How we work
BRKS Labs is a software engineering studio registered in Kyiv in 2025, working with clients across the EU and Ukraine.
Five stages, one decision after each.
01 · wk 0–2DiscoveryUnderstand the problem and the non-negotiables. We challenge the brief before we build anything.You decide: is this worth building?
02 · wk 1–4ArchitectureReference architecture, tech choices and a risk map, reviewed with your team.You review it before code starts
03 · wk 3–4EstimationMilestone scope and budget with explicit trade-offs.You pick what ships first
04 · wk 4–10BuildWeekly demos and production-quality code from day one.You see working software every week
05 · ongoingOperateHandover with playbooks and monitoring, or we keep running it.You run it, or we do
Ways to work together.
Builds run as fixed-scope milestones with no per-hour pricing. Advisory and team extension run on time and materials.
Full-cycle developmentFixed scope · milestones
From napkin sketch to production traffic.A dedicated squad, milestone delivery, handover with source, docs and runbooks.Technical consultancyTime and materials
A second opinion that actually reads the code.Code and architecture review, investor-side due diligence, vendor audits.Team extensionTime and materials
Engineers who join your team.One or two engineers embedded in your team, EU time zone, English-first, exit-ready docs.R&D partnershipsProject-based
Research-grade work, shipped.Prototype to production, academic consortia, co-publication, open source by default.Questions we get on the first call.
Discovery and architecture usually take 2–4 weeks. The first production milestone lands 6–10 weeks after that.