About

We build the systems that other companies quietly depend on.

SALT & FISH LIMITED was founded on a simple observation: most software projects fail not because the technology is hard, but because the operating discipline is missing. We built a company to fix that.

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Our story

We started as a small group of senior engineers and architects who were tired of watching promising projects fall apart in production. Over the years we've grown deliberately — never faster than we could hire people we'd trust to write the code we run on.

Today, SALT & FISH LIMITED partners with organisations across financial services, healthcare, logistics and the public sector. We remain independent, engineer-owned, and unusually picky about the work we take on.

Value

Craft

Software is a craft. We hire people who care about the difference between working code and good code.

Value

Ownership

If we ship it, we own it — through deployment, monitoring, incidents and iteration.

Value

Candour

We tell clients what they need to hear, not what they want to hear. It's why they come back.

By the numbers

12+
Years operating
40+
Enterprise builds
99.99%
Target uptime
100%
Client-owned IP

How we operate

  • — Small, senior teams with clear ownership.
  • — Weekly working software in production, not slide decks.
  • — Observability, tests and documentation shipped with every feature.
  • — On-call operations and incident response for the systems we build.
  • — Zero lock-in: your code, your infrastructure, your keys.
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