Dagocore Ltd designs and develops web platforms and applications for companies that already have systems, habits and a technical history. Our Forward Deployed Engineers work inside your environment, in your programming language, alongside your team — and use AI to reach the finished product noticeably faster.
Dagocore Ltd exists to develop websites and applications for our clients — with AI assistance that shortens the road to the finished product. We are not a body shop and not a vendor that arrives with a fixed template. We arrive, we learn your environment, and we build inside it.
Before writing a line of code we read your repository, your database and your backlog. The goal of the first weeks is not to produce features — it is to understand why your system is the way it is, so that what we add fits instead of fighting.
Most teams already own something valuable: a data model that captures their business, a tool their staff trust, years of accumulated rules. Our job is to make that asset faster, safer and easier to use — not to declare it obsolete so we can sell a rewrite.
Technology should not be the reason a good idea stalls. We translate between business intent and technical reality, document decisions in plain language, and use AI to make the difficult parts approachable for the people who have to live with them.
A Forward Deployed Engineer is not a ticket-taker. They are embedded with your team, present in your rituals, and accountable for the outcome rather than the task list. They learn your domain vocabulary, your constraints and your politics — because software that ignores those things never ships.
Same stand-ups, same board, same channels. You do not brief us through a middle layer; you talk to the person writing the code.
We work in your programming language, your framework, your CI, your cloud, your ticketing tool. Adapting is our job, not yours.
Every decision is documented, every pattern explained, every handover rehearsed. When an engagement ends, your team is stronger — not dependent.
Scaffolding, migrations, test coverage, documentation and exploratory prototypes are AI-accelerated — then reviewed by a human who signs their name to it.
Building a permanent research team is slow and expensive. R&D as a Service gives you the same capability on demand: specialists who explore, prototype and de-risk the hard questions, then hand you evidence instead of opinions.
We prototype the risky part first and tell you honestly whether it holds — including when the answer is no.
Experiments run beside your production system, never through it, so exploration never threatens delivery.
Access senior expertise for the period you actually need it, instead of carrying it on your payroll year-round.
AI-assisted exploration compresses the cycle between an idea, a working prototype and something you can sell.
Dagocore works across the entire architecture. That matters because the expensive problems live between the layers — a data model that the interface cannot express, an API shaped for the backend rather than the user. One accountable team removes those seams.
Relational and document modelling, normalisation, indexing and query tuning, migrations without downtime, reporting and analytics pipelines. We work with the engine you already run — PostgreSQL, MySQL, SQL Server, Oracle, MongoDB — and we tune it before we ever suggest replacing it.
Domain modelling, modular monoliths or services — chosen by what your team can operate, not by fashion. Written in your language, following your conventions, with the test coverage your risk level justifies.
REST, GraphQL, gRPC, webhooks, message queues, file-based exchanges with legacy partners. We make your existing systems talk to each other and to the outside world, including the ones nobody wants to touch.
Responsive web applications, dashboards and mobile apps built for real conditions: slow connections, older devices, users who cannot afford to be retrained.
Interface design grounded in how your people actually work. We keep the habits that serve them, fix the friction that does not, and respect the visual identity you have already invested in.
Deployment pipelines, containers, monitoring, backups and cost control — on the cloud provider or the on-premise servers you already pay for.
Different problems, one constant: we operate inside your environment and with your tooling. Every engagement below starts by inventorying what you already have and deciding, together, what deserves to be kept.
Customer portals, internal tools, booking and billing systems, back offices. Built to fit the process your business already runs.
Native or cross-platform, chosen against your maintenance capacity rather than our preference — with offline behaviour treated as a requirement, not an extra.
When queries crawl, reports lie or the schema no longer matches the business, we diagnose before prescribing — and usually recover the existing database rather than replace it.
Repeatable deployments, real monitoring, tested backups and predictable bills — on AWS, Azure, GCP, OVH or the hardware in your own server room.
Assistants, document processing, search over your own content, decision support. Grounded in your data, with limits and failure modes explained before launch.
