Five shapes of work, three ways to buy it, and the process in between. If your project doesn't fit neatly into any of these, say so on the call — it usually still does.
An idea with nothing built yet. We take it from the first conversation to something real people can use — no hand-off gaps between front end, back end and database for bugs to hide in.
Something already runs and needs to do more. Features, upgrades and refactoring added without destabilising what your users depend on today.
Getting your system to talk to someone else's — the work that always overruns, because the other side's spec is wrong and nobody tells you until you build it.
Incremental extraction, not a big-bang rewrite. On our last e-commerce migration this cut response time by 31% with no feature freeze.
Slow endpoints, memory climbing until a restart, throughput collapsing under load. We measure first and show you the code path responsible — with evidence, not a guess.
When something is slow, most teams guess. This is a flame graph — a profiler's picture of where a request spends its time. Read it upward: the base is the request, each row is one level deeper into the stack.
The wide red frame at the top is a lock 28% of the request is spent waiting on — not the database everyone blamed. Twenty minutes with a profiler beats two weeks of rewriting the wrong thing.
The shape we reach for when a service has to stay responsive while something behind it is slow — and, on the bottom rail, the measurement layer that tells you which.
Most teams build the top four columns and skip the bottom rail. Then nobody can say why the service got slow. We build the rail first — it's how the 31% was found, and how we knew it was real.
Pick whichever matches how well-defined the work is. If you're not sure yet, start with a call and we'll work it out together.
For a defined outcome: a new application, a migration, an integration, a version upgrade.
4–12 weeks typical · Fixed price per milestone
For teams deciding whether to rebuild, scale or hire — or whose system is misbehaving and nobody knows why.
1–2 weeks · Fixed fee
For teams needing reliable development capacity without another full-time hire.
Minimum 2 months · Monthly rate
Rates depend on scope, urgency and domain. We'll quote a number on the call rather than making you guess from a pricing table.
Four steps, in this order. You can stop after step two if the scoping document tells you the work isn't worth doing — that outcome is a win for you, and we'd rather say it early.
Thirty minutes. You describe what you want — or what's going wrong — and we ask the awkward questions about users, data, deadlines and who else touches the code.
FREE · SAME WEEKA written document: what gets built, what explicitly does not, the technical approach, milestones, and a fixed price or rate. You own it either way.
2–4 DAYSCode in your repository from day one, a demo each week against a real environment, and a short written update every Friday. No month-long silences.
ONGOINGDocumentation, a runbook, an architecture walkthrough with your team, and thirty days of bug-fix support after the final milestone.
+30 DAYS INCLUDEDBring the project in whatever shape it's in. A rough idea, a half-finished codebase, or a production problem you can't reproduce — all perfectly good starting points.