Senior product team · For funded founders

When your software is in trouble, we're the team you call.

Embedded senior engineers, product, and design — for the moment the previous build went sideways, the lead engineer left, or the AI-coded MVP hit a wall.

14 days
To a written diagnostic
3–5
Senior people per team
24 / 5.0
Clutch reviews · avg.
Mobile and web product screens from a Kodius client engagement.
FOUNDERS WE'VE SHIPPED FOR
Engine ◆ MoneyLion Optilogic / Cosmic Frog UpEquity Poplin + 40 more
IS THIS YOU?

Three situations bring most founders to us.

We don't compete with growth agencies or staff-aug shops. We're the team you call when a product is already in the wild and the path forward isn't obvious. If one of these reads like your inbox right now, we should talk.

02

Your CTO or lead engineer just left.

The person who held the whole system in their head walked out. Nothing is documented. Releases are stalling, hiring will take months, and the board wants to know you're going to keep shipping in the meantime.

WHAT WE DO

Embed a senior product team that absorbs the context fast, stabilizes delivery, and keeps the roadmap moving while you decide whether to rehire — or whether you even need to.

03

Your AI-built MVP hit a wall.

You got a demo out of Lovable, Bolt, or Cursor faster than you thought possible. Then real users showed up. Auth is duct-taped, the schema fights every new feature, and nobody on the team can untangle what the AI generated six prompts ago.

WHAT WE DO

Keep the parts that proved the idea. Rebuild the parts that need to survive contact with paying customers — without throwing away the speed that got you here.

WHAT AN ENGAGEMENT LOOKS LIKE

Two weeks to know what you have.
Then a team that builds it.

Every engagement starts with a fixed-scope, fixed-fee diagnostic. You leave with a written assessment in 14 days — whether or not we ever build together. No long discoveries, no open-ended retainers, no surprise invoices.

STEP 01

2-week diagnostic

A senior engineer and product lead read the code, talk to your team, and write up exactly what we'd do in the first 90 days. You keep the document either way.

Fixed fee · 14 days
STEP 02

3–9 month embedded team

A team of 3–5 senior engineers, product, and design slots into your stand-ups, repo, and your roadmap. We run the build; you run the company.

Monthly retainer
STEP 03

Weekly demos, monthly retros

You see working software every Friday. Every month we sit down and decide what the team works on next — and what we stop doing.

Always reversible
PRICING

Fixed monthly retainer. No surprise invoices, no hourly games, no ramp-up fees.

OWNERSHIP

You own the code from day one. Repo, infra, accounts — all in your name.

PEOPLE

A named tech lead who shows up on every call. Not a rotating bench.

PROOF

Founders we've done this for, in their words.

Named clients, full project breakdowns, and verified results — independently reviewed on Clutch.

"
They are very goal-oriented and they definitely get the job done. Kodius understood what we needed and delivered.
Alex Whiteside
Alex Whiteside
Sr. Director, Product & Engineering · Engine (MoneyLion)
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"
Kodius was really instrumental in building Cosmic Frog and getting the product to General Availability.
Jim Wilson
Jim Wilson
Product Owner · Optilogic / Cosmic Frog
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"
I was so impressed at their ability to understand our rather unique business.
Aaron Diek
Aaron Diek
VP Sales & Partnerships · UpEquity
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"
They've been able to overdeliver for the price point and the time invested.
Alexandria DeVito
Alexandria DeVito
CEO & Founder · Poplin
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REVIEWED ON Clutch. 24 reviews · full project breakdowns, named clients, verified results. ★★★★★ 5.0 AVERAGE
WHAT WE DON'T DO

Saying no to the wrong work is how we stay good at the right work.

We turn down about three out of every four inquiries. Here's the shape of the work that isn't a fit, so you can read this page and self-select fast.

No hourly staff augmentation.

We don't rent out engineers by the hour. Engagements are fixed-scope teams with a named tech lead, billed monthly.

No white-label subcontracting for marketing agencies.

We don't hide behind another agency's logo. If our work ships under your brand, our name is in the contract.

No pre-seed co-founder-for-equity.

We build for funded teams that can pay. We are not your technical co-founder in exchange for a slice of the cap table.

No RFPs or public-sector procurement.

We won't respond to vendor questionnaires or 90-page RFPs. If your buying process needs that, we are not the right fit.

STACK WE USE

When the situation calls for it,
here's what we ship in.

The stack is a tool, not the offer. We choose what we run with after the diagnostic — not before.

Ruby on Railswhen you need to ship a real product fastElixir / Phoenixwhen concurrency or real-time mattersModern web · Svelte, React, Next.jsfor the interface your users actually touchiOS & Androidnative apps when the web isn't enoughDevOps & infrastructurethe plumbing — servers, deploys, monitoringProduct designflows and UI, not pixel decorationQA & test automationso the team behind you can keep shipping