Built by people who've built and shipped.
We started Irishvar because we kept watching founders pay agency rates for junior work, or wait six months for a senior hire who'd cost their entire seed round. Senior engineering, priced honestly, accountable to outcomes — that's the company we wanted to exist.
Why we started Irishvar.
Three short paragraphs that explain the gap we saw, the company we wanted to build, and the bets we made on day one.
Founders now have to ship faster than ever — and make stronger technology decisions than ever — at the same time. Customers expect prototype-fast iteration. Investors expect production-grade architecture. Traditional engineering processes can't deliver both. AI-era founders need a partner who can.
We wanted a firm that ran AI-driven discovery and prototyping with senior architects in the room. From a 1-day discovery call to a 1-month working prototype to a 100-day production MVP — built on architecture that survives series A. One named lead per account, end-to-end. So we built it.
We bet that AI-era engineering needs more senior judgment, not less. We bet that founders who self-select for cash-plus-equity arrangements tend to be the ones who win. We bet that “one accountable lead” outperforms any feature list. Three years in we'll know how those bets turned out — and we'll write about it honestly either way.
Five things that shape how we work.
We try not to write a manifesto. These are the working beliefs that show up in every engagement — the ones we'd defend on a Tuesday afternoon, not just on a website.
AI does the prototyping. Seniors do the architecture.
We use AI to compress engineering cycles — prototype in days, not months. Every architectural decision still goes through a senior architect. Speed without senior judgment is just expensive failure.
The architects are the ones who show up.
Senior people doing senior work. We don't sell senior architects and staff with juniors. The decisions that shape your product for years deserve the people who've made them before.
Boring is reliable. We pick boring where reliability matters.
The stack, the auth, the payments, the observability — boring on purpose. We save the inventive choices for where they actually matter to your customers.
One person with the calendar — and the accountability.
One named lead per account. One person on the hook, with the context and the calendar. No vendor-management games. No diffuse accountability. If something's off, you know who to call.
Price on cost. Align through equity.
We charge what it costs us, plus a small margin. We trade rate for equity when founders want skin in the game. The market price is theatre — we'd rather be paid honestly and share the upside.
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