# Build & Run. Quietly.

> Option Q is a Portuguese software house based in Porto, Portugal, with two practices — Platform & SRE, and Product & Software Development — serving teams in the EU, UK and US.

Innovation, entrepreneurship, and products that are easy to use, affordable, and sustainable over time — applied to your platform, your product, your team.

Option Q is a software house. We do two things: Platform & SRE, and Product & Software.

**Talk to us:** https://optionq.pt/work-with-us/ · Portugal · EU, UK & US

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## Platform, SRE & DevOps-as-a-Service

The boring parts of running software, done right, so your team can focus on the product.

- **Cloud architecture & migrations** — on-prem ↔ cloud, cloud ↔ cloud, wherever the workload needs to live.
- **CI/CD & IaC** — pipelines that test, ship, and roll back without a hero on call.
- **Observability from scratch** — metrics, logs, and traces wired together so the team sees what's actually happening.
- **Infrastructure with restraint** — as much infrastructure as the problem deserves — no more, no less.
- **Security & compliance** — the patient, unglamorous work that makes "compliant" a fact, not a promise.
- **Agentic ops** — AI-assisted incident response, LLM cost and latency observability, policy-as-code with AI review.

> **Build & run, without disruption.** We plan, execute, optimise — and stay green on the dashboards.

[Start an ops conversation →](https://optionq.pt/work-with-us/?topic=ops)

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## Product & Software Development

Senior teams that embed with you and ship. Define → Design → Build → Launch → Iterate. Local scope, world-class execution.

### Five phases. Weekly demos. No surprises.

1. **Define** — we sharpen the value proposition with you. Use cases, customer journey, technical architecture, scope you can actually ship.
2. **Design** — high-fidelity UI built on modular components, so the product survives the next ten features.
3. **Build** — full stack, polyglot. We pick the stack the problem calls for, not the one closest to hand. AI woven in where it earns its place.
4. **Launch** — bug bashes, load tests, security review, real-time monitoring, an operational playbook your team can actually use on day one.
5. **Iterate** — feedback loop, fast-follow features, signal over vanity metrics.

### AI-native, by default.

Prompt engineering, context engineering, evals over vibes, agentic workflows, RAG done seriously, and humans in the loop where it matters. We know where LLMs break — and we tell you before you ship.

> **Care · Focus · Transparency.** We treat your product like it's ours, because while we work together, it is.

[Start a product conversation →](https://optionq.pt/work-with-us/?topic=dev)

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## Specific, not synergistic.

- **Senior by default.** — Staff and Principal-level engineering on every engagement. No junior-heavy pyramids.
- **Based in Porto, Portugal. EU, UK and US reach.** — Portugal time zone, comfortable across the rest.
- **Specific, not synergistic.** — We name the tools, the trade-offs, and the timeline.
- **Sustainable software.** — Code your team can still read in two years. Infra your CFO can still afford.
- **AI-fluent, not AI-drunk.** — We use models where they pay for themselves and refuse where they don't.

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## Teams that take software seriously.

We work with companies that need a team for the product, the platform, or both. SaaS, fintech, e-commerce, regulated industries — and the quieter domains nobody puts on a pitch deck. Founders shipping their first MVP. Teams rescuing brownfield. Operators outgrowing their setup: cloud or on-prem.

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## A 30-minute call. Free. No slide deck.

[Start the conversation →](https://optionq.pt/work-with-us/) — or email **hello at optionq dot pt** (anti-spam, no @-form).

Option Q · Porto · Portugal