Focus on outcomes.
Not development.
AI-native software development from a product-driven process.
You own the
specification from day one and the code at the end.
Two ways to build. Both break.
The schedule slips
Quarters, not weeks. Estimates drift because scope was never actually settled — it was negotiated during the build.
The bill scales with people
You are buying hours, so the incentive is more hours. Nobody on the other side is paid to finish early.
You don't truly own it
The understanding lives in the vendor's heads. The repo is yours; the ability to change it is not.
Fast, then unmaintainable
You get something working in days. Six months on there is no spec behind it, so nobody — human or model — can safely change it.
The platform owns the exit
The build only lives inside the tool that made it. Leaving means rewriting, so the pricing and the roadmap are no longer yours.
It stagnates without a driver
Unless someone is dedicated to steering the work, nothing ships after the first burst. The tool waits to be told what to do.
One cause on both sides:
the work started before anyone had written down
precisely what was being built
and nobody owned it afterwards.
Autonomous development,
fronted by a product process.
Humans, methodically, once
A decade-old product method, compressed. Scope, data model, interfaces, acceptance criteria — settled before a line is written.
Machines, quickly, often
An autonomous build pipeline executing against that specification, with a named architect accountable for every output.
The result is fewer people, a shorter schedule, and a smaller bill, not because we cut
corners,
but because almost all of the cost in a normal build is rework, and rework
is a symptom of ambiguity.
The savings are almost all rework.
ELAPSED, END TO END · ON A COMPARABLE SCOPE
Definition gets longer, not shorter — deliberately. Everything downstream shrinks because there is nothing left to discover halfway through. The build itself is no longer the constraint: writing the specs and getting them approved is.
Illustrative of engagements at this scope. Your numbers get fixed in the Definition Sprint, before you commit to a build.
Every phase produces an owned component.
| Phase | The component you receive | Yours from |
|---|---|---|
| Frame | Problem definition — users, outcomes, constraints, what success means | Day one |
| Define | Product specification — scope, data model, interfaces, acceptance criteria | Day one |
| Architect | Architecture record — system design and every decision, with its reasoning | Day one |
| Build | Working software in your environment, tested against the criteria above | Delivery |
| Hand over | The repository — full source, documentation, runbook, credentials | Delivery |
If you stop after any phase, you keep everything produced up to that point. There is no phase where walking away leaves you with nothing.
The specs are yours from day one.
The code is yours at the end.
No lock-in
Full source, standard tooling, no proprietary runtime and no licence to renew.
No black box
Every architectural decision is written down with its reasoning, not held in someone's head.
No dependency on us
Hand the repository and the specs to any team and they can carry on. That is the test.
Against how you have probably bought before.
| Agency or contractor | architecture.dev | |
|---|---|---|
| Priced on | Hours, at a day rate | The outcome, fixed at signature |
| Schedule risk | Yours | Ours |
| Scope change | Absorbed, then billed | Re-scoped and re-priced, in writing |
| You end up with | A repository | A repository and the reasoning behind it |
| Team | A bench, rotating | A named architect, throughout |
Fixed price means the schedule risk is ours.
The price does not move
If it takes us longer than we said, that is our problem. You agreed to an outcome, not a rate card.
A 60-day defect warranty
Defects against the agreed acceptance criteria are fixed at no charge for sixty days after delivery.
A named architect, accountable
Twenty years of building software, publicly on record. One person's name is on the output.
Scope changes are re-priced, not absorbed
Quoted separately and in writing, so a change never quietly becomes a delay you find out about later.
Three tiers. Fixed price. No hours.
Definition Sprint
Problem definition, product specification, architecture record, delivery plan.
2 WEEKS
Fixed feeBuild
Specification to working software, in production.
2–4 WEEKS
Priced in the SprintRun
Iteration, changes, support.
MONTHLY
Fixed monthlyThe Sprint is credited in full against the Build. Terms are 50% on signature, 50% on delivery.
Two weeks, and you own the result
either way.
We frame the problem with you and settle scope. Users, outcomes, constraints, what success means.
We specify and architect it. Data model, interfaces, acceptance criteria, decisions on record.
A fixed price and schedule for the build — and a specification you own whether or not you proceed.
30 MINUTES · NO DECK · WE ASK WHAT YOU ARE BUILDING