Products we've
brought to life.
Meridian
SaaS PlatformA multi-tenant analytics platform for logistics companies, processing 50M+ events per day with sub-200ms query latency.
Fieldwork
Mobile ApplicationOffline-first field operations app for construction crews. Works in dead zones, syncs when connectivity returns — zero data loss.
Vantage AI
Data PlatformRevenue intelligence platform with ML-powered forecasting. Automated 14 hours of weekly analyst work per team.
Harbor
Developer ToolLocal development environment manager — spin up any stack with a single command. 8K GitHub stars within 3 months.
Full-spectrum
engineering.
We cover every layer of the stack, so you work with one team instead of six vendors.
Small team.
Outsized impact.
Founded in 2016, Runaway Software started as two engineers who were tired of watching great ideas die because of bad execution. We've since grown into a focused team of 12 — engineers, designers, and data scientists who work on the problems that actually matter.
Craft over velocity
Fast is table stakes. We obsess over the details that ship excellent products, not just working ones.
Transparent by default
No black boxes. You see every commit, every decision, every tradeoff — we work in the open.
We eat complexity
The harder the problem, the more we lean in. Legacy migrations, real-time systems, ambiguous briefs.
Former principal engineer at Stripe. Built payment infrastructure handling $40B in annual volume.
Ex-Google Brain. PhD in distributed systems from MIT. Obsessed with performance at scale.
Previously led design at Linear and Loom. Believes the best products are the ones you can feel.
10 years in data engineering. Built ML pipelines for Netflix and Airbnb before going indie.
Predictable process.
No surprises.
We learn your world
Deep dive into your business, users, and technical landscape. We don't start writing code until we understand the problem better than you do.
We design the system
Architecture docs, data models, API contracts, component libraries — the blueprint that every decision gets traced back to.
We ship in cycles
Two-week sprints with live demo environments. You can use the product before it's done, which means we find real problems early.
We make it bulletproof
Load testing, security audit, monitoring setup, runbook documentation. We don't hand off and disappear.
Best tool for
the job.
What clients actually say.
Runaway delivered a production system in 10 weeks that our internal team had been failing to ship for 8 months. They didn't just build — they redesigned our entire data architecture along the way.
What sets them apart is that they push back. They told us our MVP scope was wrong and had us rethink it. That saved us 3 months. They care about the outcome, not just the invoice.
The codebase they left us with is the cleanest we've ever inherited from an external team. Our engineers were floored. Documentation, tests, readable code — the whole package.
Let's build
something great.
Tell us about your project. We read every message and respond within one business day — usually faster. No sales calls, no decks unless you want them.