Two ways to work with us.
One is a senior engineer embedded in your team, month to month. The other is a specific system we build for you and hand over, billed by milestone. No open-ended retainers, and if neither is the right fit, we will tell you.
Offer 01 · Where most founders start
Embedded Founding-Level Engineer
A senior engineer (8+ yrs, big-tech and fintech background) embedded in your team, part-time or full-time equivalent, month to month.
What they do
Architecture, hands-on shipping, hiring help, and the technical decisions a founder would make. They own outcomes, not tickets.
Who it is for
Pre-seed and bootstrapped founders who need their first real engineer, or a non-technical founder who needs a technical counterpart who thinks like a co-founder.
Not a contractor and not an agency bench: one named senior engineer, accountable to you.
Engagement
Offer 02
AI & Systems Build
Custom AI features, agents, and internal tooling built end to end, instead of assembling a stack of SaaS subscriptions.
The kind of thing we build
Incident root-cause tooling, organizational memory systems, and LLM observability. Scoped builds we deliver and hand over, not staff augmentation.
Several of these run on tools we wrote and maintain. See the products →
Engagement
No ramp-up month. Something real ships in the first week.
Day 1
Access
Repo, Slack, docs, and the context. The engineer is in the room, not waiting on a kickoff deck.
Day 2–3
Codebase audit
A read of what exists: architecture, the sharp edges, the fastest safe path to shipping.
Day 5
First shipped change
Something real merged and deployed by the end of week one. Momentum from the start.