Engineer level
Juniors billed as seniors. You find out after onboarding.
Senior engineers only. The person you interview is the person who ships your code.
Deadlines
Treated as estimates. Slippage explained after the fact.
Eight years. Zero missed. Deadlines are personal commitments, not targets.
Transparency
Black-box delivery. You find out something's wrong when it's too late to fix it.
Weekly written reports. Same-day blocker escalation. No surprises — ever.
How they work
Vendor behind a wall. Separate tools, separate culture, separate agenda.
Embedded in your Slack, your standups, your team. You won't feel like you hired an agency.
Security
Audited at the end. Often after the damage is done.
OWASP from line one. TDD as standard. Our last pen test: zero vulnerabilities.
Code ownership
Handed over messy, undocumented, hard to maintain without them.
Clean handoff. Always. Documented, tested, and ready for your team to own.
Skin in the game
Pure services play. No stake in the outcome beyond the invoice.
We build our own products too. Nine2, Rentpe, GB CRM — all live. We know what shipping means.
Long-term relationships
Project ends. Agency moves on. You start over with someone new.
Islam360: 10 years. CompactMeds: 3 years. IRA client: 12 embedded engineers.