Engineering projects rarely die from bad code. They die because nobody wrote down what was being built, because progress was invisible until it was too late, or because the handover never happened. Each phase below closes one of those gaps.
Before estimating anything we read the code, the data model, and the incident history. You get a written map of the system and an honest list of what worries us. If the honest answer is that you do not need us, that is what the document says.
A scope document listing every service, endpoint, and migration in the engagement — and explicitly what is out. Architecture decisions are recorded with their trade-offs. The price attached to that document is the price you pay.
Two-week cycles, every one ending in a deployed environment you can hit. You have commit access, board access, and a channel with the engineers. No status theatre, no progress percentages invented on a Friday.
Load tests against the numbers in your scope document. A security pass. Failure injection on the paths that matter. Runbooks written for the failures we consider most likely. Launch is a scheduled, rehearsed event.
Your repos, your cloud accounts, your documentation. A recorded walkthrough for whoever inherits it. Our access is revoked at handover unless you retain us. Leaving should be easy — that is what makes staying a choice.
We do not build in a private environment and hand over a zip at the end. Your organisation owns the repositories, the cloud accounts and the pipelines throughout, which means at any point you could continue without us.
| comms | Shared Slack or Teams channel, plus a written weekly summary |
| planning | Linear or Jira board you can open at any time |
| code | Your GitHub or GitLab org, pull-request review on every change |
| infra | Your AWS, GCP or Azure account, provisioned as code |
| ci | Pipelines you own, running on your runners |
| observability | Error tracking, tracing and alerting live before launch |
Three to five days, fixed fee, and you keep the written map whatever you decide next. It is the cheapest way to find out what you are actually dealing with.