Pick the engagement that matches where you are. We'll tell you if you picked wrong, that's part of the first call.
Same two engineers either way. You pick the shape of the engagement, not a tier on a pricing table.
We sit in your planning meetings, review PRs, unblock your vendors, and make the calls you don't want to make alone.
Web apps, integrations, dashboards, and back-office tools, delivered in build sprints and documented so your next hire can take over without us.
Inherited a mess? We audit the code and infrastructure, tell you the truth, and hand you a plan you can act on with or without us.
Six steps from first call to handoff. No surprises in the middle.
45-minute call. We dig into the problem, the budget, and who already said no.
out45-min callYou get a single doc: what, why, when, and who pays what. Sign or don't.
out1-page briefReal software every week. No hidden branches, no mystery timelines.
outweekly demosLaunch plan, rollback plan, monitoring, and a pizza. Probably.
outrollback planEvery project ends with docs your next hire can follow without us.
outrunbook.mdRetainer, ad-hoc, or just answering the occasional text. Your call.
outyour callThe ones we get asked on nearly every first call. Anything else, info@stacware.com.
Because adding people adds meetings, and meetings are how projects die. We'd rather grow sideways (more tools, sharper processes) than upward into a pyramid.
Everything a full-time CTO would, for part of the week: architecture and hiring calls, vendor decisions, code review, roadmap and budget planning. You get that judgment without adding an executive to payroll, and we get hands-on when it helps.
Web apps, SaaS products, booking and invoicing systems, integrations, dashboards and back-office tools. Mostly TypeScript, Nuxt, Node and Postgres. Need an MVP? A build sprint puts a working v1 in front of real users in the first month.
Yes, that's what tech rescue is for. We audit the code and infrastructure, tell you what's worth keeping, then fix it with you or hand your team a plan they can run with.
Occasionally, as part of a reduced cash rate, if the company is one we'd bet on anyway. Default is cash.
We use LLMs in the building and we've shipped LLM-assisted features. We will not sell you a chatbot that doesn't need to exist.
Temecula, California and Kalaheo on Kauai, Hawaii. We work with clients across the US. On-site occasionally, remote mostly.
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