Senior-only team. Founder-friendly. Honest about scope. We build MVPs, sit in as fractional CTO, do technical due diligence, and rescue projects another studio left half-shipped.
Our day job is healthcare IT integrations. Once or twice a year a founder outside that vertical shows up with the right kind of problem — small team, real customer, a system that has to behave under audit — and we take it on.
Most startups do not need an agency. They need a small group of senior engineers who can put a real product in front of real customers — and deliver an honest assessment of whether the next stage is worth pursuing.
We're a small studio that's been doing this since 2014, mostly in healthcare, occasionally in finance and government, and a handful of times a year for founders we liked. The bench is senior, the engagements are short by design, and we'd rather hand a working product to your first in-house engineer than stay forever.
Web and mobile, opinionated stack, weekly demos. Next.js, TypeScript, Postgres — the boring choices that get you to a paying customer instead of a rewrite.
A senior technical partner one or two days a week. Hiring, architecture, vendor decisions, board-deck honesty — until you can justify a full-time hire and we hand off cleanly.
Healthcare is our home turf. If you’re building RPM, care coordination, or anything that touches PHI, you save six months by skipping the HIPAA learning curve.
Inherited a codebase from a studio that overpromised? We do the audit, write the honest report, and either rebuild the load-bearing pieces or stabilize what you have.
Took over from a previous studio that shipped a demo and stopped. Rebuilt the device ingestion layer, hardened the BAA posture, and got the team to 11k enrolled patients before their next raise.
Three traders, one risk officer, a spreadsheet held together by VBA. Built a small internal app on the same stack their bank requires — shipped in nine weeks, handed off to a single in-house engineer.
Most of the bad outcomes we've seen — ours and other people's — start with a misaligned engagement. Here's where we say no on purpose, in writing, before the contract is signed.
We don’t take equity in lieu of payment.
Cash keeps the relationship honest. We’re a studio, not a co-founder.
We don’t replace your CTO permanently.
Fractional means fractional. There’s a hand-off date on the wall from week one.
We don’t build forever.
We build something a small in-house team can own and operate. Then we leave.
We don’t take projects under $50k.
Below that line, the overhead eats the work. We’ll point you at someone honest.
We don’t pretend a bad idea is a good one.
If the product isn’t finding fit, we say so. Sometimes the kindest deliverable is a stop-work memo.
We don’t do offshore pass-through.
The senior engineer on the call is the senior engineer writing the code. US Central business hours, Austin-based bench.
We work best with founders who value honest technical judgment over easy agreement.
No discovery deck. No 47-page proposal. Tell us what you're building and we'll come back within 48 hours with a real technical read.
