Six stages between a requirement and running software. Each one produces an artefact you can read, so progress is something you verify rather than something you're told.
Clients and vendors bring a brief — a spec, a napkin sketch, or a problem nobody has scoped yet. We run a structured intake to separate what is known, what is assumed, and what has to be discovered.
We translate the brief into a role matrix and pull the pod from our engineer roster. You review profiles and meet the delivery lead before anyone writes a line of code.
Before committing to a build, the pod proves the risky part. A short spike settles the unknowns — model choice, data volume, third-party limits — and the architecture is written down.
Two-week sprints, demoed live. Every increment lands behind CI, code review and preview environments, so progress is something you can click rather than something you're told about.
Release engineering, load testing, monitoring and a rollback plan. We treat launch as an engineering event with a checklist, not a date on a calendar.
Keep the pod for continuous iteration, or take a clean handover — documentation, walkthroughs and a support window while your in-house team takes the wheel.
None of these are impressive on their own. Together they're the reason our clients rarely get a surprise in month four.
Working software, shown live. No slides, no screenshots of things that only run locally.
A written note every Friday: what shipped, what slipped, what we need from you next week.
Every architectural fork is written down with the alternatives and why we ruled them out.
Nothing reaches main without a second engineer's review and a green pipeline. Including hotfixes.
These aren't posters on a wall. They're the four positions we've had to defend to clients most often — and haven't lost yet.
Architecture arguments get settled with a spike and a benchmark. If we can't measure it, we say so rather than dressing a preference as a principle.
We will talk you out of features. A smaller thing that ships and gets used beats a larger thing that arrives late and gets rewritten.
Every codebase is written for the engineer who inherits it. Documentation is not a phase at the end; it's a property of the work.
Red weeks get reported as red weeks. Bad news early is a solvable problem; bad news late is an invoice dispute.
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.