Discovery
A short paid engagement — one to two weeks, $1,500 to $3,000 — that produces a requirements document, a technical plan, and a real estimate. Credited toward the project if you proceed.
What we do
Four ways to work with us.
Most engagements start as one of these and grow into another. A build becomes a retainer; a retainer turns into embedded capacity. The pricing is designed so that moving between them is a conversation, not a renegotiation.
01
Custom software builds
Net-new applications and major features, scoped and priced as a project. Full stack — interface, backend and data, integrations, and the cloud it runs on.
- Discovery first: a written requirements document and technical plan before a line of production code.
- Deployed to real infrastructure from the first sprint, so "it works on staging" is never the last thing you hear.
- You own the code, the accounts, and the pipeline. No lock-in to us as a vendor.
02
Ongoing management & support
A monthly engagement covering maintenance, monitoring, incremental feature work, and technical advice for software you already depend on. Our flagship offering.
- Security and dependency patching on a schedule, not after an incident.
- Monitoring and alerting we actually watch, with a monthly written health report.
- A named response time in writing — 48 hours, 24 hours, or same day, depending on tier.
03
Consulting & cloud engineering
Architecture and code reviews, technology selection, roadmap planning, and second opinions — plus the migrations, pipelines, and infrastructure work that usually follows. Fixed fee, in whichever cloud you already run.
- Architecture and code reviews that end in a prioritized, costed list of what to fix — not a slide deck.
- Technology and platform selection, including the build-versus-buy answer, before the budget is committed.
- Roadmaps that turn a business goal into a sequenced technical plan with real estimates behind it.
- Second opinions and due diligence — on an inherited codebase, a vendor's work, or a proposal you have been handed.
- And the hands-on work that follows: migrations, CI/CD pipelines, infrastructure as code, cost and performance.
04
Embedded engineering
Dedicated weekly capacity inside your team as a senior engineer or acting tech lead — for companies that need the seniority without the headcount.
- Two or three days a week of dedicated senior capacity inside your team.
- Sprint participation, code review, architecture ownership, and mentoring your engineers.
- The seniority of a tech lead without carrying the headcount or the recruiting cycle.
05
How an engagement runs
Discovery → Build → RunBuild
Working software in front of you throughout, not at the end. Deployed to real infrastructure from the first sprint, with the CI/CD and observability built in rather than bolted on.
Run
Software is not finished when it ships. A support retainer keeps it patched, monitored, and improving — with the same people who built it.
06
The stack we work in
Yours, not ours| Cloud & infrastructure | Managed services, serverless and containers, networking, DNS and certificates — in whichever cloud you already run |
| APIs & data | Service and API design in the style your platform already speaks, event-driven pipelines, relational and document stores |
| Interface | Modern component frameworks, design systems, and accessibility held to WCAG AA |
| Testing & quality | Automated suites that gate the pipeline, integration and load testing before launch, and coverage where it earns its keep rather than everywhere |
| Monitoring & observability | Metrics, logs and traces, dashboards worth opening, and alerting tuned to wake someone only when it should |
| Delivery | Infrastructure as code, CI/CD, release automation, and a rollback path that has been tested |
Not sure which of these you need?
That is what discovery is for. Tell us the problem in plain language and we will tell you which engagement actually fits — including when the answer is a smaller one.