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Filipe Abreu, founder and principal architect at Welaborate

Your next launch shouldn’t wait for your codebase.

We help high-scale B2C companies get their next release out faster. We fix what’s in the way in the architecture, so your team doesn’t have to spend months paying down technical debt before it can grow again.

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Years building software

25

Downtime during modernization

Zero

Time to unblock a launch

Weeks

Working across

US & Brazil

01 / The blocker

You probably don’t need a rewrite.

You need the one structural change that unblocks the next twelve months. Without stopping operations.

01

The launch keeps slipping.

Every new feature drags three old ones along with it, and the roadmap has turned into a list of workarounds.

Releases · Roadmap · Workarounds

02

The integration keeps getting pushed back.

A payment provider, a marketplace, a logistics partner. They need something the platform can’t give them yet, so the deal just sits there.

Payments · Marketplaces · Logistics

03

The rewrite is too expensive to start.

Nobody can pause the business for a year. So the debt stays where it is, and the team keeps paying interest on it.

Technical debt · Compound interest

02 / Fit

We work best with a certain kind of company.

This is for you if

  • You run a consumer product with real traffic and somewhere between 10 and 60 engineers
  • You can point to the launch, integration, partnership or market your system is holding up right now
  • You want an architecture that fits your next stage and your budget, not a textbook rewrite
  • You want the modernization done in production, next to your team, with no downtime

This is not for you if

  • You’re still looking for product-market fit
  • You’re looking for developers by the hour
  • You just want a report

03 / The method

RAMPA: from blocked
to shipping, in that order.

Five steps, always in the same order. We fix what’s urgent before touching anything else, and we leave behind something your team can run without us.

04 / The first call

One call. Three things you walk away with.

Thirty minutes with Filipe, free of charge. Bring the release you’re working toward and whatever is getting in the way.

What you get from the call

  1. 01

    A read on your context

    We look at your product, your team and the release you’re working toward, and point out where the architecture is really slowing you down.

  2. 02

    Technology assessment

    How your legacy stack is holding back your team and your release cycles, and how we can change that incrementally.

  3. 03

    A way to get it shipped

    How a clear roadmap, close collaboration with your engineering team, good communication and real accountability can improve your time-to-market.

That’s yours to keep, whether we end up working together or not.

05 / Results

What “unblocked” looks like.

Trusted Health · Healthcare marketplace

More users finding the platform

Built growth features and optimized SEO and structured data for Google Jobs Search.

About 30% more daily new users · 2021–2023

Giant Eagle · E-commerce · via Hatched Labs

A faster storefront

Refactored the Next.js storefront with server-side rendering and static site generation.

300% performance improvement, as reported · 2018–2021

FLEXE · Logistics

Queries that kept users waiting

Removed N+1 queries and optimized complex database joins in the logistics platform.

Query times: over 20 seconds to under 2 seconds · 2025

07 / Questions

A few straight answers.

From the blog

Ideas on software, architecture, and building products.

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08 / One call. If the blocker isn’t architectural, we’ll tell you.

Tell us what your codebase is holding back. We’ll tell you how fast it can ship.

Bring the launch, integration or decision that’s stuck.We usually reply within one business day.

30 minutes · No charge

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