Common Questions

Anssol is a founder-led software studio building AI, cloud, mobile and web products for clients worldwide. We were founded in 2022 by Muhammad Hasnain and operate from Pakistan with a focused, senior engineering team.

Founders, product teams and engineering organisations who want a small, senior team to ship something specific — an MVP, a Gen-AI feature, a mobile app, a cloud migration. We work best when the brief is concrete and the team on your side is responsive.

No. We're an engineering studio. We design and build software end-to-end, but we don't do brand, PR, or paid media. If you need a full-stack engineering partner, we're a good fit. If you need a marketing agency, we'll happily refer you to one.

A 30-minute discovery call. We listen, ask questions, and either send you a scoped proposal within a few days or refer you to someone who's a better fit. There's no cost for the discovery call.

Both, depending on the engagement. Tightly-scoped work (an MVP, a single feature, a one-off integration) usually goes fixed price. Ongoing or exploratory work goes time-and-materials with a monthly cap. We'll recommend the model that gives you the most predictability for the kind of work you're asking for.

Engagements typically run from a few weeks to a few months. We don't take projects that are smaller than a week (the onboarding overhead doesn't make sense) or larger than what a small senior team can deliver well.

Yes — we'll sign your NDA before the discovery call if your work requires it. Just email hello@anssol.com.

We're based in Pakistan (UTC+5). We work async-first and overlap several hours per day with clients in the US, UK, Europe and the Middle East. For US East Coast we typically have a 4-hour overlap; West Coast, 1-2 hours.

Slack or Microsoft Teams (your choice) for day-to-day, plus a weekly demo/standup video call and async written updates. Project management goes in your tracker (Jira, Linear, Notion, GitHub Projects) — we adapt to where your team already lives.

Engineers. The person scoping the work is the person doing the work. We're small enough that account management doesn't make sense.

You do. All work product is delivered under work-for-hire terms unless we explicitly agree otherwise in writing. You own the IP, the code, the data, and any models trained on your data.

Your repository, your cloud accounts. We work as collaborators on your infrastructure — we don't move your code or data into ours. If you'd rather we set up a sandbox, we can do that too.

Per your team's standards. Typical setup: scoped service accounts or short-lived credentials for cloud access, secrets in your existing vault (1Password, Vault, AWS Secrets Manager, etc.), no production data on developer machines unless explicitly necessary and sanitised.

See our Privacy Policy for how we handle data submitted through this website. For client engagements, data handling is defined in our written agreement and usually mirrors your existing policies and any regulatory requirements that apply (HIPAA, GDPR, SOC 2 controls, etc.).

Frontend: React, Next.js, Vue, Angular, TypeScript. Mobile: Flutter, React Native, native iOS/Android. Backend: Node.js, Python (FastAPI/Django), Laravel/PHP, .NET. Cloud: AWS, Azure, GCP. Data/AI: Python, LangChain, OpenAI/Anthropic APIs, vector databases, RAG. We pick the stack that fits the problem, not the other way around.

Yes — it's a core part of our practice. We've built production RAG systems, AI assistants, agentic workflows, and meeting/documentation tooling. We're comfortable across the stack: prompt engineering, retrieval pipelines, evaluation, cost tracking, and the surrounding application code.

Yes — CI/CD pipelines, infrastructure-as-code (Terraform, Pulumi), Kubernetes, container orchestration, monitoring/observability setup. We're as comfortable wiring up GitHub Actions as we are designing a multi-region serverless architecture.