About us

A small studio for code that has to survive contact with real users

Codivo Labs was founded on a straightforward observation: the bottleneck in software stopped being how fast you can write code, and became whether anyone can vouch for it.

What we do

We are a development studio working across two closely related areas. The first is remediation: taking codebases that were built quickly - increasingly with AI assistants doing most of the typing - and turning them into software that can be reviewed, tested, secured and handed to a team without a warning label.

The second is ordinary product engineering. Websites, dashboards, APIs, iOS and Android applications, and the deployment plumbing underneath them. Many clients arrive for the first and stay for the second.

Why we lead with AI code

AI coding tools are a genuine improvement in how software gets made, and we use them ourselves every day. But they shift where the risk sits. Code arrives faster than a team can meaningfully review, and the failures cluster in predictable places: authorization checks that were never written, dependencies that do not exist, error paths that silently swallow data, and test suites that assert nothing.

None of that is a reason to stop using AI. It is a reason to have someone read the output carefully before your customers do. That is the job we do best.

How we are set up

Codivo Labs is deliberately small and remote-first. Engagements are scoped and priced in writing, engineers work directly with you rather than through an account manager, and we turn down work we are not the right fit for. When a project needs a specialism we do not have in-house, we say so and help you find it.

Client code is handled under written confidentiality terms with least-privilege repository access. We do not use client code to train models, and IP is assigned to you on delivery. If you need those terms before a conversation, write to legal@codivolabs.com.

How we operate

Four principles we will not trade away

Say what the code does

Not what it was supposed to do, not what the commit message claims. Our reports describe the system as it actually exists, including the parts that make us look slow.

Fix causes, not symptoms

Silencing a warning is not a fix. If the same class of bug can occur again, the work is not finished until the pipeline catches it.

Privacy is a default, not a feature

We build software that collects the least it can get away with. Our own iOS app collects nothing at all, and that was a design constraint rather than a marketing decision.

Leave teams better off

Every engagement ends with your engineers able to maintain what we delivered. If you need us again, it should be because you want to, not because you are stuck.

Capabilities

What we work with

We pick boring, well-supported technology by default and reserve novelty for places where it earns its keep.

Languages
TypeScript, Python, Swift, Kotlin, Go, SQL
Web
React, Next.js, Astro, Node, REST & GraphQL APIs
Mobile
Swift / SwiftUI, Kotlin, React Native, Flutter
Cloud
AWS, Cloudflare, GCP, Docker, Terraform
Security
SAST & DAST tooling, dependency and secret scanning, manual review
Data
PostgreSQL, SQLite, Redis, object storage, migrations

Want to talk it through first?

A short call costs nothing and usually clarifies whether an audit, a build or neither is the right next step.