For Startups
Senior engineering velocity, without the senior headcount.
You need infrastructure and product shipped now, but a staff-level data engineer takes six months to hire and your roadmap can't wait. We plug in as a senior team that ships in weeks, builds things your future hires will thank you for, and hands over clean.
What we get hired to fix
The data platform you keep deferring
Analytics is duct tape, investors are asking for metrics, and every sprint it loses to product work. We build the right-sized platform in weeks — not the enterprise version you don't need yet.
AI features under competitive pressure
Your competitors shipped an AI feature and your demo keeps slipping. We build LLM features with evals and cost controls, so what ships doesn't melt your margins.
MVPs that have to look like v3
Enterprise prospects judge your product in the first ten minutes. We build customer-facing data products that are production-grade on day one.
How an engagement looks
We work in shapes that match your procurement reality and your urgency — and every one starts with a scoped first step, not an open-ended retainer.
- 4–12 week build sprints with a defined, demo-able outcome
- Fractional founding-engineer depth across data, backend, and frontend
- Architecture you can hire into — documented, conventional, boring in the good way
- Clean handoff with docs and pairing, not vendor lock-in
Build sprint
MODEL 014–12 weeks, fixed scope, working software at the end. Data platform, AI feature, or customer-facing product — scoped to what moves your next raise or launch.
Fractional data team
MODEL 02Ongoing senior capacity a few days a week — the data and platform engineering layer while your team focuses on product.
Technical due-diligence & rescue
MODEL 03Inheriting an agency codebase or prepping for a diligence process? We audit, stabilize, and give you a straight-talking report.
→ Start a project
Tell us what's broken. We'll tell you how we'd fix it.
Start with a conversation — thirty minutes, engineers on both ends of the call. If we're not the right team, we'll say so and point you somewhere better.