How we work
Fixed scope. Fixed price. Weekly proof.
Software projects rarely fail all at once. They drift — scope grows by increments nobody priced, the demo slips a week and then a month, and by the time anyone can see working software the budget conversation has already gone bad. Our process exists to make drift visible early, while it's still cheap to correct.
Scope is fixed in writing before we start
Every engagement begins with a scope document listing what will be built and, just as importantly, what will not. Both parties sign it. It is the reference for every decision afterward, and it is short enough that people actually read it.
The price is the price
You get one number for the engagement. We do not bill hourly, we do not run time-and-materials arrangements, and we do not issue change orders for work a reasonable person would have assumed was included. Estimation risk is ours, which is exactly where it belongs.
Delivery is phased
Work is broken into phases with their own deliverables and acceptance criteria. Each phase produces something verifiable on its own. If we're a poor fit, you find out at the end of phase one rather than at the end of the budget.
Weekly demos, running software
Every Friday you see the current build running, not a status deck. It is the meeting where trades get decided: if something new has become important, we agree what comes out to make room. Fixed scope only works when it can be renegotiated openly.
Handover is a deliverable
Source code in your repository, tests that run in your pipeline, architecture and operational documentation, and a working session with whoever inherits it. We are finished when your team can change the system without calling us.
No open-ended retainers
Engagements end. Where ongoing maintenance genuinely makes sense — mobile apps, for instance — it is quoted separately with its own scope and its own exit. You will never be in a monthly arrangement you can't reason about.
Mechanism
Where the speed comes from
We use AI-assisted development throughout: generating scaffolding and migrations, writing first-pass tests, producing documentation, and exploring implementation options quickly. It removes most of the mechanical typing from a build. It does not make architectural decisions, review its own security posture, or decide what your business actually needs — that work is unchanged, and it is where our attention goes instead.
Tell us what's stuck.
Describe the problem in a few sentences. We'll come back with a scope, a price, and a date — or tell you it isn't work we should take.