From hello to shipped — without the agency dance.
Discovery is free. The price is fixed when you sign. A Forward Deployed Engineer ships working software every Friday. Three phases, a handful of meetings, no surprises.
Free Discovery. Pay for Development.
Discovery is on us — 1 to 2 weeks of working sessions with a senior engineer. If we cannot tell you exactly what we are building, why, and how long it takes, we should not be charging you to find out.
- Free 1–2 week Discovery
- Fixed-price Build Loop
- Forward Deployed Engineer in your Slack
- 30-day on-call coverage included
Discovery
Four short meetings to align on goals, validate technical feasibility, and write a fixed-price scope. If we are not the right team, you walk away owing nothing.
A 10-minute three-step form where you tell us who you are, what you want to ship, and when you need it. We respond inside 24 hours with a real engineer on the thread — not a sales sequence.
Internally we research your space, pull the right Forward Deployed Engineer for the domain, and prep the questions that move the project forward fastest.
A reply from the engineer who will lead your Discovery, with three or four sharp questions and a calendar slot.
60 minutes with the founding engineer assigned to your project. We align on goals, users, constraints, and the single outcome that determines whether this engagement is a success.
We pull together architecture sketches, competitive references, and a draft scope outline so the next session is focused on validation, not exploration.
A shared brief on goals + users + success metric, and a working hypothesis for how we will build it.
One or two sessions covering technical architecture, integrations, data model, security posture, and AI surfaces if relevant. We answer 'is this buildable in this timeline at this price' with evidence, not optimism.
We prototype the riskiest piece if needed — auth flow, third-party integration, AI accuracy spike — so the timeline is grounded in real numbers.
A Technical Architecture Document covering stack, data model, integrations, security, and the build sequence.
A single document with the build broken into milestones, each with a fixed price, a fixed timeline, and a clear acceptance criterion. You see exactly what is shipping and what is being deferred.
We send the agreement for review with a 5-day turnaround. If something is off — scope, budget, sequencing — we redline together until it fits.
A signed Scope Agreement and an invoice for the first development milestone. Discovery ends here, free of charge.
Development
Forward Deployed Engineers ship features in weekly slices. Friday demos. Portal sign-off. Every commitment lives in the Scope Agreement and is tracked against it. Total length scales with the work — not a fixed sprint count.
Within 24 hours of signing, your project is live in the Fluxent client portal. Documents, signatures, billing, the encrypted credentials vault, members, and a notes log — all visible to you in real time.
We provision repos, environments, and CI on our side; share staging URLs and the runbook draft in your portal Documents tab.
A live workspace at client.fluxent.tech with every artifact for your project under one roof.
Forward Deployed Engineers ship features in weekly slices. Demo every Friday. You sign off in the portal. No 'we'll get to that next sprint' — every commitment lives in the Scope Agreement and is tracked against it.
Engineering work, code review, internal QA, and continuous deploys to staging. Slack-channel-shared progress so there is never a surprise.
A demo URL every Friday, sign-off in the portal, milestone billing only when you approve.
In the final stretch we shift from 'build' to 'break.' End-to-end tests, load tests, accessibility passes, security review, and a dry-run launch on a production replica.
We file every issue we find against ourselves and triage with you in the daily standup. You see the bug list shrink in real time.
A green test suite, a clean security checklist, and a launch plan with rollback steps documented.
Production deployment, observability wired up, on-call rotations briefed, and the runbook handed over. We are in your Slack for the first 30 days, included.
We monitor the rollout, watch error rates, and ship hotfixes if anything regresses. You get a daily summary email until traffic is steady.
A live product, full observability, a documented runbook, and 30 days of on-call coverage included.
Support & Growth
The launch goes live. The team that built it stays close. Pick the engagement that fits — a safety net or a full embedded squad.
For teams that want a safety net but do not need a full retainer. Pay only when you need us — bug fixes, small features, third-party API surprises, version upgrades.
A pre-approved hourly rate, a single point of contact, and SLA-backed response on critical incidents.
A Forward Deployed Engineer (or a small team) embedded with you full-time on a monthly retainer. Same person who built it, now keeping it alive and shipping the next thing.
Continuous improvements, on-demand engineering capacity, and an engineer who already knows your codebase from day zero.
What we ship most.
Tailored solutions for startups and SMBs. If your project does not fit one of these, scope a build anyway — odds are we have shipped something close.
Web & Mobile Applications
Production web apps and mobile experiences built with modern stacks and an AI-compressed timeline.
Rapid Prototyping
Investor-ready, clickable prototypes from brief to demo in days. Validate concepts before you commit.
Codebase Audits
Senior eyes on your stack: performance, security, maintainability — written report and an action plan.
API Integrations & Maintenance
Connect your systems to third-party APIs, keep the pipes clean, and stay current on every upgrade.
Internal Tool Development
Custom admin panels, dashboards, and ops tools that turn manual processes into competitive advantages.
AI Transformation
RAG, agents, and LLM workflows wired into your business — measured by outcomes, not vibes.