Listen
One 30-minute call. You talk about the problem, the people, and the politics. I take notes. There is no deck.
Scope
A written plan within a week: what I build, what I don’t, for a fixed price and a fixed date. If I can’t scope it confidently, I say so, and we shape it together for an hourly rate until we can.
Build
Weekly demos on Friday. You get a link every week. No long silences, no surprise invoices. If the plan changes, the plan changes — in writing.
Harden
Monitoring, runbooks, docs, handoff — or a retainer where I keep it running. Your ops team should never fear a 2 a.m. page because of something I wrote.
Stay
Most clients keep me on for small-batch improvements after launch. A few hours a week beats a 6-month rebuild in 18 months.
"What we don’t do."
No offshore
The whole project is built, shipped, and supported from Iowa. The person on the call is the person writing the code.
No junior engineers
Nothing against them. They just shouldn’t learn on your production system.
No gated demos
Ask a question, get an answer. The first real conversation is the sales process.
No rebuilds for sport
If your existing code works, we build next to it, not on top of its ashes.
No 12-month timelines
If I can’t get you something useful in 8 weeks, the scope is wrong. We cut it.
No handcuffs
Everything is yours: the repo, the cloud account, the docs. Fire me on a Friday; you’re running on Monday.
Ready to start?
A 30-minute call, a written scope in a week. No mystery.