Services
Ongoing product partnership
For teams past the first launch that need steady delivery every month without hiring a full in-house team. Reserved capacity, weekly planning, and direct access to the people building.
The gap after launch
An MVP ships and the work does not stop, it changes. There is a backlog, real users asking for things, and no obvious way to keep momentum. Hiring takes months and a permanent salary is hard to commit to when the roadmap is still moving. Project-by-project agency work means re-explaining the codebase every time and waiting for availability.
For teams past MVP who need consistent velocity without hiring a full in-house team. Weekly planning, direct Slack access, transparent hours.
What you get
- Dedicated engineering and design capacity
- Weekly sprint planning and demos
- Direct Slack and async standups
- Flexible monthly scope
How a retainer runs
Reserved capacity, not a queue
You book a defined amount of engineering and design time each month and it is held for you. You are not competing with other clients for attention when something urgent comes up.
Plan weekly, ship continuously
A short planning session each week sets priorities, then work ships as it is finished rather than in a big monthly release. You can reprioritise at any weekly boundary.
Direct access, no account layer
A shared Slack channel with the people writing the code. Questions get answered by whoever built the thing, not relayed through a manager.
Adjustable month to month
Capacity scales up before a launch and down in a quiet quarter, with notice. The point is to be cheaper and more flexible than a permanent hire, which stops being true if you are locked into a year.
What is included
- Reserved engineering and design capacity
- Weekly planning and demos
- Shared Slack channel
- Maintenance and dependency updates
- Monitoring and incident response
- Transparent hours reporting
FAQ
Three months to start, because the first month is largely spent getting deep enough into the product to be useful and it would be dishonest to charge you full rate for a ramp-up you cannot benefit from. After that it runs month to month.
Yes, with a month of notice. Teams commonly pause over a quiet period and pick up again before a launch. We keep the context so restarting does not mean re-onboarding from scratch.
You get a monthly breakdown of where the capacity went, by workstream, alongside what shipped. If a month is quieter than booked, we tell you rather than find work to fill it.
Have a product that needs to ship?
Tell us where things stand and what you're trying to hit. We'll respond within one business day with next steps.