Modernization
Keep the useful parts. Improve the rest.
Update the experience and the code behind it. Keep what works, address what doesn’t, and make the next change easier.
Experience alongside teams at
Modernize your business.
Work side by side with an engineer to improve existing software, connect systems, and make AI useful in the work you already do.
Talk about your projectAmerican Express, project 1 of 3.
Selected work. Built together.
Enterprise systemsAmerican Express
Shared React components and tooling for teams working across 450+ codebases.
An independent engineering practice, led by Bazell.Miami · Working with teams everywhere
What we can
build together.
Connected systems
Make your software work together.
Connect the tools and data your team relies on, so information gets where it needs to go without being copied by hand.
Applied AI
Take AI beyond the demo.
Build AI features around your product and your data. Test them against real work before people rely on them.
The person you brief is the person who builds.
Forward-deployed engineering means working alongside your team to understand the job, build the software, and stay through rollout.
Working together
A shared process. From the first conversation to everyday use.
Agree on the first useful change.
Sit with the people doing the work. Understand the existing software, the decisions behind it, and what a better version needs to do.
- What does the work look like today?
- What needs to keep working?
- What would make this change worthwhile?
You leave withClear priorities and a practical place to start.
Put a working version in your team’s hands.
Build a useful first version, try it with real tasks, and review it together. Each decision has something concrete behind it.
- Does it work with your existing systems?
- What happens when something goes wrong?
- What does the team need next?
You leave withWorking software, tested and reviewed together.
Make the handover part of the build.
Plan the rollout with the team, work through the details, and share the knowledge as you go. The code and the decisions behind it stay with you.
- How do we introduce the change safely?
- Who will run and maintain it?
- What needs to be documented?
You leave withA supported rollout, clear documentation, and ownership.
Meet Bazell.
Behind Sojourner is twelve years of building with teams—from shared React tooling at American Express to products for varying communities.
That experience stays close to the work: listening, making decisions together, and building through to rollout.
More about the practice“For the first time, the whole community can find each other in one place.”
Independent engineering. Shared ambition.
Based in Miami. Working with teams everywhere.
You don’t need a finished brief.
Bring the software, the process, or the idea. Together, we’ll work out what’s worth building—and where to start.
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