Agentic development through Pancake Studio

Your product.
Built with agents.
Led by an engineer.

Ongoing development. A fixed monthly fee. A team on your project.

Your project, in view.

Explore the client workspace. Design preview with example project data.
Pancake Studio client overview with project progress, work in progress, and items awaiting approval.

Swipe for approvals and current work

Know where your project stands.

See progress, current work, and the decisions that need your input in one place.

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Client scope board showing proposed work and its progress through development and acceptance.

Agree on what happens next.

Follow each piece of work from proposed scope through implementation, review, and acceptance.

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Client specifications screen with project documents, notes, and document upload controls.

Keep the brief close to the work.

Give requirements, reference documents, and notes a shared home alongside your project.

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Client quality assurance screen showing verification scenarios and their results.

Swipe for more results

See what has been checked.

Review test scenarios, findings, and the evidence behind a delivery decision.

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Client environments screen showing deployment versions and environment status.

See where your software is running.

Keep track of preview and production environments, releases, and their status.

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Client activity log with a chronological record of project decisions and changes.

Follow the decisions behind the progress.

Look back through approvals, changes, and delivery milestones in the project history.

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Active development. Ongoing care.

Two ways to work with Pancake Studio, as your project needs change.

Keep your product moving with ongoing development for a fixed monthly fee. One engineering lead and one account manager are assigned to your project: your lead directs the engineering and reviews the work; your account manager keeps priorities, communication, and planning clear.

Pancake Studio gives the work a shared home for scope, decisions, progress, and review. When your project no longer needs active development, move it into maintenance so the software continues to receive attention.

01 / Active development

Keep your product moving.

Ongoing feature development and improvements through Studio, for a fixed monthly fee. We agree on priorities with you, put coding agents to work, and review and test the results before release.

An assigned engineering lead and account manager
A shared backlog, with priorities agreed together
Implementation, review, testing, and releases
Explore active development
02 / Maintenance

Keep it in good shape.

When active development winds down, switch to maintenance at a lower monthly fee. Submit bugs for us to fix while we keep dependencies current and regularly scan the codebase for defects.

Client-reported bugs investigated and fixed
Dependency updates
Regular codebase scans for defects
Explore maintenance

We agree on the monthly fee and engagement details with you before starting. The Studio portal is in development.

Discuss your project

From the first conversation to ongoing work.

Agree on the engagement, set priorities, and keep the work moving.
Step 01

Tell us the goal.

What should the software do, who is it for, and what is getting in the way? Bring an idea, an existing product, or a problem worth solving.

An initial conversation
Step 02

Set up the engagement.

We agree on a fixed monthly fee and initial priorities, and assign your engineering lead and account manager before work begins.

Your fee, team, and starting priorities
Step 03

Follow the work.

Your engineering lead directs the agents and reviews the results. Your account manager keeps you informed and coordinates priorities as the work progresses.

Development and review
Step 04

Develop. Then maintain.

Continue active development while there is more to make. When the project is ready for ongoing care, move to maintenance for bug fixes, dependency updates, and regular defect scans.

The right mode for your project

A recent engagement.

From our client work. Name withheld at the client’s request.
Redacted project · evidence snapshot
$ find frontend/ admin-panel/ -iname "*.tsx" | xargs cat | wc -l
    78980
$ find crates/ -iname "*.rs" | xargs cat | wc -l
   377899
$ git log --reverse --format="%ai" | head -1
2026-02-13 18:24:49 +0100  # first commit
$ date
  Sat Apr 25 22:40:10 CEST 2026
~456k
lines, total
~10
weeks since first commit
1
engineer · agentic
We bet on Banana Pancakes’ agentic development approach and got the work of five engineers in the first month — with the judgment to tell us when we were wrong. Startup speed, senior taste, zero hand-holding. Hire them before someone else does.
Client founder Client engagement · 2026

Software we own and run.

Six products of our own. We live with the software decisions we make.
/ 01 · AI interrogation game Live · App Store

Perdify

An AI interrogation mystery for iOS. Six suspects think, remember, and lie on their own. Question them by voice or text and find the killer before the room turns on you.

