Ampersand Labs Verified Company

Ampersand — a small engineering studio in Zürich

We turn ideas into products people actually use, and we stay around to look after the ones already running in your customers' hands.

Everything we take on is led by a senior engineer you speak to directly — the same person who writes the code, sits in the planning call and answers when something breaks at an inconvenient hour. Around that core we draw on a network of senior freelancers we've worked with since 2019. No account managers relaying messages, no offshoring, no polite suggestion in month eleven that the whole thing needs rebuilding.

Six ways to work with us

Development — Websites, web apps, mobile apps, platforms and MVPs, architected so year two costs less than year one instead of more.

Rent-a-CTO — A part-time senior technical lead who decides what to build and what to skip, reviews what you already have, hires your first engineers and holds their own in an investor room.

Monthly Support — Steady care for live software: bugs, performance, security patches and the small features that keep piling up. WordPress and Laravel very welcome.

Idea-to-Product Guidance — Weekly one-to-one sessions that take a rough idea and push it, week by week, until it's live.

Consultancy & Audits — Architecture reviews, technical due diligence, AI and security assessments, delivered as reports that end in a to-do list rather than a slide deck.

AI Masterclass — Half- or full-day facilitation that cuts past the hype and sends your team home with a concrete 30-day plan.

Our toolbox runs on Laravel, Vue/Nuxt, WordPress, Statamic, n8n and modern AI and MCP integrations, with Swiss hosting when data residency matters. Founders, brands and public institutions trust us with it — among them Die Mitte, Stadt Zürich, Wirz, Mikron, Arthouse Kinos and the City of Lugano.

Tell us where you are and where you want to be. We'll show you the shortest honest route there — or tell you plainly that we're not the right studio for the job.