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Five people.
No account managers.
The person who scopes your system builds it, and answers when it breaks.
Formed by engineers
who kept meeting on the same projects.
FIVEX was formed in [YYYY] in [City], after four engineers kept being assigned to the same systems from different companies — one on the firmware, one on the network, one on the data pipeline, one on the application. Every project lost weeks at the boundaries between them.
We built the studio to remove those boundaries. Today we are four engineers and one designer, and we take work that spans at least two layers of a system: a device that has to report to a dashboard, a network that has to carry a model’s output, an application that has to survive an audit.
Why five works
How a five-person studio
is different from an agency.
Decisions take hours, not weeks
The people who scope the work also build it.
No account layer sits between the question and the answer.
No juniors on production
Everyone on the payroll is senior and billable.
You are not funding someone else’s training.
One team across four disciplines
The firmware engineer and the interface designer sit in the same room.
Boundaries between layers are designed, not negotiated.
A named engineer stays after launch
Support is a person with your system in their head.
Not a ticket queue and not a rotating on-call roster.
The team
Five people carry
every layer of the work.
Four engineers and one designer. No contractors on production code.
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The chips say which areas a person currently carries, not what they are — so the same area appears on several cards.
How the work is divided
Five people, and exactly
who carries what.
- AI & Data
- Pipelines, forecasting and anomaly models, and the dashboards that report them.
- [N] people
- Network & Security
- Segmentation, firewall and VPN policy, hardening reviews and documentation.
- [N] people
- Embedded Systems
- Boards, firmware and field telemetry over MQTT and Modbus.
- [N] people
- Software Engineering
- Services, APIs, web and mobile applications, and the CI that ships them.
- [N] people
- UI/UX Design
- Flows, prototypes and the component library the code is built from.
- [N] people
- Certifications
- [Certification, if any]
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How we work with clients
Three shapes of engagement.
Pick the one that fits the risk.
Fixed-scope project
Best when the system is defined and the date is fixed.
- Scope document and estimate before any contract
- Two-week iterations, a demo at the end of each
- Fixed price per phase, re-estimated only if scope moves
Dedicated team
Best when the roadmap is longer than the specification.
- Two to four of us allocated by the month
- Your backlog, our sequencing
- Notice period of [N] weeks either way
Support retainer
Best after launch, when someone has to stay accountable.
- A named engineer, not a queue
- Response window agreed in writing
- Monthly hours that roll over once
- 5People
- 4Engineering disciplines
- 7Projects delivered
- 2026Building together since
Talk to the people who will build it.
Send the constraints and the deadline. An engineer takes the call, not a salesperson.