Accepting projects · Remote-first senior studio

Fixed-scope software for SMB founders — shipped by seniors.

How every build runs
  • Written fixed scope
  • Senior-only teams
  • Weekly demos
  • You own the code

Anonymized case brief

Wholesale distributor customer portal — fixed scope in twelve weeks.

A regional distributor with eight locations replaced phone-and-spreadsheet order status with a customer portal, ops dashboard, and weekly milestone demos. Anonymized representative brief — not a named client endorsement.

Read the portal scope page
8
Locations modeled
12
Week scoped build
100%
Code ownership
Team members moving through a modern distribution center
What shipped Delivered
  • Customer portal Order status
  • Ops dashboard Every location
  • Weekly demos Milestone billing

How we work

Discover, design, build, ship.

A four-phase cadence with a written brief, weekly demos, and a hard stop at each handoff.

  1. 01 / 04

    Discover

    Interviews, constraints, and a written brief that becomes the shared source of truth.

  2. 02 / 04

    Design

    Flows first, then a clickable prototype your team can test before we write production code.

  3. 03 / 04

    Build

    Two-week sprints, weekly demos, and a staging environment from the first increment.

  4. 04 / 04

    Ship

    Launch playbook, monitoring, and a short post-launch pass to harden what real use breaks.

Why teams pick us

Four rules we won't negotiate on.

Four delivery commitments we can put in writing before work begins.

Senior-only team

No bait-and-switch. The lead you meet in week one is the lead who ships v1.

Fixed-scope, fixed-price

You see the price before the SOW is signed. No mid-project surprises, no scope-creep games.

Security, scoped early

We map sensitive data and threats during discovery, agree on controls, and scope independent testing where the product needs it.

Code you can keep

You own the repo, the infra, and the docs. We engineer for the handoff from week one.

Ways to engage

Right-sized for the stage.

Every engagement starts with a written scope, a named senior team, and a price you can plan around.

Compare engagements
  1. Sprint

    A hyper-focused 1-week sprint to build a working prototype, clear a technical blocker, or ship a major standalone feature.

    $2.8k/ week
  2. Embed

    Fractional CTO and dedicated lead engineer on retainer. High-bandwidth feature shipping and architectural oversight without the full-time salary.

    $5.2k/ month

The stack

Boring where it matters.

The tools we reach for first. Not a fashion list — each one has earned its place by surviving a production incident.

TypeScript
React
Next.js
Node.js
Postgres
Python
Docker
Kubernetes
AWS
Vercel
tRPC
OpenAI

Startup scenarios

What teams need after launch.

Illustrative, fictional scenarios showing the outcomes startup and mid-market teams typically care about. These are demo examples, not client endorsements.

Anonymized client feedback · name withheld

We needed one morning view of inventory, orders, and exceptions — without buying an enterprise system before the business was ready.

Customer portal · fixed-scope build
WD
Regional wholesale operator
Anonymized client · US distributor
Anonymized client feedback · name withheld

Version one only had to serve three kitchens reliably. Clear vendor workflows mattered more than a long feature list on day one.

Field / ops mobile app
MO
Multi-location operator
Anonymized client · food service
Anonymized client feedback · name withheld

The handoff included a readable repository, deployment notes, and a product our small team could keep operating — not a black box.

SaaS dashboard · RAG pilot
SF
Early-stage SaaS founder
Anonymized client · technical founder

Common questions

Things prospects ask on call one.

Honest answers. If something here doesn't match what you've been told elsewhere, we're happy to walk you through the trade-offs.

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Tell us what you're building.

Share the problem, the team, and the timeline you're working with. A senior engineer reads every inquiry — no intake bot — and we reply within one business day.

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