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How we work

No surprises in the invoice, the code or the timeline.

Every project, whether it’s a two-week database audit or a year of app development, goes through the same four steps. Here’s what happens in each one.

Step 1

First meeting

Thirty minutes on Google Meet with an engineer, not a salesperson. You describe the problem; we ask the questions that decide the scope.

  • Send a few paragraphs through the contact form or by email. We read every message and reply by email.
  • If it looks like a fit, we set up a 30-minute Google Meet. Bring whoever knows the system best.
  • If we're not the right team, we'll say so in the meeting, and point you somewhere better when we can.

You get: an honest read on whether we're the right team

Step 2

Written proposal

Scope, what's out of scope, timeline, team and price on a few pages. Nothing starts until you've agreed to it.

  • Audits, penetration tests and defined first releases are quoted at a fixed price.
  • Longer product work is billed monthly for a named team, and you can scale it up or down with a month's notice.
  • The proposal lists what we need from you: access, test accounts, a point of contact, decisions by certain dates.

You get: a fixed scope and price, or a monthly rate for ongoing work

Step 3

The work

In your repository and your tracker. A short written update every week, and a demo at the end of each cycle.

  • We work in your tools where possible: your GitHub or GitLab, your Jira or Linear, your Slack.
  • The weekly update says what shipped, what's next, and anything blocked. Three short sections, no dashboards to log into.
  • If the scope needs to change, we write down what changes and what it costs before doing it.

You get: a weekly update you can forward to your boss

Step 4

Hand over

Code, documentation and credentials in your accounts, and a recorded walkthrough for whoever looks after it next.

  • Documentation lives next to the code, so it gets updated with it.
  • For security work: the final report and the retest results. For database work: before-and-after measurements.
  • After hand over we're available for follow-up work, but you're never locked in.

You get: a system your team can run without us

What we’ll ask of you

Projects slow down on the client side about as often as on ours. These three things prevent most of it.

A point of contact
One person who can answer questions and make small decisions within a day or two.
Access early
Repository, staging, test accounts, read-only monitoring. Waiting on access is the most common cause of delay.
A decision-maker at demos
Someone who can say yes, no, or not yet to what they're looking at.

Tell us what you're working on.

A few paragraphs is plenty. We'll read it, reply by email, and if it looks like a fit, set up a 30-minute Google Meet with an engineer.