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// WHAT_WE_BUILD

Three offerings. One engine.

A senior CTO with AI-native delivery, embedded into your product. Fixed price. Fixed weeks. No standups, no agency overhead, no junior dev with Cursor. Pick the entry point that matches where you are.

4-12 weeksto production
£35-250kfixed-price
20+ yrsCTO experience

// THE THREE TIERS

Pick the entry point that matches where you are.

TIER 1 · RESCUE

Turn a fragile codebase into a fundable asset

Prototype code can't pass DD, can't scale, can't onboard a real team. We rebuild it in 4-8 weeks at fixed fee — ready for the next round, customer, or acquirer.

  • [+]Pass tech DD in your next round
  • [+]SOC2-ready audit trail and security posture
  • [+]Open the enterprise sales motion
  • [+]A codebase your next 3 hires can actually extend
£35-65k

4-8 weeks · fixed fee

SCOPE A RESCUE
MOST COMMON

TIER 2 · NEW BUILD

Ship a new product in one quarter

MVP, AI-native product, or a whole new venture stack. Six-to-twelve weeks to production. The senior team that ships sits on the work — not a vendor account manager between you and the code.

  • [+]Production-grade V1 in one quarter
  • [+]Capped budget, weekly business demos in your KPIs
  • [+]Capability transfer included — your team owns it on day 1
  • [+]£75-250k fixed vs. £400k-1.5M agency or consultancy
£75-250k

6-12 weeks · fixed fee

SCOPE A NEW BUILD

TIER 3 · ENTERPRISE AI

Production AI inside your perimeter

90% of AI demos never ship. We build the 10% that do — customer-facing AI products, internal AI productivity, or AI-native data platforms. Inside your security boundary, with capability transfer to your team.

  • [+]Customer-facing AI products that reach production
  • [+]Internal AI productivity that compounds quarter-on-quarter
  • [+]Air-gapped or VPC-deployed where compliance demands
  • [+]Your team owns the system from day 1
£150-250k+

8-14 weeks · fixed fee

SCOPE AN AI BUILD

// WHY THIS ENGINE

Why this works when agencies and in-house teams don't

01

Senior on the work, not on the call

The CTO doing the architecture is the same person writing the code. No account manager between you and the people shipping. The "single talented person who replaces a team" is now an industry baseline — that's who we put on your build.

02

AI-native delivery

AI does the typing; senior judgement does the architecture. ~50% of code at Google is now AI-generated; we run a similar ratio. That's why an 8-week timeline is real, not aspirational.

03

Fixed price, capped budget

You know what you're paying before we start. No hourly billing, no scope creep, no surprise invoices. We hit the date because the senior who scoped it is the senior who builds it.

// PROCESS

From first call to shipped product

Five steps. Deliberately small, deliberately senior, deliberately fast.

1

Strategy call

30-60 minutes with the senior who will run the build. We map scope, constraints and success metrics. NDA-ready, no deck.

2

Fixed-price scope

Within five business days: written scope, deliverables, weekly demo plan and capped budget. You either green-light or walk away — no sunk-cost trap.

3

Sprint

Senior operators on the work, AI-native delivery, weekly business demos in your KPIs. Architecture decisions logged, not buried in Slack.

4

Production

Deployed system, security pass, observability, runbook. Not "ready for handover, with caveats" — production.

5

Hand-off

90-day knowledge transfer, documentation, on-call line for the first month. Your team owns the system on day one of post-engagement.

// WHAT WE WON'T DO

The honest disqualifiers

No hourly retainers. We sell shipped outcomes, not time.

No managing your existing engineering team. Either we ship the build, or we don't take the work.

No open-ended discovery. Five days from call to scope; if we can't scope it, the answer is no.

No junior dev hiding behind a senior bio. The CTO on the call is the CTO writing the code.

No vibe coding for production systems. We use AI like the hyperscalers do — for leverage, not for shortcuts.

Have a build in mind?

Tell us what you're shipping and we'll come back inside five business days with a fixed-price scope. If we can't, we say so.