Six shapes of engagement. All of them earn their fee.
Six, not nine. Every peer I looked at bloats their nav until you can't tell what they're actually good at. Each of these has a specific shape, a specific outcome, and where the work is standard enough to price, a published starting band.
Before you commit to a build: one week, fixed fee, and a straight build/no-build verdict with an architecture sketch and a fixed quote attached.
A senior read on your AI use case first: does it hold, what will it cost to prove, where will it break. Then, if it makes sense, the engineers integrate it.
Wire the recurring workflow your team runs by hand. Cleanly. AI-assisted where AI helps, plain code where it does not.
0-to-1 SaaS builds. MVPs, internal tools, portals, dashboards. You own the codebase from day one.
A senior second opinion on a system you are about to build, or one already burning. Written findings, a read-out, a follow-up.
Embedded fractional product + engineering team for one line of business. Weekly demos, monthly reviews. Outcome-based, not seat-based.
Not sure which shape you need?
Book a 20-minute scoping call. I'll tell you honestly, even if the answer is "not us."