We design, build and run the custom system a company runs on, from the shop counter to the trading desk. A fixed quote within a week, built in milestones, and the code is yours from the first commit.
Fixed quote within a week Milestone billing Your repo from day one
selected work
A live trading app, a store's whole operation, and the infrastructure behind our own GPU rigs. Designed, built and run by the studio.
Launch a coin on HyperEVM with its own rules, then trade every chain's markets from one screen. One tap buys; the safety checks run behind the tap, not in front of it.
Public figures from signal.family's own ledger, 24 Oct 2026.
A family-owned building-supply store in Toronto replaced Lightspeed with one system built around how the store actually runs, from the counter to the warehouse to the website. Built and run by the studio.
A local-first autopricer for GPU hosts on Vast.ai. It prices each rig from its own rental history, and the API key never leaves the machine.
Replaced Cloud autopricers that hold a key to your listings
We run our own GPU hosting operation: multi-GPU rigs rented out by the hour, with the monitoring, thermal guards and pricing written in-house.
the case
A company moving serious money every month doesn't patch its accounting together with plug-ins and AI scripts to save a few hundred dollars, and it shouldn't rent a system built for everyone else. It pays someone to build it right, and then it owns it.
what we build
One team designs it, builds it and runs it, so nothing is lost between an agency, a contractor and an ops vendor.
The screens your customers open first. Sign-in, payments, notifications and accounts, fast on every device.
Marketplaces and multi-sided products: roles, payouts, search and the rules of your market, written in code.
Operations desks and back offices built around how your team works, wired to the tools you keep.
Trading terminals, launchpads, indexers and keepers. Contracts with full test suites, servers that run around the clock.
who you'll work with
Every engagement is led by the founder of Arete Zero, from the first call to handover. The studio that built Signal and the store's system builds yours. Nothing is passed to a junior team after the contract is signed.
Founder, Arete Zero
how it works
Four steps, the same every time. You always know what is being built, what it costs and when it goes live.
Tell us what your company runs on today and where it hurts. You will hear on the call whether we are the right team for it.
engagement
No price list and no hourly meter. Within a week of the first call you get a written scope and one fixed price, and you pay as working software lands.
Thirty minutes with the founder on the work, the people and the systems involved.
A written scope, one price and a launch date. Yours to keep, whatever you decide.
Working software every week. You pay as agreed milestones land, never a lump sum up front.
What protects you
questions
Every project gets a fixed quote within a week of the first call, based on a written scope. No hourly meter, and a change is priced before it is built.
For a side project, you should. Software a company runs on, with customers and money moving through it, has to be tested, secured, monitored and documented, and someone has to answer when it breaks. That is the job we do.
You do, from day one. The code lives in your own repository from the first commit, on infrastructure in your name. No licence fees and no lock-in.
The build is the fixed price from the quote, billed in milestones as working software lands. A change is priced before it is built.
Weeks, not quarters. You see working software early, and the launch date is written into the quote.
Yes. Most builds connect to tools a company keeps: accounting, payments, email, data warehouses, blockchains. We build around what works and replace what doesn't.
We stay on call through the first weeks of real use. After that you can keep us on a monthly retainer to run and extend the system, hire your own team, or both.
Yes. We work with companies anywhere in the world, in English, with calls in your time zone.
book a call
Tell us what your company runs on today. On the call you will hear whether we are the right team, and within a week you get a fixed quote.