SOFTWARE SUBSCRIPTION
Skip the six-figure contract. Get a dedicated engineering team on a flexible monthly subscription — cancel or scale anytime.
A BETTER WAY TO BUILD SOFTWARE
Most agencies sell hours. We sell outcomes — shipped features, hardened infrastructure, and production-ready code.
We don't just ship features — we engineer for the full spectrum of software quality. Usability, reliability, performance, supportability, and security are scoped, tracked, and delivered alongside every feature. Architectural constraints — integration requirements, deployment targets, compliance standards — are identified early and treated as first-class inputs to design, not surprises discovered in production.
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Ship in days, not quarters
AI-accelerated development means features move from idea to production faster than traditional teams. -
Design-informed delivery
Usability, interaction design, and user validation are part of our quality model for every engagement, not a separate workstream you have to source elsewhere. -
Enterprise-grade from day one
CI/CD, automated testing, security scanning, and monitoring are built into every project — not bolted on later. -
Scale at your own pace
Start small, prove value, then scale up. Pause or cancel anytime — no long-term contracts required. -
You own everything
Every line of code, every pipeline, every piece of infrastructure belongs to you from the start.
HOW IT WORKS
Four phases. One continuous loop. Always moving forward.
We learn your business, map your goals, understand your users and their key journeys, and define the backlog together.
CI/CD pipelines, environments, security tooling, and monitoring — all built before the first feature. We also identify the architectural constraints that will shape every decision going forward: integration boundaries, compliance requirements, deployment targets, and platform limitations
Features flow from backlog to production in rapid, transparent sprint cycles.
We instrument your key business transactions — checkout flows, API calls, user onboarding sequences, whatever drives revenue and retention — and define service level objectives for each. Then we iterate based on real SLO performance data, not gut instinct, to refine, scale, and optimize continuously.
TWO DIMENSIONS, ONE SUBSCRIPTION
Your subscription is built from two independent tiers that you can mix, match, and change as your product evolves.
Controls how fast features ship — the size of your team, number of features per sprint, and level of strategic support. Choose the velocity that matches your roadmap.
Controls how robust your AWS environment is — availability zones, disaster recovery, compliance tooling, and SLAs. Start with a solid foundation and scale up as traffic and stakes grow.
Every engagement starts with a production-ready infrastructure baseline. As your product gains traction, you can independently upgrade your development pace or your infrastructure tier — no need to change both at once.
CHOOSE YOUR PACE
Every tier includes AI acceleration, CI/CD, and security by default.
Perfect for MVPs, proof-of-concepts, and early-stage products that need to move fast.
- Up to 20 Feature Points per month
- Core UX/UI design and usability review for shipped features
- Email support (business hours)
- Baseline observability — uptime monitoring, structured logging, and error tracking for key business transactions
- SAST security scanning
- Shared CI/CD, staging + prod
- AI-assisted code & testing
- Monthly progress report
For growing products that need velocity, quality, and strategic guidance in equal measure.
- Up to 40 Feature Points per month
- Dedicated design reviews, usability validation, and accessibility compliance
- Priority Slack + dedicated lead
- Expanded observability — custom dashboards, distributed tracing, and SLO tracking for critical user journeys
- SAST + DAST + dependency updates
- Dedicated pipelines, multi-env, IaC
- AI across full SDLC
- Bi-weekly strategy calls
- Architecture guidance
Full-scale engineering partnership for mission-critical platforms that demand speed and reliability.
- Up to 80 Feature Points per month
- Full experience design — user research, design systems, interaction patterns, and continuous usability testing
- 24/7 support + dedicated team + Slack
- Full observability suite — SLO management with error budgets, business transaction monitoring, and proactive alerting tied to SLAs
- SAST + DAST + pen testing + compliance
- Full infra management, auto-scaling, DR
- AI-native + custom prompt libraries
- Weekly executive briefings
- Roadmap planning + priority queue
SCALE YOUR INFRASTRUCTURE
Every engagement includes a production-ready baseline. Upgrade your infrastructure tier independently as your product grows.
The production-ready baseline every project starts with — solid enough for launch, designed to grow.
- Single-region AWS deployment
- Managed compute (ECS Fargate or EC2)
- RDS with automated daily backups
- S3 + CloudFront CDN
- Basic CloudWatch monitoring plus structured logging for core transaction paths
- SSL/TLS everywhere
- Infrastructure as Code (Terraform)
- 99.5% uptime target
For products with real users and revenue — higher availability, tighter security, and faster recovery.
- Multi-AZ deployment with failover
- Auto-scaling compute + load balancing
- RDS Multi-AZ + point-in-time recovery
- AWS WAF + Shield Standard
- SLO-driven monitoring with alerting dashboards tied to key business transactions
- Staging + production environments
- Secrets management (SSM / Secrets Manager)
- 99.9% uptime SLA
Mission-critical infrastructure for platforms where downtime and data loss are not an option.
- Multi-region active-passive or active-active
- Disaster recovery with automated failover
- Dedicated VPC peering + network isolation
- AWS WAF + Shield Advanced + GuardDuty
- Full observability stack (CloudWatch, X-Ray, OpenTelemetry) with SLO management, error budget tracking, and business transaction tracing across services
- Compliance-ready (SOC 2 / HIPAA / PCI controls)
- 24/7 incident response + runbooks
- 99.99% uptime SLA
INCLUDED IN EVERY TIER
The essentials that every project deserves — baked in from the start.
