240,000 users on one platform.A live emergency response system.A trading engine across four systems.All built by one engineer.

Me. Every line of code and every technical decision is mine. I don't subcontract, and your work never gets passed down to a junior.

The name says agency because that's where I'm taking this. For now it's one person, by design. I keep it to two clients at a time, so you get my real focus, not whatever's left after everyone else. When I'm full, I'll tell you straight.

Hiring a senior engineer full time means a salary, equity, benefits, and months of recruiting before anyone ships anything. I'm a flat $5,000 a month. No equity, no benefits, no payroll to run, no recruiting. You start when you're ready and stop when you want to.

An agency puts an account manager and a layer of juniors between you and whoever actually builds. There's no layer here. You work with me directly.

I'm not a fractional CTO either. That's someone who sets strategy and manages your team from a distance. I'm the one in the code, building the product.

Async-first. I work in your stack: your repo, your Slack, your deploy setup. You don't move to my tools.

I send a walkthrough at least once a week, usually a short screen recording of what shipped, sometimes a written update when there's nothing to show on screen. If your team already runs a regular sync, I'll join that instead. I reply to anything within 24 hours.

You don't have to manage me. Dump what you have on me, organized or not, and I turn it into something real. I make the technical calls myself and bring the decisions that shape your product back to you. I won't turn you into a project manager, and I don't need you to write specs like one.

If you have designs, I build to them. If you don't, I'll make sensible calls on the interface, but I'm not a substitute for a designer when the work needs one.

Like autocomplete. They make me faster. They don't make the decisions, and they don't ship anything I haven't read line by line. The architecture, the judgment, and the quality are mine.

If you've been burned by an app an AI tool generated and nobody understood, full of holes and security problems, that's exactly the kind of work I take on.

Depends on what you're starting with.

If you have a running codebase, there's no long ramp. I get oriented and start contributing, not weeks of setup first.

If you have a prototype you or an AI tool put together and it's starting to break, I take it and turn it into something real. That's a normal place to start now.

If you have nothing but the idea, the first stretch is figuring out what's actually worth building before I write much. Demos, prototypes, cutting scope down to a real first version.

Either way, within the first month you'll have real work in front of you and a clear read on what it's like to work with me. You decide from there.

Plenty of people. A few clear ones:

If you want a pair of hands to execute tickets you've already written, and you want to review every line, hire a contractor. I work with ownership over the product, not as your fourth developer.

If your whole brief is one sentence and you expect me to invent the rest, this won't work. I'm at my best when you know what you're building.

If $5,000 a month is a stretch, or you're hoping to trade equity for the fee, this isn't it. I work with founders who are funded or making money, and I bill in cash.

If you want to manage me by the hour on daily calls, you'll be unhappy. I'm async, and you're paying for output, not hours logged.

You own the code and the IP. Always.

If the work lives in your own repo, it's yours from the first commit. There's nothing to hand over, you already have all of it.

If I've been running your whole stack, I hand everything back. The code, the credentials, and a written handover document so a new team can pick up where I left off. I've written a 12-page version of that before.

I ask for some notice before you wrap, so the handover is done properly instead of rushed. That work is part of the retainer. Your code is never held hostage, and you never pay to get it back.