Is this you?
Tick the ones that are true this quarter. One is enough.
The quality gate
Every line of code passes a senior engineer before it ships. No exceptions, no unreviewed AI output entering the codebase you are accountable for. Tests run before review.
The code that reaches your repository meets the same standard you would expect from a conventional senior engineering team.
If the question arriving here is whether SharkByte has built systems with real operational load: carrier grids handling millions of rows, an AI document-intake service eliminating manual data entry across a brokerage operations team, a HIPAA- and DEA-compliant ePrescribing platform migrated with both stacks live, and a multi-stage contract extraction orchestrator with confidence-routed human review.
The engagement, step by step
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Scope, success criteria, assumptions, and boundaries agreed in writing before a line of code is written. Fixed fee defined. No ambiguity about what “done” means.
The pipeline decomposes the build into parallel task streams, generates code, runs tests, and submits pull requests. A senior engineer reviews every line before it reaches your codebase. The client interacts directly with the build and can redirect without scope-creep penalties.
Every week you see working software — not a status update. Delivered on a weekly cadence throughout the engagement.
Complete source code, infrastructure configuration, deployment pipelines, documentation, and a walkthrough. Standard code on standard infrastructure. No proprietary dependencies, no ongoing licensing requirement.
What SharkByte builds
Outside this scope — said upfront
At engagement close
Repository access included. Standard code, readable and modifiable by any developer you bring in.
Two hard outcomes from the same daily build loop: legacy CLM data extraction removed in four weeks with 50,000+ records extracted and product development unblocked; an 18-month stalled UI modernization reframed and shipped in six weeks.
The commitment
At the end you receive a written assessment of what to build, the delivery timeline, and a fixed price — or a clear statement that the custom path is not right. The output belongs to you either way.
SharkByte is a founder-led firm. Engagements are bounded and fixed-fee — not open-ended retainers. Typical engagements run three to eight weeks; legacy conversions deliver a first working milestone in week one and a bounded phase in eight to twelve weeks.
Systems with real operational load
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Clean Architecture and CQRS backend managing carrier grids in the millions of rows; AI document-intake service classifying BOLs, load confirmations, and rate confirmations into structured records, replacing manual data entry across the operations team.
A HIPAA- and DEA-compliant ePrescribing platform migrated from legacy PHP and jQuery to React and TypeScript, both stacks running simultaneously. A multi-stage contract extraction orchestrator — OCR, computer-vision layout analysis, structured extraction, confidence-routed human review — processing thousands of contracts.
A five-stage lead-intelligence workflow with per-call cost and latency telemetry under one audit trail. Fliphound: self-serve digital billboard advertising, 1,500+ live boards. A COBOL-to-.NET redesign of a core pharmacy dispensing platform: 30 developers, two years, legacy live for hundreds of pharmacies through the cutover.
No layer between you and the work
The person scoping your system, reviewing the code, and answering your questions is the same person who built the pipeline SCADA at Koch Industries, led the COBOL-to-.NET redesign with 30 developers as CEO of KeyCentrix, shipped flexTrax’s POS platform in a 90-day build cycle, and co-founded Fliphound.
There is no account manager between you and the work, and no review layer staffed separately from the build — the quality gate is real because the person enforcing it also carries the result.
Before you call
If yours is not here, it is a two-minute email and a direct answer within a day.
Every line passes a senior engineer before it ships — structural, not optional. The code you receive is standard code: readable, modifiable, extensible by any developer you bring in. You are not accepting a build that only its builder can maintain.
Take it when
The workflow is the business and no mature SaaS owns it; the integration bottleneck lives in a seam no vendor is responsible for; the off-the-shelf tool forces daily workarounds; or the legacy system’s behavior is the asset and its code is the liability.
Pass when
A commodity function with a well-supported SaaS in the market, or a one-off with no clear owner inside the business. If neither condition fits, the feasibility review will say so — and recommend what does.
Tell us the problem — two minutes.
Direct answer within 24 hours on whether it’s a fit.
If it is: a 30-minute scoping call.
Written scope, timeline, and fixed fee before any work starts. You keep everything delivered.
SharkByte is a founder-led firm. Engagements are bounded and fixed-fee — not open-ended retainers. Mobile apps and embedded systems are outside scope and are identified upfront.
Final step
A paid, one-to-two-week engagement. At the end you receive a written assessment of what to build, the delivery timeline, and a fixed price — or a clear statement that the custom path is not right. The output belongs to you either way.
Describe the system — a few sentences is enough to start. If it is not a fit, I will tell you.
— Brandon Shuey, Principal
