Code & Cakes Code & Cakes

Your software development agency for MVPs that ship on time

We build AI-powered web and mobile applications that scale — without the overhead of hiring a full in-house team. From first line of code to launch, you stay focused on your product while we handle the engineering.

  • Delivers production-ready MVPs in 8–12 weeks
  • 95% client retention — we stay on after launch
  • Direct access to senior engineers, not juniors
  • AI integration built in from day one

Trusted by 85+ teams, rated 4.9/5 from 62 reviews

Product dashboard showing AI-powered application interface
Trusted by teams building the future
Meridian Health Nexus Commerce Pulse Analytics Atlas Logistics Lumina Education Streamline Finance Velocity Retail Civic Systems

The numbers behind our work

95% client retention
Clients stay with us
delivers MVPs in 8–12 weeks
Average MVP time-to-market
24-hour response time
Average support response
6
Years building products
Industries We Serve

Built for teams at every stage

Startup founder with a validated idea and 6-month runway

The Mission

Turn an idea into a shippable product before the bank account runs dry

The Outcome

Launch an MVP in 8–12 weeks and get your first 100 paying customers before seed funding runs out

Enterprise buyer replacing a brittle internal tool nobody trusts

The Mission

Modernize a legacy system that costs too much to maintain and blocks every new initiative

The Outcome

Replace the old stack with a stable web app your team actually wants to use, backed by a 95% client retention record

Scale-up CTO building a product team faster than hiring allows

The Mission

Add senior engineering capacity without the overhead of full-time hires and recruiting cycles

The Outcome

Plug in a dedicated team in 2 weeks that ships features on your roadmap while you stay focused on strategy

Product manager adding AI features to an existing web or mobile app

The Mission

Integrate AI capabilities that actually work, without rebuilding the whole product from scratch

The Outcome

Ship an AI-powered feature in weeks that improves user retention and gives your product a real competitive edge

From concept to launch — real results for real companies

We partner with founders, product teams, and enterprises to ship software that works. Here's a taste of what that looks like in practice.

Digital health dashboard showing patient metrics and appointment scheduling interface
Digital Health HealthTech Startup (Series A)

Scalable Patient Platform

Challenge

The founding team had a working prototype but no path to production-grade code. Investors wanted to see a scalable platform before the next round.

Solution

We rebuilt the backend from scratch using a modular architecture, integrated HIPAA-compliant data handling, and launched a web + mobile dashboard in 10 weeks.

Outcome

Closed a $4.2M Series A round 6 weeks after launch. Platform now serves 12,000+ active patients.

Logistics operations dashboard with real-time route tracking and dispatch management view
Supply Chain & Logistics Enterprise Logistics Firm

Unified Operations Hub

Challenge

Operations ran across five disconnected tools. Dispatchers spent 3+ hours daily manually reconciling spreadsheets — and errors were costing six figures a quarter.

Solution

We unified the workflow into a single React dashboard with real-time tracking, automated alerting, and a REST API that connected to their existing TMS.

Outcome

Reconciliation time dropped from 3 hours to 20 minutes per day. First quarter after launch showed a 31% reduction in dispatch errors.

Mobile shopping app interface showing product catalog, cart, and loyalty rewards screen
E-commerce & Retail D2C Retail Brand

Mobile Conversion Engine

Challenge

The brand was losing ground to competitors with native mobile apps. Their Shopify store worked fine on desktop, but mobile conversion rates were 40% below industry average.

Solution

We built a React Native shopping app with push notifications, loyalty rewards, and a personalized feed — integrated with their existing Shopify inventory.

Outcome

Mobile conversion rate climbed 2.8x within 60 days of launch. The app hit 45,000 downloads in the first 90 days.

Fintech platform interface showing lending product workflow and compliance reporting dashboard
Financial Technology Fintech Platform

Agile Product Modernization

Challenge

A legacy Rails monolith was slowing feature delivery to a crawl. The team needed to ship a new lending product fast, but rewriting the entire stack wasn't an option.

