A small senior team builds it, then runs it for a monthly fee. Custom applications, agents, integrations, and data systems, built faster and cheaper than an agency or a new hire because we use the new tooling properly.
You know what needs to exist. Nobody on staff can build it, and hiring an engineer for one project makes no sense. The firms that can build it bill by the hour, so taking longer pays better, and most are still building the way they did in 2019 while the cost of producing working software has collapsed for teams that use the new tooling properly. You're paying 2019 prices for 2019 speed.
We write down exactly what done means: what it does, what it connects to, what it has to get right. That's what you're buying, instead of hours.
The right mix for your systems. No account managers between you and the people writing the code, and no junior staffing padded onto the invoice.
Working software in your environment every week, not a big reveal at the end. You see progress in your own systems and redirect scope as priorities shift.
Everything we build is yours. Your repositories, your infrastructure, documented for your team. Some clients take it in-house from there. Most keep us on a monthly retainer to run it and keep building.
Already have engineers?
Plenty of companies at 15-30 people have one or two engineers, both fairly junior, and nobody senior setting direction. Work feels slow and you can't tell whether that's the problem being genuinely hard, the scope moving under them, or the approach being wrong, and there's nobody in the building who can answer that honestly. We take the tech lead seat.
Architecture decisions, code review, and estimates with a senior engineer behind them. When we say three weeks, you can plan around three weeks.
We work alongside them on the AI tooling most small teams are using badly or not at all. They keep their jobs and get the mentorship they'd otherwise have to leave to find.
Right now everything your business runs on lives in one or two people's heads, largely undocumented. We fix that before it turns into an emergency.
Monthly retainer. If we surface something worth building that your team can't absorb, we can take it, but that's a separate decision rather than the point of the engagement.