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Process

Four phases. You can leave after any of them.

Most software engagements ask for a large commitment against a document nobody can verify. Ours is built so that trust is earned in stages, and so that every stage leaves you with something you keep.

I

Audit

Week 0 · free

We look before we quote.

You get a written dossier: what your current stack actually does, where revenue leaks between systems, what is safe to keep, and what a replacement really costs. It is specific enough to be useful even if you hire someone else — that is the point. We would rather lose a badly-scoped project than win it.

You end up with

  • Written findings dossier
  • Scope and cost range
  • A recommended first slice
II

Slice

Weeks 1–2

One thin vertical, all the way through.

The first thing we ship is deliberately narrow and completely real — one workflow from input to database to interface to notification, in production, with your data. It proves the architecture, exposes the integrations that will fight us, and gives you something to judge us on before the budget is committed.

You end up with

  • Working slice in production
  • Confirmed integration contracts
  • Revised plan with real numbers
III

Build

Weeks 3–12

Weekly releases, visible progress.

The rest gets built in weekly increments against the architecture the slice proved. You see it every week on a staging environment that mirrors production. Scope changes are priced when they arrive, not discovered at handover — and we write down what we decided and why, so the reasoning outlives the engagement.

You end up with

  • Weekly deployed increments
  • Migration and cutover plan
  • Decision log and documentation
IV

Automate

Ongoing

Then we remove the manual parts.

Once the system holds the data, the repetitive work around it becomes automatable — reconciliation, routing, follow-up, reporting, publishing. This is where most of the compounding return sits, and it is the phase almost nobody gets to because the build never finishes. Ours does, so this one starts.

You end up with

  • Automation estate
  • Monitoring and failure digests
  • Handover or ongoing operation

How we work

Six commitments, stated plainly.

These are the things we would want promised to us if we were buying this.

  • You own it

    Your repositories, your infrastructure accounts, your domains, your data. We work inside them. If you end the engagement, nothing has to move and nothing stops working.

  • No agency middle layer

    The people who scope the work build the work. There is no account manager relaying your requirements to a subcontractor in another timezone.

  • Boring where it counts

    PostgreSQL, TypeScript, well-trodden frameworks. We are aggressive about product ideas and conservative about the substrate, because you have to run this after we leave.

  • We run our own builds

    Eleven businesses operate on the systems described on this site. When something is badly designed, it is our own weekend that it ruins first.

  • Written down or it did not happen

    Architecture decisions, runbooks, migration steps and rollback paths are documented as part of delivery, not sold back to you afterwards.

  • Automation is the deliverable

    Software that needs a person to babysit it is half a solution. We are not finished when the screens exist — we are finished when the work runs without you.

Phase one costs nothing.

A written audit of what you have, what it is costing you, and what a fix is worth. Yours to keep either way.

Start the audit