AI-native delivery, by a team that stays.

Modernize the software your business runs on, without breaking it.

One accountable team that knows your codebase, builds with agentic AI, and stays for years. We bring legacy PHP, Laravel, and WordPress current, with no big-bang rewrite and no downtime. Founder-led SaaS and e-commerce, since 2011.

Why founders keep us

Three things, stacked in this order

Modernize without the rewrite

Legacy PHP, Laravel, and WordPress brought current. No big-bang rewrite, no downtime, no risk to your data. We change what slows you down and leave what works alone.

AI-native speed, senior judgment

We build with agentic AI as the primary method, so a lean senior team ships what used to take a much larger one. Faster, at lower cost, with a human accountable for every decision.

One team, for years

A stable team, led by our CTO, that learns your codebase and stays. We take a small number of long-term clients at a time, and they keep us for a decade. You get ownership, not rotation.

The work

Real products. Real numbers. Years of them.

PerkZilla
Since 2016

Fractional CTO

Scaled to 100K+ users

A US viral-marketing and referral SaaS. Owned the full engineering lifecycle: architecture, scaling, security, releases, and the AI feature roadmap.

MoverWise / Viktoria
Since 2011

Technology Partner

$600 project to a 15-year partnership

A cloud operations platform for a Canadian moving company, used across 25+ branches. Full ownership of architecture, development, hosting, and roadmap.

Zen Flowchart
2018 to 2020

Full-Stack Developer

Past 1.6M users, Product Hunt #1

A minimalist diagram maker. Customized the mxGraph engine and rebuilt PNG export from GD to Imagick so quality held at any size.

CoinDiscovery
2021 to 2022

Lead Full-Stack Engineer

21,000+ tokens, 9M+ users

A crypto listing and discovery platform handling high-volume real-time market data. Among the largest by token count. Now offline.

24Lottos
2014 to 2017

Lead PHP Developer

Modernized legacy, then built from scratch

A global lottery platform for a Tel Aviv gaming company. First modernized a legacy codebase, then built the new platform across consecutive contracts.

Reach Passengers
2021, UK

Founding Platform Developer

Founding product in 5 months

An out-of-home ad booking platform for 70+ airport and roadside screens. Hired three weeks before the company was incorporated. Still in use today.

Verified Upwork reviews

Founders who kept us, in their words

Ankush is the best developer I've had the pleasure of working with. He spent additional time with us to solve complex problems using extremely innovative solutions. I highly recommend booking Ankush and the Behind Methods team for any development work.
Max Fairbank Reach Passengers, United Kingdom
I've been using Upwork since the Odesk times. Ankush is the BEST programmer and person that I've come to know in over 25 years in IT. He just gets the work done.
Rod Viktoria Movers, Canada
It was a great pleasure working with Ankush. He delivered the project in a timely manner with the highest quality of work. Besides world-class development skills, he has great work ethics and dedication. I highly recommend him.
Nick Hoang Zen Flowchart, United States

4.8 average rating on Upwork, since 2011.

How we work

The Behind Methods Blueprint

01
Map

We run the real product, audit the legacy codebase, and document what must not break. Nothing moves until we understand what your business actually depends on.

02
Modernize with AI, gated by humans

Agentic AI accelerates the refactor. A senior owner reviews and is accountable for every change. No database change without a migration plan, no surprise to your existing data.

03
Ship and stay

Incremental, reversible releases, then a long-term retainer so the same team keeps owning stability. You get a partner who already knows the system, not a handoff.

Questions founders ask

Before you hand over the codebase

Yes. That is the work we specialize in. We bring legacy PHP, Laravel, and WordPress current incrementally, changing what slows you down and leaving what works alone. No big-bang rewrite, no downtime, no risk to your existing data.

We build with agentic AI as the primary method, not as a bolt-on. That lets a lean senior team ship what used to take a much larger one, faster and at lower cost. A senior human reviews and is accountable for every change.

No. We map the running product and document what must not break before we touch anything. No database change goes out without a migration plan, and releases are incremental and reversible.

Yes, and it is the relationship we are built for. We take a small number of clients at a time and keep them for years, so the same team that modernized your software keeps owning its stability.

One team. Behind Methods Co was founded in 2011 by Ankush Shandilya (Founder and CTO), who leads the team and owns the technical direction, with Shailja as Co-Founder running operations. You get a stable team that learns your codebase, not a rotating cast of contractors.

Have a codebase you cannot afford to break?

Tell us what your business runs on. We will tell you, plainly, what we would modernize, what we would leave alone, and how we would keep it safe while we do it.

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