Solution

We extracted the lending module into an independent service, added a GraphQL gateway, and shipped the new product on top of the modernized core.

Outcome

New feature cycle time dropped from 6 weeks to under 10 days. The platform passed a SOC 2 audit 3 months ahead of schedule.

EdTech learning platform showing AI-driven course recommendations and personalized progress dashboard
Education Technology EdTech Company

AI-Personalized Learning

Challenge

The team had a solid content library but no way to personalize learning paths. Users churned after the free trial because the product felt generic.

Solution

We designed and built an AI-powered recommendation engine that adapted to each learner's pace and goals, wrapped in a clean web app with progress tracking.

Outcome

Trial-to-paid conversion improved by 54%. Average session duration increased from 8 minutes to 23 minutes per user.

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How We Work Together

1

Discovery Call

We dig into your goals, constraints, and the problem you're solving. You get a clear scope and estimate within 48 hours.

2

Project Kickoff

We assemble the right team, set up your workflow, and agree on milestones. Development starts within days, not weeks.

3

Iterative Delivery

You get weekly demos, test features as they're built, and ship to real users fast. We adjust based on your feedback.

What Our Clients Say

"We had a working prototype in 10 weeks and closed our seed round two months later. Code & Cakes didn't just build what we asked for — they flagged three edge cases we'd have hit at scale and fixed them before we even noticed."
Mara Okonkwo
Mara Okonkwo
Founder & CEO, Thrive Commerce
"I was skeptical about outsourcing core infrastructure, but the team slotted in like our own engineers. They documented everything, handed off cleanly, and we've since expanded the engagement twice. That's rare."
David Reinhardt
David Reinhardt
VP of Engineering, Meridian Health Systems
"This is our fourth project with them. Every time we have a new idea, I know exactly who to call. They get our domain, they don't over-engineer, and the invoices match the scope — no surprises."
Sasha Petrov
Sasha Petrov
Product Director, Fluxwave Technologies

What We Build for You

AI Integration

Embed intelligence into your product. We connect large language models, build RAG pipelines, and ship AI features your users actually want — not just experiments that look good in demos.

What We Build for You

AI Integration

Embed intelligence into your product. We connect large language models, build RAG pipelines, and ship AI features your users actually want — not just experiments that look good in demos.

Ready to build something great?

Book a free discovery call. We'll talk scope, timeline, and budget — no commitment required.

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Questions we hear before every project kickoff

Our typical engagement starts at $15,000. For that investment, you get a dedicated squad — two engineers, a designer, and a PM — shipping a functional MVP in 8–12 weeks. Smaller experiments and audits start lower; enterprise builds go up from there.
Most teams are writing code within five business days of signing. The first week is a mix of architecture review and sprint planning — no fluff, just setup. If you need a NDA signed before sharing details, we route that on the same call.
Yes — about 40% of our work is pre-revenue teams. We know tight budgets and shifting specs come with the territory. We structure fixed-price milestones for early stages so you know what you're getting before you spend what you don't have.
You can add engineers, designers, or specialists at the start of any sprint. We keep a bench of vetted devs so scaling doesn't mean a two-week sourcing delay. 95% of our clients scale up at least once — it's normal, not a problem.
Our engineers have shipped production AI features across NLP, computer vision, and LLM orchestration. We handle prompt engineering, model selection, and the surrounding pipeline — you get a working feature, not a proof-of-concept you have to babysit.
Every project gets at minimum a lead engineer, a supporting developer, and a project manager. MVPs add a designer. Larger builds add QA, DevOps, and domain specialists as needed. You meet everyone before they touch your codebase.
Fixed-price for defined scopes, time-and-materials for evolving builds, and dedicated team extensions where our devs join your existing workflow. Most clients start fixed and shift to T&M once the product finds its legs.
We pause, reassess, and re-estimate — then you decide whether to continue, pivot, or cut. No scope creep surprises on the invoice. Our 24-hour response time applies to change requests too, so you're not waiting days to know what a new feature costs.