Laravel

Laravel for a product, Symfony for a platform, is the short answer. Laravel's conventions cover the common shape of a web product immediately: authentication, billing, queues, notifications. Symfony's components are less opinionated and more configurable, suited to systems whose architecture will not follow a framework's defaults.

The gap is smaller than the comparison implies, because Laravel is built on Symfony components and engineers move between the two. For most product builds the speed of Laravel's conventions wins; we recommend Symfony where the domain demands an architecture of its own.

The framework is rarely the ceiling. Requests share nothing, so a standard deployment scales horizontally behind a load balancer; Octane holds the application in memory when raw request throughput matters; queues move slow work off the request path.

The ceiling that does arrive is the database, as it does on any stack. Eager loading discipline, read replicas and caching decide how far a Laravel application goes, and that is engineering work inside the stack, never a reason to leave it.

Laravel's conventions are a real advantage for coding agents: routes, controllers, models, migrations and jobs sit in the same places in every application, so tooling orients quickly, and the framework's documentation corpus is dense. The counterweight is the magic: facades and container bindings resolve at runtime, so a static read of the code understates what it does.

Larastan closes much of that gap by teaching PHPStan the framework's behaviour, and feature tests that exercise the real container give an agent a fast, trustworthy check. The measured results of our AI-augmented delivery flow are on the Technology page.

Either as a fixed cost for an initial outcome, such as a first release or a defined migration, or as a monthly rate for the team once later phases are under way. We do not publish a figure for a build, because the scale is set by the number of features, platforms, user groups and users, and projects have run from four weeks to several months. The How We Charge page sets out both models, milestone billing and the notice period.

Typically one full-time engineer on the build, with two part-time roles alongside: one running the project and one working with you on priorities and technical decisions. Teams are shaped around the system rather than around one technology, so Laravel work draws in the neighbouring stack when it needs to. Delivery starts under Australian leadership, with the engineering in our Manila delivery centre.

A delivery plan reaches you within 48 hours of the first call, and a build typically starts in week two. Where the work is an enhancement to an application another team built, we audit the application first, so the plan is costed against what is actually there.