Engagement models
Six ways to work with us, and how to tell which one you need.
The shape of the contract matters as much as the work inside it. Fixed scope suits a problem that is already understood, and punishes one that is not. A dedicated team suits a product that keeps moving. Below is what each model actually commits you to, what it costs you when it goes wrong, and the questions that decide between them.
What's Included
Fixed scope, fixed price
One agreed deliverable, one price, one date. Works when the requirements are genuinely settled and can be written down. Everything not written down is a change request, which is the deal you are making: certainty on cost bought with rigidity on scope.
Phased build, priced per phase
The same discipline without pretending the whole thing is knowable up front. Each phase is scoped, costed and approved on its own, and each one leaves something usable behind. You can stop at the end of any phase and still own something that works.
Dedicated team
Engineers assigned to your product and nobody else's, working your backlog and your cadence. Billed monthly per person rather than per feature. Suits a product that will keep changing after launch, where the requirement is capacity rather than a deliverable.
Staff augmentation
Individual engineers added to a team you already run. Your process, your standards, your tickets. We handle contracts, payroll and replacement; you handle the work. Suits a team that knows exactly what it needs and needs more hands to do it.
Advisory engagement
A short, scoped piece of thinking that ends in a written plan rather than a repository: an assessment, an architecture review, a build or buy decision. Priced on its own so it stays useful even if the answer is that you should not build the thing.
Support and maintenance
For something already live, ours or somebody else's. Agreed response expectations, a named person who knows the system, and a monthly budget for the small changes that otherwise queue for a quarter. Separate from any build, so neither starves the other.
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What You Get
Tangible outcomes delivered to your business from day one.
