Rapid-application platform for government departments
A citizen bill-payment MVP shipped in 45 days that doubled as the first tenant of a multi-tenant rapid-application platform — six primitives (identity, lookup, payment, workflow, audit, tenant) composable into any government department's citizen-facing app.
Skills & Technologies
The shape of the engagement
45 days
Kickoff to MVP live
13
CodeFellow team at peak
6
Platform primitives
0
Rebuilds per new department
We were hired to ship a citizen bill-payment MVP. Three weeks in, the partner's CTO asked how long a second department's portal would take — and the honest answer rewrote the engagement. The MVP became the first tenant of a rapid-application platform built on six primitives: identity, lookup, payment, workflow, audit, and tenant. Each is a Laravel package; a department app is a declarative composition of those, plus whatever raw Laravel the department actually needs.
We shipped the MVP in 45 days flat without letting the platform delay the launch. The platform deliberately avoids being a low-code prison: configuration is PHP, every primitive is Laravel underneath, multi-tenancy is a day-one primitive, and there are escape hatches everywhere. It's leverage, not a jail.