We build software
that earns its place
in your business.
b.dev is a software development studio based in Cabo Verde. We design, build, and ship web platforms, mobile apps, and cloud infrastructure for teams who care about how the work actually feels — and embed senior engineers directly into yours when you need to move faster.
- Banco Atlântico
- Nordlys Energy
- Câmara da Praia
- Mercado Verde
- Linha Atlântica
- Universidade de Cabo Verde
- Solaris Health
- Atlas Maritime
Software we're proud to put our name on.
A short selection from the last three years. Each project shipped, held up under load, and is still maintained by the team that built it.
Atlântico Corporate — internal banking workspace for relationship managers.
Mercado Verde — same-day produce delivery app with route-aware checkout.
Nordlys Ops — an AI-native deploy & observability CLI that replaced four legacy dashboards.
Linha Atlântica — inter-island freight routing for an archipelago logistics network.
Câmara da Praia — citizen services portal serving 160k residents.
Solaris — multi-region patient data platform on AWS & Kubernetes.
Five practices, one team.
We staff every project with a small, senior team across these disciplines — no handoffs, no agency telephone.
Outsourced dev teams that ship like in-house ones.
Hire senior engineers, designers, and PMs from b.dev for 3 to 18 months — embedded into your stack, your standups, and your Slack. Cabo Verde time zone (GMT−1) overlaps the full European workday and a useful slice of the Americas. No layers, no recruiters, no surprise replacements.
- Senior-only by default — 5+ yrs average.
- Direct hire, no agency middle-layer.
- GMT−1 overlap with EU & Americas.
- 3 to 18-month engagements.
- Fluent in EN · PT · FR.
- Replace anyone within 14 days.
Web platforms & SaaS
From greenfield builds to rescuing stalled rewrites. Long-lived applications with type-safe contracts, accessible UI, and design systems we maintain alongside you.
Native & cross-platform apps
iOS and Android apps that feel native on both. Offline-first sync, push, payments, biometric auth — built once on a shared foundation, polished per platform.
AI-native products
LLM features that hold up in production: evals, guardrails, tracing. Retrieval over your own data, agents wired into real systems — not chat-on-top-of-everything.
Platform engineering
Multi-region cloud builds, kubernetes, CI/CD, observability. We leave you with infrastructure you can actually operate — not a black box only we understand.
A short, opinionated process.
We don't do six-month discovery phases. Every engagement is structured to start shipping value inside the first month.
Discover
One week. We sit with your team, read the code, talk to users, and produce a written diagnosis — what's worth building, what isn't.
Define
Two weeks. Scope, architecture, and a working prototype of the riskiest part. You leave with a plan you can take to anyone else.
Build
Two-week sprints, weekly demos, production from day one. You see what we ship the moment it ships, and you can stop us at any sprint boundary.
Operate
We don't disappear at launch. On-call rotation, monitoring, and a documented handover — or stay on as your platform team indefinitely.
A small studio inside a bigger family.
We started in 2019 with one ambition: build the software our clients couldn't find on a shelf, from Cabo Verde, for the world.
Today we're 24 engineers, designers, and product people based in Praia and Mindelo, working with teams across West Africa, Europe, and the Americas. We're small on purpose — every project gets a senior team, and the people who shape the work are the people who write the code.
Cabo Verde sits at GMT−1: a comfortable overlap with the full European workday and a useful slice of the Americas. Lusophone, Anglophone, and Francophone fluency comes standard.
b.dev rebuilt our corporate banking workspace in nine months. It's faster, our relationship managers stopped asking for the old one after two weeks, and the team genuinely understood our regulatory constraints.
Have something
worth building?
Tell us what you’re working on. We reply within two business days, usually with a few sharp questions back.