Variant Systems

We're the engineering team you'd build if you had six months and a perfect network.

Product engineering for founders who'd rather ship than hire.

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The gap

You know what you need. Senior engineers who get product. People who can own things end-to-end. A team that thinks like founders, not employees.

But hiring is a slog. Good people are hard to find, harder to close, and take months to ramp. Agencies bill hours and don't care about outcomes. You end up managing instead of building.

We're the shortcut.

What we do

Take over & fix

You have traction, but technical debt is slowing you down. We stabilize the platform so you can scale without rewriting.

Build from scratch

You know what needs to exist. We own the engineering — architecture to deployment — while you focus on the business.

Own a piece

You have a team but need senior firepower on a specific module. We take full ownership and deliver.

How we work

We're not contractors. We're not outsourced labor. We're your engineering team — just without the six months of hiring.

We work directly with founders. We own outcomes, not tickets. We make technical calls with your business in mind.

When something breaks at 2am, it's our problem.

Why us

10+ years in the chair

We've built products, owned products, shipped products. We've been the first engineer and the last line of defense.

Founders ourselves

We're building too. We know what it means to ship with constraints, make tradeoffs, and care about the outcome.

Prove it, don't pitch it

We'd rather show you what we can do than talk about it.

Work

Let's talk

Tell us what you're building and where you're stuck. No decks, no sales process — just a conversation to see if we're the right fit.

If we're not the right team for your stage, we'll introduce you to someone who is.