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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 → · 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.
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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.
- Define — we sharpen the value proposition with you. Use cases, customer journey, technical architecture, scope you can actually ship.
- Design — high-fidelity UI built on modular components, so the product survives the next ten features.
- 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.
- Launch — bug bashes, load tests, security review, real-time monitoring, an operational playbook your team can actually use on day one.
- 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.
why option q
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.
who we work with
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.
let's talk
A 30-minute call. Free. No slide deck.
Option Q · Porto · Portugal