Initializing Redox Engine

Reduction ◆ Oxidation

Ridox Studio — a software engineering agency building web, mobile, cloud and AI systems

Software systems engineered at the reaction point. We build where opposing forces meet — frontend and backend, speed and stability, design energy and engineering depth.

Established
2022
Capabilities
06
Products
03
Engagements
03

Client work

Work we can talk through line by line

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Commissioned builds and advisory work. Fewer engagements than a big agency lists, each one we can talk through line by line.

Client work
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Netcart — One marketplace, four audiences, built end to end
Client work2026In development

Netcart

One marketplace, four audiences, built end to end

Customers ordering, stores selling, couriers delivering and admins running the whole thing — each with their own surface, over a single API. Built from an empty repository to a system that handles catalogue, orders, payments, earnings and payouts.

  • Flutter
  • Next.js 16
  • React 19
  • TypeScript
  • Express 5
  • +3
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Studio products

Products we build and run ourselves

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We are a product studio that takes client work. These are ours — shipped, maintained, and the reason we know what we are selling.

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Cilbup — Anonymous messaging and tipping for creators
Studio product2026Live

Cilbup

Anonymous messaging and tipping for creators

Cilbup — "public" reversed — lets anyone send a creator an anonymous message, and attach a tip to get priority attention. Fans pay with crypto or fiat; creators earn in USD, on a platform that installs to a phone without an app store.

  • Next.js
  • React 19
  • TypeScript
  • PWA
  • Prisma
  • +3
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RISMS — School management where the school keeps its own money
Studio product2026In development

RISMS

School management where the school keeps its own money

Academics, staff, students, timetabling and fees for African institutions, split across four persona surfaces so no screen serves two audiences at once. Fees are collected on each school's own payment credentials — the platform records the money without ever holding it.

  • Laravel 11
  • PHP 8.3
  • Vue 3
  • Inertia v2
  • Tailwind 4
  • +1
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Resurgee — An AI layer over the task manager you already use
Studio product2026In development

Resurgee

An AI layer over the task manager you already use

Resurgee augments Google Tasks and Calendar rather than replacing them. It watches for tasks about to slip, suggests rescheduling options when they do, and plans your day through a conversational assistant — across multiple linked Google accounts.

  • Next.js
  • FastAPI
  • Python 3.12
  • PostgreSQL
  • Celery
  • +2
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Capabilities

Six surfaces, one system

We do not sell isolated deliverables. Every capability below exists because the others need it.

Capabilities
01

Web Applications & Platforms

Product surfaces that stay fast as they grow — rendered on the server, typed end to end, and instrumented from day one.

  • Next.js & React architecture
  • Design systems and component libraries
  • Performance and Core Web Vitals work
  • Legacy platform migration
02

Mobile Systems

Apps built for the conditions your users actually have: patchy signal, old devices, and a thumb instead of a cursor.

  • React Native & native modules
  • Offline-first sync and conflict resolution
  • App Store and Play release pipelines
  • Push, deep links, and lifecycle plumbing
03

Cloud Infrastructure & DevOps

Infrastructure you can read. Declared in code, reproducible per environment, and boring in exactly the ways it should be.

  • Terraform and infrastructure as code
  • CI/CD pipelines and preview environments
  • Observability, alerting, and on-call design
  • Cost and capacity review
04

AI & Data Systems

Model-backed features with the unglamorous parts handled: evaluation, guardrails, cost control, and a fallback when it fails.

  • Retrieval pipelines and vector search
  • LLM feature design and evaluation harnesses
  • Data warehousing and analytics
  • Streaming and event-driven pipelines
05

Technical Consulting

Sometimes the deliverable is a decision. We audit, map the tradeoffs, and hand your team a plan they can execute without us.

  • Architecture and codebase audits
  • Technical due diligence
  • Team structure and delivery process
  • Fractional technical leadership
06

Technical Enablement & Coaching

AI will get you most of the way to a working product. We do the part that breaks in production — and leave your team able to do it themselves next time.

  • Getting AI-built projects production-ready
  • Email deliverability, domains and DNS
  • Deployment, environments and CI setup
  • Pair sessions and code review for founders and small teams

The process

How an engagement actually runs

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Four phases, each with a written artefact you keep whether or not we continue.

  1. 01

    Discovery

    We start by understanding where you are and what you are trying to reach.

    Whether you have a live product, a prototype, or just an idea written down, the first work is the same: we map the goal, the users, the constraints, and the current state — through interviews and a read of whatever already exists. You leave with a written analysis and a recommended path, whether or not we build it together.

  2. 02

    Architecture & Planning

    The plan, written down — with the trade-off behind every decision.

    System design, data model, scope, and milestones as reviewable documents. You approve the shape and the sequence before engineering starts, and the decision records travel with the codebase so nothing is built from an assumption nobody wrote down.

  3. 03

    Build & Iterate

    Two-week iterations, with a working preview from the first week.

    You get a live preview environment early and a demo every two weeks. Tests, CI, and monitoring are part of the definition of done, not a hardening phase promised for later. We release to production when a milestone is genuinely ready — the two weeks are a rhythm for feedback, not a countdown to launch.

  4. 04

    Launch & Handover

    We hand over a system your team can run without us.

    Runbooks, architecture walkthroughs, and paired on-call until your engineers are comfortable operating it. The engagement ends when the system is stable in your hands — that is the equilibrium we are aiming for.

The blog

Decisions, not adjectives

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What we found in the code, and the reasoning behind the calls we made.

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Tell us what you are building and what is currently in the way. We reply to every enquiry within two working days — with a real answer, not a calendar link.