Backlog Execution Retainer

Your product backlog,
shipped continuously.

I help founders and small teams turn stuck software backlogs into reviewed PRs and shipped features, using a supervised AI engineering pipeline. Senior engineering judgment in every critical loop. No full-time hire. No managing freelancers. No vibe-coded chaos.

10 founding slots available at $299. Standard price will be $499.
pipeline.continuum ~ live
20 agents
PR-1847
add Stripe checkout to signup flow
merged
PR-1846
fix email update after signup
merged
PR-1845
refactor dashboard re-render loop
review
PR-1844
cron: clean abandoned checkouts
review
PR-1843
6 unit tests for pricing module
merged
PR-1842
webhook handler for order.paid
queued
PR-1841
remove unused deps in /api
merged
12
PRs this week
0
merged w/o review
48h
avg turnaround
Who this is for

This is for founders with a real product, real users, and a backlog that keeps slipping.

  • You have a working codebase and real users.
  • You know what needs to be built. You need execution, not another strategy session.
  • Your backlog is growing faster than you can ship.
  • You cannot justify, or do not want, a $180K full-time senior hire.
  • You want reviewed, production-ready work. Not unmanaged AI output.
Sound familiar?
01

You shipped fast with Cursor, Lovable, or Claude Code. It works. It got users. Now those users are asking for things you can't ship fast enough, and the codebase is starting to fight you.

02

You hired a freelancer or two. Some of their code is in prod. You don't fully trust it. You can't afford the time to rewrite it, but you can't afford the bugs either.

03

You have a backlog in Linear, Notion, or a Google Doc. It's been growing for months. You know what needs to ship. You just can't get to it.

04

You considered hiring a full-time senior engineer. $180K+ fully loaded, 3 months to find, 6 weeks to onboard. You don't have the runway or the time.

05

You've tried managing contractors through Upwork or agencies. The first few weeks felt promising. Then communication drifted, delivery slowed, and you spent more time managing the work than building the business.

06

You know AI can do some of this. You've used Cursor yourself. It helps. But you're still the bottleneck because you still do every review, every merge, every unblock.

Keep reading.

Who you'd be working with

I've been there. On 50+ projects.

I'm Matt Turley. Twenty years of shipping software, mostly solo, mostly for founders like you. I've been the technical cofounder, the fractional CTO, the rescue engineer, and the last-resort call when someone else's code broke in production. Last year I built OpenClaw: a 20-agent autonomous AI dev pipeline that ships code continuously while I review every output. It's not a side project. It runs my own work every day. Now it runs for clients who want their backlog shipped the same way.

The pipeline creates the leverage. My job is the judgment. What should ship. What should be rejected. Where AI output needs senior correction before it touches your repo. You're not buying a software tool. You're buying my judgment plus an execution system.

20 years
shipping software for founders, solo and in small teams
475 tests
in the production engineering pipeline running my own work daily
on RelayPlane, my open-source AI proxy I dogfood the pipeline on
Matt Turley
Matt TurleyFrance · UTC+1
How the work actually happens

Not vibe coding. Supervised engineering.

The market is full of "AI builds your app while you sleep" pitches. They don't work. Code fails review, breaks in production, or gets quietly rewritten by a human later. The pipeline can move fast because it does not merge blindly. Every task is scoped, planned, built in branches, tested, reviewed, and approved before anything ships.

STEP 01

Scope

Acceptance criteria and boundaries agreed before the pipeline touches anything.

STEP 02

Plan

The pipeline proposes the implementation path. I review it before a line of code ships.

STEP 03

Build

Specialized agents work in parallel branches in a 20-agent assembly-line architecture, not a single model guessing.

STEP 04

Verify

Tests, lint, security checks. Broken tests block progress automatically.

STEP 05

QA

I read every diff line by line. Senior engineering judgment, not a rubber-stamp approval.

