How an engagement actually runs
No surprises at the end of a quarter. Here's what happens at each stage, and what you get out of it.
STAGE 01
Discovery & architecture
Technical audits, stakeholder interviews, and system diagrams that turn into a build plan your team can review before a single line of code ships — so scope creep gets caught on a whiteboard, not three sprints in.
STAGE 02
Product design
Prototypes you can click through before we commit engineering time to them. We design in the open, with your team in the room, not behind a one-way mirror until the big reveal.
STAGE 03
Engineering
MVPs, internal tools, and production systems — documented, tested, and boring in all the right places, so the codebase is still legible to your team a year after we hand it off.
STAGE 04
Scale & support
We stay on as your systems grow, with SLA-backed support, performance work, and the project context you'd otherwise lose the moment an agency disappears after handoff.
Three ways to work with us
The right model depends on whether you have a defined deliverable or an open-ended roadmap — we'll tell you honestly which one fits after the first call.
Fixed-scope project
A defined deliverable, a defined price, a defined timeline. The right model for an MVP or a single well-scoped build with a clear finish line.
Best for: a new product, a defined feature, a proof of concept for investors.
Dedicated team
An embedded pod of engineers and a designer working inside your roadmap, billed monthly, sized up or down as the work changes.
Best for: an ongoing product with a backlog that outlives any single project.
Staff augmentation
One or two senior engineers slotted directly into your existing team and process, reporting into your lead rather than running a separate workstream.
Best for: a specific skills gap or a deadline your current team can't absorb alone.
Process FAQ
As involved as you want for discovery and design — we need real stakeholder input there. During the build, a weekly demo and async check-ins are usually enough; we don't need someone in daily standups.
On a fixed-scope project, a change gets priced and scheduled as a formal change order rather than silently absorbed. On a dedicated team, the backlog just gets re-prioritized — that flexibility is the point of that model.
You do, in full, regardless of engagement model. Repository access, infrastructure credentials, and documentation transfer at handoff — nothing is held back to force a renewal.
Yes — a fixed-scope MVP commonly turns into a dedicated team once it's validated and the backlog becomes ongoing rather than finite.