How we work
Five phases. The price is set at the end of phase one.
Nothing here is unusual, and that's deliberate. The only genuinely different thing we do is refuse to quote a build we haven't scoped properly — everything else is ordinary engineering discipline applied consistently.
Discovery & scoping
One to two weeks. We map the flows, the integrations and the unknowns, then write the scope down in plain English — including what we are deliberately leaving out. You leave with an architecture and a written fixed price, whether or not you continue.
Design & architecture
Interface flows, data model, API contracts and the deployment topology, agreed before anyone writes production code. Changing a diagram costs an afternoon; changing a shipped schema costs a fortnight.
Build in two-week slices
Working software at the end of every slice, deployed where you can click it. No status decks. Test automation is written alongside the feature, by the same team, inside the same price.
Quality gate
Regression, API contract, performance and accessibility checks run in the pipeline and block the release on failure. This is the part we have been doing since before we built anything.
Launch & handover
Production deploy, runbook, documentation and a live walkthrough with your engineers. Sixty days of defect cover on delivered scope, included. You own the repository from commit one.
The discovery output is portable.
Architecture, data model, scope document and price. If you decide to build elsewhere, all of it goes with you. We'd rather lose the build than hold a client hostage to a document they paid for.
Two-week slices, deployed.
At the end of every slice there is working software on an environment you can click. Not a demo recording, not a status deck. If a slice slips, you find out at the end of that fortnight rather than at the end of the project.
The quality gate is not negotiable.
Regression, contract, performance and accessibility checks run in the pipeline and block the release when they fail. Clients occasionally ask us to ship past a red build. We don't, because that defect becomes our cost under the fixed price — our incentives and yours point the same way.
What we need from you
Fixed price is a two-sided commitment.
We take the estimation risk. In exchange, four things have to be true on your side — and if they can't be, we'd rather say so before signing than discover it in week five.
A decision-maker
One person who can approve scope without convening a committee. Fixed price depends on decisions arriving on time.
Access, early
Staging systems, API credentials, sample data. Waiting three weeks for a sandbox is the most common cause of slippage.
Two hours a week
A working session with someone who knows the domain. Not status reporting — decisions and clarifications.
Honest constraints
Regulatory requirements, an immovable launch date, a system we're not allowed to touch. Early is cheap; month three is not.
Start with discovery.
Two weeks, $2,400, credited back against the build. You leave with an architecture, a written scope and a price — whether or not you continue with us.