01Who We Are

CITS, or Cognitive Integrated Technology Services, operates at the intersection of design, engineering and artificial intelligence. We don't ship templates. We compose digital experiences the way ateliers craft couture: deliberately, obsessively, by hand.

Founded
2023
Disciplines
9 practices
Model
Remote-first, worldwide
Team
Senior, no layers
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Operating System

  • Design × Engineering
  • AI-native builds
  • Cloud-first infrastructure
02The Studio

CITS started because the two halves of this work are usually separated by a wall. Design agencies hand static files to engineering teams who reinterpret them. Development shops build what they are told and call the result a product. Both produce something competent and slightly disappointing.

We removed the wall. Designers sit in build reviews, engineers sit in critiques, and the person who presented the concept is the person who ships it. It is a slower way to grow a company and a considerably faster way to finish a project.

From luxury hospitality platforms to AI-native business systems, everything we build is engineered to feel inevitable: fast, fluid and quietly powerful.

Design that seduces. Engineering that scales.

40+

Projects Delivered

12+

Industries Served

98

Avg. Lighthouse Score

24/7

Monitoring & Support

03Principles

These are not values on a wall. Each one has cost us work, which is roughly how you tell the difference.

01

Craft over volume

A few extraordinary builds a year, finished properly. We turn work down rather than run an assembly line, because the alternative shows in the product.

02

Performance is design

Every visual decision is costed in kilobytes and milliseconds during design, not audited after launch. Beauty that loads slowly is a rumour of beauty.

03

Partners, not vendors

We think in years, not invoices. The engagements we are proudest of are the ones still evolving three years after the launch date.

04

Say the honest thing

Honest timelines over pleasant ones. If a cheaper off-the-shelf product would serve you better than a custom build, we will say so and lose the work.

05

One team, no handoffs

Designers sit in build reviews and engineers sit in design critiques. Fidelity erodes in the gap between disciplines, so we removed the gap.

06

Own what you ship

Repositories, infrastructure and documentation live in your accounts from day one. You should never be trapped with us, only choosing to stay.

04Trajectory

A short history, told in the decisions that changed what we do.

  1. 2023

    The studio starts

    CITS begins as a small senior team with a narrow thesis: design and engineering under one roof, and no work we would not sign.

  2. 2024

    Hospitality becomes a specialism

    A run of resort and boutique-hotel platforms turns into genuine domain depth: booking flows, operations and the economics of direct reservations.

  3. 2025

    Staynex ships

    The booking engine we kept rebuilding for clients becomes a product of our own, live and commission-free for independent properties.

  4. 2025

    AI practice formalised

    Retrieval systems, agents and evaluation harnesses move from experiments into a defined practice with its own standards and review process.

  5. 2026

    Staynex PMS enters early access

    Sixteen modules unifying an entire property onto one real-time system of record, onboarding a handful of hotels at a time.

How we run engagements

Senior team, no layers

The people in the kickoff are the people who build it. Nothing is handed to a junior bench after the pitch.

Weekly working demos

Every week you see running software, not a status deck. It is the fastest way to catch a wrong assumption while it is still cheap.

Fixed milestones, flexible scope

Dates hold. Within a milestone, scope is traded openly in the weekly review, so timelines stay honest instead of optimistic.

Written decisions

Architecture and trade-offs are documented as they are made. A year later, the reasoning is still there for whoever needs it.

05The Process

Predictability is a feature. You always know which stage we are in and what it depends on.

  1. 01

    Discover

    Deep-dive workshops to understand your brand, your users and the ambition behind the project.

  2. 02

    Strategy

    Architecture, roadmap and success metrics defined before a single pixel is drawn.

  3. 03

    Design

    Interface design with obsessive detail: motion, depth and storytelling included from day one.

  4. 04

    Development

    Clean, typed, tested code on a modern stack, engineered to scale and a joy to maintain.

  5. 05

    Testing

    Performance, accessibility and edge-case hardening across every device and network.

  6. 06

    Launch

    Zero-drama deployment with monitoring, analytics and rollback plans in place.

  7. 07

    Growth

    Continuous iteration, experiments and AI-driven optimization long after go-live.

06The Difference

A blunt comparison with how this work is usually delivered.

  • Template-based design, recycled layouts

    Handcrafted design systems built around your brand

  • Outsourced, fragmented teams

    One senior team, end to end: design and engineering

  • Slow, opaque timelines

    Weekly demos and transparent milestones

  • Legacy stacks and plugin patchwork

    Modern engineering: Next.js, AI-native, cloud-first

  • Launch, invoice, disappear

    Long-term partnership focused on growth

  • Design or engineering, never both

    Design and engineering under one roof

Sectors

  • Luxury Hospitality
  • SaaS & Enterprise
  • E-Commerce & D2C
  • Professional Services
  • Financial Services
  • Healthcare
  • Logistics
  • Real Estate
  • Education
  • Energy
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Tell us where you want to go. We'll engineer the experience that takes you there, on time and beyond expectations.

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