How is this different from hiring full-time engineers?

Full-time engineers are usually the right answer eventually. We're the bridge. You hire us when you need someone shipping by Monday and a job posting won't close for months. When you've hired the right team, we hand off everything. The code is already yours, the infra is already in your cloud, the runbook is already written. Working ourselves out of the job is the goal, and we don't mind when it happens.

What if our codebase is a mess?

Most codebases are. We're not here to judge. We've worked in Rails monoliths older than some of our engineers, in 4-year-old Next.js apps with three router migrations, and in greenfields. We adapt to your conventions, your CI, your branching model. We won't try to rewrite your stack to use our preferred one. That's a tell of an agency that's actually selling templates.

Do you really have no contracts longer than a month?

Real answer: our MSA is signed once, and engagements run on monthly purchase orders. You can pause or end at any time on 30 days' notice. Most clients stay for many months on rolling terms, because we keep earning it. Not because they signed something they can't get out of.

What does 'senior engineer' actually mean here?

All engineers staffed on your project have prior production AI, voice, or compliance experience. Most have a decade-plus building software. We don't post bios on the site because we don't think you should hire us off LinkedIn. We'd rather introduce you to whoever's staffed on your project on day zero, on a call, and let them earn the trust themselves.

How fast can you actually start?

Sprint engagements: typically 7 days from signature. Pod engagements: 14 days. Sometimes faster when a pod is between projects. We won't lie about availability. We say 'we can't take you for six weeks' more often than 'we can start Monday.'

We've been burned by agencies before. Why is this different?

Mostly because we don't try to be everything. Six services. Senior engineers only. Code in your repo. Monthly contracts. Weekly demos. Founder-led. No PMs in the loop, no offshore handoff, no proprietary platform. If you've been burned, you know what bit you. We've tried to make ourselves the opposite of that.

What does week one actually look like?

Day 1: kickoff call, Slack channel created, repo access exchanged, problem statement written and pinned. Day 2: scoping doc with the smallest shippable thing identified. Day 3–4: working prototype in a sandbox. Day 5: Loom walkthrough, demo on your calendar for next Friday. Week one is choreographed. The improvising starts in week two.

Do you sign NDAs? BAAs? SOC 2 vendor questionnaires?

Yes to all three. We're set up to handle vendor security questionnaires quickly. Most come back within a week. BAAs are standard for healthcare engagements and we'll have one ready for legal review on day one. We aim to be the easiest vendor your procurement team has dealt with this quarter.

Updated · May 2026

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