Engagement
What working together looks like.
No mystery, no sales theater. Here's exactly how an engagement runs — what you get, what it costs, and what we're deliberately not.
What you get
01
One senior engineer
The person on the first call is the person who builds it and answers for it in production. No junior bench, no relay.
02
Fixed scope, fixed price
A written scope names what ships and what explicitly doesn't, at a price agreed before a line is written. Out-of-scope is listed by name, not discovered by invoice.
03
Working software, weekly
Something to click from the first week, and a short review every week after. You watch it get built; surprises have nowhere to hide.
04
Operated after launch
We ship it and stay — monitoring, fixes, a defined accountability window. Your data stays yours, exportable any time.
What it costs
Fixed price, scoped in writing
Every engagement is priced against a written scope, not an hourly meter — you know the number before you commit, and it doesn't move unless the scope does. The first phase, where we frame the problem on one page, is free.
What we're not
Not an agency in miniature
No account managers, no offshore bench, no status decks that say nothing. If your project genuinely needs forty people, hire forty people. This is the other thing — one senior engineer who holds the whole system in their head.
The method
Every engagement runs the same five phases, each ending at a gate you hold. The calendar is never the gate; the gate is the gate.
Walk the five phases →Questions worth asking
Can one engineer really handle a serious project?
For the right project, yes — that's the whole model. One senior engineer end to end removes the handoffs where most projects actually fail. What it doesn't fit is work that genuinely needs a large team; when that's the case, we'll say so.
What happens if you're unavailable?
A studio of one is built to be handed over at any moment: tests, documentation, a written migration trail, and your data exportable any time. The bus-factor is managed by discipline, not by hope. You're never holding a system only one person can read.
Do you actually operate it, or hand it off?
We operate it. Shipping is the middle of the job, not the end — monitoring, iteration, and a defined accountability window are part of the engagement, not an upsell. No handoff into the void.
How does pricing work?
Fixed price against a written scope, agreed before any code is written. No hourly meter, no scope discovered by invoice. The first phase — framing the problem on one page — is free.
Can you build in our language, including right-to-left?
Yes. We ship in English, French, and Farsi, and we treat right-to-left as a first-class constraint, not a translation bolt-on. Trilingual, RTL-fluent product is a practice here, not a checkbox.
The first phase is free — it's the one that tells us both whether there's a project here.
Start the first phase