Schema to screen
Database design, ingestion, API, and UI -- not handed off across three vendors. One person holds the whole vertical, so the trade-offs on day forty add up instead of contradicting each other.
From the schema to the screen, written by the person who'll be there at launch.
Greenfield builds in React + Node + PostgreSQL -- internal tools, customer-facing dashboards, vertical SaaS products. Every layer written by the same engineer, so when something needs adjusting six months in, the email goes to the person who actually remembers why it was built that way.
Not a team of three contractors with overlapping calendars. One engineer who can hold the design in their head from the data model to the button click -- and the architecture notes that make it survive after handoff.
Database design, ingestion, API, and UI -- not handed off across three vendors. One person holds the whole vertical, so the trade-offs on day forty add up instead of contradicting each other.
Working software in your hands every week, not a slide deck six weeks in. If the brief drifts, you see the drift the same week it happens -- before it ossifies into a rewrite.
Architecture notes, runbooks, and onboarding docs as deliverables -- not extras. The next developer reads the code in an afternoon, not a fortnight.
The shape of the contract before the first commit -- so the project has a "done", and the calendar has a date.
A two-week conversation: requirements, constraints, the systems already in play. Output is a written proposal with scope, milestones, and a fixed launch date.
Billed against working demos, not hours. Each milestone is a vertical slice you can use -- not a status meeting.
Demo at the end of every week, a written status note at the start of the next. No surprise overruns at month three.
Thirty days of post-launch support included as a matter of course. Longer retainers available -- typically for the first quarter after a public launch.
A bounded problem with a clear "done".
A bet that needs a co-founder, not a contract.
Send a brief, however rough. A first reply lands inside 24 hours on weekdays, usually with two or three questions and a rough shape for the engagement.