Laravel apps that handle real traffic, scale clean, and your ops team can actually run.

Yes — roughly 35% of our Laravel work is built for other agencies and consultancies under NDA. Three partnership models: white-label (your brand, our engineers, fully invisible), agency-of-record (a dedicated Laravel pod working as your in-house capacity), and capacity overflow (sprint-by-sprint engagement when your in-house team is full). Code ownership transfers to your repos. Time zones overlap with the UK, EU, and US workday.

Our entire Laravel engineering team is based in Noida, India — 40 people in our iThum Tower B office, founded in 2015. We work with product teams and agencies across the UK, US, Ireland, Australia, the UAE, Germany, and the Netherlands. Working hours overlap with UK mornings (your 9 AM to noon), the full EU workday, and US afternoons (your 1 PM to 6 PM EST). For agency partners we run in their tooling — Slack, Jira, Linear, ClickUp, Asana — as standard.

Laravel for business applications, admin-heavy SaaS, B2B products, and CRUD-shaped workloads where the team needs to ship fast and stay consistent. Node.js (Express, Fastify, Nest) for real-time applications, JavaScript-native stacks where frontend and backend share types, and workloads that benefit from non-blocking I/O. We build both and tell clients honestly which stack fits their application and their team.

Custom Laravel builds range from small business applications through to multi-tenant SaaS platforms and complex API services. The right scope drivers are workflow complexity, number of user roles, third-party integrations, multi-tenancy requirements, and the team’s Laravel maturity. We scope every engagement against the specific brief and are honest about which features can wait until phase two.

A typical Laravel + Inertia SaaS application takes 10 to 16 weeks. A Laravel API for a separate frontend takes 8 to 12 weeks. A multi-tenant SaaS platform with billing and admin takes 14 to 20 weeks. Custom plugin / admin panel work adds 4 to 8 weeks depending on scope. We work in two-week sprints with weekly demos and a deployable staging environment from sprint one.

Yes — every Laravel app we ship hits p95 API latency under 200 ms on real production traffic, query count under 10 per request on read endpoints, cache hit ratio above 80% on cacheable endpoints, and memory per request under 32 MB on traditional PHP-FPM. We achieve this through proper eager-loading, database indexing, Redis caching, queue offloading, optimised Eloquent patterns, and Laravel Octane where the workload justifies it. Performance is part of the build, not an afterthought.

All three, depending on what fits. Inertia.js for B2B SaaS and admin-heavy applications where one web frontend is the whole product — one repo, one deploy, SPA UX. Livewire for admin and back-office where the team is fully PHP-native and wants minimal JavaScript. Decoupled Laravel API + React (Vite or Next.js) when there is a mobile app, a partner API, or specialised frontend / backend teams. We will tell you on the discovery call which architecture fits your case.

Yes. WCAG 2.2 AA is our baseline on every Laravel application’s frontend — colour contrast checked per token, full keyboard navigation, screen-reader landmarks audited, form labels reviewed, focus management on modals. We use Filament with accessibility customisations for admin panels (Filament’s defaults are good but we tighten them) and Radix / React Aria primitives for Inertia React frontends. Accessibility is part of the build, not a fix after launch.

Yes. Laravel Octane runs your app as a long-lived process (Swoole, Open Swoole, or FrankenPHP) for 5 to 10x throughput on simple endpoints. We have shipped Octane production deployments across SaaS, e-commerce, and high-traffic APIs. Octane requires careful state-leak auditing — singletons, static properties, in-memory caches need to be properly scoped — and we follow a deployment checklist on every Octane release. For low-traffic admin tools the traditional PHP-FPM model is simpler and fine.

Yes. We offer monthly Laravel maintenance retainers covering security patches, Laravel version upgrades (point releases monthly, major releases quarterly), composer dependency updates, database performance monitoring, queue health monitoring, error tracking (Sentry, Bugsnag), backup verification, and a fixed allocation of editorial and engineering hours per month. For teams without a dedicated Laravel engineer in-house, this is how the app stays healthy past month one.

Yes. Laravel upgrades (e.g. 5.x → 10/11/12) are typical 4 to 10 week engagements depending on the app size and how far behind the current version it is. The process: audit the codebase for deprecated patterns, upgrade the framework one major version at a time with tests passing at each step, update third-party packages, refactor controllers and Eloquent models for new patterns where helpful, deploy to staging for UAT, then production. We have done many of these and rarely have to break compatibility for long.

Yes. Single-database multi-tenancy (tenant_id column on every model, scoped queries) for most B2B SaaS — fastest to build, easiest to maintain. Multi-database multi-tenancy (one database per tenant, switched at request time) for enterprise customers who need data isolation. Sub-domain or path-based tenant routing. Stripe Cashier for billing. Spatie's tenancy package for the framework around it. We have shipped both architectures and will recommend the right one for your customer profile and compliance requirements.

Our default 2026 Laravel SaaS stack: Laravel 11 with PHP 8.3+, PostgreSQL or MySQL with proper indexing, Redis for cache + queue + session + broadcast, Laravel Horizon for queue monitoring, Laravel Telescope for development debugging, Sentry for production error tracking, Pest for tests, Filament for the admin panel, Inertia.js with React + TypeScript + Tailwind for the customer-facing SaaS, Laravel Cashier (Stripe) for billing, deployed to Laravel Forge or Vapor. We adjust based on the team and requirements but the stack above is what we recommend by default.