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Five steps, three minutes. The founders read every submission themselves — no junior intake, no automated triage.
One call. We'll dig into what you've got, where it's friction, and whether we're the right people to help. No deck, no pitch.
One box, say what's broken or what you want to build. Goes straight to the founders' inbox — we reply within four working hours.
We don't leave you guessing about what happens between hitting submit and us turning up on the call. Here's the actual flow.
Five steps, three minutes. The founders read every submission themselves — no junior intake, no automated triage.
GMT working hours by default; US East and AEST covered for active projects. Either a calendar link, a clarifying question, or an honest "we're not the right fit and here's who is".
Google Meet, no deck. We dig into your stack, the friction you're feeling, and whether the work matches what we do well.
Within five working days. Three options — small / medium / large — each with fixed price, fixed scope, fixed timeline. Decline any of them at no cost.
If we’re not the right fit, we'll say so on the first call — and ideally point you somewhere better. The lists below are the rough shape of what we say yes/no to most often.
The eight questions prospects ask most often. Honest answers in advance so the discovery call can stay on the actual problem.
Yes. The studio is headquartered in Teesside, UK, but we ship work for clients across Europe, the US, Canada, Australia and New Zealand. Most active projects involve clients we never sit in a room with — we run async-first by default and stretch into US East and AEST hours when an active project demands it.
Anywhere from £4,000 (a focused piece of system integration or a single dashboard) up to £150,000+ for a full platform build. Below £4k we can't do work we're proud of and we'll point you somewhere better. Long-term partner engagements (12 months+) are discounted around 30%.
Within 4 working hours. GMT working hours by default; US East and AEST coverage during active international projects. The founders read every inbound personally — there's no junior intake process or automated triage.
Fixed price, fixed scope. Every proposal arrives within five working days of the discovery call with three options — small, medium and large — each carrying a fixed price, fixed scope and fixed timeline. Decline any of them at no cost. We don't do "time and materials" because it punishes the team that ships fast.
Laravel, Next.js, TypeScript, React, MySQL, Postgres, Redis, Three.js, Shopify (including Hydrogen), WooCommerce, WordPress. We pick boring technology your three-years-from-now team will still understand, then push it harder than the marketing pages suggest.
Specialised by stack and shape, not by industry. We do four things: custom dashboards, system integrations, ecommerce engineering and bespoke platforms. We turn down white-label agency work, projects without a single decision-maker, pre-revenue startups and anything in crypto/web3/gambling.
Yes — happy to sign mutual NDAs before discovery if your team needs that to share context. We'll send our standard mutual NDA over after the call is booked, or use yours if you have one ready.
Yes — that's actually most of our active book. Long-term retainers cover anything from "keep the lights on" through to ongoing feature work. The 12-month engagement discount makes the maths add up properly for both sides.