Four arrangements, depending on where you are. In each case the work begins the same way, by understanding one business well enough to say what it actually needs.
The core engagement
We research your operation and the options open to it, then give you a written recommendation: what to do, what it should cost, and what each path rules out. If you go further, the architecture specifies the whole system in enough detail for any competent team to build it, including screens, permissions, integrations and acceptance criteria.
A standing arrangement
A standing arrangement for the technical decisions that keep arriving. Where there is no CTO, we cover the function: vendor calls, sense-checks, and a quarterly review of whether your stack still fits the business. Where there is one, we take on the research, tool evaluations and prototypes they do not have time to reach.
Independent review
When a third party is building, we stay on the vendor calls and check what is delivered against what was agreed. We translate technical progress into what it means for your operation, so that problems surface during the build rather than at the end of it.
If you want it built
If you want the system built, Vargio Labs builds it. The build is quoted as its own engagement, and the architecture becomes its scope of work, so the design is paid for once.
A sample of the systems we have designed.
B2B ordering for mid-tier producers
The operating system Vargio runs on
The production system behind DigitalErgon
A matching platform for brands and creators
Fleet management and dispatch for a taxi operator
The hospitality platform for Greece and Cyprus
Parts and maintenance for a yacht management operation
Your team
We work alongside your technical lead, inside the areas their stack does not cover.
Who builds
We deliver the analysis and the architecture. The system itself is built by Vargio Labs, or by a team of your choosing.
Price
An analysis is a fixed fee. A build is quoted on the finished architecture.
Decisions
You make the decisions and you negotiate your own contracts. We are on the call when you do.
Vargio began as an intermediary. A small business was on one side, the agency building its system was on the other, and no one was translating between them. We took that role, and then began designing and building the systems ourselves.
Behind the practice is more than a decade in software: first in fintech, where precision and compliance are not negotiable, then in engineering, then in architecture. Most engagements begin at the same point, when something significant is about to be committed to and no one who has to approve it can evaluate it properly.
The practice is formalised today around three things: the analysis, the architecture, and standing technical direction for the decisions that follow. We work from Greece and Cyprus, across Europe.
No. If you want us to find you the right team, we collect real quotes and compare them for you. If you come to us because you want us to build it, and the system your architecture calls for fits the stack we carry, we quote it directly. If the right answer is a stack we do not carry, we stay on retainer between you and the team that does, until it is delivered.
An analysis is a fixed fee, scoped to the question. A retainer is built from the components you need. A build is quoted separately by Vargio Labs, on the finished architecture. Tell us what you are dealing with and roughly what you have to work with, and you will get a real number.
Then that is the answer, and it is usually the most valuable one we give. Configure what you already have. Buy something that exists. Fix the process, hire nobody, and leave the software alone.
Yes. It is written for exactly that. One client handed it to their own two developers and they built the whole thing.
The analysis usually runs a few weeks, and most of that is understanding your operation properly. The architecture takes longer, because it is where the decisions get made that everyone lives with afterwards. We commit to the date we quote.
Usually. Every technical leader has areas outside their stack and a prototype backlog they will never reach. That is the work: research, tool evaluation, and building the thing fast enough to find out whether it is worth building properly.
A written document you own. The analysis is the recommendation, with the reasoning and the options. The architecture adds the buildable detail: the screens, the data, the permissions, the integrations, the acceptance criteria, and an appendix any builder can quote against.
Most of our clients are past a million in revenue. That is a pattern rather than a rule. What decides it is whether the decision in front of you is significant enough that getting it wrong costs real money. If it is, write to us.
info@vargio.co
Tell us what you are deciding, buying or about to commit to. A paragraph is plenty. We come back with either a straight answer or the two or three questions that decide what this needs.
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