Software consulting · Since 2008
Everything compiles
when we're done with it.
DoesNotCompile is a software consulting company for teams that need working software, not more meetings. Custom builds, AI-driven delivery, and rescues that actually ship.
$ dnc build --with-ai→ analyzing legacy codebase… done→ 214 tests passing✓ build succeeded — shipping
Why clients call
Sound familiar?
The deadline moved. Twice.
The launch that was promised last quarter is still "two weeks out." Somebody needs to find out why — and fix it.
Your team is at capacity.
Keeping the lights on takes everything they have. The new build everyone agrees matters never actually starts.
The codebase fights back.
Every change breaks two other things. "We'll clean it up later" has become the oldest ticket in the backlog.
AI is on the roadmap. Nobody owns it.
Leadership wants it, the vendors oversell it, the team is skeptical — and nothing has shipped yet.
Typical rescue
90 days
from "it's stalled" to shipped & in users' hands
These aren't edge cases — they're most of our first calls.
What we do
Four ways we get you to shipped.
01AI-Driven Development
Copilots, agents, and AI-accelerated delivery that holds up in production — not just in the demo.
→02Custom Software
Web, mobile, and SaaS designed around your business — built to be maintained, not just launched.
→03Cloud & DevOps
Infrastructure and CI/CD that make releases boring. Boring releases are the goal.
→04Consulting & Rescue
Architecture reviews, modernization, rescues. If it's on fire, we've seen this fire before.
→Where we've shipped
Ten industries. One habit: learn the business before writing the code.
- Financial Services
- Insurance
- Logistics
- E-commerce
- Media
- Education
- Construction
- Aviation
- Healthcare
- Government
How we work
No fifty-page process doc. Just three habits.
Start fast
First working session in days, not weeks. We come back with a point of view — not a deck of options.
Build the right thing
Senior judgment from day one, small iterations, working software every week.
Stay past launch
"It works in staging" is not the finish line. We stick around until it works for real users.
The company
Built on 25 years of shipping.
DoesNotCompile is led by Miguel Gonzalez — writing software professionally since 1998 and running this consultancy since 2008. Along the way: two more consulting firms co-founded (HubSharp Solutions and Inventive), clients from startups to the Fortune 500, a stint as a certified bootcamp instructor, a book for programmers, and an ASP Insider nod.
And the name? Every project starts broken. The job — the whole job — is getting it to build, ship, and stay shipped. We named the company after the problem because we're in the business of the solution.
Get in touch
Tell us what you're building.
Or what's refusing to build. Either way you'll get a straight answer about how we'd approach it — from people who have shipped this kind of thing before.
Forms not your thing? miguel@doesnotcompile.com