craftable software

Engineering teams that work as one unit

craftable software is a boutique software house in Portugal with offices in Porto and Aveiro. It builds software for clients in Europe and America, mainly as nearshore work, and describes its teams as fully dedicated to each project. Its website explains its own team word, tanteidan, as meaning detective team, and the firm's approach is meant to look like an investigation in which a problem is unfolded, tested and solved together with the client.

How an engagement starts

The firm's process has four steps. It begins by meeting the challenge, which it treats as the interesting part of the work, and by insisting on regular, open communication with the partner. Next it starts small and scales as needed, building a core development team that can grow. Its specialists include software engineers, quality assurance staff, product owners, DevOps and cybersecurity experts. The third step is to bring in deep technical expertise and assign the most suitable team to the project, with support around it. The last step is to cut development costs and manage resources well by choosing the right solution from the outset.

AI built into the engineering process

The company says AI is part of how it designs, builds, tests and ships software rather than an add-on. Its engineers use AI agents for code review, for generating test suites and for pair programming with senior staff. Beyond tooling, it builds AI systems, covering agent designs, document retrieval pipelines, the connection of machine learning models and data engineering that runs from ingestion to analysis. Its cloud-native work covers DevSecOps pipelines and APIs across .NET, Java, Node.js, React and mobile platforms.

Design, product and modernisation

Beyond engineering, craftable software offers discovery sprints, user research, interface design and design systems. It says it uses AI-assisted research synthesis to shorten the early stages of a project. Its product management service covers roadmaps, prioritisation and accessibility from the start. It also takes on modernising legacy systems, shifting older platforms onto modern cloud architecture. One case study on its site describes a payment platform moved to a cloud-native design, which the firm reports cut deployment time by 60 per cent with a zero-downtime migration.

Sectors and delivery models

The firm names healthcare, fintech, retail and travel technology, and energy as the areas where it works. Clients can take a fixed-scope team, a nearshore partnership in which craftable runs delivery, or senior engineers and delivery leads who sit inside the client's own team. Its own website, which the company says was built with agentic AI workflows, is presented as an example of the same approach. Quality is handled through peer review, automated quality gates and a stated principle of human oversight at each stage.