A design practice that sees you.
Califa speaks your language, knows how your team works, and invests time in the things you care about. Our platform has generated software by hand for decades, long before AI.
Decades of experience
Califa is language agnostic and has been deep in implementation since day one, even shipping new features fully autonomously.
- QBasic
- Visual Basic
- Assembly
- C++
- HTML
- JavaScript
- .NET
- PHP
- CSS
- SQL
- Java
- Processing
- Ruby
- Bash
- Python
- Backbone
- Ember
- React
- Vue
- Plain English
Shipped with context.
Califa designs with the whole stack in view, so specs survive contact with production.
- Architecture
- Flows drawn along the service boundaries that actually exist (or new services suggested).
- Data structures
- Interfaces shaped around the real data model, empty and edge cases included.
- Storage
- Knows what gets persisted, where, and what it costs to change later.
- Latency
- Loading, optimistic and partial states designed up front.
- Reliability and uptime
- Error, retry and degraded states specced before the first incident.
- Deployment
- Feature flags, staged rollouts and migrations planned alongside the UI.
- Governance
- Permissions, audit trails and compliance treated as design constraints.
- The modern PDLC
- A deep understanding of how product gets built today, and how they’ll be built tomorrow.
“Califa is a category leader. High completeness of vision and high ability to execute.”
Leveraged by leading developer brands
DigitalOcean used Califa to build its most complex systems, improve instrumentation, create the Buoy design system from scratch, and build a high-performing 11-person product and brand organization.
GitHub deployed Califa to manage its entire Coding space across Repos, PRs, and Codespaces. Example ships include commit co-authors, suggested changes, draft PRs, CI visibility, file review tracking, the Code button, stacked PRs, and more.
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