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Hire an AI-Native Engineer
Agentic tooling as the primary build method. Architecture and review stay human.
Hiring an AI-native engineer? Even job posts for this role at large consultancies run $220K+ base, and you're often paying for someone still dialing in the workflow on your codebase. We ship on a flat-price engagement instead — Claude Code as the primary driver, architecture and review owned by a senior engineer, evals as a CI gate instead of a vibe check.
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How fast can you start?
Most engagements begin within seven days of the first call. There's no recruiter pipeline, no notice period, no relocation timeline.
Is this just someone who uses Copilot?
No — autocomplete is a productivity bump. AI-native means agentic tools draft entire features while a senior engineer owns architecture, review, and what actually ships. Different division of labor, different output quality.
Is this a full-time replacement?
No — we're a senior engineer on a flat-price engagement. For most pre-seed and seed-stage products, that ships more than a salaried hire would in the same window. When you outgrow it, we hand off cleanly to the team you hire.
How do you keep AI-generated code from becoming unmaintainable?
Evals as a CI gate, not a vibe check — a held-out test set that catches regressions. Architecture and data model decisions stay human. We're also the team founders call to fix codebases that skipped this discipline (see Vibe Code Rescue), so we know exactly which shortcuts not to take.
Who owns the code?
You do, from commit one. Repo in your GitHub, infra in your cloud account. When you do hire someone, they onboard onto your code, not ours.
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