The company
At Shaped Thoughts, we’re not just another software company—we’re your trusted partner specializing in InsurTech and FinTech solutions that drive business transformation.
What truly sets us apart is our comprehensive expertise across insurance innovation, payment platforms, and financial compliance, combined with the extensive experience of our software engineers and our commitment to delivering projects with predictable business outcomes.
Our cross-functional, expert Product Engineering Teams provide focused solutions tailored to your unique financial services requirements. Whether it’s insurance technology, payment systems, financial compliance platforms, or emerging financial wellness solutions—we deliver measurable results. And we’re with you every step of the way.
In the dynamic world of financial services, trust and compliance are everything. That’s why at Shaped Thoughts, we’re committed to transparent collaboration based on shared values and deep domain expertise. We believe that fully understanding your business needs is the foundation for strategic long-term partnerships that drive sustainable growth.
our mission
To make the delivery of mission-critical software feel like a breeze.
our vision
Insurance that is simple and accessible to all.
We empower our business partners with best-in-class technology solutions to make it happen.
How we deliver
We value our craft and don’t compromise on quality, so we stop at nothing to hone our engineering skills.
Software Craftsmanship and expertise in Continuous Delivery, extreme programming practices, Domain-Driven Design, Event-Driven Architecture, Behaviour-Driven Development, Test-Driven Development, and Evolutionary Architecture are at the heart of our daily routine.
We aim to share our expertise to bring best-in-class practices and technology to elevate your insurance business.
Working standards
Fast feedback loops
Continuous Delivery
Data-driven project forecasting
Evolutionary Architecture
Business value-driven delivery
Domain-Driven Design
Event-Driven Architecture
Behaviour-Driven Development
Test-Driven Design
Automated E2E tests
Quality documentation
Clean Code
Code reviews and pair programming
Continuous Deployments
Robust monitoring and observability
Synthetic Monitoring
Infrastructure as a Code
Cloud Native Architecture
Predictive project delivery
API First
Consumer-Driven Design
Our path to your success
Throughout the development process, we leverage our deep expertise in insurance, payments, and emerging financial services to ensure you receive excellent, future-proof solutions that drive business value. From our first engagement, we work diligently to understand your business challenges, regulatory requirements, and desired outcomes.
With proven methodologies and financial services domain knowledge, we deliver exceptional results with transparent workflows and predictable timelines.
The process we present provides structure while remaining flexible to embrace your evolving needs and market opportunities.
Alignment
It all starts with ensuring we understand your business challenges and can help you reach your goals. We collaboratively explore the problem space and define expected outcomes. Better yet, we can dive into your organisation to fully grasp its needs if you want us to.
Idea discovery
Once aligned, we need to learn more about the idea you want to bring to life. Together, we define the project scope, identify key objectives and capture requirements. It involves talking to stakeholders, analysing their needs, and creating a robust project plan to form a product roadmap. Most importantly, all of these activities are continuously revisited throughout the project delivery to make sure we never lose alignment.
Product or system design
Before we jump into coding, we carefully analyse collected data and trigger a system design process that involves, among other things, UX research, architecture design, and value-driven increments discovery. At this stage, we also establish an approach, working process, standards and security protocols.
Idea delivery and quality assurance
Value-driven development backed up by iterative and incremental work methodology is the key success factor for fast time to market. We work in increments and deliver value early at all stages to ensure we build the right thing that meets your expectations. The highest work standards, best-in-class tools, and constant feedback loops from testing allow us to provide exceptional quality at all angles.
Refinement and expansion
We shall not rest once the project is complete and hits the market. We keep gathering feedback on the solution or MVP of your product to improve further and expand our solution. We partner in establishing processes necessary for scaling your business. Thanks to DevOps and security expertise, we set up an observability platform and tools to keep your system and technology in check and let you sleep peacefully.