illumik
Q2 · 2026 — taking on 2 partnershipsMilano · Remote · Worldwide

We build the
software that
outlives a launch.

illumik is a product engineering studio for serious operators. We design, build, and operate revenue-grade web and mobile platforms — the kind that quietly run a business for ten years.

Founded
2019 · Milano
Engagements
12 · enterprise & scale-up
Reliability
99.98% · five-year average
Disciplines
Strategy · Design · Engineering
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— Capabilities

A studio with the shape of a department.

Six disciplines, one team. We embed alongside your operators and ship in the same repo — not over the fence. Pricing is monthly, scoped quarterly, and aligned to outcomes you can read on a P&L.

01

Product Strategy

We start where strategy ends and execution begins. Roadmaps tied to revenue, not features.

DiscoveryPricing modelsRoadmapOKRs
02

Design Systems

Tokenized, themable, accessible. A design system that survives the team that built it.

TokensAccessibilityMotionDocumentation
03

Web Platforms

Customer portals, admin consoles, marketplaces. Edge-rendered, observability built in.

Next.jsTypeScriptPostgresEdge
04

Mobile Applications

Native iOS and Android products that feel inevitable in the user’s hand.

SwiftUIKotlinReact NativeASO
05

AI Integrations

Production LLM features with evaluation harnesses, guardrails, and a path to ROI.

RAGAgentsEvalsCost
06

Engineering Operations

CI, security, SLOs, on‑call. We don’t hand off the keys until the engine purrs.

DevExSRESecuritySOC 2
— Selected work

Quiet products doing loud numbers.

Open archive
— Engagement

Four acts. One commitment.

We work in named acts, not vague phases. Each act has a deliverable that survives the engagement — a system map, a design system, a runbook — so the value compounds even if we part ways at the curtain.

IAct 1

Diagnose

A two‑week paid engagement to map the system, the operators, and the constraints. We come back with the smallest first move that compounds.

Deliverables
  • System map
  • Risk register
  • Six‑month roadmap
IIAct 2

Design

Token‑first design system, three flow studies, and a clickable prototype your customers will sit through without coffee.

Deliverables
  • Design system v1
  • Flow studies
  • Hi‑fi prototype
IIIAct 3

Build

Ship in fortnightly slices. CI, observability, and security are present from week one — not bolted on at launch.

Deliverables
  • Sprint demos
  • Staging access
  • SLO targets
IVAct 4

Operate

A 90‑day operating window after launch. We hold the pager. We hand it back when the metrics hold themselves.

Deliverables
  • On‑call rotation
  • Postmortems
  • Handoff doc
IAct 1

Diagnose

A two‑week paid engagement to map the system, the operators, and the constraints. We come back with the smallest first move that compounds.

Deliverables
  • System map
  • Risk register
  • Six‑month roadmap
IIAct 2

Design

Token‑first design system, three flow studies, and a clickable prototype your customers will sit through without coffee.

Deliverables
  • Design system v1
  • Flow studies
  • Hi‑fi prototype
IIIAct 3

Build

Ship in fortnightly slices. CI, observability, and security are present from week one — not bolted on at launch.

Deliverables
  • Sprint demos
  • Staging access
  • SLO targets
IVAct 4

Operate

A 90‑day operating window after launch. We hold the pager. We hand it back when the metrics hold themselves.

Deliverables
  • On‑call rotation
  • Postmortems
  • Handoff doc
— By the numbers
€340M
Customer revenue we operate software for
across 12 active engagements
99.98%
Five‑year average uptime
across all production systems
WCAG 2.2 AA
Accessibility floor
audited externally each quarter
< 1.6s
Median LCP shipped
p75 across all customer‑facing surfaces

We hired illumik to ship a console; we got a permanent operating capability. Two years on, the system they designed is still the most legible piece of software we own — and the cheapest one to evolve.

Margherita Conti
VP Operations · Northwind Treasury
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— Trusted by operators at —
NORTHWIND
LUME
ATLAS 3PL
RUFE
MERIDIAN
HALCYON
PARALLAX
OBSIDIAN
HELIOS
VESTRA
— Contact

Let’s build something compounds.

New business
hello@illumik.com
Studio
Via Tortona 27
20144 Milano · IT
Office hours
Mon–Fri · 09:30 – 19:00 CET
Calls by appointment
We reply within one business day · NDA on request