A senior engineer, not an org chart.
Most software firms scale by adding people between you and the code — project managers, account managers, a junior bench, an offshore team. We scale the opposite way. A senior Forward Deployed Engineer owns your build end to end, sits in your Slack from day one, and leans on an internal AI toolchain for the work that doesn’t need a human. Fewer people, more signal, faster shipping.
Most team pages brag about themselves. These are promises to you.
Software teams don’t scale the way org charts pretend.
Every person you add to a software project adds communication overhead, not just capacity — the reason adding engineers to a late project tends to make it later. A small senior team sidesteps that tax entirely: no status meeting to translate your intent, no ticket re-explaining a decision for the third time, no context lost in a handoff. The people who hear your problem are the people who solve it. That’s not a limitation we’re apologizing for — it’s the entire design. It’s the same model Palantir built around: senior engineers deployed directly to the problem, not stationed behind a delivery org.
Senior engineers only
Every line of code is written or reviewed by a senior engineer. Nobody learns the craft on your budget and your timeline.
Founder-led
You work directly with the people who own the company. The person who scopes your build is the one accountable for shipping it — there's no one to escalate to, because they're already in the room.
No handoff layers
No account manager relaying your words to an offshore team. The engineer who hears the problem is the engineer who solves it, in the same conversation.
AI as a multiplier
An internal AI toolchain absorbs research, scaffolding, and boilerplate — so senior time goes to architecture, judgment, and the decisions that actually need a human.
One engineer, full-stack coverage.
A Forward Deployed Engineer carries the whole build — and the AI toolchain compresses the rote work inside each discipline so one senior covers ground that used to take a team.
Product engineering
Production web apps and iOS / Android experiences — the customer-facing surface, built to ship, not to demo.
AI systems
LLM workflows, RAG over your data, agents, and the evaluations that keep them honest once they hit production.
Backend & data
APIs, data models, Postgres, pipelines, and the integration plumbing that ties real systems together cleanly.
Infrastructure & DevOps
Deploys, CI, observability, and the operational hygiene that keeps a launch standing after launch day.
Security & compliance
Auth, least-privilege access, audit logging, and HIPAA / SOC 2-aware practices when the work calls for it.
Design & UX
The interface, not just the plumbing — flows and screens designed to be used by real people, not just shipped.
The things we left out, on purpose.
- ×An account manager
You talk to the engineer building your product — not a middle layer translating between you and the people who write the code.
- ×A junior bench
No trainees billed at senior rates. Senior hands on every line, or it doesn't ship.
- ×An offshore handoff
The person in your kickoff call is the person in your repo that afternoon. Same brain, start to finish.
- ×Hourly billing
Fixed price against a written scope. We're paid to ship the thing, not to keep the clock running.
- ×A vague “phase 1 of 3”
Discovery ends with a real scope and a real number — free, and yours to keep even if you walk.
The standards every engagement runs on.
The model only works because the operating rules are the same on every engagement, whether you have no engineers or fifty.
- A senior reviewer on every pull request.
- In your Slack, your standups, and your repo from day one.
- Fixed-price and milestone-based — you only pay when work ships and you approve it.
- A free one-to-two-week discovery before any contract is signed.
- You own all code, IP, and data — written into every agreement.
- Documented context lives in your portal, not on someone's laptop.
What we optimize for.
Clarity over cleverness
Plain language, concrete scope, and a number you can plan around. The smartest solution is the one you can still understand six months later.
Outcomes over hours
We bill for working software against a written scope — not for time on a clock. The incentive is to ship, not to linger.
Honesty over hype
If we're not the right team for your problem, we'll say so during discovery — and point you somewhere better. A bad-fit project costs both of us more than the deal is worth.
Ownership over handoff
We write the docs, hand back working code, and aim to leave your team stronger than we found it. The goal is to make ourselves optional, not indispensable.
Put a senior engineer on your problem.
Tell us what you’re building. A senior engineer replies inside 24 hours, and the first one to two weeks of discovery is on us.