We’re a development and design studio. We don’t hand your project to freelancers you’ll never meet — the people who scope it are the people building it.
One point of contact for your entire project, even when several of us are working on it.
A fixed price and scope in writing before any work starts — no surprise invoices later.
Weekly updates while the work is underway, so you're never wondering what's happening.
You’ve probably weighed two options before finding us: a big agency that’s reliable but slow and expensive, or a freelancer who’s fast and cheap but disappears halfway through the project. We built NZR Dev Lab to sit in the gap between those two — small enough that the founder is personally involved in every project, structured enough that the work doesn’t stop if one person is out for a week.
We take on a limited number of projects at a time, on purpose, so each one gets real attention instead of being one of forty in a queue.
| WHAT YOU GET | MOST FIT NZR Dev Lab In-house studio | Traditional agency 20–200 people | Freelancers Solo or duo |
|---|---|---|---|
| Founder personally scopes every project | |||
| Weekly updates, one point of contact | |||
| In-house team, never outsourced | |||
| Fixed price & scope before work starts | |||
| Design and engineering, one team | |||
| Support after launch | |||
| You own the code, day one |
We sit down together in an open working session to understand your vision and challenges. You walk away with complete clarity: defined scope, thoughtful risk planning, and fixed, honest pricing.
Before writing a single line of production code, we align on design direction, architecture, and success criteria. We make sure we both share the exact same vision of what 'done' looks like.
We work in transparent two-week cycles with live demos every Friday. You're never left in the dark, and we get real feedback from actual users as early as week three.
We rigorously test performance, stability, and edge cases so your release is stress-free. We only consider a product launch-ready when we know it will run reliably for your users.
Whether you prefer a seamless, well-documented team handoff or an ongoing partnership to keep improving, we’re here to support your long-term success.
Honest thoughts from the teams we build alongside, shared in their own words.
"We had data scattered across seven tools. NZRDEV unified everything and added agents that generate executive reports. Now I make decisions based on this morning’s data, not three weeks ago."
"We used to spend hours sorting leads. Now NZRDEV's WhatsApp agent qualifies and books appointments completely on its own. Our sales reps only speak with people who are ready to buy."
"Our students practice English at any time with AI tutors. We've added enormous perceived value to the training package, without blowing up costs."
"46,000 leads handled without having to hire a single additional sales rep. In the first quarter..."
"Delivery speed like I've never seen before. In 3 weeks they shipped to production what our previous vendor couldn't close in 4 months."
"The financial, pharmacy, and market tables for Libero, Il Giornale, and Il Tempo now publish completely on their own. And the moderation agent keeps comments clean 24/7."
" I thought it was just another AI promise. Instead, the moderation agent understands context, irony, and dialect, and doesn't block legitimate comments. A breakthrough. "
"The AR app changed the festival's UX. No more 'where are the bathrooms?' queries, just thousands of interactions with the hidden holograms. Spectacular."
"They delivered in a few weeks what other vendors needed six months just to scope and analyze. Pragmatic, fast, and remarkably sharp."
"NZRDEV Lab built a voice agent that calls our corporate employees one by one. Honest, anonymous responses at scale. No HR survey can even compete."
"For the first time, we truly understand what our people are thinking. The voice agent's report gave us a level of depth that five years of annual surveys never came close to."
Straight answers, including the uncomfortable ones. If something here doesn't match what we say on a call, hold us to this page.
You see working progress every week, so problems show up while they're still cheap to fix, not on the final day. Your scope is written down before we start, and we keep working on anything that doesn't match it until it does.
Weekly demos, written scopeNo. You get a fixed price and scope in writing before any work starts. The price only changes if you ask for something outside that scope, and even then we quote it and get your approval first. No surprise invoices.
Fixed price in writingNo. Payment is split into milestones tied to work you've actually seen, so you're never paying far ahead of what's been delivered. The milestone schedule is part of the written scope.
Pay as milestones are deliveredOur own in-house team. Nothing is outsourced to freelancers you'll never meet. The founder scopes every project personally and stays on it through delivery, so you always have one accountable person to talk to.
In-house, one point of contactYes, from day one. The code, design files, and accounts are yours, so you're never locked in to working with us. If you ever want to take the project elsewhere, you can.
No lock-inLaunch isn't the end. Every project includes a short handover and a support window of [30 days], where we fix anything that comes up once real users are on it. After that, ongoing support is available if you want it.
Post-launch support includedWe'll tell you on the first call, and point you elsewhere if we can. The scoping call is free and comes with no pitch deck and no obligation. We'd rather lose a project than take one we can't do well.
Free call, no obligationTell us what you’re building. If it’s not a fit, we’ll tell you that too.
