Fixed scope. Capped hours. Nothing starts without paper.

Four steps, and you can stop after any of them. A free call. Scope agreed in writing and priced against that scope before anything begins. Then the build, milestone-billed as verified work lands. Then handover, or a retainer if you want one. We do not bill hourly, and we do not publish a rate card — the scope sets the price, so the number that matters is the one in your signed statement of work.

Process

From first call to a ceiling you can run yourself.

  1. DAY 0

    Qualifying call

    Free, 45 minutes, with Anupam. You describe what can sign, transfer or change a risk parameter. We say whether a bounded loss number is buildable in your codebase, or that it is not and this is the wrong firm.

  2. WEEK 0

    NDA, then read-only access

    NDA before anything is cloned. Read-only repository access, revocable by you. The Inventory is scoped and priced in writing before it starts.

  3. WEEKS 1 TO 3

    Loss Path Inventory

    We work out what actually needs building, what it will take, and what it is worth doing. Output: a written scope with a fixed price against it. You own that document. Take it elsewhere if you want.

  4. WEEKS 4 TO 17

    Bounded Build

    Fixed price against the agreed scope, with a cap on effort written into it. Reviewed before anything reaches your branch, and milestone-billed as verified work lands — never all up front. Anything past the cap is a written change order, priced before it starts.

  5. AT HANDOVER

    The replay, then a decision

    A runbook, a tested rollback path, and IP assigned outright. Then either a retainer keeps things maintained as the code changes, or you take the handover and we stop. Both are fine, and we will not pretend the second one is a failure.

The ladder

Every number, before you commit.

Qualifying call45 minutes with Anupam. Fit, scope, and whether a ceiling is buildable
Free
Loss Path InventoryScope and a fixed price, in writing, before any build work starts.
Priced per engagement
Bounded BuildFixed price against the signed scope. Reviewed before it reaches your branch.
Fixed · milestone-billed
Watch retainerOptional. Maintenance as the code changes. Ends on 30 days written notice.
Monthly · 30-day exit
Change ordersWritten and signed before the work is executed. No verbal scope, ever.
Quoted per change

All prices fixed and agreed in writing before work starts. Nothing is billed hourly. The caps are contractual, not aspirational: they are what two people can actually deliver, and they are written into the statement of work.

What we refuse

The limits are published, not discovered later.

ONE BUILD AT A TIME

Net delivery capacity is 30 engineer-hours a month. A second build in flight would be a second promise we could not keep, so we queue it and give you a written start date.

BUSINESS HOURS, IST

No out-of-hours cover, no on-call rota, no incident SLA, no uptime commitment. Two people cannot staff one, so we do not sell one.

NO BENCH, NO STAFF AUGMENTATION

You are not renting seats. We take a bounded piece of work, cap it, and finish it. If what you need is headcount, hire headcount.

ENGINEERS, NOT AUDITORS

We do not issue an audit, an attestation or a certificate, and we hold none. We write the ceiling into your code and hand you a replay that proves it holds.

PAYMENT TERMS

Fixed scope agreed in writing. A cleared deposit before work starts, never a promise of one. The balance is milestone-billed as verified work lands, never all up front, on Net-15. Scope changes go through a written change order, priced and signed before anything moves. Retainers end on 30 days' written notice from either side. No surprises in either direction.

Start with the qualifying call.

Anupam Shah

Founder · replies same business day

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Free, 30 minutes, and it is Anupam on the call. Nothing starts without written scope and a cleared deposit.