About
A firm of senior engineers, accountable in writing
DIGI117 is a British Columbia company of senior engineers, based in Vancouver. We take platform moves, MVPs, custom software, AI transitions and rescues, and we place senior engineers inside client teams.
Every engagement is led by senior engineers and reviewed by our founder, who has been making software since 1994. AI agents do the typing from a written spec. An engineer reviews every change, and DIGI117 answers for the result. Our clients are mostly in the US, and across Canada.
Who We Are
DIGI117 Ltd., Vancouver
Digi117 is DIGI117 Ltd., a British Columbia company led by its founder, Vadym Chernega. The core team works from 595 Burrard St in Vancouver, in US and Canadian business hours. Clients in the UK, Europe and Australia agree overlap hours with us per project, in writing.
You deal with the founder and the people doing the work. There are no account managers between you and the engineers. Questions get a direct answer within one business day, and every decision is written down with its reason. For enterprise-scale programs we work with our sister company, Intersog.
- Registered address: 595 Burrard St, Vancouver, BC
- Clients mostly in the US, and across Canada
- Working hours: Monday to Friday, 8 am to 5 pm Pacific
- You deal with the founder and the people doing the work
Get In Touch
- Registered address
- 595 Burrard St, Vancouver, BC V7X 1J2, Canada
- [email protected]
- Phone
- +1 604-210-7720
How The Firm Is Set Up
One company, one contract, one invoice
You contract DIGI117, and DIGI117 answers for the work of everyone it puts on your project. The engineers are not a list of freelancers: we choose them, review their work, and replace anyone who is not a fit. Large programs run together with our sister company, Intersog, under one written agreement.
| What you need | Who you contract | How it works |
|---|---|---|
| A move, an MVP, custom software, AI or a rescue | DIGI117 | Fixed quote in writing after a short first step |
| Senior engineers inside your team | DIGI117 | People proposed within 5 business days, level and rate agreed in writing |
| Large programs, dozens of people across several teams | DIGI117 with Intersog | One written agreement covering both companies |
| A vendor with insurance certificates on file | Intersog holds the contract | Intersog provides the certificates |
| A HIPAA business associate agreement | Intersog holds the contract | Intersog signs the agreement |
Founder
Vadym Chernega
Vadym built his first product at 14 and was paid for one at 16. He has been making software since 1994. He is also co-founder and Head of Growth at Intersog, our sister company, which runs the large programs we take on together.
He reviews every DIGI117 engagement and answers for the result. Clients deal with him and with the engineers doing the work, not with account managers.
Founder facts
- First product built at 14, first paid one at 16
- Making software since 1994
- Founder of DIGI117
- Co-founder and Head of Growth at Intersog
- Reviews every DIGI117 engagement
What We Value
Speed, integrity, clean results
Each value comes with the practices behind it. They are written into how we quote, bill and hand over, so you can check them on any engagement.
Speed
Short meetings, written decisions, and AI agents doing the typing. Status is written before the call, so stand-ups take 10 minutes. We cut waste, not corners.
- 10-minute stand-ups, blockers and decisions only
- Working software in your repository every week
- Parallel agents on code and drafts, from a written spec
Integrity
Prices on the website, quotes in writing, itemised invoices. Estimates carry ranges, and research carries sources and dates. When we are wrong, we say so in writing.
- A written quote before any work starts
- Invoices by person, level and task
- Unquoted work stops until you approve a price
Clean results
Working software you own, with tests, documentation and a runbook. Your team can run and change it without us. No lock-in, no hostage code.
- Code in your repositories from the first commit
- IP transfers to you in full on final payment
- A 30-day warranty on every fix
How We Use AI
Agents type, engineers decide
AI agents write code, tests and first drafts from a written spec with an acceptance list. A senior engineer reviews every diff, and no agent merges its own work. AI features ship with a test set they must pass before anyone trusts them.
Agents shrink the typing, not the thinking. On Peoplarium, our own product, agents cut the estimated founder time for the MVP from about 1,120 hours to about 420. The hours left are specifications, reviews, testing on real phones and decisions.
The rules agents work under
- AI vendors on terms that exclude training on your data
- Model calls only to vendors named in the proposal
- Open-weight models in your cloud or on your site when data cannot leave
- A person reviews every change before it ships
- AI spend capped and billed at cost, on its own invoice line
This Site
How this site is built
The way we recommend building products: static pages, no cookies, no trackers, no third-party scripts. Our website agent writes the pages from source files, and a person reviews every change before it goes live. This site moved off WordPress to these static pages, the same kind of move we sell. Numbers in our research link to their sources; client results are as the client reported them.
Find Us
- linkedin.com/company/digi117
- [email protected]
Join us
We hire senior engineers
We hire people who like working below the framework: infrastructure, low-level code, backends, data, and the agents that now do the typing. Before anyone joins a client, a senior DIGI117 engineer reviews their work on real code. On client teams you use the same agent tooling we use on our own products, with a person reviewing every change.
Send your role, your stack and a link to something you built to [email protected], or use the form.
For your procurement team
Paper, practices, documents
What we sign, how we handle code, data and AI, and the documents we send on request: a sample MSA, security questionnaire answers, a DPA, and insurance certificates through Intersog.
Tell us what is stuck, slow or late.
A senior engineer reads every message and replies within one business day with what we would do first and what it costs. We sign an NDA before any scoping conversation.
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