Clients, founders and vendor partners all start the same way. Tell us what needs building and we'll come back with a scope you can act on — whether or not you build it with us.
01You send the brief
A spec, a rough problem statement, or three paragraphs of context. All of them work.
0245-minute intake call
We probe constraints, integrations and what success actually looks like. Booked within one business day.
03Written scope in 48 hours
Role matrix, timeline, price band and assumptions — free, and yours to take elsewhere.
04Meet the pod
You interview every engineer before they start. Nobody is assigned to you sight unseen.
Vendor partners: we can operate white-label under your brand, inside your tooling, with reporting formatted for your client. Mention it in the brief.
With a 45-minute intake call. You describe the requirement, we probe the constraints, and within 48 hours you get a written scope with a role matrix, timeline and price band. Nothing is billable until that document is signed.
It means a portion of our capacity is structured around research rather than delivery, and our engagements are documented to that standard. Practically: we can take on problems with no known solution, produce written feasibility verdicts, and our work is typically documented well enough to support R&D tax credit claims in your jurisdiction. We're not tax advisors — we supply the evidence, your accountant makes the claim.
Both, and roughly half our work is white-label delivery for agencies and system integrators. We can operate under your brand, inside your project management tooling, with reporting formatted for your client.
Matched profiles within 72 hours of a signed brief for mainstream stacks; one to two weeks for specialised roles like ML research or embedded systems. You interview everyone before they start.
A two-week R&D spike or a single embedded engineer for a month. Below that, the onboarding cost is not fair to either side, and we'll usually tell you so.
You do, on payment, without exception. IP assignment is in the master agreement, repositories live in your organisation where you prefer, and we hand over infrastructure access at close.
Fixed-price for well-defined scopes such as MVPs and R&D spikes. Monthly per-seat rates for rostered engineers and retained pods. We don't bill hourly — it rewards the wrong behaviour.
Every project includes a support window. After that you either retain a pod for continuous iteration or take a full handover with documentation, recorded walkthroughs and a transition period alongside your in-house team.