*Bushidō is a moral code concerning samurai attitudes, behavior, and lifestyle.
We design
and build
digital products
with a code.
An AI-native product studio for founders and visionaries. A product team of builders, raised in startup action and shipping products of our own, running agentic workflows that turn months into weeks. The speed is new. The standard is not.
5.0 on Clutch · Shipping since 2017 · Novi Sad, Serbia
You have a vision?
Bushido helps you transform that vision into reality, from research to product delivery.
No handoffs. No middlemen. One team, the whole product.
What does Bushido do?
Bushido is a boutique, AI-native digital product studio in Novi Sad, Serbia. We design and build software end to end — product strategy, UX and UI design, web and mobile engineering, backend, smart contracts and AI features — for founders and product teams. Since 2017 we have shipped fintech, Web3 and marketplace products for clients across the US, UK and EU. A product team of builders, not a dev shop — we ship our own products alongside our partners’.
Product & design
Decide before you build
Discovery, product definition, UX and UI. We shape the thing before we make it, so the first release answers a real question instead of guessing at one.
Where most engagements start
MVPs that survive their own success
Web, mobile and backend in TypeScript, React, React Native, Next.js, Node, Python and AWS. Built to be extended, not thrown away the week after the pitch lands.
Harden
Prototype to production
Your demo works. Production is a different animal. Architecture, auth, data model, tests, CI and observability — until it can carry real users and real money.
AI
AI features and agents in your product
Retrieval, evaluations, guardrails, human-in-the-loop. We build the AI layer the way we build everything else: with something to measure it against before it meets a user.
Migrate
Webflow and WordPress to Astro
Off the page builder, onto Astro. Static-fast pages, real Core Web Vitals, semantic HTML, structured data that answer engines can actually read — and a repository you own outright.
Web3
Smart contracts and on-chain products
Solidity, ERC-20 and ERC-721, wallet flows, custody, on-chain provenance. We shipped a crypto-to-fiat gateway and a token rewards marketplace, both live.
The tools changed. The standard did not.
*An agentic workflow is one where AI does the work and a builder who has shipped before decides what “done” means.
What does AI-native actually mean here?
Bushido has always run small and fast — builders, no layers, no handoffs. AI did not replace that, it armed it. We run agentic workflows across discovery, design exploration, implementation, code review, test generation and documentation, so most of each week goes into architecture and product judgement rather than typing. The practical result: scope that used to need a floor of twelve, delivered by three.
We are a product team, not a development shop. We were raised in startup action and we build products of our own, so when we tell you to cut a feature it is because we have already paid for that mistake ourselves.
Speed is the easy part. Anyone can generate a thousand lines an hour; the discipline is knowing which ten to keep. Every line an agent writes is read by a builder who will still be here when it breaks.
We do not ship what we have not read. We do not hand over a codebase nobody on the team can explain. And we will tell you when the fastest path is the wrong one.
Partnerships we seek
*in our unwavering quest for triumph.
Building your first Product as a Founder should feel special.
You likely have an innovative idea but lack a clear plan and technical knowledge to bring it to life.
At Bushido, we understand the unique challenges that startups face and are committed to helping you turn your vision into reality.
Self-funding it or having a limited budget you need someone you can trust they will go above and beyond to make it happen.
Trust is everything in a startup partnership, which is why we go above and beyond to earn and maintain your trust. With our transparent communication, agile development process, and commitment to quality, you can be confident that your product is in good hands.
As a tech-savvy professional, you understand the power of technology to transform industries and create new opportunities but need a team who can execute an idea for you without holding hands.
At Bushido, we share that passion and are committed to helping you build innovative products and services that leverage the latest technology trends.
Whether you need help with MVP development, emerging technologies like blockchain and AI, or full-scale product launch, we can be your partners.
As a Chief Technology Officer or Chief Operating Officer, you know the value of having a talented team of developers and product designers on your side.
We offer product team augmentation and mixed team models, so you can leverage our expertise to scale your development capabilities quickly and efficiently. Whether you need help with a specific project or are looking to expand your development team, we are here to help.
