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The Four-Week Proof

Every project starts by proving it is worth doing, before you commit to the full build.

We are a young company, so we would rather show you than ask you to believe us. Every project is set up so you can test us at low risk first, and leave at any point with everything we made.

Hands working through a plan on paper beside an open laptop

Four steps, always in this order.

The order matters more than the names. We start building once you have seen a plan and a price in writing.

Week 1

Assessment

We find where your time is going.

We talk to the people doing the work and write down how it gets done in practice, which usually differs from what the process document says. Most of what we find is unglamorous: a report someone rebuilds by hand every Monday, a status nobody updates. That is where the recoverable hours are.

You getA ranked list of opportunities that compares the hours each one saves with the effort it takes

Week 2

Plan

You get a plan and a price before we build anything.

We turn the assessment into a costed recommendation: what to do first, what to leave alone, what it costs, and what it should return. Sometimes the honest recommendation is to change nothing. We have made it before and will make it again.

You getA written plan with fixed pricing and a delivery timeline

Weeks 3+

Build

You see working software every week.

We work in short cycles, and each one ends with something you can use. If we are heading the wrong way, you find out in week three, while changing course is still cheap.

You getWorking software, demonstrated weekly

Final week

Hand off

You can stop working with us and lose nothing.

You get the code in your repository, the accounts in your name, documentation written for whoever comes next, and a recorded handover session. We work so that you can replace us easily. We want clients who stay because it suits them.

You getSource code, documentation, accounts, and a recorded handover

How we de-risk it

You find out whether this is worth doing before you pay for it.

The first call costs nothing

A 30-minute call to work out what you actually need, including when the answer is a smaller job than you came for, or nothing at all. No pitch deck, no obligation.

The AI assessment is free

We spend about a week looking at how your team really works and come back with a ranked list of what would pay off, scored by hours saved against effort. You keep the list whether or not you hire us.

Free, honest recommendations

You get our actual opinion on what to do, which regularly includes telling you not to spend money, on us or on AI. We would rather lose a project than sell you one you did not need.

A fixed price before we start

You get a real figure after the first call, agreed in writing before any work begins, and it does not move. Anything outside that scope gets quoted separately rather than absorbed quietly, or discovered by you at invoicing.

You own everything

Code in your repository from the first commit, accounts in your name, and documentation written so someone else could take over. No lock-in by design.

Fixed-price engagements are fixed for the scope agreed in writing before work starts. Larger engagements are quoted after the free call, because scope varies enough that a headline number would mislead more than it helps. Monthly plans can be cancelled with 30 days' notice.

No numbers here on purpose.

We have been going too short a time to quote statistics that mean anything, and we would rather not invent any. These are the things you can hold us to.

We build with no secrets

You will always know what we are building, why, and what it costs. If something slips, you hear about it the day we spot it, well before the deadline.

Full attention

We take on a few clients at a time so your project gets the attention it needs. If we cannot give it that, we tell you before accepting it.

You own everything

The code is stored in your repository, the accounts are in your name, and the documentation is written for whoever comes next. You can change providers whenever you like. We would rather you stay because the work is good.

Honest recommendations

We tell you when you can do without what you asked for, when the cheaper option is the right one, and when something simpler than AI solves the problem. If someone else can do it better, we tell you that too. That advice is free.

The tools we build with

Well-known, well-supported technology, chosen so you can later hire anyone who knows it.

  • Claude
  • Gemini
  • n8n
  • Zapier
  • React
  • TypeScript
  • Tailwind CSS
  • Flutter
  • Swift
  • PostgreSQL
  • Supabase
  • Prisma
  • Vercel
  • WhatsApp
  • Stripe
  • Notion
  • Anthropic
  • Meta AI
  • Make
  • Airtable
  • Next.js
  • Node.js
  • GraphQL
  • Expo
  • Kotlin
  • Firebase
  • MongoDB
  • Docker
  • Google Cloud
  • Discord
  • HubSpot
  • Figma