↳ Process / The full playbook

A short
loop,
shipped
weekly.

No discovery → spec → handoff → black box. We work in two-week iterations from day one, with a working preview every Friday. You see the build as it's built — and you can change direction without it costing a phase.

01
Week 1–2 · paid

Discovery

We embed for two weeks. By the end, you have a technical RFC, an architecture sketch, a working spike on the riskiest part, and a fixed estimate. If we don't continue, you keep all of it.

→ Deliverable
Technical RFC
→ Deliverable
Architecture sketch
→ Deliverable
Spike on the risk
→ Deliverable
Fixed-price estimate
02
Week 3 · alignment

Architecture review

Senior engineers from both sides sit in a room (real or remote) and pressure-test the plan. We come out with a single source of truth: stack, schema, infra, integrations, milestones.

→ Approved
Stack & conventions
→ Approved
Data model
→ Approved
Infra topology
→ Approved
Milestone plan
03
Week 4 → launch · two-week sprints

Build

Two-week sprints. PRs to your repo from day one, code review through your normal channels. Every Friday: a working preview, a recorded demo, a written retro, and a re-planned next sprint.

Sprint plan
Mid-sprint sync
Demo + retro
04
Launch + 30 days · on-call

Deploy & learn

Production rollout — usually a soft launch behind a flag, then a hard cutover. Runbooks written, observability wired up. We stay on the on-call rotation for 30 days at no extra charge, then hand it off cleanly.

→ Handoff
Runbooks + docs
→ Handoff
Dashboards + SLOs
→ Handoff
Pairing sessions
→ Handoff
Postmortem template
A typical week

What Monday
through Friday
looks like.

Every engagement uses the same cadence. You always know when to expect signal, and from whom.

MON
Sprint plan

60 min. Scope locked, owners assigned.

TUE
Heads down

No meetings. PRs flowing.

WED
Mid-sprint

30-min sync. Blockers cleared.

THU
Heads down

QA + polish. Ship-readiness.

FRI
Demo + retro

Working preview. Recorded. Notes shared.

Principles

Seven things
we believe.

01

Senior people doing senior work.

No pyramid scheme. The person on your kickoff call is the person writing the code.

02

Boring tech, mostly.

We use what works. Novel tools earn their place by paying down real risk, not chasing taste.

03

Write the doc.

Every non-trivial decision gets an RFC. Future you (and your auditors) will thank present us.

04

Ship every Friday.

A working preview every week. Big-bang reveals are how trust dies.

05

Tests where they pay.

Heavy on critical paths and pure logic. Light on glue code that's about to change.

06

Own the consequences.

We share the pager during launch. If it breaks at 2am in week one, we're on it.

07

Leave the code better.

When we exit, your team should be more capable than when we started — not more dependent on us.

Let's start with
discovery.

Book a kickoff