Made to Ship

Engagements

How to buy software from us.

Three ways in, all priced before the work starts, in Australian dollars. No hourly billing, no estimate that grows a zero, no invoice for a meeting.

One week

Discovery sprint

$9,500one week, fixed

For a problem that is real but not yet specified: an idea to pressure-test, a system to assess, a decision between two paths.

  • One day with your team, the rest in the code or the data
  • A written scope with screens, data model and risks
  • A fixed price and a date for the build
  • A prototype where a prototype answers the question

Credited in full against the build if you continue.

Most projects

Build sprint

$32,000per two-week sprint

Two senior engineers, two weeks, one written scope. A demo you can click every second Friday, and production inside six weeks.

  • Two senior engineers full-time on your project
  • A third engineer, when the work needs one: $16,000 a sprint
  • Staging URL from day three; production from week six
  • Tests, CI, monitoring and a runbook included
  • Cancel any sprint boundary with two weeks notice

Minimum one sprint: $32,000. Invoiced per sprint, seven-day terms.

Ongoing

Retainer

$9,500per month, from

For the product that already ships and needs a senior team on call: the next feature, the incident, the migration nobody has time for.

  • Four senior days a month, booked in advance
  • $2,000 a day beyond that
  • Priority on incidents during business hours
  • Monthly written review: risk, cost, next
  • Unused days roll over one month

Three-month minimum, then monthly.

The fine print, in plain English

Terms we do not negotiate, so nobody has to.

  • PaymentInvoices on the first business day, seven-day terms
  • CurrencyAustralian dollars, invoiced from Australia with the ABN on the invoice; prices exclude GST where GST applies
  • ExpensesPassed through at cost with receipts, never marked up
  • IPYours on payment, including work in progress
  • ConfidentialityMutual NDA on request, signed same day

Fixed scope means the price does not move because we were slow. If the scope has to change, you get a written change with a price before anything is built, and you can decline it.

We do not take equity in place of fees, and we do not work on commission. It is a bad trade for both sides: it turns an engineering decision into a financial one.

Next

Get a fixed price.

A paragraph about the problem is enough for us to tell you what it would take, and whether we are the right shop for it.

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