Real engagements come back with a fixed price after a paid scoping week. These bands are honest reference points for what the shape of work typically lands in.
Three weeks, one senior engineer. Internal tools, integrations, audit phase of a rescue.
Six to ten weeks. Two seniors, designer, founder rotation. Marketing site, web app, or major feature build.
Ten to fourteen weeks. Two to three seniors, designer, founder rotation. New web app, sizeable AI feature, or full rescue rebuild.
For a growing share of engagements, the cleanest answer is part fixed-fee, part outcome. It only works when the project shape supports it — and it's an option, not a default.
We won't do outcome-only on most projects (the cash discipline isn't there), and we won't do it on engagements where the “outcome” lives months past the handover with someone else owning the moving parts. Where it works, it's the most aligned engagement either side will ever sign.
Reduced fee up-front; small % of revenue from the thing we built for 12–24 months. Cleanest where there's a clear “the thing we built generates this revenue” line.
Half-rate cash, equity on the back of the engagement. We'll do this for founders who can articulate what the build unlocks, on a small number of engagements a year.
Fixed-price base, performance bonus tied to a real metric (signups, activations, revenue) at 90 / 180 days. Bonus capped at 50% of the engagement fee.
Then we re-scope. Small changes get absorbed in the sprint. Anything that changes the shape of the engagement gets a written change note, a revised price, and your sign-off before we start. We'd rather have the awkward conversation in week three than the awkward invoice in week ten.
Because T&M lets us be wrong about the estimate and lets you be wrong about the scope, and rewards both. Fixed-price means we're the ones taking the risk on “how long does this actually take”. We can do that honestly because of the unit economics (see Why Sprint?) — most studios can't, which is why they sell hours.
£4–8k depending on shape, paid before we start. You get a written scope, a sprint plan, and a fixed price. If we're not the right pod for the build, we say so at the end of the week and you keep the doc — no hard sell.
Talk to us. We don't structure engagements as recruiting funnels, but we're part of an independent group, and we're reasonable about it. Better that than a poison-pill non-solicit nobody enforces.
30% on kickoff, milestones across the engagement, 10% on handover. We don't do all-up-front (you shouldn't pay before we've shipped anything) and we don't do all-on-handover (we're not the bank).
Yes — but only as a defined product. After handover most clients enrol on a Site care plan covering maintenance, security and updates on a monthly retainer. We won't sell you an open-ended “just keep some engineers on tap” retainer; we will sell you a real care plan with hours, SLAs, and a monthly written summary.