How an engagement runs

Three phases, each with a fixed scope, a clear deliverable and a point where you can stop. You never commit to a long contract before you have seen the work.

Phases

  1. Discovery

    2 weeks, fixed price

    • Interviews with product, engineering and business owners
    • Code, architecture and infrastructure audit
    • Prioritized backlog with estimates
    • Team plan, budget range and risks

    Exit point. You keep every document, even if you build elsewhere.

  2. Pilot

    4–6 weeks

    • Agreed baseline and success metric
    • One working slice released to production
    • Weekly demos and a written progress report
    • Pilot report against the baseline

    Exit point. Keep the code, docs and pipeline, with no notice period.

  3. Scale

    Ongoing, billed monthly

    • Team grows or shrinks with 30 days' notice
    • Named delivery manager and technical lead
    • Monthly report on delivery, quality and cost
    • Quarterly review with your leadership

    Handover included. Full knowledge transfer when you take the work in-house.

What we commit to in the contract

  • Two-week replacement guarantee. If an engineer is not the right fit, we replace them at no cost and you do not pay for those weeks.
  • Your IP from day one. All code, designs and documents belong to you and live in your accounts.
  • Interview everyone. You meet and approve each engineer before they join.
  • No lock-in. Documented code, infrastructure as code and a handover plan in every contract.
  • Reply within one business day to every request, from the first email onwards.

Working together day to day

Time-zone overlap
At least [4 hours] with US Eastern time. Full overlap with UK and Central European hours.
Communication
Your Slack or Teams, daily stand-ups, weekly demos
Reporting
Weekly progress notes, monthly delivery and cost report
Quality
Code review on every change, automated tests in CI, security scans before release
Escalation
Named delivery manager, plus direct access to a director

Questions buyers ask

Who owns the IP?

You do, from the first commit. Code lives in your repositories, and the contract assigns all IP to you.

Do you sign an NDA before the first call?

Yes. Tick the NDA box in the contact form and we send our mutual NDA, or sign yours.

What notice period applies?

None during Discovery and Pilot. In the Scale phase, team size changes and termination need 30 days' notice.

Which tools do you use?

Yours. Engineers work in your Slack or Teams, Jira or Linear, and your Git hosting and CI.

Talk to an engineer, not a salesperson

Book a 30-minute call. You get a first view on scope, team shape and budget, and we sign an NDA before you share details.

Book a 30-minute call