ServiceAsh Framework Consulting and Development
Build robust Elixir applications at unprecedented speed
Ash Framework radically simplifies backend development with its declarative, resource oriented, approach. Build complete APIs in minutes instead of days, while your team focuses on what makes your product unique. As Ash development specialists, we guide teams through adoption, implementation, and optimisation to achieve unparalleled productivity gains - reducing time-to-value.
Why technologists choose Ash Framework
Built on Elixir's functional programming paradigm and seamlessly integrating with Phoenix, Ash Framework offers a transformative approach to building software, empowering your team to:
- Deliver faster with less code – Ash's declarative approach reduces boilerplate and automates routine backend tasks.
- Spend more time on differentiators - Use extensions get to market faster, focussing on what matters most - getting ahead of your competition.
- Build more secure applications – With built-in authentication, authorisation, and multi-tenancy features.
- Scale effortlessly – Leverage Elixir's concurrency model for exceptional performance under load.
- Open source innovation – A vibrant open source ecosystem provides transparency, community-driven improvements, and freedom from vendor lock-in.
- Reduce technical complexity – Focus on business logic rather than infrastructure concerns.
- Lower onboarding barriers – New developers can contribute effectively quicker with Ash's consistent patterns.
New to Ash? Check out our Ash Framework guide to get your started.
Ash Framework software development
Accelerate your project with our experienced development team who are the experts in building Elixir based applications using Ash Framework.
- New product development – Building an PoC or MVP? Rapidly bring your cloud-based SaaS vision to market.
- AI strategy & implementations - Building an LLM-based solution? Use Ash's structured data modelling and LLM tools make integrating AI capabilities straightforward and secure.
- Platform modernisation – Tech stack holding you back? Make the transition to an Ash based platform for improved performance and scalability.
- Legacy system replacement – Time to replace an outdated system? Leverage your existing domain model and derive the rest of your app using Ash.
Ash Framework consulting
Along with building software for you, our team of Ash experts can also guide you on your Ash adoption journey.
Common challenges we solve
For teams considering Ash Framework
- Strategic evaluation & risk mitigation – Assess if Ash fits your technical needs and business goals, with practical strategies to de-risk adoption by identifying and addressing potential challenges.
- Migration planning – Develop a clear roadmap for transitioning from your current stack, with strategies for phased implementation and integration with legacy systems.
- Accelerated delivery – Implement strategies to reduce time-to-value through rapid prototyping, iterative development, and Ash's productivity advantages.
- Team capability building – Navigate the learning curve from object-oriented to functional programming through comprehensive plans for building internal expertise, pair programming, and structured learning paths.
- Proof-of-concept implementation – Test Ash's capabilities with focused implementations that demonstrate value, build team confidence, and validate your architecture before full commitment.
For teams already using Ash Framework
- Ecosystem adoption & integration – Leverage the Ash extension ecosystem to simplify your codebase by incorporating purpose-built libraries that add capabilities without custom code.
- Architecture refinement – Improve your resource design and system structure for scalability and maintainability as your application grows.
- API & System Integrations – Maximise the benefits of Ash's automatic API generation capabilities for REST, GraphQL, and custom endpoints while developing seamless integrations with external systems and services through Ash's flexible interfaces.
- Application Security Audit – Set up robust security systems using Ash Authentication for fine-grained access control at the resource level.
- Performance Tuning - To ensure systems built with Ash are hitting the throughput, latency and concurrency targets.
- Custom Extensions - Codify the unique cross-cutting concerns that apply to your business domain in Ash extensions. Create a highly readable DSL (domain-specific language) that describes the business rules to apply.
Why work with Alembic
Making sound architectural decisions early in a project translates into huge, potentially incalculable gains in the future. Access to Alembic's Ash Experts allows us to make these important decisions quickly and easily.
Recent projects
Automotive Services Provider
Accelerating Automotive Service Innovation Through Legacy System Replacement
Responding to increasing customer expectations for digital services, our client partnered with Alembic to create a new technology platform. The result is a scalable Ash Framework solution that accelerated onboarding, digitised workflows from end-to-end, enabled real-time mobile capabilities, and transformed service delivery.
Heathcare Communication Platform
Transforming Healthcare Communication with Elixir and Ash Framework
Facing fragmented communication systems that hindered patient engagement and provider efficiency, a digital healthcare pioneer partnered with us to accelerate their delivery. Using Elixir and Ash Framework we delivered solutions that streamlined patient-provider communication across multiple channels. Combined with our technical expertise and ongoing Ash Premium Support, we dramatically reduced their development time while enhancing system scalability and reliability.
Vexillum
From Paper to Precision Workflows
Alembic's partnership with Vexillum produced a platform that revolutionises heavy equipment maintenance workflows by digitising paper-based processes. Leveraging Ash, Phoenix LiveView and Elixir, Alembic delivered a real-time web application and a native iOS work delivery app in Swift and SwiftUI. This enabled Vexillum to streamline work design, enhance safety, and reduce costs swiftly. This collaboration underscores Alembic's commitment to lean, agile solutions and its ability to deliver impactful software efficiently.
Is Ash Framework right for your project?
Ash Framework is particularly well-suited for:
- Greenfield applications – New projects benefit from Ash's speed, consistency, and maintainability priorities from day one, allowing you to build on a solid foundation.
- Complex business systems – Applications requiring robust relationship modelling and comprehensive policy enforcement are streamlined through Ash's declarative approach.
- Real-time applications – If your project requires immediate updates across users (dashboards, collaborative tools, chat applications, monitoring systems), Ash provides these capabilities natively while other frameworks typically require complex additional infrastructure.
- High-concurrency systems – Elixir's actor model allows Ash applications to handle millions of concurrent connections with minimal resource overhead, making it ideal for applications expecting high traffic or unpredictable spikes.
- Mission-critical applications – Elixir's fine-grained process supervision system enables exceptional reliability and fault tolerance. Systems self-heal from failures automatically, preventing cascading failures that can bring down entire applications.
- Teams looking to reduce technical debt – Ash's consistent patterns and separation of concerns improve long-term maintainability while reducing technical debt.
Want to learn more? Check out Everything you need to know about Ash Framework.