Authority Labs

Product engineering and technical delivery

Build the software your business needs next.

We build new products from the ground up, improve the software people already depend on, and connect systems when the business has outgrown its current tools.

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You do not need to prepare a perfect specification before talking to us.

What are you dealing with?

Select the situation closest to yours.

01

New product

Technical definition, architecture, engineering, testing and production.

Build a product
02

Product rescue

Reconstruct the context, stabilize what matters and return the project to delivery.

Take over a product
03

Modernization

Identify what should remain, what should change and what can improve incrementally.

Modernize a system
04

AI and integration

Connect useful AI to real workflows, data and people, with costs and failure cases visible.

Explore the work

Context acquisition

02 / Operating model

We do not expect your team to become our documentation department.

External engineers usually create work before they remove it. Someone has to explain the architecture, business logic, integrations, edge cases, historical decisions and undocumented constraints.

We reduce that burden deliberately.

  1. Give us access to what exists.
  2. Introduce us to the people who know what cannot be discovered.
  3. We investigate the rest.

Less repeated onboarding. More useful engineering time.

Estimation

Estimates based on real engineering scope.

We estimate the work required to deliver the outcome.

We review the existing system, dependencies, security requirements, delivery constraints and remaining unknowns. The estimate shows the work packages, assumptions and risks that determine cost.

01 Scope
How much needs to change.
02 Technical complexity
How difficult the implementation is.
03 Uncertainty
How much is still unknown.
04 Existing system
Greenfield, documented, legacy or difficult takeover.
05 Security & compliance
How much scrutiny and technical evidence the system requires.
06 Urgency
How much delivery has to be compressed or parallelized.
Discuss scope and budget

Systems, not silos

03 / Coverage

We work across the boundaries that usually create coordination problems.

One business problem often crosses several engineering disciplines at once. You should not have to coordinate five vendors to solve one product problem.

  • 01 Software
  • 02 Mobile
  • 03 Backend
  • 04 AI & machine learning
  • 05 Cloud & infrastructure
  • 06 API integration
  • 07 Device-connected software
  • 08 Testing
  • 09 Technical documentation

Delivery sequence

What happens when we start.

Named engineers own the work. Progress is shown through working systems, releases, prototypes and measurable technical results.

  1. 01

    Understand the problem

    What needs to change, why it matters and what the business expects from the result.

  2. 02

    Acquire the context

    Inspect the product, systems, code, integrations, infrastructure and constraints.

  3. 03

    Define the work

    Separate architecture, implementation, testing, security and risk into real work packages.

  4. 04

    Build

    Deliver working systems, releases and prototypes with visible technical ownership.

  5. 05

    Ship

    Move into production with the documentation and ownership required to keep operating it.

The experience behind the studio

Built before Authority Labs.

Authority Labs started in September 2026. These are Aleksandra's contributions at earlier companies, not studio client projects.

Prior employerm10 / PashaPay

Payments and mobile product work

Aleksandra worked on payment features in the m10 wallet and shared Flutter packages used by its mobile team.

  • Mobile
  • Payments
  • Shared components
Aleksandra's work
Prior employerVK Play

Gaming, real time features and abuse protection

She built mobile features across chat, voice, video and cloud gaming, then spoke publicly about the app's anti-abuse work.

  • Mobile
  • Realtime
  • App protection
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Prior employerNeiry

Software connected to research hardware

She built a desktop interface for an EEG experiment, connecting voice transcription, AI commands and electrode data.

  • Desktop
  • Devices
  • AI integration
Aleksandra's work

Technology capabilities

Tools chosen for the product, not the pitch.

We select technologies for the product, its operating environment and the team responsible for maintaining it.

The right stack depends on the existing system, the people maintaining it and the result it needs to produce.

From the blog

What to inspect before taking over a software product

Start with the evidence that keeps a live product running: access, critical journeys, data, release paths and the first safe change.

Read the takeover checklist

Start with the problem

If the technology is becoming a business problem, talk to us.

Tell us what needs to change, what already exists and what is getting in the way. We can help with new products, project recovery, modernization and integrations that make existing work easier.

We will review the context and propose a practical next step.

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