Feature delivery powered by AI acceleration, with security capabilities built into every pull request — not bolted on at the end.
User flows, interface design, and accessibility considerations baked into the development process — because software that works but frustrates users doesn't actually work.
Load testing, latency budgets, and scalability planning built into every sprint — not saved for a crisis."
Infrastructure as Code, consistent environments, and clean documentation so your system is maintainable by any team — including yours.
Structured logging, business transaction tracing, and service level objective management from day one — so you know how your system behaves, not just whether it's up.
Automated testing at every layer — unit, integration, and end-to-end — plus CI/CD pipelines that catch regressions before they reach production.
THE REAL COST OF BUILDING IN-HOUSE
Hiring, tooling, and infrastructure add up fast. Here's what it actually costs to do it yourself.
In-House Development Costs vs GSD Subscription
| Launch | Scale | Accelerate | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Resources | |||
| Software Engineer | 1 Mid-Level — $125,000 | 2 Mid-Senior — $300,000 | 3 Senior — $525,000 |
| Business Analyst | Part-Time — $42,500 | Full-Time — $85,000 | 2 Full-Time — $170,000 |
| QA Engineer | Fractional — $22,500 | Full-Time — $90,000 | 2 Full-Time — $180,000 |
| Solutions Architect | Fractional — $17,500 | Fractional — $43,750 | Part-Time — $87,500 |
| Project Manager | Fractional — $23,750 | Fractional — $23,750 | Fractional — $23,750 |
| Benefits & Overhead (30%) | $69,375 | $162,750 | $295,875 |
| Recruiting & Onboarding | $15,000 | $30,000 | $48,000 |
| Other Costs | |||
| AI Tooling & Licenses | $3,600 | $8,400 | $18,000 |
| Hardware & DevTools | $2,400 | $9,600 | $24,000 |
| In-House Total | $321,625/yr | $753,250/yr | $1,372,125/yr |
| GSD Subscription | $150,000/yr | $264,000/yr | $480,000/yr |
| You Save | $171,625 (53%) | $489,250 (65%) | $892,125 (65%) |
In-House Infrastructure Costs vs GSD Subscription
| Foundation | Professional | Enterprise | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Resources | |||
| DevOps / SRE | Fractional — $22,500 | 1 Part-Time + 1 Full-Time — $225,000 | 2 Full-Time — $300,000 |
| Benefits & Overhead (30%) | $6,750 | $67,500 | $90,000 |
| Other Costs | |||
| AWS Services | $9,000 | $42,000 | $120,000 |
| Monitoring & Alerting | $1,200 | $6,000 | $18,000 |
| Security & Compliance | $1,200 | $18,000 | $66,000 |
| IaC Tooling | $1,200 | $2,400 | $4,800 |
| In-House Total | $41,850/yr | $360,900/yr | $598,800/yr |
| GSD Subscription | $30,000/yr | $90,000/yr | $240,000/yr |
| You Save | $11,850 (28%) | $270,900 (75%) | $358,800 (60%) |
In-House vs GSD Subscription Totals
| Launch + Foundation | Scale + Professional | Accelerate + Enterprise | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Development Pace | |||
| In-House | $321,625 | $753,250 | $1,372,125 |
| GSD Subscription | $150,000 | $264,000 | $480,000 |
| Infrastructure | |||
| In-House | $41,850 | $360,900 | $598,800 |
| GSD Subscription | $30,000 | $90,000 | $240,000 |
| Grand Total | |||
| In-House Total | $363,475/yr | $1,114,150/yr | $1,970,925/yr |
| GSD Subscription | $180,000/yr | $354,000/yr | $720,000/yr |
| You Save | $183,475 (50%) | $760,150 (68%) | $1,250,925 (63%) |
| * In-house cost estimates are based on typical Scrum teams of 6–8 people and are for illustrative purposes only. Actual costs vary by region, seniority, and vendor pricing. | |||
COMMON QUESTIONS
Feature points are how we measure output. All deliverable work — new page, API integration, bug fix, performance optimization — is estimated in points based on value, complexity, and effort. A simple UI tweak might be 1 point, while a full authentication flow could be 8. We scope points collaboratively during refinement and planning so you always know what fits in your budget and can prioritize accordingly.
Non-functional work — performance tuning, reliability improvements, usability refinements, supportability upgrades — is estimated in Feature Points and prioritized in the same backlog as features. Quality attributes get explicit attention during every sprint planning session, not just when something breaks.
Absolutely. You can scale up or down at the start of any monthly cycle. Many clients start with Launch to validate their idea, then move to Scale once they find product-market fit.
You can pause your subscription at the end of any billing cycle with 30 days' notice. Your code, infrastructure, and documentation stay yours. When you're ready to resume, we pick up right where we left off.
You do — 100%. Every line of code, every pipeline configuration, every piece of infrastructure is yours from day one. We build on your repositories using your accounts.
We integrate AI tools across the entire SDLC — from requirements analysis and code generation to automated testing, code review, and documentation. This lets us deliver more in less time without sacrificing quality or security.