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EU data residency by default
Product runtimes on our own infrastructure across the EU (Germany, France) and North America (Canada). See our security posture.
How we work.
Six steps. Every product, every contract. We do not skip steps. We do not promise faster than this.
Method
The six steps
Discover, validate, build, ship, operate, iterate — in that order, every time.
STEP 01
Discover
A few sentences is enough. We read your problem, ask the questions that matter, and decide on the spot whether we can help.
STEP 02
Validate
We demand a spec before we ship a line. Scope, success criteria, and a fixed first milestone. No decks.
STEP 03
Build
No juniors, no handoffs. The person you email writes the code. Boring tech, no vendor lock-in, your stack stays yours.
STEP 04
Ship
Static content at the edge, app runtimes on our own infrastructure, payments through a merchant of record. We wire everything in the same shape, every product.
STEP 05
Operate
Uptime monitoring, encrypted backups, resource metrics. We hand off the operational dashboard, not just the code.
STEP 06
Iterate
Real users, real complaints. We run weekly to monthly tune cycles against the metrics that matter to your business.
Cadence
What you'll see from us.
Operational defaults. Every contract. Every product.
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Daily
Slack thread with what we shipped, what's blocked, what's next. No silent days.
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Weekly
30-minute video call. Demo what shipped, talk through next week's scope, surface any contract or scope changes.
03
Monthly
Operational report: uptime, errors, cost, plan-vs-actual. One document, no surprises.
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Quarterly
Strategic review. What's working, what's not, what we should stop. Honest conversation, written notes.
Engagement
How we engage.
A fixed first milestone, a written scope, and an explicit out-of-scope list.
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The first milestone
A fixed first milestone, written down and signed off before any code ships. Four weeks from kickoff to a single production-ready slice of your product, end to end. No rolling scope, no open-ended discovery. The figure does not move once signed — and if the scope does not fit a budget, we say so before you sign anything.
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What it includes
One written spec, one deployed feature path with auth, one core flow, and one durable surface. CI/CD, monitoring, backups, and the operational dashboard are wired on day one, not bolted on at the end. The four-week mark is the gate to extend, refine, or stop.
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What we do not take on
Pure design exploration without a spec. Marketing-site rebuilds. Long engagements with no fixed milestone. Any project where a single success metric cannot be named in one sentence. Work that needs more than a week of discovery before a written scope exists.
Trust signals
Proof close to the decision.
Three signals buyers can verify before they start a conversation.
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Founder-led delivery
The person you contact stays close to the work, from written scope through operation. See how we work.
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Open-source track record
OpenStore is MIT-licensed and public, with 320 GitHub stars and 120 forks. Inspect the foundation.
Questions
What people ask before starting.
What do you need from me to begin?
A few sentences describing the problem. Step 01 is Discover: we read it, ask the questions that matter, and decide on the spot whether we can help. There is no discovery-call funnel and no deck — one free review call, then a decision.
What does the first milestone cost?
The figure for your project is written into the scope during Step 02 (Validate), together with success criteria and an explicit out-of-scope list, and it does not move once signed. If the scope does not fit a budget, we say so before you sign anything.
Who actually writes the code?
The person you email. Step 03 is explicit: no juniors, no handoffs. The work is done on boring, well-understood technology with no vendor lock-in, so the result stays maintainable by someone other than us.
What happens after launch?
Step 05 hands over the operational dashboard, not just the repository: uptime monitoring, daily encrypted backups with a monthly restore drill, and host metrics. Step 06 runs weekly-to-monthly tune cycles against the metrics that matter to the business.
One paragraph is enough to start.
We take on a limited number of contracts each year. If your paragraph names these three things, one reply can tell you whether it’s a fit.
- The problem What is done by hand today, and by whom.
- The metric The one number that will say it worked.
- The deadline The date it has to work by.