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A senior software engineering and AI studio. Germany · working with clients worldwide (remote).

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Services & pricing

Clear scopes. Honest prices.

Four engagement models, each with a published price and its own detail page. Every project begins with a free intro call and a fixed written proposal, so you always know the number before work starts.

01

Scoping & Roadmap Session

one week turnaround

Know exactly what to build before spending real money. A working session plus a written roadmap: what to build first, what to skip, what it will cost, and the fastest safe way to ship it.

Best for: Founders and teams with a limited budget, or anyone who wants certainty before committing.

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€750

fixed price · credited toward a build started within 60 days

  • 90-minute working session with a senior engineer
  • Written roadmap: scope, stack, costs, and risks
  • Honest build recommendation, even if it's not us
  • Fee credited if you continue into a build
Book a scoping session

02

AI Integration Sprint

2-3 weeks

Ship one production-grade AI capability into your product: a RAG assistant over your data, an agentic workflow, document intelligence, or a customer-facing bot. With evaluation, guardrails, and monitoring. Not a demo that falls over in front of users.

Best for: Products that need real AI capability, not an 'AI-powered' badge.

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from €7,500

fixed scope, fixed price

  • A working AI feature deployed to your infrastructure
  • Evaluation harness so you can measure quality, not guess it
  • Cost and latency budget with the model choices to hit it
  • Handover docs your team can actually maintain
Discuss your AI sprint

03

MVP & Product Build

4-8 weeks

From validated idea to a deployed, monitored product: web platforms, SaaS, and mobile apps. Boring, proven architecture where possible; sophisticated only where it earns its keep. You get weekly demos of working software, never slide decks.

Best for: Founders and teams who need version one shipped right, once.

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from €18,000

scoped in weekly milestones

  • Production deployment with CI/CD from week one
  • Type-safe, tested codebase that you own outright
  • Auth, payments, and email wired to proven providers
  • A clear post-launch roadmap and cost model
Scope your build

04

Fractional Senior Engineering

ongoing · monthly

Senior engineering capacity without a senior hire: architecture reviews, hard bugs, AI feature work, and mentoring for your existing team. Direct communication with the senior engineer doing the work, no agency layer.

Best for: Teams that need senior judgment more often than a consultant, less than a hire.

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from €4,500/mo

2 days/week equivalent · cancel monthly

  • A standing weekly cadence with visible output
  • Architecture and code review with written decisions
  • Direct Slack and email access. You talk to the engineer, always
  • Scales up or down with one month's notice
Start a fractional engagement

Prices are net starting points for the smallest serious version of each engagement and are fixed in the written proposal, not billed by the hour, so a week that runs long is our problem, not your invoice.

What we build

The packages are starting points, not a menu. Underneath them, the studio builds:

  • Web applications & SaaS
  • Mobile apps (iOS & Android)
  • RAG & knowledge systems
  • Agentic workflows & AI assistants
  • Chat & voice bots
  • APIs & integrations
  • Software architecture & system design
  • Performance, SEO & AEO
  • Cloud infrastructure & DevOps

Something not on the list? If it's software, it's probably in scope. Describe it and you'll get a straight answer.

Questions clients actually ask

Why publish prices at all?+

Because you shouldn't have to book a call to learn whether we're in the same universe. The 'from' price is the floor for a serious engagement; every project gets a fixed written quote after a scoping call, and that quote is the number you pay.

My budget is smaller than these numbers. Now what?+

Start with the Scoping & Roadmap Session. For €750 you get a written plan showing the cheapest safe path to your product, including options that don't involve us. A smaller budget means smaller scope, not lower quality, and the roadmap is how you find the scope that fits.

What happens on the intro call?+

Thirty minutes: you describe what you're building and what's blocking you, we ask enough questions to judge scope and risk. Within 48 hours you get a written proposal covering scope, price, timeline, and what's explicitly excluded. No pressure tactics; the proposal is valid for a month.

Who actually does the work?+

Senior engineers only. There is no bench of juniors and no subcontracting: the people who scope your project are the people who build it. If a project genuinely needs an additional specialist (say, native mobile or specialized design), we say so upfront and you approve them before anything happens.

Who owns the code and the accounts?+

You do, from day one. Work happens in your repository, deploys to your cloud accounts, under your domain. If we stop working together tomorrow, you lose nothing.

Do you work with agencies or subcontract for other studios?+

Selectively, yes: white-label senior capacity under the fractional model. Same standards, your client relationship stays yours.

Not sure which model fits? Describe the problem and we'll tell you, even if the answer is “you don't need us yet.”