Ongoing product development
Your ongoing engineering partner for a live SaaS.
A monthly or milestone engagement for a product that already exists: maintenance, backlog, bug fixes, features, code review, releases, and a known way to reach the team. Large new modules are quoted separately.
Post-launch is where products stall
The MVP team disappears, freelancers rotate off, and every new feature becomes a science project.
Context loss
New vendors spend weeks relearning your architecture. We already shipped v1 — we start from sprint one.
Production fires
Users find edge cases you didn't. You need someone who can patch, deploy, and communicate without drama.
Roadmap drift
Without a steady cadence, "next month" features never ship. We run a visible backlog and demo cadence.
What's included
Prioritized roadmap
You bring business priorities; we break them into shippable slices with clear ETAs.
Feature & fix delivery
New functionality, integrations, refactors, and bug fixes in regular releases.
Production health
Monitoring basics, incident response during business hours, and performance tune-ups as needed.
Flexible commitment
Monthly retainer — scale up for a big release, scale down or pause when you're heads-down on sales.
How a retainer actually runs
You keep the priorities. We turn them into releases. Communication is a shared channel and a regular demo, not a ticket black hole.
01
Backlog
Bugs, features, and tech work in one list you can reorder.
02
Build and review
Changes land in pull requests. We review code that touches auth, billing, and data.
03
Release
A defined way to ship to production, with notes on what changed.
04
Pause or resize
Capacity can go up for a release or pause when you are selling. The terms are in the agreement.
Retainer versus a new project
The retainer is for steady work on a product that exists. A new app, a large rewrite, or a first MVP is a fixed project.
Included
- ✓Named monthly capacity
- ✓Bug fixes and features that fit that capacity
- ✓Business-hours response on production issues we cover
Not in this scope
- –Unlimited hours
- –A brand-new product inside the same fee
- –24/7 on-call unless that is written into the agreement
Example monthly plans
These are shapes of an engagement, not a price list. The agreement names the capacity. A dollar amount comes after we see the repo and the backlog.
Steady month
- Capacity
- A defined slice of senior engineering time, shared with review.
- Communication
- One planning note at the start of the period and a short update when a release ships.
- Deliverables
- Bugs and small features that fit that capacity, released when the slice is ready.
Release month
- Capacity
- More of the same team’s time for one named release.
- Communication
- A kickoff on the release scope, then demos of what actually shipped.
- Deliverables
- The features written into that month’s list. Work that does not fit becomes the next period or a separate fixed project.
Pause
- Capacity
- No feature build.
- Communication
- You can restart by telling us the next backlog. We do not assume 24/7 coverage during a pause.
- Deliverables
- Production help only if the written agreement includes a standby. Otherwise the pause is a pause.
Questions founders ask
No — but it's fastest when we did. If you bring an existing repo, we start with a short audit and then propose a retainer scope.
Talk through the backlog.
We review the repo and propose a monthly plan with a capacity you can see.
Discuss a Retainer