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VOL. 01 — FIELD NOTES FROM A SOFTWARE STUDIO
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Open for one 2–6 week sprint · Q3 2026

Software delivery sprints.

For founders and product teams: plan, design, build, test, and launch a scoped slice of product before you commit to a larger build, a dedicated team, or a full-time hire.

01 — 2–6 week first sprint before any long-term commitment
02 — Founder-led discovery — no salespeople
03 — Weekly demos, written decisions, no surprises
04 — Scale up only after fit is established
§ 02 — Proof

Proof you can inspect before belief.

PROOF 01 Founder MVP

Turn a broad idea into a buildable first slice.

For non-technical founders, the first sprint turns product ambition into a scoped backlog, clickable prototype, and working slice that can be judged before a larger build.

Buyer evidence

What you can inspect: discovery brief, prototype, first production workflow, and handover notes.

PROOF 02 Product team capacity

Add senior delivery without waiting on hiring.

For product and engineering teams, we take a contained feature, integration, or platform track and run it with shared repos, demos, and written decisions.

Buyer evidence

What you can inspect: milestone plan, pull requests, demo notes, tests, and release checklist.

PROOF 03 Stability work

Make an existing product safer to change.

For teams carrying technical risk, we focus a short engagement on tests, observability, deployment confidence, and the highest-cost defects.

Buyer evidence

What you can inspect: risk register, test coverage plan, runbook updates, and prioritized fixes.

§ 03 — Services

Seven services. One contract at a time.

§ 04 — Why guessyou

The reasons clients stay, written down.

01

Senior engineers, on the keyboard

The person you meet in discovery is the person who ships your code. No layered handoff to a team you've never met.

02

Transparent by design

Boards, repos, and decision logs are shared from day one. You see progress as it happens, not in a Friday slide.

03

On time because we said no

We scope first sprints tightly. When something is going to slip, you hear it on Monday, not the night before launch.

04

Engagement models that flex

Start with a sprint, scale to a team, ramp down without drama. We've built off-ramps into every contract.

§ 05 — Buyer Confidence

What you can judge in the first sprint.

01

Scope before spend

A 2–6 week first sprint is fixed price. You know what you'll get and what it costs before you commit to anything larger.

02

Visible progress

Weekly demos, a shared repo, and a board you can read. If something is stuck, you'll see it before we tell you.

03

Handover-grade output

Tests, docs, runbooks, and a README that doesn't lie. If you bring it in-house tomorrow, your team can keep going.

§ 06 — Process

Boring on purpose. Predictable by design.

01 / 06

Discovery

We sit with the people who'll use the thing. We map the problem before we sketch a solution.

02 / 06

Proposal & Planning

A written proposal: scope, milestones, money, and what we will not be doing. No surprises.

03 / 06

Design

Architecture and interface, in parallel. Pen and paper before pixels, pixels before code.

04 / 06

Development

Two-week iterations, weekly demos, written decisions. The codebase tells the truth about itself.

§ 07 — First engagements

Pick a shape that fits the question.

OPT. 01 2 weeks · fixed price

Discovery sprint

Interviews, technical audit, written brief. Output is a proposal you can shop around, even to other teams.

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OPT. 02 4–6 weeks · fixed price

Focused build

One feature, end to end. Designed, built, shipped behind a flag. You decide whether to extend.

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OPT. 03 3 weeks · time & materials

Stability pass

On an existing codebase: tests, observability, the worst three bugs. We leave it better than we found it.

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A first sprint is 2–6 weeks, fixed price. We scope it together in five working days.
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