Software that fits the work.

Mr. Jackdaw Company is a product company that finds the workflows professionals have stopped noticing, and builds software that fits them properly.

Fit, in practice, means software shaped to a workflow that has been adapted to rather than redesigned. The friction has become invisible to the people inside it.

Two product lines run under the company: native iOS apps, and research tools for the web.

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Raphael founded Mr. Jackdaw Company in 2022. His background is in early-stage startups, where the engineering team is small, the problem space is moving, and shipping matters.

He works alongside the people whose workflows the company builds for. Sometimes a user of the software he ships, sometimes an observer of friction those inside it have stopped noticing.

He makes architectural decisions he can defend, writes code meant to be read by someone else, and cares whether the thing actually works in production, not just in the demo.

Consulting engagements go to technical founders and small teams who know what they're building and need someone to help them build it. Not someone to tell them what to build.

Three engagement types: greenfield builds, production hardening, and fractional engineering.

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