Colombo, Sri Lanka · Taking discovery calls now

The SDLC is dead.
We saw it coming in 2022 — and built what comes next.

Spec-first software delivery for the AI-native era.

We build AI-native software — customer portals, dashboards, field force tools, and internal systems — for businesses that have customers to serve and operations to run. Every product ships with AI built in by default, a written spec you approve before code exists, and a fixed price. Delivered in 2–3 weeks.

The craft behind this studio is 9 years and 120+ shipped products. We closed what we had because we could see what was coming. This is what we built instead.

Book a discovery call → See what we do

Spec-first development is a software delivery methodology where every user journey is mapped and approved in a written specification before any code is written — eliminating the most common cause of project failure. See how it works →

Nine years of delivery. Carried forward.

USAID Colombo Stock Exchange HAL Capital Takso MetJip

What we do

The bottleneck in software delivery is no longer engineering capacity. It’s product clarity. That’s what we sell.

We don’t do everything. We do consulting, MVPs, and maintenance. Every engagement starts the same way: mapping what needs to exist before deciding how to build it.

Build

AI-native software, delivered spec-first. Customer portals, internal tools, dashboards, field force apps, and SaaS MVPs. Every user journey mapped and approved before code exists. AI built in by default. Fixed price. Production-ready in 2–3 weeks.

Consulting + MVPs

Maintain

Website and product retainers. We keep what you’ve built alive, fast, and improving. Monthly. No surprises.

Website + product retainers

Build from $5,000 · Retainers from $600/year · Fixed price throughout

9yrs

Shipping production software

120+

Products built & startups trained

Countries — LK · NL · AU · OM · USA

≤3

People per product. By design.

The team

Two founders.
No filler.

Not a big team pretending to be small. Two people who’ve shipped serious software for a decade and chose to start over with a better model.

Janaka

Founder · CEO · CPO

9 years building software products across 5 countries for USAID, the Colombo Stock Exchange, and 120+ others. In 2025 I closed a profitable 40-person agency because I could see its model dying. specshop.dev is what I built instead. Thinking in public about what AI actually does to product teams.

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Tiran

Co-founder · CTO

A decade architecting systems for financial services, government, and consumer platforms. Architects the delivery pipeline and the boundary system that keeps AI-agent builds safe to ship. The person most likely to catch what everyone else missed — before it becomes a production incident.

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Industry takeApr 2026

The MVP is dead. Vibe coding killed it.

The Minimum Viable Product was a constraint from a scarcity era. AI collapsed that constraint. What replaces it is not a smaller MVP — it’s a different thing entirely.

Industry takeMar 2026

The SDLC is dead. What comes next isn’t what you think.

We said it would happen by 2030. It happened in 2026. Traditional consulting is over — not because it got bad, but because the physics changed.

MethodologyFeb 2026

Why a 3-person team is enough for any product

Not a limitation. A design principle. When the spec is tight and the tools are right, team size stops being the constraint. Complexity is.

Have a portal to build? A system to modernise? A product to keep alive?

30 minutes. We’ll tell you what it would cost, how long it would take, and whether we’re the right fit. If we’re not, we’ll say so — and point you in the right direction.

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The SDLC is dead. We saw it coming in 2022 — and built what comes next.