Old systems are usually old because they worked. We modernise them in stages, keeping the business rules that took years to get right and retiring only what is genuinely holding you back.
Research with the people who use the product daily, then interfaces and a component library that your developers can extend without calling us back.
Code review, dependency and secret auditing, authentication hardening, automated test suites, and the documentation trail an audit or a GDPR review will ask for.
Pairing, code review, internal workshops and honest technical mentoring — including how to use AI tooling well. The measure of success is your team needing us less.
Choosing a partner should not mean rewriting your technical history. Tell us what you run and we staff engineers who already know it — or who ramp up on our time, not on your invoice. The list below is where we are already fluent; it is not a list of what you must adopt.
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Frameworks
Data
Platform & tooling
AI & assisted delivery
The fastest way to lose a client's trust is to walk in and declare everything they built to be wrong. We take the opposite position: your system is evidence of decisions made under real constraints, and our first duty is to understand them.
What we don't do
What we commit to
Where AI earns its place
Mapping a large legacy system in days instead of months, so our first advice is informed rather than generic.
Migrations, boilerplate, test scaffolding, documentation. Work that must be done well but does not need to be done slowly.
Two working options in front of stakeholders beat three weeks of meetings about which one to try.
Turning business language into specifications, and technical reality back into something a non-technical decision maker can act on.
For most organisations the obstacle is not ambition — it is the distance between what they want and what they can express in technical terms. That distance is the technology barrier, and it is expensive: projects stall, requirements get misread, and people stop asking for things because asking is too hard.
We use AI to shrink that distance. It lets us read your existing system faster, produce working prototypes early, and keep documentation current instead of aspirational. You get to judge something real, in your own vocabulary, much sooner in the process.
What AI never does here is take responsibility. Every generated line is reviewed by the engineer who will maintain it, tested against your requirements, and explained to your team. Speed that you cannot audit is not speed — it is debt with better marketing.
Dagocore Ltd is a UK company, and our engineers are based in Madagascar. This is not an offshore call centre arrangement — it is a single team, working the same hours, in the same repositories, talking directly to you. We say it openly because it is one of our strengths.
Madagascar's universities and engineering schools produce a steady flow of strong developers, trained in mathematics and computer science fundamentals rather than a single trending framework.
French is a working language and English is standard in the profession. Specifications, code review and client meetings happen in whichever of the two you prefer.
At UTC+3, Madagascar shares most of the working day with the UK and Europe. Questions asked in the morning are answered the same morning.
Engineers stay on the same client for years. The person who designed your data model in the first month is still there when it needs to evolve.
Working with constrained bandwidth and modest hardware teaches you to write efficient software and to test for the conditions your users actually have.
Our structure gives you senior engineering at a rate that keeps long engagements viable — with pay and conditions locally that keep the same people on your project.
No long procurement theatre. The aim is to have you talking to the engineer who would actually do the work within the first week.
You describe the problem in your own words. We ask about your stack, your team and your constraints — and tell you plainly if we are not the right fit.
We review the codebase, data model and infrastructure, and produce a written assessment: what is solid, what is risky, and what we would leave alone.
We ship something small but real into your environment early — enough for you to judge our work in practice rather than on a slide.
The Forward Deployed Engineer settles into your rhythm: your sprints, your board, your review process, with continuous visibility on progress and cost.
Documentation, tests and knowledge transfer are part of each increment, not a final phase that gets cut when the budget tightens.
Call, write, or visit the office. Whichever you choose, you will be speaking with someone who can discuss the technical substance — not a sales gatekeeper.
Registered office
Dagocore LtdSpeak to us directly
+44 7828 755817Available during UK working hours, and beyond them more often than not. Calls in English or French.
Write to us
contact@dagocore.co.ukSend us your stack and the problem you are facing. A short, specific reply from an engineer, usually within one working day.
We will tell you honestly what is worth keeping, what we would improve, and how quickly we can do it inside your environment.
