Is this you?
Tick the ones that are true this quarter. One is enough.
The economics
Well-run shops do not carry senior bench against uneven pipeline. Idle senior engineers turn a good year into a flat one, and every owner who has carried a bench through a slow quarter knows what it costs.
The failure mode: the staffing model quietly starts choosing the deals. A project that fits commercially but not on the calendar gets decided by headcount, not by strategy.
Partner capacity keeps that call yours. Take the work you want; delivery arrives sized to the project, not to your payroll — one phase, defined end date.
The terms are written down because you are introducing us to a client you spent years earning. Brand attribution, confidentiality, and non-solicitation — agreed before work starts, not left to good intentions.
How it works
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Scope, stack, deadline, and what is blocking it. Two minutes. No NDA needed to talk.
Whether we can take it — and if we are the wrong fit, what to do instead. Turning work away is normal here.
Your architecture, conventions, and definition of done. Technical, not a sales call.
Success criteria, assumptions, and boundaries in writing before work starts. You price your client however you like — that spread is yours and we never ask.
Your repo, your branch conventions, your PR process, your tracker — your standups if you want us there.
Running software, not status decks. You see it before your client does.
Code, docs, pipelines, and a walkthrough for whoever owns it next. No proprietary dependencies. Nothing your team cannot maintain without us.
Stacks we take
Shapes an engagement takes
What you get
Your conventions, your review process, your branch strategy. It arrives looking like your team wrote it.
Everything is yours outright — code, infrastructure, documentation, pipelines. No proprietary dependencies and no component only we can maintain. If you never call us again, nothing you shipped stops working.
The commitment
We quote the phase, not the hour. You get a fixed number before work starts, so the margin you quote your client is a number you can actually rely on. Bounded engagement, defined end date, no open scope.
The fee is set in writing after the scoping call and depends on scope, stack, and timeline. Typical engagements run three to eight weeks. We do not sell hours, retainers, or a body you have to keep busy — if what you need is a warm seat billed monthly, we are the wrong call and we will say so on day one.
Why this works
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COBOL-to-.NET redesign of a pharmacy dispensing platform: 30 developers, two years, legacy system live for hundreds of pharmacies through the entire cutover. Working inside a running business with someone else’s users on the line is the normal condition here.
An 18-month stalled UI modernization at a healthcare SaaS, reframed and shipped in six weeks without derailing the internal team. The common partner scenario: not dead, stuck — and the date is already committed.
A legacy CLM data extraction blocking a contract-management product roadmap: removed in four weeks, 50,000+ records extracted, core development unblocked.
HIPAA- and DEA-compliant ePrescribing platform migrated off legacy PHP/jQuery to React and TypeScript, both stacks running side by side, every line of new code traced to its epic, regulatory requirement, and UAT artifact.
Who you are actually comparing us to
Same timezone, your process, and a senior engineer reviewing every line — from someone who has been the founder, CEO, or CTO five times over.
When your client asks a hard architecture question through you, there is a real answer behind it. The offshore rate is lower; the rework, the timezone lag, and what it costs when your client notices are not in that rate.
Before you call
If yours is not here, it is a two-minute email and a direct answer within a day.
No — not during the engagement and not after it, and it is in the agreement rather than just on this page. Your client relationship is the asset you have built. A partner who treats it as lead flow is not a partner.
Take it when
US-led software shops, roughly 10 to 150 people, taking on a project that needs senior capacity sized to the work rather than to payroll. The scope can be written down and bounded. You want it delivered under your name, and you intend to keep owning the client relationship — which is exactly how we want it.
Pass when
Bodies billed hourly with no defined outcome. Someone to own the client relationship or pose as your employee. Commodity production. An open-ended monthly retainer. In any of those cases we will say so within 24 hours rather than take the work and manage you through it.
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.
Partner engagements run under a written agreement covering brand attribution, confidentiality, and non-solicitation of the client you introduce. Those terms are agreed before work begins.
Final step
Send the scope, the stack, and the deadline. Within 24 hours you will know whether we can take it and what a bounded first phase would look like. If we are not the right fit, you will get that answer just as fast — along with what we would do instead.
