There's a persistent myth in software engineering: enterprise-grade applications require enterprise-grade slowness. Authentication systems that take quarters to implement. Data access layers that require committees to modify. Integration patterns that become technical debt before they're even deployed.

This myth persists because, historically, it was true. Building enterprise foundations from scratch is genuinely hard. But that's exactly the point—you shouldn't be building them from scratch.

The Foundation Problem

Every enterprise application needs the same foundational components:

• Authentication and authorization
• Data access and persistence patterns
• Integration with existing systems
• Observability and monitoring
• Security controls and audit logging

Teams rebuild these foundations for every project. They spend months getting authentication right, then months more on data access, then discover their observability story is incomplete when the first production incident hits.

The Underpin Approach

Teals Underpin provides these foundations as reusable, composable modules. You don't rebuild authentication—you configure it. You don't architect data access from scratch—you extend proven patterns.

The result: teams that used to spend months on foundations now spend days. And they end up with better, more consistent implementations because they're building on patterns that have been refined across many deployments.