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Quick scope
Often a 1–2 week scope. SaaS founders don’t have time for 6-week discoveries.
The senior team you can’t hire fast enough.
We’re built for the kind of engagement SaaS founders want and rarely get: a senior engineering team that can start tomorrow, scale up or down without drama, and hand over to your own hires when you’re ready.
What we do for startups.
Startups & SaaS is the industry where most of our founders started their careers, and where we feel most at home. From funded startups scaling their first platform to established SaaS companies modernizing what they’ve built. We’re the engineering bench you call when your in-house hiring isn’t keeping pace, when you need to ship the v2 product, or when you need senior judgment in the room without the salary commitment of a VPE hire.
Where it helps most
Series A-B founders
Hiring is slow and the roadmap isn’t. We’re the senior team you didn’t budget for but soon can’t do without.
Series C-D scale-ups
You’re scaling but still hitting platform limits. We do the unglamorous platform work that lets your in-house team focus on product.
Pre-PMF venture studios
You’re running multiple bets. We’re a flexible engineering bench across them.
CTO-as-a-service moments
Your CTO just left, or you’re between hires. We bridge the gap with senior engineering leadership.
What we deliver.
Each item below is a concrete deliverable that we scope, build, and stay accountable for.
Fast, steady delivery
Fast iteration, weekly deploys, and the senior judgment to know when to slow down for foundation work.
AI-native product
AI features, retrieval, and agentic workflows, built with careful evaluation so they don’t hallucinate in the demo.
Full-stack delivery
Web, mobile, and APIs on modern stacks, without over-engineering.
Growth engineering
Product analytics, A/B testing infrastructure, growth experimentation tooling.
Integrations
Stripe, Twilio, SendGrid, Segment, and the dozen integrations every SaaS company needs.
Security as you scale
SOC 2 readiness, secure-by-default architecture, and the security maturity SaaS customers expect.
How an engagement runs.
Five phases, each with outcomes we can measure.
Why work with us.
Senior judgment, not just senior titles
Our engineers have shipped, debugged, and survived production at scale. We bring that experience to your standup.
Founders aren’t bait-and-switched
The senior engineer in the pitch is the senior engineer on the project.
We help you replace us
Our engagement model assumes you’ll eventually hire in-house. We’d rather help you hire than create lock-in.
Frequently asked questions.
Still unsure? A 30-minute call with a tech lead answers the rest.
Ask us directlyAre you a fit for pre-seed startups?
Usually not. We’re an expensive partner at pre-seed, and a better fit for funded ventures with at least 12 months of runway.
Will you take equity?
Occasionally, on a case-by-case basis. We don’t lead with it and we don’t require it. We’ll have an honest conversation if it’s a fit.
Can you ramp up or down quickly?
Yes, within reason. We won’t commit a team for 90 days and then redeploy them the next week, but capacity changes of ±25% within 2–4 weeks are normal.
How does this differ from a fractional CTO?
We’re engineering capacity, not just leadership. Fractional CTOs lead 1–2 engineers; we are the 4–8 engineer team. We can layer fractional CTO leadership on top.
What about pre-launch products?
Yes; see Product Engineering. We have a discovery-through-launch practice for funded pre-launch products.
Let’s talk about your project.
Tell us about your team, your stack and the problem you want solved. We’ll come back with how we would approach it.
Response time
Within one business day
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Headquarters
Charlotte, North Carolina
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