You have something to build and three figures in front of you that you cannot compare. The first step is not choosing a supplier: it is understanding what you are buying.
What you get
Whether it is an MVP or a complete product: functional and business requirements, proper feasibility checks, and issues that emerge before the project is halfway through. Timelines based on team size, and what it will cost to maintain and evolve afterwards.
What it asks of you
It takes a few sessions with the people who know what the product needs to do and why. You do not need to know how it is done: that is our job.
What it is not
The document has value even if you work with someone else afterwards; it is precisely what lets you obtain comparable proposals. If you use it to go elsewhere, it has worked all the same.
Starters
Build, Scale and Rescue are long commitments, and before taking them on it is normal to want a clear view.
Starters are a way to begin without committing: they take a few weeks, cost little, and end with something in hand that is useful even if you work with someone else afterwards. Three give you an answer before you start: a plan, a check, an audit. The fourth, the Dry Run, shows you how we work on a real piece of your project.
Before
Every activity is described, designed from a technical and interface point of view, estimated in terms of effort, then waits until you approve it. That way you see what will be built before time is spent building it. You are not approving an invoice: you are deciding where the time you have already bought goes.
Every day
You have access to the tool where the work lives: its status, which two-week sprint it belongs to, whether it is ahead or behind. Not an end-of-month summary — the same view we use.
During
The person who writes is not the person who approves. Every change passes through a second engineer before it goes anywhere.
Before release
The work arrives somewhere you can see it before production. If it is not what you expected, it goes back.
Always
No technical constraint that forces you to stay.