[ In short ]
Lunarion Labs helps Seattle companies keep their software healthy as they grow: we take over side products and internal platforms, review cloud setups and running costs, and build SaaS products, mobile apps, AI features, automations and search visibility. We work remotely, with calls scheduled in your Pacific Time morning. One senior lead owns the project from first call to launch, and every project starts with a fixed-price audit that ends with a written diagnosis and a detailed, prioritized quote.
01The Seattle market
Seattle is one of the main centers of the American software industry. Some of the largest cloud, e-commerce and enterprise software companies in the world are based in the city or across Lake Washington in Redmond and Bellevue, and they have trained a deep pool of engineers and product people over decades. Many of those people eventually leave to start or join smaller companies, which keeps the local startup scene technical and well informed.
The economy reaches well beyond software. Aerospace has a long history in the Puget Sound region, the Port of Seattle links the city to trade across the Pacific, and the University of Washington anchors strong research in medicine, computer science and life sciences. The Eastside is home to a large concentration of game studios, and retail, logistics and health organizations round out a diverse base of companies that all depend on software.
Because so many people here learned their trade inside large engineering organizations, expectations are high: clean architecture, automated tests, infrastructure as code and honest written reports. The challenge is rarely knowing what good looks like. It is having the time. Core teams are focused on the main product, so side projects, internal platforms and older services drift, cloud bills grow quietly and nobody has the bandwidth to step back and clean things up.
Sectors we know well in Seattle
- Cloud and enterprise software
- E-commerce
- Gaming
- Aerospace
- Health and life sciences
02Software challenges we see in Seattle
Cloud spending nobody has reviewed
Infrastructure set up quickly for a launch tends to stay that way. Oversized instances, forgotten environments, unused storage, chatty services and logging that keeps everything forever all add up. Seattle teams know the cloud well, which is exactly why their setups can become sprawling. Without a periodic review, the monthly bill becomes a number everyone accepts instead of questioning.
The side product that lost its team
A customer portal, a partner integration, a mobile companion app or an internal admin tool was built when there was time and budget. Then priorities moved and the engineers who built it went back to the core product. It still runs, customers still use it, but dependencies are aging, bugs pile up and nobody owns it anymore.
Scaling a SaaS beyond its first architecture
Early decisions about tenants, data models and billing are fine for the first customers and painful later. Adding enterprise customers brings demands for data isolation, single sign-on, audit logs and usage reporting. Retrofitting these into a product that was not designed for them takes careful, incremental work rather than a pause on everything else.
Games and commerce under peak load
Game launches, seasonal sales and marketing campaigns create traffic spikes that expose every weak point at once: slow queries, missing caches, payment timeouts, fragile background jobs. Studios and online retailers in Seattle often learn about these limits during the very event they planned for, when fixing things is hardest and most visible.
03What we do for Seattle companies
Software rescue
For a Seattle company with a product its core team no longer maintains, we take over ownership. We read the code and infrastructure, document how it works, upgrade aging dependencies, add tests where breakage hurts most and set up monitoring. The product keeps running for its users while we bring it back to a state your engineers would be comfortable inheriting again.
SaaS & business software
We help Seattle SaaS companies evolve their architecture as they move upmarket: proper multi-tenant isolation, single sign-on, roles and audit logs, usage-based billing with Stripe, admin tools for support and finance, and public APIs that partners can build on. We work incrementally inside your existing codebase rather than proposing a parallel rewrite.
Mobile apps
Retail, health and gaming companies in Seattle often need a mobile app that matches the quality of their main product. We build and maintain iOS and Android apps for loyalty programs, ordering, companion experiences and patient engagement, with authentication shared with your web platform, push notifications, analytics and store review handled, under your company's developer accounts.
AI & agents
Seattle teams usually have the infrastructure for AI and lack the time to build the product around it. We design and ship features such as support assistants grounded in your documentation, internal search across tickets and wikis, and agents that act through your APIs with clear permissions, plus evaluation, tracing and cost monitoring so the feature can be operated like any other service.
