Six things that make us different.
Procurement asks "why you, not them." Here is the honest answer, written for the CTO who has read fifty of these pages this quarter. The sixth one is structural and is unique to us.
Senior-only delivery.
Every engineer placed on customer work has at least six years of professional experience. No junior staff on your line item. No "team of nine including three offshore juniors." We charge more per head because the head is more capable, and your total bill is lower because the work moves faster and we do not have to redo it.
Vertical depth, not just horizontal capability.
We have shipped in healthcare, finance, government, logistics, real estate, manufacturing, and insurance. Each engagement starts with someone who has lived in your regulatory regime before. We do not Google HIPAA on day one and we do not learn FedRAMP on your project.
Quality is a contract term, not a value statement.
SLAs are written. Test coverage gates are enforced. DORA metrics are published monthly. SLO error budgets govern release pace. Postmortems are blameless and shared. We commit to elite DORA tier on every engagement past month two. We have hit it on the last 14 in a row.
Security is in the pipeline, not on the marketing page.
Stinger Security, our in-house red-team, runs against your build before it ships. SBOM is generated automatically. Critical CVEs are patched within 24 hours. Our own SOC 2 Type II is in audit. ISO 27001 in implementation. We pass your vendor security questionnaire in a single round.
We will tell you when we are wrong for the job.
We have walked away from $400k engagements at the discovery gate. We refer freelancers when the project is too small. We refer Thoughtworks when the project is too political. We do not optimize for closing your deal. We optimize for being the firm you tell other CTOs about when they ask who to trust.
100% employee owned.
No outside investors. No VC clock. No PE exit prep. The senior engineer on your account holds equity in this company. Their incentive is your long-term success, not next quarter's bookings number for a CRO they have never met. This is the one differentiator we cannot replicate even if we wanted to.
How we actually work.
Discovery before commitment. Two weeks of senior engineering time inside your context, paid for by us if we mutually agree we are the wrong fit. We have walked away from engagements we wanted because the scope was wrong, the timeline was wrong, or the customer was set up to fail.
Written architecture before code. C4 diagrams, OpenAPI contracts, data flow diagrams, threat models, latency budgets. Reviewed by your principal engineer and ours, signed off in writing.
Weekly demos, not weekly status. Every Friday we ship something to your staging environment, record a walkthrough, and post the retrospective. You see progress in pixels, not in slides.
Production posture from day one. Observability instrumented before features. Runbooks written before the on-call rotation goes live. Load testing on the critical path before production handoff.
Documentation is a PR requirement. The pull request does not merge until the docs are updated. We treat documentation as production code.
The person who shipped it is the person who supports it. No handoff to an offshore L1. Named engineer on a rotation that you have the email and Slack handle for.
How we hire and how we keep them.
30+ engineers across 5 cities. Miami HQ, San Francisco, Berlin, Tallinn, Istanbul. Selected for time-zone overlap, not for offshoring rates.
Senior-only on customer work. Trainees exist for our internal products (JaxSuite, File.business, TroyFunds, FLfiling) where they graduate after 18-plus months. They never bill against customer engagements until then.
Compensation transparent and above market. We pay 75th-to-90th percentile for the role and region. Equity for senior staff. Profit share. Hardware budget. Conference budget. No back-channel "we hope you do not ask for a raise this year."
Average tenure 4.1 years. Industry average for senior software engineers is 2.6. We retain because the work is interesting, the team is good, and we do not waste people on bad projects.
What we do not do. Body-shop placement. Pyramid billing. Bench-time billing. Disguised offshore. We do not bill you for a body that is not working on your product.
The things that have to be true before code merges.
Required review. No exceptions. Two reviewers for high-risk changes. Codeowner approval for sensitive paths.
Required green CI. Unit, integration, lint, type check, license check, dependency CVE scan, secrets scan, container scan, accessibility scan. The pipeline is the source of truth.
Required coverage. 80% line coverage on new code as a hard gate. Mutation score above 70% for critical paths.
Required documentation. README, architectural decision record (ADR) for non-trivial choices, runbook for any new alert, changelog for customer-facing changes.
Required observability. Logs structured with correlation IDs. Metrics with golden-signal dashboards. Traces across service boundaries. Alerts wired to a real on-call.
Required threat modeling. STRIDE on every new system. Updated when surface area changes. Reviewed by our security lead before production.
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