Swift · Rails · Postgres
/ 02 · Zero-knowledge Git hosting Beta · hushgit.com

HushGit

Zero-knowledge Git hosting. The client encrypts code before push and decrypts it after pull; the server stores ciphertext. HushGit staff cannot read repository contents, and a server breach exposes ciphertext rather than plaintext.

hushgit.com Rust · TypeScript
/ 03 · iOS puzzle game Live · App Store

Polarix

An iOS merge puzzle. Opposite charges fuse, while matching cores merge until they annihilate. Slide cores and set up chain reactions.

playpolarix.com Swift · SwiftUI
/ 04 · B2C call-center CRM Live · Sales-led

HOCR

A B2C CRM for call centers, combining a sales pipeline, e-sign agreements, Twilio Flex routing, a branded customer portal, and AI-driven call QA. HOCR can go live in days.

hocr.app Rails · Rust · Twilio Flex
/ 05 · Encrypted task manager Live · sealtask.com

SealTask

Zero-knowledge, end-to-end encrypted task management for teams. The browser encrypts tasks, comments, delegations, attachments, and notes before upload.

sealtask.com Rust · TypeScript
/ 06 · Privacy-first period tracker Live · App Store

PrivaCycle

Menstrual cycle tracking for iOS. Cycle data, symptoms, and notes stay on the device by default, encrypted with AES-256-GCM. PrivaCycle has no developer-operated server. Encrypted iCloud sync, decoy mode, and a panic-erase code are available.

App Store Swift · SwiftUI · CryptoKit

Behind Pancake Studio

Shared foundations. Better work.

Our engineering experience shapes how we direct agents, review their work, and decide what is ready to ship. These tools and skills make that practice repeatable across projects.

01 / Working environment

jig-sh

Gives agents the context, commands, and checks they need to work reliably in every project.

Explore jig-sh
02 / Engineering practice

jig-skills

Our engineering practice, written for agents. Focused skills guide planning, code review, refactoring, and privacy checks, with clear standards for the evidence behind each result.

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03 / Shared foundation

batter

The foundation for our Rust backends, designed from the start with developers and coding agents in mind.

Explore batter
04 / Coordination

epicd

Designed to guide agents through implementation, review, and verification, with people setting direction.

Explore epicd
Explore all our engineering tools

I’ve led software teams for twenty years. Agents changed who types the code, not who chooses the design, sets the checks, and rejects bad work. Shipping is faster; responsibility still sits with the engineer.

On engineering with coding agents Jiří Zajpt Managing director & principal engineer, since 2016
2016
founded · 24 May · Prague
~20
years writing software
8
open-source tools

Working with us

A few practical questions.

What does the monthly fee cover?

Active development covers the agreed feature work and improvements, engineering direction, project coordination, implementation, review, testing, and releases. Maintenance covers bug fixes, dependency updates, and regular codebase scans for defects. We agree the scope and fixed monthly fee with you before starting.

What do the engineering lead and account manager do?

During active development, your engineering lead directs the technical work, guides coding agents, and reviews the results. Your account manager coordinates priorities, planning, and communication. You set the business goals and help decide what matters next.

Can you work on existing software?

Yes. We can develop an existing product as well as start a new one. We first review its current state, how it is tested and released, and what you want to change. That gives us a basis for agreeing the starting priorities and engagement.

How are requests prioritized?

We agree priorities with you in a shared backlog, considering business value, impact on users, technical risk, and dependencies between tasks. Your engineering lead explains the trade-offs; your account manager keeps the agreed order clear as needs change.

What happens when active development ends?

When your project no longer needs ongoing feature work, it can move to maintenance at a lower fixed monthly fee. We agree the transition and care priorities with you. If substantial new work comes up later, we can discuss a return to active development.

How are bugs handled in maintenance?

You submit a report describing what happened, what you expected, and who is affected. We investigate, prioritize the issue by its impact and risk, implement a fix, and test it before release. Dependency updates and regular defect scans also help identify work beyond reported bugs.

Start a conversation

What would you like to make?

Tell us about your project and whether you need active development or maintenance. A short outline is enough. We’ll discuss the work, the monthly fee, and how to get started. Czech or English is welcome.

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