About

A small studio, built deliberately.

We work with a small number of clients at a time, and we build things we're willing to be accountable for afterwards.

Principles

How we decide things.

Ship it or say why

A system that isn't live isn't finished. If something is blocked you hear the reason the week it happens, rather than at the end framed as a surprise.

Boring technology, interesting problems

The novelty should be what you're solving, not the stack we picked to solve it with. Well-supported tools mean the next person can pick it up.

Own your systems

We build things you can take elsewhere. A client who stays because leaving is painful isn't really a client.

Say the hard thing early

If the scope is wrong or the budget doesn't match the ambition, you hear it on the first call rather than in week five when it's expensive.

Hanzla Nouman, founder and principal engineer at Qubistan

The founder

Hanzla Nouman

Founder & Principal Engineer

Full-stack engineer working across web applications, internal systems, and AI integration. Hanzla leads every engagement end to end - the first call, the architecture, and the code that ships.

The work that keeps showing up is the same shape: a business that outgrew its tools, a founder who became the bottleneck, and a pile of software that almost solves the problem.

Working with us

What the arrangement looks like.

A small client roster

A limited number of engagements at a time. It's the only way the person who scoped your project is also the person who builds it.

Fixed quotes, written scope

You approve a number and a milestone schedule before anything is built. Changes get re-quoted openly.

Direct communication

You message the person doing the work and get an answer from the person doing the work.

Have something that needs building?

Tell us what's not working. If we can help, we'll say how.