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Project-Based.

Defined scope, defined end. Fixed-deliverable engagements — feature work, a rebuild, a migration, a product built from zero to one.

Typical shape
Systems Design 15%Infra 12%DevOps 11%Data 12%AI 15%Backend 16%Frontend 19%
Leading
Frontend19%Backend16%Systems Design15%
Typical length1–3 months
Team size1 senior, sometimes 2
Next availabilityOne engagement at a time — booking now

Overview

Project-Based work has a start, a scope, and an end. You know what ships and roughly when — a feature built and shipped, a legacy system rebuilt, a migration finished, a product taken from an idea to something real users touch. No open-ended retainer, no ambiguity about when the engagement is "done."

When this fits

  • You know what you want built and need a senior team to build it, not a discovery process.
  • The work has a natural finish line — a launch, a migration cutover, a feature ship — rather than ongoing coverage.
  • You want a fixed quote tied to milestones, not an open-ended hourly clock.
  • You're building something zero to one and need the whole stack covered by one accountable team instead of stitching together specialists.

What you get

  • A written scope and milestone plan before any code ships — you sign off on what "done" means.
  • Senior engineers covering the full stack the project needs — systems design, infra, backend, frontend — under one team, not a chain of subcontractors.
  • Milestone check-ins with working software at each one, not a status deck.
  • A handover: docs, runbooks, and a walkthrough for whoever maintains it after we're gone.

What we won't do

  • Start building before scope and milestones are written down and agreed.
  • Quote low and pad it with change orders. The fixed quote is fixed.
  • Hand off a project without documentation the next team can actually use.
  • Take a project on if we don't think it can ship in the timeframe we're quoting.

How we work

  1. Scope. We turn what you want into a written spec with milestones — usually a week, sometimes two for bigger builds.
  2. Quote. A fixed quote against that scope, tied to the milestones, not a time-and-materials estimate.
  3. Build. Senior engineers ship against the plan, with regular check-ins on working software, not slides.
  4. Test. Every milestone ships with the tests and checks that prove it works, not just that it compiles.
  5. Handover. Docs, runbooks, and a walkthrough — the team that owns it after launch isn't guessing.

Fixed scope, fixed quote, tied to milestones — let's talk about what you're building.

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