One swarm.
Every timezone.
Always awake.
Plutobee is a global engineering studio headquartered in Miami. The quiet build partner behind software, AI, security and digital platforms, working follow-the-sun across our offices in Miami, San Francisco, Berlin, Tallinn and Istanbul.
We picked Miami
on purpose.
Miami is where capital, talent and policy meet the warmest weather in the country. A tech-friendly local government, a pro-builder mayor, and an ecosystem that grew up around founders. Not the other way around.
From our HQ in Brickell, Plutobee runs leadership, product, partnerships and our marketing-platforms practice. The rest of the swarm runs the clock.
80.19° W
Marketing platforms.
Open 8 AM. Late.
A working day that never ends.
Because our offices wrap the globe, there's always a Plutobee team awake, on shift, and watching your systems. When something breaks at 3 AM in New York, it's 10 AM in Berlin, and we're already on it.
How we work, in plain English.
Ship weekly.
Every engagement demos working software every week. No exceptions. Momentum is a product.
Own the outcome.
We measure ourselves on what your business measures itself on. Hours billed is a lagging indicator.
Senior by default.
Every project has a senior engineer in the room. We don't farm out the thinking.
Transparent always.
Shared backlogs, shared Slack, shared dashboards. You see what we see, when we see it.
Security first.
Threat-model on day one, secure defaults, no theatre. Tallinn keeps us honest.
Documentation is real work.
If it's not written down, it didn't happen. Your team should be able to run what we built.
Built to ship at scale.
Five rooms.
One studio.
Miami, USA
Brickell. Leadership, product, Anthropic partnerships, marketing platforms.
San Francisco, USA
SoMa. AI research, platform engineering, late-night deploys.
Berlin, Germany
Mitte. Backend, cloud infrastructure, distributed systems.
Tallinn, Estonia
Old Town. Security, compliance, identity. Europe's cyber capital.
Istanbul, Türkiye
Levent. Engineering bench, design studio, where the swarm grew up.
Singapore (2027)
APAC bench to close the loop on follow-the-sun. Soon.
Who writes The Hive Letter.
The Insights blog and The Hive Letter are written by the engineers who actually ship the work. Bylines are real, opinions are personal, and seniority shows up in the writing.
100% employee owned.
No outside investors. No private equity. No venture capital exit clock. Every engineer, designer, and security professional who works on customer engagements holds equity in the company they work for.
Why it matters to you
The senior engineer on your account is an owner. Their incentives are aligned with the long-term health of your engagement, not with hitting a quarterly bookings target for a CRO they have never met.
How it works
The founding team transferred majority equity into an employee ownership trust at founding. Every engineer who completes their first 18 months receives equity. Vesting continues throughout tenure. There is no acquihire exit waiting for us.
What it means in practice
We can say no to bad-fit engagements. We can pick boring, proven tools instead of resume-driven novelty. We can publish honest pricing. We can invest in customer relationships that take five years to compound. None of those decisions are available to a VC-backed agency.
The numbers. 100% of company equity sits with current and former employees. Founder holdings are below 25%. No single individual holds majority control. No outside investor holds any equity, debt convertible, SAFE, or warrant. We have never taken external capital and we do not plan to.
What this means for compensation. We pay 75th to 90th percentile cash for the role and region. Equity vests over 4 years with a 1-year cliff. Profit share distributed annually. Tenure-based equity refresh at year 4 and beyond. No cliffs designed to push out senior talent.
What this means for governance. Major decisions (large acquisitions, dissolution, material changes to ownership structure) require a supermajority vote of equity holders. Board has two employee-elected seats plus three founder seats. No independent directors at this stage; we will add them as we grow.
What this means for customers. Continuity. We are not preparing for an exit. We are not pivoting toward what looks better to investors. The technology firm you sign with this year will be substantially the same technology firm five years from now: same culture, same delivery framework, same accountability to the people who do the work.