Software
that creates
real impact.
Hexcore is a Lagos-headquartered technology consultancy. Companies of all sizes, across industries and around the globe, trust us to design, build, and operate software for their most critical business areas — under SLA, under audit, and under load.
We partner with companies that take their critical systems seriously — and we engineer software with the same seriousness. Software that compounds into competitive advantage, not technical debt.
At Hexcore, our mission is to empower businesses with cutting-edge software engineering, AI, cloud, and cybersecurity solutions. We accelerate digital transformation, harden security postures, and drive measurable innovation.
Our consultants are senior practitioners who've operated the systems they design. The architect who scopes your build will be on the standups. The security lead who runs your VAPT will brief your board.
Expertise, collaboration, and an unembarrassed passion for excellence — delivered as scalable, future-proof systems that create lasting impact for the operators behind them.
Nine practices.
One operating standard.
We work across the full stack of modern engineering, but every engagement is run by senior practitioners who've done the work in production. No staff augmentation theatre.
Explore each practice →Custom Software Development
Bespoke product engineering
Digital Transformation
Modernization at the system level
Cloud Consulting
Strategy, architecture, economics
Cloud & DevOps Engineering
Pipelines that ship safely
Cloud-Native Development
Built for elastic scale
Automation Testing
Quality, codified
AI-Native Development
Products with intelligence at the core
Cybersecurity & VAPT
Defense, verified
Data & AI
ML, MLOps, generative AI
From hypothesis
to operated system.
Our four-phase method. Each phase has explicit entry and exit criteria. You always know where you are.
Discover
We start with the business problem — not the tech. Workshops, interviews, and architectural review that produce a sharp, testable hypothesis.
- —Stakeholder interviews & job-to-be-done framing
- —Architecture review of existing systems
- —Risk register & assumption log
- —Success criteria defined in measurable terms
A 20–40 page discovery doc with a recommendation you can act on, or not.
Design
We design systems and interfaces together. Architecture decisions are documented. Risks are surfaced early, not at the end.
- —Architecture decision records (ADRs)
- —API contracts & data models
- —Service-level objectives defined
- —UX flows tested with real users before code
An execution-ready blueprint with the boring questions already answered.
Build
We ship in vertical slices. Working software in weeks, not quarters. Code review, tests, observability — defaults, not extras.
- —Trunk-based development with feature flags
- —Code review on every change
- —CI/CD with automated security and quality gates
- —Weekly demos to stakeholders
Production software, deployable from day one, with observability baked in.
Operate
We don't disappear at launch. SLO ownership, on-call rotations, and the long-tail work that turns a launch into a durable product.
- —Joint on-call during stabilisation
- —SLO and error-budget management
- —Blameless postmortems with action items tracked to closure
- —Capability transfer to your internal team
A system your team can confidently own — or a managed-operate engagement if you prefer.
Four ways
to work with us.
Pricing should align our incentives with yours. We offer four engagement shapes — pick the one that fits.
Discovery Sprint
De-risking a new build. Validating a strategic direction. Getting a defensible architecture and price before you commit.
- —Architecture decision record
- —Risk register
- —Team shape and price for the build
- —Yes/no recommendation we'll defend
Outcome-Priced Build
Well-defined builds where the scope can be locked. Aligns our incentive with shipping on time, on quality.
- —Production software under your ownership
- —Test suite & CI/CD pipeline
- —Runbooks and operational handover
- —30/60/90 post-launch operating support
Embedded Squad
Ongoing capability extension. Embedded engineering inside your existing teams. Multi-product roadmaps.
- —Senior engineers integrated into your standups
- —Monthly capability review
- —Knowledge transfer at any exit point
- —Optional managed-operate transition
Managed Operate
Production systems we built (or are willing to take ownership of) where you want SLA-backed long-term operation.
- —24/7 on-call coverage with SLOs
- —Quarterly architectural review
- —Incident response and postmortems
- —Ongoing modernisation roadmap
Operators of on-site teams were running attendance and compliance on manual timesheets, screenshots, and manager memory — producing payroll disputes, late exception discovery, and no live picture of who was actually on location. Onsight needed a workforce intelligence platform that could turn every attendance event into verifiable, policy-bound, audit-ready operational truth — combining geofencing, trusted-device controls, offline-tolerant mobile capture, and an AI command layer that could explain exceptions in plain language.
