We don't pitch.
We ship.

Depends on the work. Discovery is fixed-price — you know the number before we start. Builds are fixed-bid against a scoped statement of work; forces both sides to think before they sign. Retainers are monthly with a defined hours floor. We're direct about rates on the first call. No mystery quotes after a two-week evaluation circus.

Discovery: two to four weeks. A focused MVP: eight to sixteen weeks. Larger systems with real integrations take longer. We don't quote a timeline until we've done the work to estimate one honestly. "Typical" is a word that hides a lot of bad scoping.

Sometimes. Only when we believe in the business and the equity structure is real. We don't trade equity for discounted rates as a default. That conversation happens during discovery — not as a negotiating tactic on the intro call.

Yes. We use our standard mutual NDA but will review yours. Two things we won't sign: an NDA that pretends public information is confidential, or one that prevents us from listing your company in our portfolio. We flag both up front.

You do. All work product is assigned to the client on final payment. We retain no license to the code, designs, or systems we build for you. If we bring in pre-existing tools or frameworks, we disclose them and confirm they're compatible with your ownership needs. No surprises later.

Yes, and we're honest that it changes the engagement. More translation. More documentation. More pushing back on a bad idea without being a jerk about it. We've done this. We tell you what we're doing and why — not hand you a black box you can't maintain.

Yes. We've inherited everything from legacy spaghetti to abandoned freelancer wreckage. Start with an audit: read the code, document what exists, find the structural problems, give you an honest read on what's worth keeping. Some gets rescued. Some gets rewritten. We tell you which.

Good. We play well with in-house and contracted designers. We operate within your design system, implement to spec, and flag implementation issues early — not after three rounds of revision. No design team and need light UX inside the build? We can handle that within scope.

Yes. Monthly retainers cover dependency updates, security patches, bug fixes, and a defined response SLA. We'd rather maintain what we built than hand it to someone who doesn't know why decisions were made. That said, we write docs thorough enough that another team could take over cleanly. Your call.

HC is the mascot from a community token we issued in 2024. He stuck around. He doesn't attend calls, doesn't have opinions about your tech stack, and has never written a line of code. He's on the favicon. He approves every commit. Some things don't need to be fully explained.