60–80 senior hours
Web, mobile, backend and model work from the engineer who knows the codebase. Scaled up or down month to month.
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Retainer
The engineer who built the product keeps building it. A fixed block of senior hours a month, no recruiting, no ramp-up, cancel any month.
Price
from $3K/mo
Included
60–80 senior hours
Included
Weekly call + daily Slack
Included
Same-day emergencies
Per month80h
Same-day fixes24h
Weekly call1:1
No lock-in∞
How it works
A senior hire takes months to find and onboard. The retainer costs less than one, starts at $3K/mo for 60–80 hours from someone who already knows your stack, and it stops when you say so.
The hours go where the roadmap says: new features, store releases, model evaluation and tuning, refactoring, infrastructure and API cost. Critical issues get same-day attention. Everything else is planned on a weekly call and discussed daily in Slack.
What you get
Four things land on your side.
Weekly planning, daily Slack
One planning call a week; async questions answered the same day.
Releases and cost control
Store releases, prompt and model evaluation where the product uses one, and a monthly look at cloud and API spend.
Same-day emergency support
Production issues are picked up the day they happen. Maintenance and refactoring are part of the hours, not extra.
How it runs
Retainer, week by week.
Plan
Monthly: priorities from your roadmap, sized against the hours.
Ship
Weekly: features and fixes deployed, demoed on the call.
Measure
Usage, performance and cost reviewed with real data.
Adjust
Hours, scope or cadence changed for next month. Or cancelled.
Questions
What people ask before they book.
- Why not just hire an engineer?
- A senior hire takes months to find and onboard. The retainer costs less than one, starts at $3K/mo, starts next week and covers the full stack: web, mobile, backend and any model work.
- Is there a minimum term?
- No. It is month to month. Clients stay because the work is good, not because of a contract.
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