Agency Transfer · Austin

Agency Transfer
in Austin

Your current dev team stopped shipping. We pick up where they failed and ship in two weeks.

Most weeks we get an email from a founder who is six months into a build that should have shipped in three. The agency promises 'next sprint' every Friday. Standups stopped two months ago. The founder pays a retainer to watch nothing ship. We take these projects. We finish them. Two weeks, $1K–$30K, the work that survived the previous team stays.

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Engagement shape

From

$1,000

Flat price, quoted after 30-min call

Timeline

14 days

First production deploy

1

Senior engineer, named

Day 1

Code in your GitHub

$0

Retainer, equity, lock-in

How this works

One AI-native engineer.
The output of a team.

One senior engineer plus AI agents now ships agency transfer that used to need a four-person team. Same code quality, half the cost, three-week timelines instead of three months. Built for pre-seed to Series A founders in Austin who need to ship before the next round closes.

The local read

Why agency transfer is hard in Austin

Austin's tech wave brought the SF cost structure with it. 60+ days to fill the role. $310K all-in for the kind of engineer you actually want. And the local agency option is mostly staffing shops billing hourly with a bench problem you'll end up subsidizing.

We're the other thing. One engineer owns your build from spec to deploy. Flat price quoted up front — not by the hour, not by milestone padding. Code in your GitHub from commit one. When the build ends, you walk away clean: no retainer, no notice period, no key-person dependency you didn't sign up for.

Hiring one senior engineer here is a ~$310K year-one outlay and a 60–90 day search. Our agency transfer engagement starts at $1,000 with a first deploy in 14 days.

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Time zone

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CT

We work on Central Time, so we overlap with your in-house team, your investors, and your customers in the same window.

Sectors in Austin

AI and ML toolingDefense techRoboticsB2B SaaSConsumer product

Stack we use

GitHubVercel / RenderPostgresStripeClerk / Auth.jsSentry

What you actually get

Concrete deliverables.
Live in 14 days.

No discovery phase that bills for itself. No Figma-only delivery. Every item below is something you can open, click, and ship to a user.

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Day 1–2 code and contract audit: what works, what is half-built, where the IP risk is

02

Day 3 take possession: repo into your GitHub org, infra to your accounts, every secret rotated

03

Day 4–7 foundation: CI with real tests, RLS lockdown, observability, main-branch protection

04

Day 8–14 finish + ship: close the gap between 'claimed done' and 'actually working', deploy to production

Why us

Why founders in Austin pick us for this

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We've taken over eight transfer projects this quarter — same five failure patterns every time

02

We give you the literal email script to fire your current team without burning bridges

03

We don't restart from scratch — we finish the 70 percent the previous team had half-built

04

Average customer churn during our last three transfer engagements was zero

Agency Transfer we've shipped

Founders we shipped agency transfer with

Real founders, real product, real testimonials. The kind of agency transfer work we'd do for you in Austin.

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FAQ

Common questions about agency transfer
in Austin

What does the transfer process look like?

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Five steps over 14 days: audit + walk-away email script (Day 1–2), take possession (Day 3), foundation (Day 4–7), finish what they started (Day 8–12), ship and document (Day 13–14).

Will my current dev team make this difficult?

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Usually no. Most disengage cleanly once the final invoice is paid and the notice period is honored. We give you the script. Contracts we have written for clients survive every transfer we've done.

How do I get the code back if they gatekeep?

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Demand the seven-item handover before paying the final invoice: repo ownership, full commit history, every secret in your password manager, cloud accounts transferred, README, runbook, and a scheduled access-revocation date.

Can you finish what they started?

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Yes, in most cases. Starting over throws away your investment. We close gaps in existing code. Roughly half the time we keep most of it and ship in week two.

How much does the transfer cost?

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$1K–$30K flat-price after the audit. Lower end for projects where the previous team left a clean (if incomplete) codebase. Upper end for full two-week engagements with two engineers.

More questions → /faq/rescue · /faq/team · /faq/partnership

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