Speed and coverage. You get the right specialists part-time (frontend, backend, data, QA, DevOps) without hiring five people. We swap in skills as needed so you move faster to a market-ready test.

- NTE caps: Every sprint has a not-to-exceed budget. We don’t cross it without your written okay.
- Pre-estimate for fuzzy work: Big/unclear items get a short discovery spike first (time-boxed) + rough-order-of-magnitude so you can slice, defer, or simplify before we build.
- Demo-based approvals: 1–2 week sprints. You approve the next sprint only after seeing the last sprint’s demo.
- Monthly budget guardrail: We agree a monthly cap; you get a weekly burn forecast and a “no surprises” alert if we’re trending high.
- Full transparency: Daily timesheets, your Jira/ClickUp board, PRs and reviews visible, and a running app from week one.
- Change control: Any new ask gets a quick impact check (time/cost) and trade-offs so scope doesn’t quietly expand.

No. We’re a pure fee-for-service partner. Taking equity changes the relationship: it pulls us into governance and product decisions (roadmap, pivots, pricing, hiring). Our model is different: you own every major decision; we execute quickly and well.

We’re happy to advise when asked, but we don’t want (or accept) decision-making authority. If you ever want structured strategic input, we can do that as a paid, clearly scoped advisory or fractional-CTO engagement — still without equity.

Immediately. We assemble the right people and begin discovery in week one; first demo in the first sprint. No months-long hiring delay.