Common questionsQuestions we get asked before every project.
Short answers. The long ones happen on a call.
How much does custom software development cost?
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Discovery produces a written scope and a fixed price before any code is written. Small internal tools and automations typically start around $8,000; a multi-tenant SaaS platform is usually a five- to six-figure engagement. If we get the estimate wrong, that is our problem, not your invoice.
Do you build custom SaaS for small and medium businesses?
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Yes. Most of our SaaS work is for SMEs that have outgrown spreadsheets and off-the-shelf tools but do not want an in-house engineering team. We build multi-tenant platforms with billing, roles, permissions, and audit logging, deployed on infrastructure you own.
What does AI integration actually involve?
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We start with the process that costs the most to run by hand, not with the model. Typically that means connecting a language model to your own documents and systems through a retrieval layer, giving it tools it may call, and keeping a human in the loop where a wrong answer would be expensive. Every answer cites its source.
How long does a project take?
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A focused automation or internal tool is usually four to eight weeks. A production SaaS platform is three to six months to first release. Discovery takes one to two weeks and ends with a scope, a number, and a delivery date you can hold us to.
Who owns the code you write?
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You do, on delivery. Everything is documented, tested, and deployed on infrastructure in your own accounts. You are never dependent on us to keep your product running, and we will hand it to another team without friction if you ask.
Do you mentor individual engineers, or only work with companies?
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Both. Alongside the client work there is 1:1 mentorship, career guidance and interview prep, personal branding, and resume reviews — bought by the engineer, priced per person, starting at $99 for a resume review. The people running those sessions are the same senior engineers who build the client projects, which is the only reason the advice is worth anything.
What actually happens in a mentorship session?
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You bring real work — a design you are unsure about, a code review that went badly, a promotion packet, an offer you are weighing. We spend the hour on that, and you get written notes afterwards so the session survives the week. It is not a syllabus and there is no curriculum to get through; if you want a course, there are cheaper ones and we will say so.
Will a resume review actually change anything?
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It changes whether the document gets read. Most engineering resumes fail on two things a stranger can fix in an afternoon: bullets that describe duties instead of outcomes, and formatting that the applicant tracking system silently mangles. You get line-by-line notes on both, and one free re-review after you have made the edits.
Do you work with existing codebases and legacy systems?
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Regularly. We migrate legacy systems incrementally rather than betting the business on a rewrite, and we will tell you honestly when a rewrite is genuinely cheaper than another year of patching.