Services & pricing

What it costs

Fixed scope, fixed price, named deliverable. No hourly billing, no change-request games, no surprise invoice at the end of the month.

Core services

Five ways to work with us

Every engagement starts with the free teardown, so both sides know the scope before anyone commits. The Blueprint is the usual first paid step.

Product Blueprint

One week to turn an idea into a plan you can act on — architecture, data model and a working skeleton already deployed.

€2,500 · 1 week · credited against a Sprint


  • Architecture and data model, decided and written down
  • A running skeleton deployed to a real environment
  • Build plan broken into shippable slices
  • A fixed quote for the full build — no range
  • 100% credited if you book a Sprint within 60 days
Start with a blueprint

Prototype Rescue

You already built something — with a no-code tool, an AI coding assistant, or a freelancer who's gone. We make it real.

from €6,000 · 2–3 weeks, fixed scope


  • Codebase audit: what to keep, what to rewrite, what to delete
  • Proper auth, data model and secrets management
  • Repeatable deploys replacing manual uploads
  • Monitoring and error tracking
  • A written plan for anything we didn't have time to fix
Get it assessed

AI Automation

The repetitive work inside your company, handed to agents and workflows that plug into the tools you already use.

from €5,000 · from 2 weeks, fixed scope


  • Workflow automation (n8n plus custom services)
  • MCP servers so assistants can safely use your systems
  • Retrieval over your own documents and data (pgvector)
  • Self-hosted models where data can't leave (Ollama)
  • A runbook so your team can extend it without us
Automate something

Fractional CTO

Ongoing rather than one-off. Architecture, delivery and hands-on engineering — the technical co-founder you haven't hired yet.

from €4,000 / month · 4–6 days · rolling, 30 days' notice


  • Hands-on engineering every month, not just advice
  • Architecture decisions and technical roadmap
  • Incident support and escalation
  • Technical interviewing for your own hires
  • Direct Slack access between sessions
Talk it through
Always free

The product teardown costs nothing

Two hours on what you're building, what exists already and what's actually blocking launch. You leave with a written plan and a realistic number — whether or not you work with us.

  • Review of your product, codebase and infrastructure
  • Honest call on what to keep and what to rewrite
  • Prioritised plan and a realistic timeline
  • No commitment, no follow-up sales sequence
Book the teardown

Cloud & platform work

Kubernetes, Terraform, CI/CD, observability, cloud cost reduction. Quoted as fixed scope after the teardown.

Technical hiring

15–20% of first-year salary, on successful hire only. Full fees.

Backed junior hire

12–15%, with three months of senior mentoring attached. How it works.

Incubator workshop

Free for partner incubators, in exchange for a partner listing on your site.

For comparison

What a €12,000 Sprint is instead of

The useful question isn't whether this is cheap. It's what the same outcome costs the other ways round.

A mid-level hire

≈ €15,000 for three months fully loaded — who can't cover mobile, AI and infrastructure at once, and needs onboarding before they ship.

A European agency

€40,000–80,000 over four to six months, most of it coordination between people who each own one slice of the work.

A discovery phase

€15,000–25,000 at many consultancies buys documents and wireframes, before a line of production code exists.

Another quarter not launching

Usually the most expensive option on this page, and the only one that doesn't appear on an invoice.

We're based in Porto and we price for the EU and UK, because that's who we build for. The rate reflects fifteen years of production engineering, not a postcode.

How we price

Why fixed scope instead of a day rate

Hourly billing rewards whoever works slowest. Fixed scope puts the estimating risk on us, which is where it belongs.

The teardown sets the scope

We can't quote what we haven't seen. The free session exists so the number we give you is real, rather than a range with a disclaimer attached.

The price is agreed in writing before we start

What ships, in what order, for what cost. If we underestimate, that's our problem — the price doesn't move.

Scope changes are re-quoted, not absorbed silently

If you want something new mid-sprint, we tell you what it costs and what it displaces. You decide.

You own everything from day one

Your repos, your cloud accounts, your data. Invoices never gate access to your own product.

25%off for partner incubator portfolios
€0for the product teardown
0%upfront on contingency recruitment
30 daysnotice on the retainer, no lock-in
Pricing FAQ

Straight answers

Why “from” prices rather than a fixed number?
Because a mobile app with three screens and one with thirty aren't the same job, and quoting either without looking would be dishonest. The teardown turns “from €12,000” into a single number, in writing, before you commit to anything.
You're in Portugal — shouldn't this be cheaper?
It already is. The same scope from a UK, German or Dutch team runs three to five times higher, and we're happy for that to be the reason you call. What being in Porto doesn't change is the engineering: the person writing your code spent fifteen years building production systems for McKinsey, Natixis and Ericsson. You're buying an outcome and a timeline, not a timezone.
What are the payment terms?
Fixed-scope work is split 50% on start and 50% on delivery. Retainers are billed monthly in advance. Everything is invoiced from Portugal; EU VAT reverse charge applies for EU business customers with a valid VAT number.
What happens if the sprint overruns?
The agreed scope ships at the agreed price. If we estimated badly, that's our cost, not yours. If you add scope mid-sprint, we re-quote it separately rather than quietly running over.
Do you take equity instead of cash?
Occasionally, as part of the fee rather than instead of it, and only where we'd have taken the work anyway. Ask on the teardown call.
Is there a discount for startups?
25% off everything for startups inside our partner incubator and accelerator programmes. If your incubator isn't a partner yet, introduce us — the workshop we run for them is free.
What isn't included?
Third-party costs are yours and billed to you directly: cloud hosting, LLM API usage, app store fees, domains, and any paid SaaS the product depends on. We estimate them during the teardown so there's no surprise.

Get a real number, for free

Two hours, a written plan, and a price you can take to your board. No commitment either way.