Where the line sits
You own the roadmap, the priorities and the trade-offs. We own the engineering: architecture, implementation, review, testing and release. You decide what gets built. We decide how, and tell you what it costs before you commit to it.
What you get
- A senior team on a fixed two-week cadence, with a named engineer accountable for every change
- Your backlog, reordered by you between cycles at no cost
- Estimates that arrive with acceptance criteria attached, so "finished" is settled before the work starts
- A demo of working software at the end of every cycle, and a straight answer on anything at risk within one business day of us knowing
- Architecture decisions written down, so your own team and your next supplier can both follow them
When to choose this
Choose this when you have a product owner or project manager who is good and busy, and what you are actually short of is engineers. It is the most common shape for scale-ups, and for enterprise teams running a project the internal queue cannot absorb.
When not to
This shape needs a product decision from you inside every two-week cycle. Without one it stalls, and you pay for the waiting. Take end-to-end delivery.
What we commit to
Anything outside the acceptance criteria is a change request, priced in writing before it starts. Anything that fails them is a bug and it is on us. Miss a cycle we committed to, and that cycle is not billed.
How it is bought
Usually as two-week cycles, because the direction moves and that is the point of the shape. It converts to a fixed Statement of Work once the scope stops moving and you want a date and a number to hold us to.
After acceptance, ongoing work runs on a monthly retainer if you want us to stay. You are not obliged to take one.