"The warrior's path is a lifelong journey of self-improvement, guided by the bonds we forge with others."
Business
Tech
Our desire is
to see visionaries win.
A few of the products we have shipped; others stay under NDA. Open any of them.
OccamStrataBusiness automation
70% less time on manual tasks.
70%less staff time
A single source of truth in Airtable for OccamStrata, an owners corporation (strata) manager in Melbourne that had just acquired a property management company. In three months one Bushido automation engineer designed the database, migrated the records out of Urbanise with Python, kept Urbanise's financial functions through a two-way sync, and replaced manual follow-ups with Airtable's built-in JavaScript automations.
- 70%less staff time on routine work: 40 hours a week down to 12
- 2 hor less to answer an owner or tenant, down from two days
- 30%lower staff costs
SWANSMVP · Booking marketplace
Invite-only booking for Hollywood’s beauty talent, in two months.
2 monthsbrief to MVP
SWANS is an invite-only platform where Hollywood stars and their managers find and book elite hair and makeup artists. Two Bushido full-stack engineers took it from brief to a launch-ready MVP in two months: architecture and UX, invitation-gated sign-up with Clerk, artist profiles and portfolios, search by name and skill, availability and direct booking, and Stripe payments from booking to checkout. Stack: Airtable, Next.js, Clerk, Tailwind and Stripe.
- 2 monthsfrom brief to an MVP ready to launch
- 2full-stack engineers, design and architecture included
ENS HQWeb3 marketplace
An exclusive ENS marketplace, built in three weeks.
3 weeksbrief to live
A dedicated marketplace where ENS brokers sell .eth domains on behalf of their holders, with offers found nowhere else. Two Bushido developers built the storefront, admin page, marketplace smart contract and backend in three weeks. Offer requests stay off-chain so the platform pays no gas, holders stay owners until a sale, and an admin signature checked in the contract stops anyone changing the agreed price. Stack: Solidity on Ethereum, Next.js, Moralis Streams, MongoDB, Alchemy and Primer.
- 3 weeksfor the storefront, admin page, smart contract and backend
- 45 minof discovery call was the whole brief; work started within a week
- $0in infrastructure: built within the free tiers of Moralis, MongoDB and Alchemy
Basketball NFTsDynamic NFTs · Live sport
6,400 NFTs that played a real basketball tournament, live.
6,400live tokens
A collection of 6,400 dynamic NFTs that followed TBT, The Basketball Tournament, as it was played: 100 tokens for each of its 64 teams, each showing its team’s live score or next opponent. When a team was eliminated, its tokens turned into participation trophies, until only the champion’s 100 remained. Two Bushido developers built the smart contracts, backend and free, whitelist-only mint page in two months. Stack: Solidity, Hardhat and OpenZeppelin on Ethereum, Next.js, and SST on AWS.
- 6,400dynamic NFTs: 100 for each of the tournament’s 64 teams
- 100left standing at the end; every other token became a participation trophy
- 2 monthsfor the smart contracts, backend and mint page
Daily NFT auctionOn-chain generative art · DAO
Fully on-chain NFTs, 1,000× cheaper to mint.
1,000×cheaper to mint
A generative NFT collection that lives entirely on Ethereum and mints a new token only on days the ETH price rises, read from a Chainlink price feed. The stronger the run, the rarer the token. Each one is auctioned for a day, and most of the proceeds go to a Nouns-style DAO whose holders vote on how to spend them. One Bushido developer built it in four months, and SVG fragment reuse made minting 1,000× cheaper.
- 1,000×lower minting cost, by reusing SVG fragments instead of storing repeated art
- 0off-chain storage: no IPFS, no server — art, metadata and DAO live on Ethereum
- 1developer, four months, from contracts to DAO
ProsopoTeam augmentation · Polkadot
Bot protection for Polkadot, built from inside Prosopo’s team.
