The systems your business runs on, built and maintained by a full team.
One monthly cost. One point of accountability. No hiring.
Your business depends on software nobody is really running.
Maybe it's an order system a contractor built three years ago and then moved on. Maybe it's five tools that don't talk to each other, and someone spends every Monday morning moving data between them by hand. Maybe it's a spreadsheet that grew into something critical, maintained by one person who could give notice tomorrow.
It works well enough that you haven't dealt with it. Until the day it doesn't, and there's no one to call.
We are the software team you'd have to build in house.
Not a developer. Not a contractor. The whole function, hired as a unit:
Design that fits how your people actually work.
We start by understanding the job before we touch the software.
Business rules encoded correctly.
Your pricing exceptions, approval paths, and edge cases. These compound, and getting them wrong early makes everything after them harder.
Infrastructure sized to your business.
Built for your cost, speed, and scale requirements, not a template.
Specifications that connect the design to what the system actually does.
Development.
The part everyone thinks is the whole job.
Testing.
Automated, manual, and with real users, before your customers find the problems.
Proper environments.
Development, staging, production. Changes get proven before they touch what your business runs on.
Project management.
On time, on budget, with ideas moving clearly in both directions.
Support after launch.
Things break. Fixing one thing without breaking another is its own discipline.
The math that changes the decision.
Hiring one developer feels like the cheaper option. It usually isn't, because one developer is not a software team.
And adding people doesn't close the gap.
Going from three developers to six doesn't double what gets done. It gets you maybe thirty or forty percent more, and it buys you a management problem.
Most owners find this out after they've already made the hires.
The cost is only half of it. You should also expect more to get done.
Across our engagements, clients typically see two to two and a half times the output of a conventionally staffed team.
That isn't people working harder. It's that the parts of this work that used to be slow aren't slow anymore, and that a team which has worked together for years doesn't lose time the way a team that keeps growing does.
You couldn't buy this by hiring. You've probably already tested it. When you went from three developers to five, you didn't get sixty percent more done. You got maybe twenty-five percent more and a lot more meetings.
"Why can't I just use AI myself?"
You can. The tools are the same ones we use, and they cost almost nothing.
The reason it works for us and stalls for most people isn't the tool. AI generates what you describe. If the description is vague, it produces something that looks right and is wrong in ways you won't find until a customer does.
The work is in knowing your business rules precisely enough to describe them, and in having the tests and the people to catch what the generation got wrong before it reaches production.
The code was never the expensive part.
You're not trading one dependency for another.
Everything we build is yours. Code in your repositories. Infrastructure in your accounts. Documentation written as we go, not assembled at the end. Environments set up so any competent team can pick it up.
If you ever want to bring it in house or move to another firm, you can, and we'll help with the transition.
You already have concentration risk. Right now, if your senior developer leaves, nothing is documented and nobody knows what he knew. Ours is the version with the documentation.
Who this is for
A good fit if:
Not a fit if:
Already have a team?
A developer left, a role has been open for months, or a project stalled and nobody can get to it. We pick up specific roles without anyone losing a job.
Learn more →We embed for 90 days, fix how work flows, and leave them faster than we found them. No one gets replaced.
Learn more →What it costs
From $20,000 per month. A full team: design, business analysis, development, QA, infrastructure, and support, with technical leadership over all of it.
If you need specific roles rather than a full team, Staff Augmentation starts at $10,000 per senior developer per month, with product owners, QA, design, solutions architects, and fractional CTO leadership available as needed.
If neither is in your range, we're probably not the right fit, and we'll tell you on the first call rather than waste your time.
One call tells us both whether this fits.
If you're running software you can't afford to have go wrong, thirty minutes is enough to know whether we're the right team for it. If we're not, we'll say so.