No black box between kickoff and launch. Here's exactly what happens at each stage, what you get, and roughly how long it takes.
We dig into the problem before the product — your users, constraints, and what "done" actually needs to mean. This includes stakeholder interviews, a review of any existing systems, and a written problem statement you sign off on.
Typically 1–2 weeksA technical plan and design direction you can sign off on with confidence, before a line of production code is written. This is where we make the big, hard-to-reverse decisions deliberately.
Typically 1–3 weeksSenior engineers ship in tight, visible iterations — you see progress every week, not just at the end. Weekly demos, a shared task board, and direct access to the engineers doing the work.
Scoped per projectA considered rollout with monitoring and rollback plans in place — launch day should be uneventful. We prefer phased rollouts over a single high-stakes cutover wherever possible.
Typically 1 weekWe stay close post-launch, tuning performance and cost as real usage — not assumptions — comes in. Many clients continue into an ongoing Dedicated Team or Advisory arrangement here.
Ongoing partnershipEvery model comes with the same senior engineers, standards, and communication cadence.
An embedded pod of engineers who work inside your roadmap, sprint after sprint, as if they were your own hires.
A clearly scoped project with a fixed timeline and price — ideal for launching a new product or platform.
Senior technical leadership on demand — architecture reviews, AI strategy, and hands-on guidance for your in-house team.
Every deliverable passes through the same discipline, regardless of project size.
Nothing reaches production without a second senior engineer reviewing it first.
Unit, integration, and regression tests baked into the workflow, not bolted on at the end.
Input validation, secrets management, and access control treated as requirements, not afterthoughts.
Clear technical docs and handover notes, so your team is never locked out of its own codebase.
Speed and cost are tracked from day one, not discovered after launch.
Weekly check-ins, visible progress, and a direct line to the engineers doing the work.
They usually do, at least a little — that's normal. On Dedicated Team engagements this is simply re-prioritized in the next sprint. On Fixed-Scope projects, we scope change requests transparently rather than absorbing them silently or refusing them outright.
Enough to make key decisions and answer questions quickly — typically a weekly sync plus async availability. We don't need a full-time product manager on your side, but disappearing for a month mid-build isn't ideal either.
Weekly demos exist so this gets caught early, not at the end. If something's off, we adjust in the next iteration rather than after months of silent divergence.
Yes — many relationships start with a small Fixed-Scope project specifically to build trust before a larger Dedicated Team engagement.