Varnix Technologies

How We Work

The Varnix CORE Framework

The Varnix CORE Framework — how we take you from idea to production, and keep you there.

The four CORE stages

C

Consult

Business Challenge + High-level Solution Strategy

We start by understanding the real problem: initial engagement, clarifying needs, setting priorities, and defining the project's purpose, goals, and deliverables.

Output: A clear problem statement and high-level solution strategy.

O

Orchestrate

Solution Elaboration & Workshop + UX Architecture

We shape the solution together — architecture, workshops, and user-experience design — before a single line of code is written.

Output: A validated solution design and UX architecture ready to test.

R

Realize

Technical Feasibility / PoC + Development

We prove it works, then build it: proof of concept, technical validation, and the actual development of the solution.

Output: A working, tested system in production-ready form.

E

Evolve

Production Support + ongoing optimization

We don't disappear at go-live. Ongoing production support, monitoring, and optimization keep the system reliable and let it grow with the business.

Output: A stable, evolving system with a clear support model.

The Engagement Path

The 7 concrete steps behind the 4 CORE stages — from first conversation to production support.

1

Idea

Business Challenge

2

Evaluation

High-level Solution Strategy

3

Workshop

Solution Elaboration, Ideation, and Shaping

4

UX

User Experience Architecture

5

PoC

Technical Feasibility, Validation

6

Development

Actual Solution Creation

7

Support

Production

AI-native delivery

We build software with AI coding agents inside a process that keeps people in charge. Agents write and review the code. Our architects and engineers own the requirements, the architecture, the merge and production.

  1. 1

    A work item with acceptance criteria

    Every task is a work item in Azure DevOps with its acceptance criteria. Each repository carries written rules the agent reads before it starts: the architecture, the Definition of Done and what it must never do.

  2. 2

    One item, one branch, one pull request

    The agent builds the change on its own branch and opens a pull request linked to the work item, so every change traces back to a requirement.

  3. 3

    AI review and quality gates

    A second model reviews every pull request, and its findings become tracked tasks. CI runs the tests, coverage gates, and static and security analysis.

  4. 4

    A person merges

    Agents do not merge and do not touch production. An engineer reviews the result and decides what goes in.

  5. 5

    Build once, promote

    The image verified on the development environment is the one promoted to production, with rollback by commit.

~7 weeks

from first commit to production for the CLUB ALL IN platform, with about 1,100 automated backend tests at launch and more than 90% of commits co-authored by AI agents

Read more →1 day

from first commit to production for Varnix Assistant, the AI assistant in our four business systems

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5 systems

of our own put into production in October 2026: time tracking, finance, contracts, HR and the AI assistant

Choose your engagement model

The CORE framework describes what we do at each stage. These four models describe how you can staff and contract it.

ModelHow it worksBest fit
ConsultingOur top experts help your team establish best practices or solve very specific issues.Lightest-touch — can apply within any CORE stage.
Managed ProjectTurnkey fixed-price or T&M project. You approve estimates and any change requests.Best fit for a full C→O→R→E cycle on a defined scope.
Managed TeamFull- or part-time team formed from internal resources for a specific project.Best fit for Realize/Evolve on an ongoing basis.
Extended TeamBuilding or extending a core team according to your needs and requirements. Long-term engagements, 1 year+.Best fit when Evolve becomes a permanent, standing relationship.

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