Three ways to work with us. All priced up-front, all staffed with senior engineers and product designers. Pick the one that matches the problem you’re actually trying to solve.
Most engagements that grow into an Embedded Team or Fractional CTO start here — four weeks, paid upfront, refundable if we can't help. The full week-by-week scope lives on the Rescue Sprint page.
A senior pair lands in your repo for four weeks, runs a full audit, ships a stabilising fix, and hands you a written 90-day roadmap. Fixed scope, fixed price, paid 100% on signature. The wedge into every other product on this page.
Three cumulative tiers. Each one adds to the one before it. All tiers paid upfront — monthly, quarterly (−10%), or annual (−20%).
A senior pair — engineer + product — embedded in your team for the smallest viable bet. Best for founders who need throughput, not a full org.
A 3–4 person squad — engineers, product, design — running a real roadmap. The model behind Cosmic Frog and Poplin.
A 4–7 person squad with the headcount to run two workstreams in parallel. For Series A teams shipping multiple surfaces at once.
Two tiers, both paid upfront. The on-ramp to an Embedded Team for founders who need senior judgement first, headcount later.
A weekly 60-minute working session with a senior engineering leader, plus async access between calls. Architecture decisions, hiring loops, vendor reviews — the calls you don't want to make alone.
A named tech lead embedded in your week — standups, board updates, stakeholder calls. The seat a board expects to see filled, without the full-time hire.
The continuity product for products already in production. Three cumulative tiers, all paid upfront — monthly or annual (−15%). Designed for the year after an Embedded Team engagement.
Monitoring, dependency updates, and a senior on standby if something breaks. The minimum viable insurance policy after the team rolls off.
A senior engineer reserved for ~2 days a month — bug fixes, small features, the change requests that used to pile up. The product keeps moving without a full team.
Reserved senior capacity for ~5 days a month plus a quarterly tech roadmap review. For products with active users where "maintenance" is a euphemism for "small ongoing build."
If you don't see your shape on this page — a one-off architectural review, a closed-source audit before an acquisition, a deep-dive on one painful subsystem — there's still a way to work together. We quote it like a Rescue Sprint: fixed scope, fixed price, paid upfront.
Saying "no" to the wrong-shape work is how the four products on this page stay sharp. The same list is on /services for the same reason.
Everything we sell is fixed scope, paid upfront. If you need bodies billed by the hour against a JIRA backlog, we are the wrong shop.
We work direct with founders and product leaders. We don't hide behind another agency's logo and we don't resell our team through marketing shops.
We don't trade build capacity for equity in unfunded ideas. If you're pre-funding, the honest answer is to keep building yourself until you have a wedge.
We don't respond to formal RFPs or bid into public-sector procurement cycles. The shape of the work doesn't fit how we run engagements.
The honest comparison — including the things competitors hide in a "talk to sales" page.
| RESCUE SPRINT | EMBEDDED TEAM | BUILD FROM SCRATCH | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Team size | 2 seniors | 3–5 seniors | 4–7 seniors |
| Engagement length | 4 weeks | 3 months + | 3–6 months |
| Tech lead included | |||
| Product & UX designer | — optional | ||
| Code shipped to production | One fix | Continuous | Full product |
| Direct Slack access | |||
| Money-back if we can't help | — pro-rated | — pro-rated | |
| Best when | "Something’s slow / broken and no one knows why." | "We have a roadmap. We need a team that can actually ship it." | "We’re pre-launch. Get us to a real product." |
No deck. No salesperson. The senior who’d be in the room if we work together is the one you talk to first.
Pick what you need. We’ll show you a real-world range. No email required.
The questions every prospective client asks before signing. We answer them the same way every time.
Because there’s no project manager between you and the engineer. Our seniors are in your stand-ups, writing PRs, talking to your customers. You’re paying for that — not for a layer of account managers translating between you and the people who actually do the work.
No. Our seniors are a hardcore team that isn’t for sale — we’ve built it deliberately over years and we keep it together. You’re hiring the team for the engagement, not a path to poach individual members.
Embedded engagements have a 30-day notice. No long lock-ins, no termination fees. Rescue Sprints are refundable if we can’t help.
Almost certainly. We’re deep in Rails, Next.js, React, Node, Postgres, AWS/GCP. If we’re not the right fit, we’ll tell you on the discovery call and point you somewhere better.
Senior engineers and product designers with 5+ years of experience each. No juniors on critical path, no offshoring, no rotating contractors. The person you meet on the discovery call is in the room when we ship.
A 4-week Rescue Sprint at €15–25k flat, paid upfront. That’s the floor. Anything smaller doesn’t give us enough room to be useful.