ABOUT BACKLOT
Small by design. Deep where it counts.
Backlot is a principal-led product studio for teams that want senior attention, candid thinking, and software built with ownership.
JEREMY GOWER · FOUNDER
Product judgment and engineering rigor belong in the same room.
Jeremy is a product-minded software architect and builder who works across the full problem: what to make, how it should feel, how the system should behave, and what it takes to operate it safely.
His specialty is the work that sits between disciplines—multi-tenant SaaS, healthcare and sensitive-data boundaries, payments, identity, AWS infrastructure, real-time systems, third-party integrations, reporting, production incidents, and the design decisions that determine whether any of it feels coherent to a customer.
Backlot exists to bring that whole-system perspective to ambitious products without burying the work under agency layers. The person helping define the solution is close to the code, the customer, and the outcome.
THE BACKLOT STANDARD
What we believe good software work looks like.
- Clarity over theater
- Plain language, visible tradeoffs, and evidence beat bloated decks and borrowed certainty.
- Ownership over output
- We care whether the product succeeds after the ticket closes, not merely whether code was delivered.
- Ambition with guardrails
- Great products can be bold without being reckless. Reliability, security, and operating reality are part of the design.
The best way to understand us is to build something together.
Bring the half-formed idea, the stubborn system, or the product that deserves a better next chapter.