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Build · Retainer

A senior team on tap — month to month.

Once your product is stable, momentum is everything. Keep a senior engineering team that already knows your codebase, shipping features, fixes and improvements on a predictable monthly basis. No re-hiring, no ramp-up, no drama. Cancel whenever.

Month to month
Diagnosis

When a retainer makes sense

After a rescue

We stabilized it — now keep the same team building forward instead of handing off cold.

You can't justify a full-time hire

You need senior capacity, but not a permanent salary and the hiring risk that comes with it.

Steady roadmap, not a project

Ongoing features and improvements, prioritized month by month against your goals.

You want reliability

A team that shows up, communicates, and ships — predictably, every month.

How the retainer works

A clear method, not a black box.

Every engagement is fixed-scope and reversible. You always know the next step, the cost, and the outcome before you commit.

  1. A dedicated senior team

    The same engineers month to month — no revolving door, no re-explaining your product every time.

  2. Prioritized together

    We plan each cycle against your roadmap, ship in short increments, and keep you in the loop the whole way.

  3. Flexible and fair

    Scale up or down as you need, cancel anytime, and keep full ownership of everything we build.

What you get

Concrete deliverables, in your hands.

No vague retainers of hours. You get artifacts you own and can act on — whatever you decide to do next.

  • A dedicated senior engineering team
  • A prioritized, rolling roadmap
  • Regular shipping in short increments
  • Clear communication and visibility
  • Month-to-month terms — cancel anytime
The path

From first call to shipped.

  1. Free 15-minute triage call

    Same week · free

    Tell us what's broken. We ask the sharp questions, give an honest first read on whether it's a rescue, a refactor or a rebuild, and agree on next steps. No sales theatre.

    • Honest first assessment
    • Rescue / refactor / rebuild verdict
    • Clear next step

    You leave knowing where you stand — even if you never hire us.

  2. Rescue Assessment

    About 5 business days

    We get read access and go deep: architecture, security, technical-debt map, test gaps, CI/CD and deployment. You get a scored report with a prioritized fix roadmap and a go/no-go verdict.

    • Scored codebase report
    • Prioritized remediation roadmap
    • Fixed quote for the fix
    • Go / no-go recommendation

    A clear, evidence-based plan — and a fixed price for the work.

  3. Stabilization Sprint

    2–4 weeks · fixed scope

    We stabilize the highest-risk parts first: stop the bleeding, fix what's broken, harden security, and get you to a state you can ship and build on. Fixed scope, daily visibility.

    • The critical fixes, shipped
    • Security & deployment hardening
    • Documentation of what we changed
    • Daily progress you can see

    A working, deployable product you understand and control.

  4. Delivery & retainer

    Ongoing · month to month

    Finish the roadmap and, when you're ready, keep a senior team on tap to build the next things — features, mobile, scale. Month to month, cancel anytime. You keep all code and access, always.

    • Roadmap delivered
    • Optional ongoing engineering team
    • You own all code and infrastructure

    From rescued to shipping — with a team that already knows your code.

Questions

Straight answers.

No. Retainers are month to month. We earn the next month by delivering this one, and you keep all the code regardless.

Yes. Adjust the capacity as your roadmap and budget change — up for a big push, down when things are steady.

That's the ideal path — we already know your code, so there's zero ramp-up. Most rescues that go well roll straight into a retainer.

Get started

Tell us what's broken. We'll tell you the truth.

Start with a free 15-minute call or a written quote. If it's salvageable, we'll show you exactly how — and what it takes.

  • You keep all code & access — always
  • NDA on request, before you share anything
  • Free, no-obligation first read