One service. One engagement.

No tiers, no à-la-carte menu. Your entire technical foundation, handled on a monthly retainer.

status: private_beta · paused

Straight talk: this engagement is not actively onboarding right now. It is my backup plan if the current tech-layoff wave reaches me, so it stays parked here, warm and ready to run. If you want to test the waters anyway: I open special private-beta slots at founder-friendly pricing for teams I click with. Reach out and ask.

The Founding Engineer

Your entire technical foundation, handled.

Pilots only

discounted slots by reach-out

  • Codebase audit & requirements blueprint
  • Repo scaffolding & CI/CD automation
  • Agentic pipelines, bots & code-quality scanning
  • Context-specific AI rules, prompts & skills
  • Testing setup & all the plumbing in between
  • Design system integration
  • Auto-generated docs, changelogs & blogs
  • Handoff runbooks your team actually reads

Pricing depends on stack, stage and scope. Pilot slots get the deep audit free.

Ask about a pilot slot

From audit to handoff.

Six async phases. Zero meetings by default. Everything documented.

  1. 01

    Deep audit

    audit --deep

    I clone in, map the technical debt and score your stack against launch-ready standards. Prioritized report within 24 hours, no meeting required.

  2. 02

    Requirements blueprint

    plan --async

    A written execution plan lands in your inbox: scope, sequence, success criteria. You review on your schedule; I don't do status meetings.

  3. 03

    Foundations and pipelines

    build --core

    Repos scaffolded, CI/CD automated, code-quality scanning and testing wired into every push. All plumbing ships as reviewed PRs.

  4. 04

    The intelligence layer

    wire --agents

    Context-specific AI rules, prompts and skills for your codebase, plus agentic pipelines for release triage, doc generation and slop scans. Vendor-agnostic by design.

  5. 05

    Product surface

    polish --surface

    Design system integrated with your brand, component standards locked in, UI consistency enforced automatically.

  6. 06

    Knowledge engine and handoff

    ship --knowledge

    Docs, changelogs and technical posts generate themselves from your actual codebase. Your team inherits runbooks to keep it that way.

  1. 01

    how it starts

    Free deep audit. Report in your inbox within 24h.

  2. 02

    how it runs

    Monthly retainer, fully async, cancel anytime.

  3. 03

    how it ends

    Full handoff: runbooks, docs and standards you own.

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