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What We Build

Productized engineering.
Predictable outcomes.

Stop paying for effort and start buying results. Three clear tiers, transparent pricing, and a free technical audit to start — no pitch, no pressure, no obligation to continue.

Engagement Tiers

Three tiers. Transparent pricing. Start with an audit.

Every engagement begins with a free technical audit, so you know exactly what you are solving before you spend anything.

Starter

$3,000 – $8,000

2–4 weeks · Fixed price

For small businesses and first engagements. Designed to deliver fast, measurable results that build confidence before scope expands.

  • Technical audit & performance report
  • Core Web Vitals optimization
  • A first AI automation workflow
  • Conversion & UX improvements
Start With the Audit
Most Common

Growth Infrastructure

$10,000 – $30,000

4–10 weeks · Scoped

For scaling companies. The comprehensive build-out of the infrastructure, automation, and integrations your growth is already demanding.

  • CI/CD pipeline setup
  • Cloud infrastructure optimization
  • Shopify / Magento improvements
  • Custom automation systems
  • Analytics & API integrations
Start With the Audit

Enterprise

$50,000+

Ongoing · Embedded

For enterprise modernization. Architecture leadership and AI integration strategy embedded directly inside your organization.

  • Architecture leadership
  • AI integration strategy & roadmap
  • Platform migration planning
  • Performance engineering at scale
  • Automation infrastructure build-out
Start With the Audit

Ranges are scoped honestly at the audit stage — not quoted blind.

Start Here — Free

Identify the opportunity before you spend a dollar.

Serious clients rarely buy from a cold pitch. They buy from demonstrated competence. Our audits give you something useful on day one, whether or not you ever hire us — which is exactly why they work.

Audit 01

Commerce Performance Audit

Shopify Plus · Magento · Core Web Vitals

A full review of the storefront — Core Web Vitals scoring, checkout bottlenecks, app and extension bloat, and the friction that quietly kills conversion. You receive a prioritized action report.

  • Lighthouse audit across key page types
  • LCP, CLS, and INP breakdown
  • Checkout conversion analysis
  • App and script load impact review
Audit 02

Infrastructure & TTFB Audit

Linux · Apache · MySQL · Caching

A deep dive into what happens before the browser gets a byte — server response times, extension conflicts, database query patterns, and cache configuration. You leave with a clear modernization path.

  • TTFB and server response analysis
  • Database slow query identification
  • Caching and CDN configuration review
  • Quick wins versus architectural fixes
Audit 03

AI Readiness Assessment

Automation · Data · ROI Projection

An honest evaluation of where AI creates measurable return in your specific business — and, just as importantly, where it does not. We map the opportunities, assess data readiness, and project realistic outcomes before anything is built.

  • Workflow automation opportunity mapping
  • Data readiness and quality assessment
  • LLM and AI API integration options
  • Build versus buy recommendation
Audit 04

Technical Debt Scorecard

Architecture · Security · Modernization

A structured assessment of the existing codebase: architecture risk, security surface, dependency health, and modernization readiness. Understand what the debt is costing and what it takes to clear it.

  • Architecture risk and scalability review
  • Security vulnerability surface analysis
  • Dependency and library health audit
  • Business risk versus investment breakdown

Core Services

Six service areas. One integrated partner.

From performance engineering to AI integration to embedded technical leadership — the partner that grows with you instead of handing you off.

