Senior US engineers. No contracts past a calendar month. One honest price per engagement, published here so you can do the math before we ever talk.
One price, one team, one month at a time. Three tiers are the commercial bench. A fourth tier lives under the Startup Program for bootstrapped founders who cannot yet justify the commercial rate.
For product-led teams with a short backlog and a clear one-thing-at-a-time priority stack.
For post-PMF teams shipping features every two weeks across web, mobile, and the back office at the same time.
For funded teams that need a multi-discipline pod without hiring, onboarding, and managing a six-person internal team.
For founders who shipped a working prototype and need real engineers to make it survive revenue. Six months, five seats, capped on purpose.
Whatever tier you pick, you get the same engineering discipline. The difference between tiers is capacity and parallelism, never quality of the people on the calls.
No juniors, no offshore bait-and-switch, no ticket-taker contractors. The engineer on the kickoff is the engineer on the PR.
Every tier ships on a public cadence. You see a working deploy or a PR every Friday, not a status meeting about a status meeting.
Your GitHub stays yours. Your keys stay yours. Your infrastructure is provisioned in your cloud account. On cancel we hand over the runbook and vanish.
Decisions, architecture, trade-offs, incident post-mortems. All written, linked, searchable. No tribal knowledge held hostage by whoever happens to be online.
No 12-month retainers. No ransom-style exit fees. Give us five business days notice any calendar month and we stand down clean.
From contract to first deployed feature in two weeks at every tier. Day one is setup and scoping. Day fourteen is production.
Standalone AI packages for businesses that do not need a full software engagement, only the AI automations stitched into tools they already own. Voice agents, document intake, workflow bots, team copilots.
For teams who want a single AI workflow that actually earns its rent. Voice agent, chatbot, or one automation pipeline.
For teams ready to stack automations across phones, email, scheduling, and intake forms that all talk to each other.
For operators stitching AI into every team: sales, ops, finance, support. Custom multi-system integrations and agent orchestration.
Unique requirements that combine AI automation with custom software development. Enterprise compliance, industry-specific AI models, or large-scale deployments.
Need the full breakdown of automations, integrations, and phases? The AI Implementation page walks through all of it.
Not everything needs a full subscription. These are flat-rate and focused retainer options for the times you want one surgical thing done, or you want ongoing maintenance on an app that is already in production.
For businesses running HubSpot, Salesforce, Zoho, ServiceTitan, Monday, or similar. Not custom code, just making your platform actually do what you bought it to do.
The $2,500 Audit credits 100% if you hire us for Build.
For apps that are in production and need a lighthouse, not a rebuild. Patches, dependency passes, SLA cover, minor feature work inside the hour allocation.
Emergency intake, no retainer required: $2,500 flat for diagnosis plus up to six hours of remediation.
Dashboards that pull from your warehouse, your CRM, your ad platforms, your finance system. One source of truth per seat, editable by your team.
Ship in two weeks. Your team owns the code on delivery.
We stay behind your brand on client work. You mark us up 2-3x and keep your margin. Mutual NDA and MSA required to start.
Rate lock available on annual commitments.
From contract to first deployed feature. No onboarding tax, no ramp quarter.
Annual savings versus a single senior full-time engineer plus benefits, equity, and load.
Every tier ships production deploys or PRs every Friday, not status meetings about status meetings.
Five business days to stand down. No ransom exit fee. Your code, your keys, your cloud.
Quality of the people and guardrails stays constant. Capacity and parallelism go up. Use this table when you are deciding which tier your next quarter fits into.
| Feature | Startup | Starter | Momentum | Deep End |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Monthly rate | $2,995 | $5,995 | $10,995 | $19,995 |
| Engineering hours | 20 / mo | 40 / mo | 80 / mo | 160 / mo |
| Parallel workstreams | 1 | 1 | 2 | 4 |
| Shippables per week | Biweekly | 1 | 2 | 3+ |
| Senior US engineers | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Shared Slack | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Fractional CTO hours | – | – | Yes | Yes |
| On-call incident coverage | – | – | Business hours | 24 / 7 |
| SOC 2, HIPAA, PCI workflows | – | – | On request | Yes |
| Dedicated tech lead | – | – | – | Yes |
| Full code ownership | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Month-to-month exit | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Contract length | 6 months | None | None | None |
The closest thing we offer is the App Help Audit at $2,500, which credits 100% toward a Build engagement. For subscription tiers, the shortest commitment is one calendar month. If after month one it is not working, five business days notice and we stand down. We do not discount the first month outside the Startup Program.
Five business days notice any calendar month. No exit fee. No lockout. Your GitHub stays yours, your keys stay yours, your infrastructure stays in your cloud account. We hand over the runbook on the last day and vanish clean. We do not hold code, infrastructure, or access hostage ever.
Small scope changes fit inside your tier hours. Medium scope changes get surfaced in the weekly Friday retro so you can decide to defer them, trim something else, or move up a tier for a month. We write the trade-off down in plain English. No surprise invoices.
Monthly retainer billed the first business day of the month via ACH or card. Flat-rate engagements bill 50% at kickoff, 50% at delivery. Enterprise Net 30 is available on Deep End and Custom tiers. Invoices come from Laguna Foundry, the parent company, on a Stripe invoice or wire depending on preference.
The subscription tiers are month-to-month by default. The Startup Program is a six-month commitment with a one-time three-month extension available, capped at nine months total. Flat-rate engagements run until delivery. White-label retainers are month-to-month with optional annual rate-lock for a small discount.
Yes. Always. The source code is yours on delivery and stays in your GitHub org from day one. No escrow, no licensing games, no "the code is yours but only on platforms we host." You can fork it, take it to another vendor, or archive it. We just believe we build it better than anyone else you will find at this price point.
Yes. Subscription dev and App Upkeep work on separate codebases for a lot of clients. AI Implementation often runs alongside Subscription Dev for teams that want both the AI layer and custom features on the same app. The Dive call is where we sketch the combo that fits.
Because when it is negotiable, the engineer on the kickoff is not the engineer on the PR. Agencies that cut rates make it up in rework, junior labor, and offshore tickets. Our rates are the rates, published here so you can do the math before we ever talk. If the rates are wrong for your stage, the Startup Program exists for exactly that reason.
45 minutes, one call, no pitch deck. You tell us what you are trying to ship. We tell you which tier fits, whether you even need us, and what the first two weeks look like.
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