STEP 06

Ship

Human-approved PR on your repo. Clean handoff, full history, your code stays yours.

Nothing merges automatically. Nothing goes straight to production. You own the repo, the history, and the code.

Is this for you?

A quick gut check before you book.

This is for you if
  • You have a working product.
  • You have users or customers.
  • You know what needs to be built.
  • Your backlog keeps slipping.
  • You want reviewed PRs without hiring or managing another developer.
This is probably not for you if
  • You are still validating an idea.
  • You do not have an existing codebase. MVP Build
  • You want someone to figure out the whole product strategy. Fractional CTO
  • You need emergency production support. Project Rescue
  • You want unlimited development for a fixed monthly price.
  • You cannot define what "done" looks like.
Selected work · 50+ startups

Real codebases, shipped over years.

The same hands and the same standards. The pipeline is new; the judgment is twenty years deep.

Long-running ops
BizJetJobs15 years

Aviation jobs marketplace. From founder side-project to $1M+ ARR.

Marketplace
RelayPlane2 years

Charter flight marketplace. Rebuilt the booking flow end-to-end.

SaaS
Perspectify14 months

B2B SaaS for product research. Stripe billing + role-gated dashboards.

Legacy migration
PES3 years

Internal enterprise tooling. Decade-old legacy stack rebuilt in stages.

Live data
StaySignal8 months

Hotel signal-monitoring dashboards. Live data pipelines, Postgres.

How we can work together

Start small. Scale when it works.

A $299 proof-of-work gets a scoped issue through the supervised pipeline and into your repo. If the workflow fits, a monthly execution lane keeps the backlog moving every week.

The questions people actually ask

Straight answers.

Yes, if you have the time and technical judgment to scope the work, review the output, catch edge cases, and safely merge it. This offer is for founders who want the leverage of AI-assisted development without becoming the reviewer, architect, and QA layer themselves.
No. Every PR is reviewed by me before you see it. The pipeline produces volume, I apply judgment. If a diff drifts from the scope, looks brittle, or cuts the wrong corner, it gets rejected and redone. Nothing lands in your inbox that I haven't read.
No. The pipeline produces PRs on your repo. You approve and merge on your own schedule. Nothing autonomous touches main. Ever.
You do, the moment a PR merges. Clean repo, clean history, nothing locked behind my systems. If we stop working together tomorrow, you keep everything.
If something bad makes it into a PR, it's because I approved it, and I'm responsible. I read every diff. Broken tests block progress automatically. I kill bad output before you see it.
No. Most of my clients are solo or non-technical founders. I write the PR descriptions and Loom walkthroughs in plain language. If you want to bring in a technical reviewer for sign-off, that's fine too.
Greenfield idea builds from a cocktail napkin. Vague strategy work. Total rewrites. 24/7 on-call emergency support. If production is on fire, book a Rescue Sprint instead.
No. It's a force multiplier for a founder or small team. If you have senior engineers already, I slot in as extra bandwidth on scoped work.
Yes. The pipeline is good at overflow capacity: tickets your team doesn't have time for, or work that would otherwise get outsourced. PRs land in your repo like any other contributor's.
Most of what founders ship: JavaScript, TypeScript, Python, Go, Ruby. React, Next.js, Node, Django, Rails. If your stack is wildly unusual, send it over and we'll sanity-check before you commit.
France, UTC+1. Async-first. If you're on US time, your backlog gets worked on while you sleep.
Pick how to start

Two honest doors.
Neither is a trap.

$299 founding proof-of-work (10 slots)·or, $3,500/mo monthly execution lane·both go to a real human (me)

Start small with a $299 proof-of-work, then graduate into a monthly backlog execution lane if the workflow fits. 10 founding slots available at $299. Standard price will be $499. If you have a backlog but aren't sure what to start with, paste it in. Notion link, Linear URL, Google Doc, or a plain bullet list. I'll reply with something concrete, not a sales call.

Matt