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Capabilities

Built around your moment of pain.

Every team that calls us is at a specific moment — a stalled product, a legacy app bleeding users, an AI roadmap no one knows how to execute. Everything below is organized the same way. Pick the one that sounds like your week.

Enterprise AI Readiness & RoadmapZero to productScale without breakingArchitecture consulting
Fractional CTORescue and stabilizeThe intelligence layerForward deployed engineersConnected systems
01

“Everyone's pushing AI. We need to know where it actually pays off — before we commit.”

Enterprise AI Readiness & Roadmap

For enterprises staring at a board mandate to ‘do something with AI’ — and a thousand vendor decks that don't say where to start. We audit your data, workflows, tooling, and team readiness, then deliver a prioritized roadmap with ROI estimates for each use case. A written plan, not a slide deck.

Commission an AI roadmapHow it works, deliverables, and FAQs

What this covers

  • •Data readiness and quality audit
  • •AI opportunity mapping across the business
  • •Use-case prioritization (ROI, feasibility, risk)
  • •Build-vs-buy recommendations per use case
  • •Model, vendor, and stack evaluation
  • •Change management and adoption plan
  • •Written roadmap with phased milestones

Best for

Enterprise CIOs and CTOs, transformation leaders, boards setting AI direction

Typical engagement

3–6 weeks · Fixed fee · Written deliverable

02

“I have an idea. I just need someone to actually build it.”

Zero to product

For founders and product leads who know what they want to build but don't have a technical team. We turn the vision into working, shippable software — from first wireframe to launch.

Talk to us about a new buildHow it works, deliverables, and FAQs

What this covers

  • •Product discovery and scoping
  • •UX and UI design
  • •Architecture decisions and tech stack selection
  • •Full-stack build (backend, web, mobile)
  • •QA and acceptance testing
  • •Launch support and first-user onboarding

Best for

Startups, first-time founders, non-technical CEOs

Typical engagement

12–20 weeks · Fixed-price · Milestone-based

03

“Our software worked for 100 users. It's falling apart at 10,000.”

Scale without breaking

For companies whose early tech choices are now their biggest bottleneck. We rebuild or re-architect systems that can handle what's coming — without burning down what's already working.

Book a scaling auditHow it works, deliverables, and FAQs

What this covers

  • •System audits and architecture review
  • •Architecture modernization
  • •Performance and load handling
  • •Database restructuring and query performance
  • •Cloud migration and infrastructure hardening

Best for

Mid-market companies, scaling SaaS, ops-heavy businesses

Typical engagement

6–16 weeks architecture + ongoing execution

04

“We're making architecture calls with real risk attached. We need a second opinion we can execute.”

Architecture consulting

For teams facing high-impact technical decisions: monolith vs services, data migration sequencing, platform rewrites, and resilience design. We assess your current system, constraints, and roadmap, then deliver a written architecture recommendation your team can implement.

Book an architecture reviewHow it works, deliverables, and FAQs

What this covers

  • •Current-state architecture audit
  • •Scalability and reliability risk review
  • •Monolith vs services decision framework
  • •Data migration and integration strategy
  • •Target architecture diagrams and rollout phases
  • •Engineering advisory for execution planning

Best for

CTOs, engineering leaders, and product teams making high-stakes platform decisions

Typical engagement

3–6 weeks · Fixed fee · Written technical recommendation

05

“We have an agency building it. We have nobody on our side checking it.”

Fractional CTO

For founders with an outsourced development team and no one technical on their side of the table. We act as your technical arm: we review the vendor's work every week, own the compliance and security decisions, sit in on partner integration calls, and report to you and your investors in plain language.

Talk about technical oversightHow it works, deliverables, and FAQs

What this covers

  • •Weekly review of the vendor's progress, architecture, and code
  • •Compliance and security oversight (data residency, consent, audit trails)
  • •Technical calls with partners and third-party APIs on your behalf
  • •Hiring plan and interviews for your first in-house engineer
  • •Monthly status report, decision log, and risk register
  • •Escalation point for production incidents

Best for

Non-technical founders, regulated startups (fintech, healthtech, edtech), companies from pre-launch through early scaling

Typical engagement

Monthly retainer · 40–80 hours/month · Founder-led, with a dedicated senior engineer

06

“Our last dev team left us with a mess. We need someone to fix it.”

Rescue and stabilize

Inherited a codebase nobody understands? Features taking three times longer than they should? We step in, audit what exists, stabilize the product, and build a path forward without starting from scratch.

Get a codebase auditHow it works, deliverables, and FAQs

What this covers

  • •Technical debt assessment
  • •Codebase audit and documentation
  • •Legacy system stabilization
  • •Team handoff and runbook creation
  • •Ongoing maintenance and on-call support

Best for

Companies post-bad-agency, acquired products, internal tools in disarray

Typical engagement

4 weeks audit, then optional T&M

07

“Everyone's talking about AI. We don't know where it fits for us — or how to build it.”

The intelligence layer

Not a chatbot bolted onto your homepage. We help you identify where AI genuinely creates value in your product or workflow, then build it — from data pipelines to production-ready models and integrations.

Explore an AI engagementHow it works, deliverables, and FAQs

What this covers

  • •AI opportunity mapping
  • •LLM integration (GPT, Claude, LLaMA)
  • •Speech-to-text and voice interfaces
  • •Workflow automation with LLMs and agents
  • •Data infrastructure and pipelines
  • •Custom model training and fine-tuning

Best for

Product companies adding AI features, ops teams seeking automation, enterprises with unstructured data

Typical engagement

4–12 weeks for a first production feature

08

“We have great engineers. We just need more of them — fast.”

Forward deployed engineers

No recruitment cycles. No onboarding overhead. Experienced engineers who slot into your existing workflow, communicate like colleagues, and ship like they've been on your team for months.

Request a teamHow it works, deliverables, and FAQs

What this covers

  • •Staff augmentation (individual engineers or pods)
  • •Dedicated teams on your codebase under your direction
  • •Sprint-based contracts
  • •Long-term forward-deployed teams with time-zone overlap
  • •Backend, frontend, mobile, DevOps, and design profiles

Best for

Tech companies mid-sprint, Series A/B startups, CTOs hiring under pressure

Typical engagement

Monthly, ongoing · 4+ hour overlap with US / EU / Japan

09

“Our tools don't talk to each other. Our team wastes hours on things that should be automatic.”

Connected systems

When your CRM, ERP, data warehouse, and product platform are all islands, we build the bridges. Custom integrations and automation that eliminate manual work and make your stack actually work together.

Map your integrationsHow it works, deliverables, and FAQs

What this covers

  • •API design and development
  • •Third-party integrations (Stripe, Firebase, Twilio, and more)
  • •ETL pipelines and data sync
  • •Workflow automation
  • •Real-time data sync between systems
  • •Webhook infrastructure

Best for

Mid-market ops teams, businesses on multiple SaaS tools, companies with data silos

Typical engagement

4–10 weeks per integration project

Pricing

Pick the shape that fits how you buy.

Time & Material with Cap

Hourly billing with a not-to-exceed ceiling. Flexibility of T&M, with fixed-price-like budget control.

Outcome-Based

Billing is tied to agreed outcomes. You pay as milestones land, making delivery accountability explicit from day one.

GCC (Global Capability Center)

We operate as your dedicated capability center: long-term, and integrated into your org structure, tooling, and delivery cadence.

Not sure which one you need?

Tell us the problem in your own words. We'll help you work out whether this is a product build, a rescue, or something in between.

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