9 monthsembedded
Prosopo is a low-trust human verification system that lets Polkadot dapps detect and block bots without relying on a centralised third party. After Prosopo won a Web3 Foundation grant, a Bushido developer joined its team from January to September 2022 to add capacity: smart contracts in Rust with ink!, a Substrate validator node for the parachain that verifies captchas, and frontend and backend work with Polkadot.js, Node.js, MongoDB and Docker.
- 9 monthsembedded in Prosopo’s team, January to September 2022
- 1Bushido developer across smart contracts, a Substrate node, frontend and backend
CachePayFintech · Payments
Crypto in, fiat out in under 10 minutes.
10 mincrypto to fiat
CachePay is a payment platform that lets e-commerce merchants accept cryptocurrency and get paid in fiat in under 10 minutes, so crypto volatility never reaches them. Bushido designed and built it in six months with three developers and a delivery manager: a three-sided web app for consumers, merchants and admins, a WooCommerce checkout plugin, and B2C2 and Fireblocks integrations. Stack: React, Hasura GraphQL, Criipto, SST on AWS CDK, and AWS Lambda, API Gateway, Cognito, S3 and CloudFront.
- 10 minor less from a crypto payment to fiat settlement
- 10 minor less to onboard a merchant, KYC included
- 12 + 3cryptocurrencies and fiat currencies supported
AnyoneGroupTwo-sided marketplace
Prototype to launched marketplace in six months.
6 monthsprototype to launch
AnyoneGroup is a global two-sided marketplace where buyers join groups anonymously to unlock group discounts in any industry. Bushido took a clickable prototype to a launched product in six months with a CTO and three developers: storefront, backend, buyer and seller dashboards, an admin dashboard for onboarding approvals, payments charged only when a group fills, and product analytics. Stack: Next.js, Hasura GraphQL, PostgreSQL, Stripe Connect, Shopify API, SST, TalkJS, TaxJar, Octobat and AWS.
- 6 monthsfrom a clickable prototype to a launched marketplace
- 4people: a CTO and three developers
- 5,000products imported from Shopify, with variants and images
CatbloxERC-20 token · Marketplace
Backend rebuilt in three weeks when the platform under it changed.
3 weeksbackend rebuilt
Bushido designed and shipped an ERC-20 utility token, CatNip, and a marketplace where Catblox Genesis holders spend it on digital offers. Rewards are distributed according to how long a holder has held, giving the token a real use rather than a speculative one. Four months, two developers and a delivery manager. Stack: Solidity on Polygon and Ethereum, Next.js, Tailwind, Moralis Streams, Hasura, and AWS Lambda, API Gateway, CloudFront, S3 and Lambda@Edge.
- 3 weeksto rebuild the backend and database when Moralis went SDK-only
- 4 monthsfrom brief to a live token and marketplace
- 0gas paid by holders, except to burn a Metaportals NFT on Ethereum
Stealth modeWeb3 gallery · Physical art
Provenance for physical art, free for the collector.
$0for the collector
Bushido designed and built a Web3 gallery that links physical artworks to on-chain provenance, so collectors can verify and trade real-world art backed by NFTs with upgradeable metadata. Four months, two and a half developers and a delivery manager. It includes smart contracts, a backend, the gallery storefront and an admin dashboard. Stack: Next.js, Tailwind, Solidity on Polygon, Hardhat, OpenZeppelin, Moralis, Infura, MongoDB, Retool, SST and AWS Lambda@Edge, S3 and CloudFront.
- $0for a collector to register, verify or trace an artwork; the platform pays the gas
- 4 monthsfrom chain research to a finished gallery, storefront and back office
FlurCreator platform · NFTs
A creator platform live in eight weeks.
8 weeksidea to live
Flur is a Patreon-style platform where content creators turn posts into collectible NFT editions and sell them at very low unit cost, for example 1,000 editions at one dollar each. Bushido designed and built the web application, the smart contracts and the backend across two iterations of three and five weeks, with two developers and a delivery manager. Stack: TypeScript, Solidity, Next.js, Node.js, Prisma, Postgres, Moralis, Alchemy and AWS.