Performance Engineering Slow stores lose revenue. Platform-level performance work for Shopify Plus and Magento Enterprise — Lighthouse audits through infrastructure tuning, aimed at measurable conversion improvement. Lighthouse 90+ · CDN · Query tuning
AI Integration & Automation AI capabilities embedded into the stack you already run: LLM-powered workflows, intelligent document processing, retrieval, and an honest readiness strategy first. LLM APIs · Workflow · Retrieval
Growth Infrastructure Cloud optimization, automated deployment pipelines, containerization, hardening, and monitoring — so shipping stops being the risky part of the week. AWS · CI/CD · Docker
Platform Migration Full migrations with zero-downtime cutovers: Magento to Shopify Plus, legacy monolith to modern architecture, or any platform that has outgrown its original design. Cutover · Reconciliation
Data & Analytics Schema design, ETL pipelines, real-time dashboards, and forecasting — turning a data-rich, insight-poor organization into one that can actually see itself. MySQL · ETL · BI
Technical Leadership Fractional CTO and architecture advisory: decisions made and documented, vendors evaluated, engineers mentored, and roadmaps that compound instead of reset. Fractional CTO · Roadmap

Project Recovery

Your project is in trouble. We've seen this before.

Missed deadlines. A vendor who stopped answering. A codebase nobody wants to open. We diagnose what actually went wrong, stabilize what exists, and deliver what was promised.

Triage audit · $1,500 flat · 48-hour turnaround

Commerce Recovery

Broken themes, failed Magento upgrades, corrupted product data, dead checkout flows, or a custom app that stopped working after a platform update.

Platform Recovery

Incomplete multi-tenant architectures, broken API layers, failing billing integrations, or a Laravel codebase carrying years of unmanaged debt.

CMS Recovery

Hacked WordPress installs, failed plugin updates, a custom theme from a developer who vanished, or a store with broken inventory and orders.

Migration Recovery

A cutover that went wrong mid-flight — data loss, broken integrations, downtime that will not end, a system stranded between two platforms.

Data Recovery

Corrupt databases, missing backups, runaway queries, schemas that cannot carry current load, or pipelines quietly delivering wrong numbers.

Infrastructure Recovery

A server down for reasons nobody can name, a pipeline that broke production, cloud costs that exploded, or a deploy only one person can run.

Engagement Models

How the work is structured.

You choose the structure that fits the situation — a sprint, a retainer, or an embedded partner. Each one maps to a tier above.

Model 01

One-Time Sprint

A defined scope, a fixed price, a two-to-four-week delivery. Ideal for a first engagement: audit, optimize, prove the value, then decide what comes next.

  • Clear deliverables and timeline
  • No ongoing commitment
  • Starts with the free audit
Model 02

Managed Retainer

A dedicated monthly capacity of engineering hours — an on-call team that knows the product deeply and ships continuously. Scales with the roadmap.

  • Guaranteed monthly hours
  • Priority response and SLA
  • Monthly roadmap and reporting
Model 03

Embedded Partnership

Technical leadership inside the organization: architecture decisions, cross-department modernization, and strategic AI integration as a founding technical partner.

  • Fractional CTO and architecture lead
  • Works inside your tools and process
  • Long-term roadmap ownership

Questions

The things people actually ask.

Is the audit really free, and what is the catch?

It is genuinely free and there is no obligation to continue. The catch, if you want to call it one, is that a good audit is our best argument — we would rather show you competence than describe it. You keep the report either way.

How big is the team?

Deliberately small, and heavily amplified. A compact human core with AI woven into how we design, build, test, document, and operate means fewer handoffs, no account managers between you and the engineer, and output well beyond the headcount.

Do you work with our existing developers?

Often, yes. We are frequently brought in alongside an internal team to unblock a specific problem, raise the engineering standard, or provide the senior architecture voice the team is missing. We do not need to own everything to be useful.

What if our codebase is embarrassing?

It will not be the worst we have seen, and we are not here to grade you. Every recovery engagement starts from an honest diagnosis with no moralizing about how it got that way.

What does "conscious technology" mean in practice?

That we evaluate every decision twice — by business value and by human consequence — and tell you when those two answers disagree. It also means documentation, runbooks, and handover so you are never hostage to us.

Who actually owns the work?

You do. Code, infrastructure, credentials, and documentation are yours, transferred at the end of the engagement. We build systems you can run without us.

No Pitch, No Pressure

Start with a free audit.

We identify the gap before we propose a solution. Tell us what hurts and we typically respond within one business day.