Scope held together
A mobile app, three web surfaces, payments and physical fulfilment are four different problems. Keeping them coherent is the work.
Selected work
One project, shown properly.
We would rather describe a single engagement in detail than list logos. Below is Zaynora — a consumer platform Paycon designed, built and runs: a mobile app, the web surfaces around it, the cloud it sits on, and the day-to-day operation of all three.
Zaynora
An AI-led baby photography and family memory platform.
The project
Zaynora gives new parents one place for the first years of a child's life. Parents book a professional photoshoot, and the photographs come back into a private family vault rather than a shared drive. From there the product does the work most galleries leave to the parent: grouping and curating what is worth keeping, assembling albums and storybooks, and turning a selection into a printed keepsake that is ordered, produced and delivered.
Around that sit the things a real consumer product needs and a prototype never has: co-parent and view-only family access so grandparents can see updates without editing, phone-based sign-in with multi-factor, a catalogue and cart, payments, order tracking, support conversations, and the consent and privacy controls that handling photographs of children demands.
What Paycon delivered
The whole thing, across every surface — product design, the application itself, the cloud it runs on, and the delivery and operations work that keeps it running. Paycon was not brought in for one layer of this; the platform was taken from a product vision document through to a running system.
Surfaces built
- Parent mobile app iOS and Android from one React Native codebase — booking, the memory vault, album building, cart, orders and support.
- Photographer web The tooling photographers use to accept and fulfil assignments.
- Back office Catalogue, orders, content and staff workflows for the operations team.
- Album studio A purpose-built photobook editor, replacing a third-party tool, with one geometry model shared by the screen and the press so the two cannot drift.
Beyond the build
- Cloud Infrastructure declared as code and reproducible, on AWS.
- Delivery Automated pipelines and environment promotion rather than manual releases.
- Operations Logging, metrics and alerting, with the runbooks to go with them.
- Governance Consent capture, privacy controls and an audit trail, because the subject matter is children's photographs.
At a glance
Scope of the engagement.
A single team carrying product design, application engineering, cloud and operations — which is the shape of engagement Paycon is built for.
| Item | Detail |
|---|---|
| Sector | Consumer — photography, family memories, commerce |
| Mobile | iOS and Android, one React Native codebase |
| Web | Customer, photographer and back-office surfaces |
| Platform | Java and TypeScript services behind a single API |
| Cloud | AWS, infrastructure as code, automated delivery |
| Paycon's role | Product design, build, cloud and operations — end to end |
| Status | Built and running on its own cloud environment; mobile builds in internal distribution ahead of public release |
Why it is here
What this project demonstrates.
Zaynora is the clearest answer we can give to "can you actually do this?" — because every capability listed elsewhere on this site had to hold up in it.
Physical output
Software that ends in a printed, posted object cannot be approximately correct. Colour, geometry and dimensions have to survive the press.
Sensitive data
Photographs of children force consent, access control and auditability to be designed in rather than retrofitted.
Two-sided operation
Parents, photographers and back-office staff each need a different view of the same booking, with permissions that hold.
Built to be run
Reproducible infrastructure, automated delivery and real alerting — the difference between a demo and something that can be operated.
Owned, not assembled
Where a third-party tool did not fit, as with the photobook editor, it was replaced with one that did.
Next step
Want something built to this standard?
Tell us what the business needs to be able to do. We will come back with the questions that decide the shape of the answer — and an honest view of whether we are the right people for it.