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  • RTM (NL)
  • N° 0042 / Engineering_
  • 51.92°N 4.48°E
  • Est. 2014
  • Taking 2 briefs

Software for the parts of your business that cannot go down.

Lathe is a software studio in Rotterdam. Applied AI, platforms and data, built by the people who will answer the pager.

Start a brief What we do

01 / The studio

The studio

Forty-one engineers, designers and data people in Rotterdam. We take four projects a year, we stay until they ship, and we answer for them after.

People
41
Projects a year
4
Days of cover after launch
90
Years in business
12

02 / Expertise

Eight things we are properly good at.

All expertise

03 / Services

Four ways to work with us.

A / 6 to 14 weeks / from 38k EUR

Applied AI

Retrieval, agents and decision support that earn their place in a workflow. Every feature ships with an evaluation set and a cost ceiling.

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B / Ongoing or 12 weeks / from 52k EUR

Platform engineering

The services, queues and release tooling underneath your product. Boring on purpose, observable by default.

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C / 8 to 16 weeks / from 44k EUR

Data and integration

One trustworthy copy of the truth, wired to the systems that need it, with a reconciliation report that nobody has to ask for.

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D / 10 to 20 weeks / from 60k EUR

Product build

A v1 in production, built with your team in the repo from week one so the handover is a non-event.

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04 / Selected work

Shipped, then still running.

Client names are invented. Figures are placeholders.

  • Marrowgate Freight / Logistics / 2026

    Dispatch brain

    Late deliveries down 31% in the first full quarter.

  • Pellam Health / Clinics / 2025

    Triage assistant

    Intake calls cut from 11 minutes to 4, clinician-reviewed.

  • Voss Grid Co-op / Energy / 2025

    Load forecast service

    Day-ahead error held under 3.2% across 14 substations.

  • Ostrel Savings / Finance / 2024

    Core ledger cut-over

    Forty years of records moved with zero unreconciled cents.

05 / Method

How a brief becomes software.

  1. 01

    Brief

    One page, written together. What it must do, what it must never do, and who is on call when it fails.

  2. 02

    Cut

    A thin vertical slice in production within three weeks. Ugly is fine. Wrong is not.

  3. 03

    Ship

    Fortnightly releases behind flags, a public changelog, and a demo you can forward to your board.

  4. 04

    Keep

    We write the runbook, train the rota and stay reachable for ninety days. Then it is yours.

06 / Field notes

What we have learned lately.

  1. Your evaluation set is the product

    AI

    7 min

  2. Why we refuse fixed scope without a discovery week

    Practice

    5 min

  3. Strangling a ledger: forty years, one route at a time

    Build

    9 min

Placeholders: the essays are not written for this demo.

07 / Start a brief

One page is enough to begin.

A principal replies within two working days. This is a demo form: nothing is sent.

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