Digital product agency · Based in Japan

We build AI-native products with the newest tech that actually ships.

DevSkillFirst is a senior engineering team from Japan. We design, build and run AI & LLM applications, modern web and mobile apps, and cloud platforms — for startups and companies worldwide.

🇯🇵 Osaka time (GMT+9) — we overlap with APAC, EU and US hours.
GPT-5 · Claude  LLM apps
Next.js 15  React 19
Kubernetes  Terraform
devskillfirst — zsh
➜ ~/your-product npx create-next-app@latest
# Next.js 15 · React 19 · TypeScript · Tailwind 4
✔ AI agent wired to your data (RAG + MCP)
✔ CI/CD → staging → production (zero-downtime)
✔ Observability, evals & on-call (we run it)
◇ deploy --edge --region=global
➜ shipped in weeks, not quarters
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Years combined experience
Tech stack

The 2026 stack, in production — not on a slide.

We keep our skills on the bleeding edge and pick the boring-reliable parts where it matters. ⚡ = what we're most excited about right now.

AI & Machine Learning

OpenAI GPT-5Claude APIAI AgentsMCPRAGLangGraphLlamaIndexpgvectorPineconeWhisperFine-tuningEvals

Frontend

Next.js 15React 19TypeScriptTailwind CSS 4AstroSvelte 5Viteshadcn/uiThree.jsPWA

Backend & APIs

Node.jsBunPythonFastAPIDjangoGoRusttRPCGraphQLgRPCWebSockets

Mobile

FlutterReact NativeExpoSwiftUIKotlin / ComposeApp Store / Play release

Data & Storage

PostgreSQLSupabaseRedisClickHouseKafkadbtDuckDBS3 / object storage

Cloud, DevOps & QA

AWSGCPCloudflare WorkersVercelDockerKubernetesTerraformGitHub ActionsPlaywrightGrafana
How we work

A process built for shipping.

Short cycles, working software every week, no black boxes — you see the repo, the board and the staging URL from day one.

Discover

A free call to map your goals, constraints and success metrics. You get a clear proposal with scope and price.

Design

UX flows, UI design and technical architecture — validated with you before a line of code is written.

Build

Weekly sprints with demos on a live staging environment. Tested, reviewed, typed code from day one.

Launch

Zero-downtime deployment, monitoring, analytics and store releases — a launch checklist, not a leap of faith.

Grow

SLAs, on-call support, performance tuning and a roadmap of iterations driven by real usage data.

Why DevSkillFirst

Skill first. It's in the name.

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Senior engineers only

Your product is built by experienced developers who own outcomes — not handed to juniors after the kickoff call.

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Japan advantage

World-class engineering from Japan with meticulous, detail-oriented delivery — fluent English and async-friendly communication built in.

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Latest tech, responsibly

We adopt new tools early — AI agents, edge runtimes, modern frameworks — but only ship what's production-ready.

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Transparent delivery

Fixed scope or dedicated team. Weekly demos, shared repo and board, honest estimates. No surprises in the invoice.

Client stories

Teams around the world trust us to ship.

“They shipped our AI assistant to production in six weeks — with evals and guardrails we didn't even know we needed. It just works, and they own it end to end.”
Product LeadSaaS startup · United States
“Senior engineers from day one. The weekly staging demos meant no surprises, and the code we inherited is clean, typed and documented.”
FounderFintech · Singapore
“We came with a rough idea and left with a scalable platform. Honest estimates, fast iterations, and a team that genuinely cares about the outcome.”
CTOLogistics · Australia
Start a project

Have an idea? Let's ship it.

Tell us what you're building. We'll reply within one business day with honest feedback, a rough estimate and the fastest path to a working product.