- 8 weeksto launch, across two iterations of three and five weeks
- $1editions: a creator can sell a thousand collectibles at a dollar each
- Minutesto onboard a creator, with invite codes and Twitter sign-up
ShovelStudent CRM · Web and mobile
A calendar, to-do list and study planner in one, for students.
Shovel is a personal CRM for students that brings a calendar, a to-do list and a study planner into one app. Bushido scaled its web and mobile apps. In the words of Petr P., Shovel’s CEO: “They were able to scale our web app and our mobile app. One of the things that we appreciate the most is that they are honest and they give us ideas about how to improve our entire system.”
Read the Shovel case study (PDF) →Straight answers. No discovery call required.
What does Bushido do?
Bushido is a boutique, AI-native digital product studio in Novi Sad, Serbia. We design and build software end to end - product strategy, UX and UI design, web and mobile engineering, backend, smart contracts and AI features - for founders and product teams. We are a product team of builders rather than a development shop: raised in startup action, shipping our own products since 2017 as well as our partners’.
Is Bushido a design agency or a development agency?
Both, and that is the point. Product strategy, UX and UI design and engineering sit in one small team, so the people making design decisions are the people who will build them. Nothing is thrown over a wall, because there is no wall.
What does it mean that Bushido is AI-native?
It means agentic workflows run through the whole delivery process: discovery and research, design exploration, implementation, code review, test generation and documentation. Most of each week goes into architecture and product judgement instead of typing. Scope that used to need twelve people is delivered by three.
Do you use AI agents to write our code?
Yes, under review. Agents draft, refactor, generate tests and write documentation. A builder on the team reads every line before it merges and owns it afterwards. We do not ship code nobody on the team can explain, and we will not hand you a repository you cannot maintain.
Do you build AI features and agents into products?
Yes. Retrieval, evaluations, guardrails and human-in-the-loop review, built the same way we build everything else - with something to measure it against before it reaches a user. AI that cannot be evaluated is a demo, not a feature.
Can Bushido take our proof of concept or prototype to production?
Yes, and it is one of the things we do most often. We harden a working prototype into a production system: architecture, authentication and authorisation, a real data model, automated tests, CI/CD and observability, so it can carry real users, real data and real money. AnyoneGroup went from clickable prototype to launched marketplace in six months.
Do you migrate websites from Webflow to Astro?
Yes. We move marketing sites off Webflow, WordPress and other page builders onto Astro. You get static-fast pages and genuine Core Web Vitals, clean semantic HTML, structured data that search and answer engines can read, a redirect map that protects your rankings, and a codebase your own team can extend.
What kinds of products has Bushido built?
Fintech, Web3 and marketplace products. CachePay, a crypto-to-fiat payment gateway for e-commerce merchants. An ERC-20 utility token and digital-offer marketplace for Catblox. Flur, a Patreon-style platform where creators sell collectible editions. AnyoneGroup, a two-sided marketplace for group discounts. And a Web3 gallery tying physical artworks to on-chain provenance.
How small is small, and why does it matter?
Most engagements run with two to four builders plus a delivery manager. Small is not a limitation we apologise for, it is the reason decisions take minutes instead of meetings - and being AI-native is what lets a team that size take on a scope that used to need a floor.
Where is Bushido based and which time zones do you work in?
Novi Sad, Serbia, in Central European Time. We work across EU and UK business hours and overlap with US Eastern most afternoons.
How do we start working together?
Book a 30-minute call or email vision@bshdo.co. The first call is with an engineer rather than a salesperson, and its only job is to work out whether this is a problem we are the right team for. If it is not, we will say so.
At Bushido we build with purpose and speed.
Builders, agentic tooling and bushi principles — so the thing you imagined ships while it still matters.
How we work
Ready to achieve your vision?
We are here to help.
The harder
the problem,
the better
Bring us something difficult.
Thirty minutes with an engineer, not a salesperson, to work out whether we are the right team for it. If we are not, we will say so.