Six disciplines.
One
black.
Most studios sell engineering. Or design. Or data. We don't.
black.solutions sells the synthesis — the system that arrives
when every discipline is finally in agreement.
14 ENGINEERS
9 IN-FLIGHT ENGAGEMENTS
4 SLOTS · Q3 2026
Discipline 01 · Engineering
The engineering
discipline.
Built like infrastructure, not like a hackathon.
What we ship in this discipline
→Realtime risk engines
→Ledger services
→Service meshes
→ETL backbones
// 12 production platforms shipped · 0 unscheduled rollbacks in 18 months
Discipline 02 · Design
The design
discipline.
The dashboard your operators trust, not your investors squint at.
What we ship in this discipline
→Internal admin panels
→Trading consoles
→Ops review tools
→Incident command UI
// Median task time cut 64% across 9 internal tools we’ve shipped
Discipline 03 · Data
The data
discipline.
Pipelines you can reason about. Models that pay rent.
What we ship in this discipline
→Warehouse migrations
→Feature stores
→LLM eval harnesses
→Pricing systems
// Average TCO down 38% vs. legacy stack on 4 recent migrations
Discipline 04 · Operations
The operations
discipline.
The shipping is the easy part. Running it well is the work.
What we ship in this discipline
→SLO frameworks
→Incident response
→Run-book authoring
→Production reviews
// MTTR cut from hours to 9 minutes on engagements where we own ops
Discipline 05 · Strategy
The strategy
discipline.
Half the value is in the things we talk you out of.
What we ship in this discipline
→Architecture audits
→Vendor-vs-build calls
→Migration roadmaps
→RFC review
// Half our engagements start by talking a client out of building something
Discipline 06 · Security
The security
discipline.
Threat models that survive an actual attack, not just an auditor.
What we ship in this discipline
→Secrets handling
→Authn/Authz design
→Penetration response
→Compliance work
// Zero critical findings across 6 years of partner audits