Build with Postgres.
The default database for any product we'd put our name on.
Most teams asking about Postgres have already decided it's the right tool — they're trying to figure out who can actually ship it. We build with Postgres every week, on real production systems, and we treat it as part of a stack, not a religion. The default database for any product we'd put our name on.
That means we won't talk you into Postgres for a project that doesn't need it. If the work is better served by MongoDB, we'll say so in the scoping call and quote that instead. The goal is software that earns its keep — the stack is downstream of that.
When Postgres IS the right call, we pair it with the rest of a modern, boring, productive stack: Supabase, Drizzle, Prisma, pgvector. Fixed scope. Working software every Friday. Live in 8–14 weeks. You own the code and the roadmap from day one.
- Fixed scope and fixed price after week 1
- Working demo every Friday
- Live in 8–14 weeks
- You own code, data, and infrastructure
- 60 days of post-launch support included
- Relational integrity, JSON columns, full-text search, and vector search in one database — fewer moving parts.
- Row-level security pushes auth into the database, where it can't be bypassed by a buggy API.
- Transactions and constraints catch the data corruption that NoSQL stores quietly accept.
- Hosted everywhere — Supabase, Neon, RDS, Cloud SQL, self-hosted — no lock-in.
- Multi-tenant SaaS with row-level security per workspace
- Products that need both relational and document data
- Apps with vector search via pgvector
What Postgres pairs with in our builds.
Everything in the build.
- A production Postgres application built to your spec — not a configured template
- Typed, tested code your team can extend without us
- CI/CD pipeline, staging + production environments, and observability wired in
- Role-based access, auth, and the integrations your product needs on day one
- Mobile-ready UI for the surfaces that need it
- Migration from any existing system or codebase you're replacing
- Full source code, infrastructure config, and admin handoff
- 60 days of post-launch support, tuning, and minor enhancements
Postgres isn't always the right call.
Use MongoDB instead
Your data really is schemaless and you've thought hard about why.
Use SQLite + Turso/LiteFS instead
Read-heavy app where data fits on one disk and you want edge replication.
"How do we know you're actually good at Postgres?"+
Discovery and strategy is always free — we run a fixed-price scoping session that ends with a written scope, wireframes, and a quote whether or not you move forward. If you want references from Postgres projects specifically, ask in the call and we'll send them.
"What if Postgres is the wrong choice for our product?"+
Then we'll say so. We're a build shop, not a Postgres consultancy — picking the wrong tool for a 14-week build is bad for everyone. For your data really is schemaless and you've thought hard about why, we'd suggest MongoDB instead.
"Will we get locked into your code patterns?"+
No. We write Postgres the way the wider community writes Postgres — boring, conventional, well-documented. Any senior Postgres engineer should be able to read the codebase in a day and ship a feature in a week.
Postgres or a NoSQL store?+
Postgres, almost always. JSONB columns cover the schemaless cases without giving up transactions, joins, or constraints.
What ORM do you use?+
Drizzle for new TypeScript projects — typed SQL with zero magic. Prisma when the team wants more abstraction. Raw SQL where the query matters.
Ready to build with Postgres?
Discovery is fixed-price and yours to keep either way — written scope, wireframes, and a fixed quote.
Book a Scoping Call