Eighteen people.
One office.
Not a marketplace of freelancers assembled per project. People we employ, who work together, and who you can meet before you commit.
Eighteen people in one Karachi office: twelve-plus developers, two designers, two project managers and two marketing strategists. Employees rather than contractors, which is what makes continuity and cover possible. Founded in 2016 by Naveed Nazeer, previously CTO of Kuickpay and eHissab.
Updated August 2026
Building since
People, one office
Projects shipped
Behind Doha and Muscat
How the team is made up.
Project managers are listed because "who do I talk to day to day" is a top-three question for any offshore engagement, and most studios leave the answer vague.
Developers
Frontend, backend, mobile and infrastructure. Employed here, in one office, not sourced per project.
Designers
Product and brand. They work alongside the engineers rather than handing over a file and leaving.
Project managers
One owns your project and knows it. For an offshore engagement this is the role that decides how it feels.
Marketing strategists
SEO, paid and lifecycle. So the thing we build can also be found.
The founder still does the work.
Naveed Nazeer has been building software since 2005. Before starting the studio in 2016 he was CTO of Kuickpay for six years — the bill payment ecosystem reached through the banking apps most Pakistanis already use — and CTO of eHissab, a business management platform in Oman, for four and a half.
That is why the payment and fintech work here is grounded in having operated those systems rather than in having read about them. It is also why we will tell you when a project should not be built: two decades of shipping teaches you which ones do not end well.
He is still involved in architecture decisions and the difficult conversations, not only in sales. If that changes as the studio grows, we will say so rather than keep the claim on the page.
What people ask about the team.
The people you meet. You speak to whoever will lead it before committing, and for dedicated developers you interview them and can say no. Being sold by a senior person and then handed to someone you never met is common enough in this industry that it is worth asking every supplier about directly.
Employees, in one office in Karachi. That matters more than it sounds: it means continuity between projects, knowledge that accumulates rather than leaving, and cover when someone is ill or on leave. A marketplace of freelancers assembled per engagement cannot offer that, whatever the rate looks like.
Our founder. In technology since 2005, CTO of Kuickpay for six years and eHissab for four and a half — both fintech, both at real scale. He founded brainiac/studio in 2016 and is still involved in architecture decisions and difficult conversations rather than only in sales.
Yes, and you should. A call with whoever will lead the work, and for dedicated developers a technical conversation with the people themselves. If a supplier resists that, it usually means the people who would do your work are not the people selling it.
We cover it, and it is our problem rather than yours — that is a large part of what you are buying from an employer rather than a freelancer. Documentation is written throughout rather than at the end specifically so that a handover between our own people is straightforward.
We are in Karachi, one to two hours behind Doha and Muscat, so Gulf clients get a genuinely shared working day rather than overnight handoffs — a message in your morning gets an answer that morning. For European clients there is solid overlap through your morning. For the Americas the overlap is thinner, and we say so before you commit rather than after.
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