02

Design & User Experience

Interface design that is beautiful and functional. Design systems, component libraries, and interaction patterns that scale across products.

FigmaDesign SystemsPrototypingUser ResearchWCAG
03

Cloud & Infrastructure

AWS, GCP, or Azure — architected for what you actually need. CI/CD, container orchestration, and observability that makes sense.

AWSGCPDockerKubernetesTerraformDatadog
How We Work

A process that makes sense.

This is how we take something from conversation to production.

01

We listen first. Then we push back.

Most agencies nod along and say yes to everything. We do not. The first conversation is about what you are actually trying to accomplish — not what you think you need built.

02

Scope it honestly. Price it fairly.

We write scopes detailed enough to be useful and honest enough to include the unknowns. Fixed-price where scope is clear. Time-and-materials where it is not.

03

Design before we code. Always.

Every project starts with design. Wireframes, user flows, high-fidelity mockups. We get alignment before anyone writes a line of code. Changes are cheap in Figma. They are expensive in production.

04

Build in the open. Ship every week.

You get access to the repo, the project board, and staging from day one. Every Friday, there is something new to see. No waiting six weeks for a big reveal that misses the mark.

05

Hand off like adults.

Clean documentation. Runbooks for deployment. Architecture decision records. If you have an internal team, they will understand everything. If you do not, we will keep running it for you.

One more thing: We do not do the “senior dev in the sales meeting, junior dev on the project” routine. The engineers who scope your project are the ones who build it.

Technology

The tools we reach for.

Pragmatic choices, not resume-driven development.

Frontend

  • React
  • Next.js
  • Vue
  • Svelte
  • TypeScript
  • Tailwind CSS
  • Framer Motion
  • React Native

Backend

  • Node.js
  • Python
  • Go
  • .NET
  • PostgreSQL
  • MongoDB
  • Redis
  • GraphQL

Infrastructure

  • AWS
  • GCP
  • Azure
  • Docker
  • Kubernetes
  • Terraform
  • GitHub Actions
  • Vercel

AI & Data

  • OpenAI
  • LangChain
  • Vector DBs
  • FastAPI
  • Python
  • RAG
  • Fine-tuning
  • Agents
The Difference

What clients notice after working with us for a while.

Not our words. Patterns we have noticed across 40+ projects.

They ship fast and do not break things.

Speed without sloppiness is rare. We have optimized for it — CI/CD pipelines, automated testing, and code review discipline.

Communication does not require translation.

You talk to engineers directly. No account manager filtering information. Direct access. Answers in minutes, not days.

They tell us when we are wrong.

Most dev shops build exactly what you ask for, even when it is a bad idea. We push back. We bring alternatives.

They think like owners, not vendors.

We care about your business metrics, not just our lines of code. If a feature will not move the needle, we will say so.

Testimonials

What our partners say.

Not our words. From agency founders and product leads we have built for.

Ragen took our Figma files and delivered production-ready code faster than our internal team ever did. Our client thought we had doubled our engineering headcount.
Sarah Keenan
Founder & Creative Director, Portland Design Co.
We were turning away $15K/month in dev work because we could not hire fast enough. Ragen now handles all our build work. Our margins are up, and our clients have never been happier.
Marcus O'Brien
Managing Director, Voxel Digital Agency
Three years, 12 projects, zero missed deadlines. They push back when something does not make sense — which is exactly what you want from an engineering partner.
Rebecca Tan
Head of Product, FinLayer Inc.
What sold us was the trial sprint. One week in, we knew. Clean code, direct communication, no hand-holding required. They think like owners.
David Chen
CTO, Sprintly Health
Our previous dev partner needed constant babysitting. Ragen is the opposite — they ask smart questions, ship on Fridays, and the code is genuinely clean. Night and day difference.
Andrea Mitchell
EVP of Engineering, CloudPay Solutions
They told us a feature idea was bad before we spent $40K building it. Showed us three alternatives. We went with one. Saved us months. That is the kind of partner you keep.
James Whelan
CEO, Pulse Analytics

You have got a project.
We have got a team.

If you are building something ambitious and you need engineers who will treat it like their own product — we should talk.