No retainers we don't earn. No fixed-price quotes on unscoped briefs. No upsell at the end of the engagement.
A one-week paid discovery, a Lighthouse audit, a small fix-it engagement, or a single landing page.
An MVP, a v1 production build, a mobile app, or an AI workflow with a measurable evaluation set.
Multi-quarter engagements, an embedded developer in your team, mission-critical platforms with on-call SLA.
Most of an agency invoice is layers — account managers, designers who don't code, sales reps. We removed those layers. The price you see is the engineer's time.
| — | FelixTech three-person studio | Typical agency 15–60 person shop |
|---|---|---|
| Person writing your code | →Senior engineer, 7+ years, named on /team | Usually subcontracted offshore, never named |
| Discovery | →One paid week — artefacts handed back either way | Free, vague, designed to land the retainer |
| Source code ownership | →Transferred to you on payment, full Git history | Held until retainer renews, sanitised on handover |
| Post-launch fixes | →90-day stability period included, no new SOW | New ticket, new invoice, new wait |
| Lock-in | →No retainer beyond the current month | 12-month minimum, auto-renew clause |
| PM / account-management fee | →None — you talk to the engineer | 10–25% of the invoice |
| On-call when production breaks | →Founder's phone, answered evenings & weekends | Support ticket queue, business hours |
Three real-shaped briefs and the all-in budget we'd quote after a discovery week. Numbers based on past engagements — yours will land somewhere inside the range.
A working product with Daraja STK-push and C2B/B2C callbacks, an admin dashboard, transaction reconciliation, and a Friday demo every fortnight. Hosted on a $24/mo Hetzner VPS we set up under your account.
Multi-tenant Next.js + Laravel build with auth, role-based access, billing, and a Postgres schema sized for the next two years. Includes structured logging, daily backups, and a runbook.
One Flutter codebase to both stores. Auth, push notifications, offline-first storage, deep links, biometric login, and the back-and-forth with Apple review. Submission to Play Store and App Store handled by us.
Eight things we get asked before every engagement. Answered once, here, so the first call can be about your project.
All prices exclude VAT. 50% upfront, balance net-14 on completion of each sprint or phase. Infrastructure (Hetzner, AWS, Cloudflare, model providers) passed through at cost. No retainer locks you in beyond the current month — we earn the renewal.