Meridian Mutual
Quote-and-bind platform rebuild, legacy portal to real-time underwriting. Quote flow p95 cut 2.4s → 380ms; completed applications up 18%.
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[ plinth ], noun — a heavy concrete base that carries the monument. see also: us, carrying your product.
Software
that stands.
Plinth designs, builds and hosts web products for teams who measure in years, not sprints. Design, engineering and our own edge network — one crew, one contract.
retained clients (14): meridian mutual · cartload · fieldnote · helios energy · northloop · varga+sons · statice · kelder bank · ossuary press · tramline · bruma · pallas legal · vantpoint · ferro&co
01 — what we pour
Six things,
Six things,
done heavy.
01
Web applications
Product-grade apps on boring, durable stacks. Ruthless performance budgets, shipped in weeks.
02
Marketing sites
One page or a hundred. Loads before the click finishes.
03
Design systems
Component libraries and typography your team can't break.
04
APIs & integrations
The plumbing between your systems, documented like we mean it.
05
Managed hosting
Our own edge, six regions. A human answers the pager.
06
Performance rescue
We take your slowest page and make it your fastest. Fixed fee.
02 — selected work (4)
Proof,
Proof,
load-tested.
Cartload
Real-time fleet operations dashboard and ingestion pipeline. 12,400 concurrent vehicle streams on three nodes. The map holds 60fps.
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Fieldnote
Headless CMS migration and a front end editors stopped complaining about. Publish time 22 min → 5. Lighthouse 100/100/100/100, fourteen months running.
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Helios Energy
Sensor telemetry platform: ingest, storage, dashboards, and the hosting under it. 1.1B readings a day across three regions at 99.98% measured uptime.
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03 — how we pour
The same way,
The same way,
every time.
01
Survey
Two weeks of questions, audits and load estimates before anyone opens an editor.
02
Formwork
Design and clickable prototype. The mold your product is cast in.
03
Pour
Build in weekly slabs. You watch every commit land on staging.
04
Cure
Launch, then we host, monitor and harden it. For years. That's the point.
04 — load-bearing numbers
Measured,
Measured,
not marketed.
0 msmedian global TTFB, our edge
0 %measured uptime, trailing 12 months — SLA-backed
0production deploys last quarter
0 yrsstanding. zero clients lost to an outage
05 — the crew
Eleven people.
Eleven people.
One pager.
Plinth is eleven engineers and designers in Porto and Rotterdam. Since 2015 we have designed, built and hosted the web for teams who plan in years. No account managers, no handoffs, no rot: the people who pour your product are the ones carrying the pager when it ships.
“They rebuilt our platform, then refused to let it break. Three years in — zero 3 a.m. calls.”
06 — start a pour
Tell us what
Tell us what
needs to stand.
Received.
An engineer replies within one business day. Meanwhile — see how we rebuilt Cartload above.