A four-surface platform — admin command center, native mobile app, exception action-queue, and the OpsIQ AI intelligence layer — built end-to-end. Geofence-verified check-ins and check-outs against approved worksites, biometric and trusted-device controls on eligible plans, live workforce visibility bound by working-hour policy, and offline-resilient mobile sync. OpsIQ turns attendance events, trust signals, and audit logs into AI-explained briefs managers can act on before payroll closes.
- Geofence-verified attendance with trust-scored check-ins
- Live workforce visibility during working hours
- Exception intelligence — missed checkouts, breaches, anomalies
- Offline-resilient mobile capture with queued sync
- OpsIQ AI explanations for exceptions and audit activity
- Biometric & device-integrity controls (Enterprise tier)
- Payroll-ready attendance exports
Event-sourced core ledger. p99 settlement latency reduced from 1.8s to 140ms.
FHIR-based interoperability layer with consent-aware access control.
Edge-first telemetry pipeline with reconciliation on reconnect.
Multi-tenant RAG with offline evals, drift detection, and human-in-the-loop review.
References
on file.
Direct quotes from operators we've worked with. Full client references available on request, under mutual NDA.
Hexcore didn't just rewrite our ledger — they upgraded how we think about engineering. The team operates the system today better than we ever did.
Other vendors gave us demos. Hexcore gave us a system we could put in front of regulated-industry customers and not lose sleep.
We went from 6-month tariff launch cycles to 6 days. The business team finally got their roadmap back.
Senior people, doing the work. No bait-and-switch, no slide decks, no inflated timelines. Refreshing.
Where our
code goes to work.
Our consultants operate in regulated, high-stakes environments. The patterns transfer; the discipline shows up in the code.
The tools we
reach for.
A snapshot of what's in production at Hexcore engagements today. We add tools when they earn it; we remove them when they stop earning it.
Engineering excellence is non-negotiable
We write code the way a structural engineer pours concrete. Reviewed. Tested. Observed in production. Boring on purpose.
We build for the operator, not the demo
Launches are easy. Operating a system that doesn't wake people up at 3am is the work. We optimize for the second one.
Africa-built. Globally accountable.
We are headquartered in Lagos and we work to international standards. Our clients span four continents. Our timezone covers the gap.
Security is a feature, not a phase
Threat modelling at design time. VAPT before launch. Compliance as a continuous practice, not a once-a-year scramble.
Senior people, doing the work
The architect who scoped your project will be on the standups. We don't bait-and-switch with juniors. The ratio is the offer.
Honest counsel, every time
If a feature is a bad idea, we'll tell you. If you don't need us anymore, we'll say so. Trust outlasts any single engagement.
Questions
we hear a lot.
If your question isn't here, ask it in the brief form and a senior consultant will answer directly.
Most engagements begin with a discovery sprint — a fixed-scope, fixed-price 1–3 week phase that produces a decision-grade document: scope, architecture, risks, team shape, and a price for the build. You can act on it, take it to another vendor, or shelf it. There is no obligation to continue with us after discovery.
We offer three pricing shapes: (1) fixed-scope, fixed-price for discovery and clearly-bounded work; (2) outcome-priced for builds where the deliverable is well-defined; (3) embedded squads on T&M for ongoing capability. We avoid time-and-materials for new builds because it misaligns our incentives with yours.
Yes. Our engagement model assigns a senior architect to every project from discovery through to launch. They run the standups, write the critical code, and sit in the steering committee. We do not bait-and-switch with juniors after the sale.
Yes. We currently have active engagements across four continents. Our timezone (GMT+1) overlaps well with EMEA, Africa, and the eastern half of the Americas. We've operated alongside teams in San Francisco, London, Berlin, Nairobi, and Dubai.
Yes. We routinely sign mutual NDAs at the discovery stage, master services agreements for ongoing work, and data processing agreements where personal data is in scope (GDPR, NDPR, HIPAA where applicable). Our standard MSA is available on request.
All code produced for a client is the client's property, assigned on payment. We retain rights only to generic frameworks, internal tooling, and patterns we developed before the engagement. Source code is delivered with full history, in your repositories, under your DevOps accounts.
Hexcore is ISO 27001-aligned (certification in progress). All engineers complete annual security training. Client data is processed only on need-to-know, only in approved environments, and never copied to personal devices. Production access is auditable, time-bound, and reviewed quarterly.
We surface concerns early — usually in the weekly demo — and escalate to the steering committee within one cycle. If the original hypothesis is wrong, we re-plan in the open. We don't burn budget pretending things are fine; honest counsel is principle 06 for a reason.