Automation
Engineering and operations teams lose time to glue work: syncing orders between systems, provisioning accounts, moving data from support tools to dashboards, building weekly reports by hand. We automate these paths with small, well-tested services or tools like n8n, Make or Zapier, and we document every automation so your team can maintain it.
SEO & AI visibility
Seattle is full of capable B2B and e-commerce companies competing for the same buyers. We fix technical SEO on product sites, stores and documentation, clean up crawl and rendering issues common to JavaScript-heavy sites, build pages around integrations and use cases, and structure content so AI search engines and assistants can understand and cite what you offer.
04Typical situations in Seattle
- A Seattle SaaS company notices its cloud bill climbing every quarter with no matching growth in usage. They want a written review of the setup, a list of savings ranked by risk and help applying the safe ones first.
- A retailer's mobile ordering app was built by an internal team that has since moved to other projects. Store reviews mention crashes, and the company needs someone to own the app, fix it and keep it updated.
- A game studio is preparing a launch and worries that its account, store and matchmaking services will not survive the traffic. They want load testing, performance fixes and monitoring before launch day.
- A health organization wants an internal AI assistant that answers staff questions from its own procedures. They need answers with sources, strict access control and logs that their compliance team can review.
05How a project runs, step by step
- Fixed-price audit. We review the code, access, hosting and contracts, then deliver a written diagnosis with a prioritized, costed plan.
- Secure. Every account and the repository are moved into your company's name, backups are in place and exposed secrets are rotated.
- Fix and build. We stabilize what is fragile, refactor step by step and build what is missing, on a copy of your product.
- Launch and hand over. We publish only after checking, then hand over documentation any senior engineer can pick up.
06How we work with Seattle teams
We work with Seattle teams remotely. Our day runs on Eastern Time, so we schedule calls in your Pacific Time morning, which overlaps with our afternoon, and we write things down so work continues between calls. One senior lead owns the project from the first call to launch and speaks your engineers' language: architecture diagrams, pull requests, runbooks. Progress is visible in the Lunarion client app for both technical and business stakeholders.
We work on a copy or staging environment and only publish after checking, so production stays stable. We refactor step by step rather than proposing big-bang rewrites, and we follow your existing conventions for code review and deployment where they exist. Code, domains, repositories, cloud, app store and payment accounts stay in your company's name and are documented at handover. We can sign an NDA first, and we work in English and French.
07What shapes the scope of a Seattle project
We do not publish prices: every project is different, and the audit is what sets the quote. These are the factors that weigh most:
- The size of the cloud footprint and how much of it is defined as code versus set up by hand
- How long the product has gone without an owner and how far its dependencies have aged
- Enterprise features required by customers, such as single sign-on, isolation and audit logs
- Expected peak traffic from launches, sales or campaigns, and the testing needed to prepare
- How closely we need to integrate with your internal teams, tools and review process
08Frequently asked questions
Can you review our cloud setup and running costs?
Yes. Hosting, cloud accounts and running costs are part of every audit. You get a written report with the issues found, savings ranked by risk and a prioritized plan. We can then apply the changes on staging first and roll them out carefully.
Can you take over a product our core team no longer has time for?
Yes, that is one of the most common requests we see from Seattle companies. We document the product, upgrade what has aged, fix what users complain about and keep it running, with a clear handover path if your team wants it back later.
How do you work with Seattle teams on Pacific Time?
We work on Eastern Time and schedule calls in your Pacific Time morning, which overlaps with our afternoon. Between calls we work asynchronously, and progress, decisions and open questions are visible in the Lunarion client app.
How does a project start?
Every project starts with a fixed-price audit of your code, access, hosting and contracts. It ends with a written diagnosis and a detailed, prioritized quote, so your team can review our findings in detail before deciding on the next step.
Who owns the code and the accounts?
You do. Code, repositories, domains, cloud, app store and payment accounts remain or are moved into your company's name, and everything is documented at handover. We work inside your accounts rather than ours whenever possible.
Will you follow our engineering standards?
Yes. We adopt your existing conventions for branching, code review, testing and deployment when they exist, and propose clear ones when they do not. Our goal is code your own engineers recognize as theirs and can maintain without us.
09Other cities we work with
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