Solutions
Start from the problem.
A service list makes you do the mapping. This page does it for you: seven situations we get called about, what each one actually looks like from the inside, what the fix involves, and what it typically costs. Find the one that sounds like your week.
Launch a product
The product exists in a deck and nowhere else
An idea that needs to become software real users can break.
From $18,0006 to 10 weeksReplace a manual process
Someone on your team is the software
A person doing high volume work that a system should be doing.
From $12,0004 to 8 weeksConnect your systems
Two systems, two versions of the truth
Data that should be in one place and is instead in three.
From $7,5003 to 8 weeksFix your website
The site is slow, and editing it needs a developer
A marketing site that loses traffic and blocks its own team.
From $12,0006 to 10 weeksSell online
The store and the customer data live in different worlds
Ecommerce that needs to talk to the systems behind it.
From $18,0008 to 12 weeksFix your CRM
You bought the CRM and the team still uses spreadsheets
A portal that was configured but never designed.
From $6,5003 to 6 weeksBuild pipeline
Outbound that runs on a list somebody bought
Prospecting that needs data infrastructure, not more volume.
From $9,0004 to 6 weeks
The real alternative
The other option is hiring someone and teaching them everything.
Most people weigh us against a salary. It is worth being honest about what the salary actually buys, because the wage is the cheapest line in it.
Hire and train someone
- Time to first useful output
- 3 to 6 months
- Recruiting and onboarding
- 4 to 10 weeks before they start
- Who trains them
- Your most senior person, for months
- Who reviews the work
- Also your most senior person
- Breadth
- One person, one skill set
- If they leave
- The knowledge leaves with them
- Annual cost
- $95k to $160k, plus benefits and tools
Bring us in
- Time to first useful output
- Week one, a written scope
- Recruiting and onboarding
- None. We start inside two weeks
- Who trains them
- Nobody. We arrive knowing the stack
- Who reviews the work
- We do, and you see it weekly
- Breadth
- Product, data, AI, commerce and CRM
- If we leave
- Documentation and code you already own
- Cost
- A fixed project fee, agreed before we start
None of this argues against hiring. A permanent team is the right answer once the work is continuous and someone internal can lead it. It is the wrong answer when you need one thing built well, once, and you need it this quarter. We will tell you which situation you are in on the first call.
Salary range reflects US market rates for a mid to senior full stack developer or a HubSpot administrator, before employer taxes, benefits, equipment and software. Ramp times are our own observation across client teams rather than a published figure, and yours may be shorter.
Next step
Not sure which one you are in?
Describe the week you are having. We will tell you which situation it is, what it usually takes to fix, and whether you actually need us.