No junior bench
Nobody learns the work on your budget. The person in the file has done this before.
About
We’ve done this a lot.
GoodCode started in 2020 and has since worked with 75+ security companies across 150+ shipped projects. We take on the dense, consequential work: threat intelligence consoles, detection tooling, security platforms where a wrong screen costs someone their afternoon or their audit, plus the brands and websites those companies go to market with. We have shipped more security products than anyone else in the space.
01 · The workWho we are,
Who we are,
and what we make.
GoodCode is a studio of senior designers and engineers who work directly with product teams at security, AI, and enterprise software companies. Our buyers are technical and their screens are dense, and we like it that way. If you have talked to us, you have talked to the people who will do the work. The people on your calls are the people in your files, not an outsourced team on the other side of the planet.
02 · The founderZero to one,
Zero to one,
on purpose.
Meet Austin McDaniel, our founder and CEO. He has spent over a decade in cybersecurity, helping found companies like Swimlane, the first SOAR platform, and CRFT, which sold to Flashpoint. Before GoodCode there was security and enterprise work for RSA, the Department of Defense, Mastercard, and Archer, among others, plus a run on Google’s Angular open source team building Material Design. Four patents in security product design, and open source work with more than 5,000 stars on GitHub.
After the exit came the pattern: the part worth doing is zero to one, not one to a hundred. Taking a hard product idea and getting it into users’ hands beats scaling the same one forever. GoodCode is that realization made into a company, started in 2020 to do the early, formative product work for other founders, over and over.
03 · How we’re builtSmall on purpose.
Small on purpose.
Senior only.
We are a small team of experts, all based in the USA, who take the craft personally. The shape of the company is deliberate:
No subcontracted delivery
The people who pitch are the people who build. The team you meet on the call is the team doing the work.
No growth target
We take the work we can hold at this standard, and decline the rest. Growth has never been the goal.
04 · Our standardFour things you
Four things you
can hold us to.
Part of your team. We work like an extension of yours: a shared Slack channel with the people doing the work in it, weekly standups, and questions answered the same day.
Standing access. You have standing access to the work in progress, the same file and the same branch we are in. No milestone reveals.
Weekly visible output. Something visible lands every week. If a week produces nothing you can look at, we tell you why before you ask.
You own everything. Including source files and design history, and it transfers without a conversation about it.
05 · In the community
We show up for the space.
We build for the security community, not just in it. We launched hackerparties.com to help people at security conferences find the events worth attending. Some of our internal tooling lives in the open at github.com/reaviz, maintained because we would rather keep it public than rebuild it privately every year.
06 · Where we are
Remote, US-based.
The whole team is in the USA. Registered in Florida, USA, if your procurement or security review needs it in writing.