Planet Argon

Planet Argon is a software consultancy founded in Portland, Oregon in 2002, built around a specific problem: keeping existing web applications running well over time. The firm has worked with more than 100 organizations, with particular depth in Ruby on Rails, and has been active in that ecosystem since 2005. Work most often comes from Publishing, Education, Finance, Real Estate, and e-commerce clients whose applications need overdue upgrades, new features, performance optimization, or ongoing maintenance rather than a rebuild from scratch.

The core team works remotely across North American time zones, supplemented by nearshore engineers, and collaborates with clients through JIRA, including training on how to use it for tracking tickets. This structure supports the kind of sustained, deep involvement that Rails upgrade and maintenance work requires, rather than short, one-off project engagements. Planet Argon describes itself as intentionally not a big agency, a scale choice that shapes how closely the team works with each client's codebase over time.

More than 20 years after its founding, Planet Argon's core team still calls Portland home, giving the consultancy a long institutional history with the Rails framework itself. That tenure translates into practical focus areas: application development, frontend and backend development, systems integration, maintenance and support, and devsecops enablement, all oriented toward making software last rather than toward net-new builds. For organizations sitting on aging Rails applications that still run their business, that specialization is the core offer.