Four ways to work with us. Discovery is fixed price. Delivery is a monthly squad rate, which keeps the incentive on outcomes rather than on billable hours.
Find out what you are actually dealing with
$28,000
fixed price · 2 weeks
Best for: Investment decisions, failing projects, or a board paper due in six weeks.
A cross-functional team that ships from week two
From $68,000
per month · 3-month minimum
Best for: Building or rebuilding a product with a team that plugs into your organisation.
Multi-squad delivery for estate-scale change
Custom
typically $2M–$12M over 12–36 months
Best for: Modernisation, migration and consolidation programmes across multiple systems.
SLA-backed care for systems that matter
From $9,500
per month · rolling
Best for: Systems in production that need patching, monitoring and occasional enhancement.
Prices are in USD and exclude tax. Non-USD engagements are billed in local currency at the rate agreed at contract. Rates hold for the duration of the engagement — we do not apply mid-contract increases.
Yours from the first commit, in your repositories, under your licence.
Architecture decision records, runbooks and API references, as we go.
Pipelines, dashboards and alerting go in with the first feature.
Sent to you unedited, whether or not the news is good.
Contractual, not a courtesy. Your team leaves able to own the system.
No termination penalty, no minimum-term trap on the squad model.
The terms below are our defaults. All of them are negotiable, and we will tell you which ones we care about.
Most engagements start with discovery, because two weeks of evidence is cheaper than six months of assumption.
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