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It tracks with complexity. A simple web app is usually 8 to 12 weeks. A mid-complexity platform with real integrations runs 14 to 20. Enterprise software with several modules is more like 6 to 12 months. Whatever it is, you get a timeline with milestones before anyone writes code, so the schedule is agreed, not guessed at later.

You do. Every bit of it. Code, designs, docs, assets, all assigned to you in a signed agreement before development starts. We keep no rights, no licenses, no quiet claim on anything. That is fixed policy on every engagement, and it is not up for negotiation.

Your requirements decide it, not our favorites. We weigh how far it needs to scale, how hireable the talent is, how mature the ecosystem is, and what it will cost to maintain years out. Then we lay out 2 or 3 options with the honest trade-offs and cost of each. You make the call, not us.

Thirty days of bug fixes come free with every project. After that, support plans start around $1,500 a month for 20 hours of fixes and small enhancements. Plenty of teams instead roll straight into a dedicated-team setup so the same people keep building the roadmap.

Agile, 2-week sprints, and changes are normal. Anything new gets written up as a change request, estimated, and approved before it gets built. Small tweaks under about 8 hours in the current sprint we just absorb. Bigger shifts move the timeline or budget, and we flag that the moment we see it, not at the end.

Yes, and that is common. We open with a 2 to 3 day audit covering code quality, architecture, technical debt, and security. You get back a report with concrete recommendations and an effort estimate to fix what needs fixing. A lot of the work we do is on existing systems, not clean greenfield builds.

QA is not bolted on at the end. Unit tests hold an 80 percent floor, and we layer integration tests, full user-flow tests, performance, and security checks on top. A QA engineer sits inside the team, not in some separate gate. Tests fire in CI on every push, and a human runs manual passes over the gnarly edge cases and the UX.

Engineers work on encrypted machines and reach your environments over VPN. We follow SOC 2 Type II practices, line up with GDPR, and honor HIPAA when it applies. Credentials live in HashiCorp Vault or AWS Secrets Manager, never scattered in a repo. Every environment is isolated and access-controlled.

Both, and they run together. Product strategy, UX research, UI design, the build, testing, deployment. Our designers produce wireframes, high-fidelity Figma mockups, clickable prototypes, and a real design system. Design is either a separate line item or folded into a fixed-price project, your choice.

Yes, wherever you run. AWS, GCP, Azure, DigitalOcean, or your own private cloud. Every deploy comes with CI/CD, monitoring, logging, and alerting wired up, not added later. And if you have no infrastructure yet, we recommend and stand up the right environment for what you are shipping.

Enough that nobody is stuck if we step away. API docs, architecture diagrams, database schema, deployment guides, environment setup, and a user manual. The code carries inline comments and README files. The aim is simple. Your team, or whoever inherits it next, can run the thing without us.

Market ranges put a simple web app near $15,000, a feature-rich MVP around $40,000, and a full platform launch at $80,000 and up. Our advice is almost always the same. Build an MVP first, somewhere in the $15,000 to $40,000 band over 8 to 14 weeks, put it in front of real users, then iterate. You spend a lot less than trying to build the whole vision before anyone has used it.

Three rough tiers. Simple web app, 8 to 12 weeks, market cost around $15,000 to $30,000. Mid-complexity platform, 14 to 20 weeks, roughly $30,000 to $70,000. Enterprise system, 6 to 12 months, $70,000 to $200,000. Each covers design, build, testing, and deploy, and you get a working demo every week so progress is never a mystery.

Yes, and it is a clean handoff. Some teams start with a fixed-price MVP and then move to a dedicated-team model for ongoing work. The switch takes a week or two. The same engineers who built it keep going, so nothing falls out of their heads. Monthly billing simply replaces milestone payments, no penalty for switching.