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steelabs

About the company

A technology partner, not a vendor

Who we are

We are based in Warsaw and work with companies across the European Union — most often teams in Germany, the Netherlands, the Nordics, the UK and Ireland who need engineering or quality capacity that operates inside their working day rather than after it.

That overlap is the practical argument for nearshore, and it matters most for quality work. Testers generate questions continuously — is this a defect or intended, does this edge case matter, is this data realistic — and a question that waits overnight for an answer is a tester idling and a defect found a day late. Central European Time removes that tax for most of Europe.

Being inside the EU settles the other half. GDPR applies natively rather than through standard contractual clauses, and personal data never has to leave the bloc. For anyone testing against production-like data in healthcare, finance or HR, that removes an entire category of legal review before the work starts.

What we actually do spans building and breaking. We develop custom websites and web applications, we test software the way real users abuse it, we build automation frameworks that turn a multi-day regression pass into minutes of CI feedback, and we assess applications against OWASP standards before someone less friendly does.

Clients tend to arrive at one of three moments: an enterprise deal that suddenly requires security evidence, a release process that has quietly become the bottleneck, or a website that undersells the company standing behind it. In each case the job is the same — fix the problem, document the fix, and hand over something the in-house team can own without us.

Principles

How we decide when nobody is watching

Quality is a property, not a phase

Testing bolted on at the end finds problems too late to fix cheaply. We treat reliability, security and maintainability as design inputs from day one — whether we are building the software or assessing someone else’s.

Honesty over optimism

Estimates you can plan around, risks surfaced early, and a clear “no” when a request works against your interests. Comfortable news that turns out false is more expensive than uncomfortable news that turns out true.

Handover as a goal, not a threat

We measure success by how well your team operates what we deliver without us. Documentation, readable code and training are part of the work — not billable extras.

Commitments

Six things every client can hold us to

01Engineering and QA under one roof
We build software and we break software for a living. That dual perspective means what we deliver is designed to be testable, and what we test is judged by people who know how it was built.
02Security is part of delivery, not an add-on
OWASP-aware thinking runs through everything we ship, from how a contact form handles input to how an API enforces access control. Security testing is a service. Security awareness is a default.
03Senior attention on every project
The people you meet in the first call are the people doing the work. No handoff to a junior bench, no account-manager relay between you and the answers.
04Transparent scope, honest estimates
Written proposals with explicit scope and price before work begins. If something threatens the timeline, you hear it from us first, with options rather than excuses.
05Documentation-first handover
Everything we deliver is documented, from the code to the test frameworks to the reports, so your team can own it without us. Dependence on a vendor is a defect, and we do not ship defects knowingly.
06Built for the long term
Defined support windows on every project and optional retainers after. We would rather be your technology partner for years than your vendor for one invoice.

Contact

Let's find out if we fit

A 30-minute conversation costs nothing and usually saves weeks. Bring the problem; we'll bring the questions.