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.