Software house in Milan

We build digital products you can measure

Sites, apps, e-commerce and custom software for companies that want to grow on data, not on gut feeling.

Flying Squid

Companies that already chose us

  • Meridian
  • Atelier Verde
  • Nordlys
  • Kern & Co.
  • Bellandi
  • Studio Otto
  • Verdeprint
  • Altaforma

How we work

A method you can verify sprint after sprint

No surprises, no software that breaks in production, no vendor that disappears.

  1. 01Week 1

    Listening and analysis

    A workshop with the people who will use the project. We map the real process, the implicit rules and the constraints, and we define the measurable objective.

  2. 02Weeks 2-3

    Design and prototype

    Wireframes, design and a navigable prototype. You approve something real, with your data inside it, not a slide to fill in.

  3. 03Weeks 4-9

    Development in sprints

    Two-week sprints with a demo at the end of each. The software you see in the demo is running, not a mockup.

  4. 04Week 10+

    Release and growth

    Deploy, monitoring, team training and an optimisation plan for the months that follow.

In numbers

Fifteen years of results, not of promises

15+
years of experience

Since 2010, across digital products, e-commerce and back-office systems.

120+
projects delivered

From a single-page site to the back office of a manufacturing group.

98%
clients who renew

The most important projects come from clients who come back.

2
founders, zero middlemen

Whoever talks to you is who works on your project.

Why us

Four reasons clients renew with us

Founders who work

Yuri and Fabrizio do not just attend meetings: they are in the repository, in the sprint reviews and in the project calls.

Prices that do not explode

Fixed price when we can, a spending cap when we cannot. No undeclared extra costs.

Deliveries on a known schedule

Agreed milestones, a demo at the end of each sprint, release dates communicated upfront and respected.

Maintenance included in the first months

After go-live we stay with you to cover bugs, small requests and the first period of real use.

The problem first, then the technology

We do not pitch a stack: we propose a solution. The technical choice comes later, and it comes for reasons, not out of habit.

We measure everything we claim

Performance, conversions, delivery times: the numbers we quote come from the systems, not from impressions.

The code is always yours

Repository in your account, licences agreed in writing and documentation that does not live only in our heads.

We talk straight, even when silence would pay

If a project makes no sense, we say so. If a budget is not enough, we say it before starting, not afterwards.

They say

The word from our clients

We had a site that generated no leads and a vendor that never answered. In six weeks Flying Squid rebuilt everything, and above all explained what they were measuring. Now we decide with data.
Marco BertoliniSales Director · Manufacturing group
They told us our ERP was not enough and that the problem was not the ERP but the process. They were right. The new system removed twelve spreadsheets.
Elena RivaOperations Manager · Retail network
What made the difference was transparency. Every two weeks an honest report, even when things were going badly. That had never happened with other vendors.
Andrea VillaCEO · Fintech startup
We launched the app in eleven weeks. The code is clean, the pipeline works and our team can ship every week without asking for anything.
Giulia FerrettiProduct Manager · Retail scale-up

Frequently asked questions

The questions we get most often

How does a project start with you?
With a thirty-minute call. You describe the context, we ask two or three uncomfortable questions about why and about budget. If it makes sense, we propose a free two-week audit; if it does not, we say so and point you to whoever can help.
How much does a website cost?
A campaign landing page starts at 4,000 euros, a complete corporate site from 12,000. The price is closed after the first meeting, in writing, with milestones listed.
How much does a mobile app cost?
An MVP with essential features starts at 18,000 euros. A full app with accounts, payments, a backend and annual maintenance sits between 45,000 and 120,000 euros.
Do you give fixed-price quotes?
Fixed price, yes, when requirements are stable. If they are not, we work on a time and materials basis with an agreed spending cap. In both cases there are no surprise invoices at the end of the project.
Are you a software house or an agency?
A software house. We design and build software: sites, apps, platforms, back-office systems. An agency buys attention and produces content; we build products that keep working for years.
Which languages do you work in?
In Italian and English, for projects, documentation and interfaces. For anything else it depends on the market: we also work with teams in other languages when the project requires it.

Blog

Engineering and product notes

We write about what works and what does not.

Product

What custom software actually costs

Why a quote for an ERP cannot be a single number, and what a fixed-price estimate really hides.

Fabrizio Offredi7 min

Got a project in mind?

Thirty minutes of call and an honest assessment of your context. No commitment, no sales deck.