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Codebase is one person.
Hello, I’m Sylvain Briat. Nice to meet you!
A studio at human scale — mine. Leveraged by AI, I carry a product from idea to production, where it used to take a whole team only months ago.
01 — End-to-end builder
One person, the whole chain.
My real strength isn’t a point-in-time technical skill: it’s experience, and the ability to understand your business. AI provides the execution reach; the judgement stays mine — that’s the constant.
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Understand the business
Grasp the context and the real problem, before any solution.
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Find solutions
Explore the options, keep the simplest one that holds.
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Architect
Derive a simple functional and technical architecture.
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Build & harness the AI
Build while piloting the AI: it accelerates, I decide.
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Ship to production
Deploy and run it — not just hand over code.
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Explain without jargon
Make every choice clear, and the product resumable.
02 — Why solo
A choice, not a shortcoming.
I love carrying a product from idea to production: doing the UI/UX as much as the devops, holding the thread from start to finish. Working solo isn’t working against teams or specialists — their craft is valuable, and I lean on them when a project calls for it. It’s simply how I like to build: end to end, from the first sketch to going live, rather than confining myself to a single link.
03 — One person, no black box
One person, no single point of failure.
Working with a single person raises a fair question: what if they’re no longer around? The answer is in the method. Every change is specified and documented — the spec is the durable asset. The product never depends on me alone: any team can pick it up. No black box, no forced dependency.
04 — Who it’s for
Built for human-scale structures.
My ground is small businesses, SMEs and young startups served directly, with custom products, made accessible, shipped fast. Very large projects I don’t take on directly, and that’s owned — better to excel on the right scope than to promise everything. For larger structures such as agencies, dev shops or recruiters, I work as a subcontractor, a full-stack provider leaning on their framework to deliver.
Want to talk it over?
Tell me where you’re at: I come back with an honest read — often in a single conversation.