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Coreframe Labs Ltd is a UK-registered software agency and solutions architecture practice led by director Muhammad Umar Bin Ali. It builds AI and machine-learning features, RAG and retrieval pipelines, full-stack products, data infrastructure, and performance improvements, and runs a fixed-price 5-day Technical Audit for existing systems. It works remote-first with clients worldwide.

Seven service lines: AI & machine learning solutions, RAG & retrieval pipelines, solutions architecture, full-stack development, data infrastructure & analytics, performance engineering, and a 5-day Technical Audit. Typical stack: React 19, Next.js 15, TypeScript, Django 5, Python, Node.js, PostgreSQL, ClickHouse, Apache Spark, Redis, and Azure (AKS, Data Lake, AD).

Three pricing shapes, all public. The Technical Audit is fixed-price by company stage: solo founders £1,500–£2,500, funded startups £3,000–£5,000, SMEs £3,000–£6,000. Development is £450–£650 per day, scoped per project. Retainers run £2,500–£9,000 per month depending on scope. There are no discovery-call paywalls.

A Technical Audit runs exactly 5 business days from kickoff. Scoped builds are typically specced within a week of first contact; a RAG pipeline usually lands in 2–6 weeks, and larger platform work is broken into milestones so you see progress from the first sprint.

You do. Code, configurations, fine-tuned artefacts, reports, and documentation produced in an engagement belong to the client on payment. There is no lock-in — the audit remediation plan is explicitly written so you can execute it without us.

Work happens in your infrastructure wherever possible — your Azure/AWS tenancy, your access controls (Azure AD and role-based access as standard). We sign NDAs on request, don't train models on your data, and don't move data outside your environment without written agreement. The free lite audit stores nothing, redacts detected secrets before analysis, and retains nothing beyond 24 hours.

Foundation models via API — Anthropic's Claude (this site's own assistant runs on it) and OpenAI models shipped to production — plus open-source models where they fit. Model selection is benchmarked against your actual task and budget, never defaulted.

Coreframe Labs Ltd is a UK-registered company operating remote-first with clients worldwide. Engagements run async-friendly with regular calls in your timezone's working hours.

Measured outcomes include: a critical aggregation query cut from 42,000ms to 380ms (110x) on a 1-billion-row dataset after benchmarking ClickHouse against PostgreSQL and TimescaleDB; an enterprise dashboard taken from 20 seconds to under 1 second with a two-tier Redis cache holding a 94% hit rate; 50,000+ points rendered at 60fps; a sub-200ms voice-AI pipeline; +25% monthly active users in three months; 40% less QA debugging time; and 95% on-time delivery across a 17-engineer team.

Email umarbinali28@gmail.com with a short description of what you're building. For an existing system that feels slow, fragile, or expensive, the Technical Audit is the fastest way in: 5 business days to a written report, a live findings call, and a remediation proposal. You can also run the free lite audit at /audit — paste one file and get up to three evidenced findings, no account needed.