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How we work

No price list. A written scope instead.

Before you are asked for anything, you get a document that says what will be built, what it costs and when it arrives — specific enough that you can take it to another agency and compare properly. That is the point of it.

Engagements

Three ways to buy the same team

The difference is the shape of the commitment, not the quality of the people on it.

Sprint

You need one thing built or fixed

A fixed, written scope with a delivery date. Suited to an integration, a migration, a website, an app store release or a rescue of something half-built.

  • Written scope and fixed price
  • One delivery date
  • Code handed over on completion
  • 30 days of defect support

Studio

Most chosen

You are building a startup

The technical co-founder role, without the equity conversation. Product, build, launch, growth and compliance carried together until the company can stand on its own.

  • Monthly retainer
  • Product, design and engineering
  • GTM, SEO and campaigns
  • Formation, compliance and payments

Platform

You are an established business

A long-running system and the team that keeps it running: enterprise applications, a customised ERP or CRM, integrations and the operations around them.

  • Dedicated capacity
  • Uptime and response commitments
  • Your own domain or dedicated server
  • Quarterly roadmap review

The scope document

Eight things it contains

Free, and yours whether or not you go ahead. An agency that will not write this down before an invoice is an agency planning to decide it later.
  • 01What version one does, written as things a user can do, not as features
  • 02What it deliberately does not do, and when that is expected to change
  • 03The screens, listed, so the size of the thing is visible without a demo
  • 04Integrations named, with whose approval each one depends on
  • 05A fixed price for that scope, and what falls outside it
  • 06A delivery date, and what it assumes from you to stay true
  • 07Who owns the code, the accounts and the domains — in writing, before the start
  • 08What support looks like after delivery, and for how long it is included

The process

Four steps, two of them free

Nothing is charged until there is a document you have read and agreed with.
01

A conversation

Thirty to sixty minutes about the business, not the software. Free, and it ends with an honest answer — including "this does not need custom software" when that is true.

02

A written scope

The document described above. Also free, because a quote you cannot evaluate is not a quote, and this is the artefact that makes three quotes comparable.

03

You decide, with the document

Take it to another agency and compare like for like. That is what it is for. A scope that only makes sense when we explain it is a scope designed to win an argument.

04

Build, in visible slices

Work goes live as it is finished rather than at the end. You see progress in the product each week, not in a status report.

Questions

The commercial ones, answered

Why is there no price list on this page?

Because a single number would be wrong for almost everybody reading it. A two-week integration and a two-year platform are not the same purchase, and the agencies that do publish a number tend to publish the lowest one and rebuild the difference as change requests. What you get here instead is a free written scope with a fixed price for exactly what it describes.

What happens when the scope changes?

It is re-quoted before it is built, in writing, and you decide. Scope on a real project always changes — the difference between a well-run engagement and a bad one is whether that is handled as a decision or discovered on the invoice.

Do you take equity instead of fees?

Not as a rule. An agency holding equity in a company it also bills is in a conflicted position, and it usually ends with neither side happy. If there is a genuine reason to structure something differently, it is discussed openly rather than offered as a discount.

What if we want to leave?

You take the code, the repository, the accounts and the domains, because they were in your name from the start rather than transferred at the end. A retainer can be stopped at the end of any month. Nothing here is designed to make leaving expensive.

Do you work with other agencies or our in-house team?

Yes, and often. Sometimes the right arrangement is that we build the hard half and your team maintains it, or that we take one system while another vendor keeps theirs. That is a normal request and not a difficult one.

Ask for the scope. It costs nothing and it is yours to keep.

Describe the business in a few sentences. You get back a document specific enough to compare against any other quote you are holding.