How we work
No price list. A written scope instead.
Engagements
Three ways to buy the same team
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 chosenYou 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
- 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
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.
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.
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.
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.