Senior IC only
Every engineer has 8+ years of shipping experience. No juniors hidden offshore, no resource pyramid. The person on your kickoff call is the person writing the code.
We could be bigger. We choose not to be. Six senior people doing focused work for six clients at a time — that is the studio. Here is what that actually looks like.
When we disagree internally, these are the tiebreakers.
Every engineer has 8+ years of shipping experience. No juniors hidden offshore, no resource pyramid. The person on your kickoff call is the person writing the code.
We will refuse work whose scope we cannot ship well. Better to deliver three crisp features than ten half-baked ones. We say no to projects that are not a fit — and we say so on the first call.
Decisions are backed by evals, dashboards, or user interviews. Strong opinions are fine; strong opinions without evidence get gently challenged.
We use proven stacks (Next.js, Postgres, AWS) on hard problems, not exotic stacks on easy ones. Boring tools free us to focus on the parts that actually matter — your domain.
Every decision lives in a written ADR. Every prompt template is version-controlled. Every system has a runbook. If it is not written, it did not happen.
A working prototype Friday beats a flawless plan Monday. We ship in week one and iterate. The bar for "shipped" is "real users used it" — not "QA signed off".
Concrete commitments, not platitudes.
Monday to Thursday. We close on Fridays for deep work, learning, or rest — your choice. Has not affected delivery once in three years.
Six cities, six time zones. Most work happens async in writing. Meetings are for decisions, not status. Status goes in the dashboard.
We grow slowly because we want every engineer to have meaningful ownership. Hiring slows growth — that is the point.
We do not have idle engineers we need to staff onto your project. If we say yes, it is because the right person is genuinely available.
We absorb the risk of estimation. Scope changes mid-build go through a written change order. No "discovery phase invoice creep".
Retainers can pause with 2 weeks notice — no lock-in, no penalty. If the value is not there, you should not be paying.
We hire senior IC engineers (8+ years), one or two a year, against a real need on a real engagement. We do not bench-hire. We do not run a referral funnel. We read every application and reply within two weeks — yes or no.
If you are senior, remote-first, and want to do focused work for ambitious teams without being staffed onto two projects at once — write to us.