FAQStraight answers
Straight answers
to the questions people actually ask.
How we work together
If you have a working product and a backlog you can't ship through, start with a First PR Sprint or apply for the Backlog Execution Retainer. If your build is broken, start with Project Rescue. If you're a non-technical founder making technical decisions you don't fully trust, start with Fractional Technical Partner. If you're building from scratch, start with MVP Build.
I don't bill hourly. Every engagement is fixed-scope or monthly retainer with explicit pricing. Hourly billing creates wrong incentives when AI compresses days into seconds.
No. It covers one small, scoped issue from an existing product. If the issue is larger than expected, I'll explain why and recommend the right next step before starting.
This is a limited founding offer for the first 10 qualified projects. The goal is to prove the workflow, collect feedback, and build early case studies. The standard price will be $499.
I'll tell you before starting. You can either reduce the scope, move into a private fixed-scope quote, or apply for the monthly Backlog Execution Retainer.
One monthly execution lane: one codebase, one active workstream, weekly prioritization, reviewed PRs, and senior engineering review before merge. Most clients can expect 4 to 8 small-to-medium items per month, depending on complexity.
Send it over. I may quote it privately as a fixed-scope sprint, but it is not a standard public offer.
Yes for the Backlog Execution Retainer (a Retainer Fit Call). The First PR Sprint is itself the proof-of-work, no call required. The Production Readiness Review is the discovery for Project Rescue. If you want a free chat, send me a one-pager and I'll reply within 48 hours.
First PR Sprint yes. Retainer usually within two weeks. Production Readiness Review within a few days.
Yes, mutual. Standard language. Happy to use yours.
AI and the engineering pipeline
No. Every PR is reviewed by me before you see it. The pipeline produces volume; I apply judgment. If a diff drifts, looks brittle, or cuts a corner, it gets rejected and redone. Nothing autonomous touches main, ever.
You do. Always. Repo stays yours, history stays clean, rollback is always possible. If we stop working together tomorrow, you keep everything.
I catch it in review before you see it. If something bad ever lands, it's because I approved it, and I'm responsible. Hotfix and post-mortem on me.
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.
Stack, tools, working style
JavaScript, TypeScript, Python, Go, Ruby. React, Next.js, Node, Django, Rails. Postgres, Redis. Hosting on Vercel, Render, Fly, AWS. Mobile and embedded I refer out unless it's hybrid.
France, UTC+1. Async-first. If you're on US time, your backlog gets worked on while you sleep. End-of-day Loom status updates land in your inbox before your first coffee.
Yes. I run a parallel workstream against your team's branch model. We agree on owned files and conventions up front. No stepping on each other's commits.
No 24/7 on-call. If your prod is on fire right now, I do scoped recovery, not war-room engineering. Production Readiness Review or Rescue Sprint, not on-call.