Boston
Senior engineering for
Boston founders
Boston is the deep-tech founder town in 2026. MIT and Harvard pipelines feed biotech, healthtech, and robotics. The catch: ML talent here is priced against $300K+ biotech offers, and your seed-stage budget doesn't compete. Different math — one named senior engineer plus AI agents, two-week first deploy, flat price.
Day 0
Your product is live on the web
Day 0
Source code lands in your GitHub
From $0.0K
Flat-price quote, no retainer
Day 0
Your first paying user
Day 0
Your product is live on the web
Day 0
Source code lands in your GitHub
From $0.0K
Flat-price quote, no retainer
Day 0
Your first paying user
How this works
One AI-native engineer.
The output of a team.
One senior engineer plus AI agents now ships what four engineers used to. Same code quality, half the cost, three-week timelines instead of three months. Built for pre-seed to Series A founders in Boston who need to ship before the next round closes.
The local read
Why this works for Boston
Boston founders have access to the best deep-tech talent in the country and almost none of it is hireable at seed stage. Biotechs pay above market for ML engineers. Cambridge robotics shops pay close to that for ROS 2 specialists. The local agency option is mostly enterprise consulting with multi-quarter contracts.
We're not enterprise consulting. One senior engineer owns the build, Eastern Time, overlap with your MIT advisors and Boston-based investors. FHIR or HL7 for healthtech. PyTorch and Hugging Face for ML features. Next.js for the SaaS layer. Flat-price quote in 24 hours. Code in your GitHub from commit one.
Did you know · Boston
Boston has more universities per square mile than any other US city — 50+ in the metro area.
Time zone
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Eastern Time. Overlap with you, your investors at General Catalyst and NEA Boston, and the academic calendar that affects half your hires.
Sectors we work in here
What you actually get
A working product.
Live in weeks, not quarters.
30-minute call, then a flat-price quote. One named senior engineer from spec to deploy — no hand-offs, no juniors, no "team of three" billed for one person's work. Source code in your GitHub from commit one.
The three builds founders in Boston ask for most
Production web apps in 1 to 4 weeks
AI features and LLM integrations
Mobile apps for iOS and Android
Every build ships with
Live production URL
On your domain, day of launch
Your GitHub repo
Code yours from commit 1
Stripe + auth wired
Login, payments, webhooks done
Shared Slack channel
Async updates, same-day replies
The math
Why founders pick
path B in Boston
Same shipped product. Different cost, different speed, different risk. Here is how year one plays out.
Hiring in Boston
Year-one total
before shipping a line of code
Time to fill
discovery, interviews, offers, onboarding
Retention risk
leaves inside year one · 3-month notice
What's inside the $290,000 year-one cost: Salary $159,500 · Recruiter $46,400 · Benefits $43,500 · Equity $17,400 · Ramp $23,200
From $2.5K.
This week.
Named senior engineer.
One call, one quote, one named engineer. Code in your GitHub from commit one. Walk away at the end clean — no retainer, no notice, nothing held hostage.
Working with us · 9 out of 10 Boston founders pick this
What we build in Boston
Six things we ship,
all on a flat price
Each one is a focused engagement — one engineer, fixed price, your code from commit one. Pick the closest match and read the city-specific page.
MVP Development in Boston
Ship a working v1 in two weeks, not two quarters.
SaaS Development in Boston
Multi-tenant, billed, deployable. Not a prototype.
React & Next.js Engineering in Boston
Production frontends shipped on a flat price.
Mobile App Development in Boston
iOS and Android from one engineer, in your stores in weeks.
E-Commerce Development in Boston
Storefronts that convert and checkouts that don't break at scale.
Fractional CTO in Boston
Senior technical leadership without the $300K base.
AI Product Development in Boston
LLM features that actually ship to users.
AI-Native Development in Boston
Agentic tooling as the primary build method. Architecture and review stay human.
Vibe Code Rescue in Boston
Cursor or Claude Code shipped your MVP. We rebuild the engine without throwing the product away.
Agency Transfer in Boston
Your current dev team stopped shipping. We pick up where they failed and ship in two weeks.
Cloud Engineering in Boston
Production cloud infra without the DevOps headcount. CI/CD, observability, secrets management, on-call.
From our blog
How we think about shipping
Long-form on pricing, workflows, why we don't take equity, and the engineering economics of 2026.
Not in Boston?
We ship from 11 cities.
Worldwide.
Tap any pin to read what working with us looks like from that founder ecosystem. The Boston pin is where you are now.
Got a question about working from Boston?
Ask me anything.
Right now.
Real chat. Real answers from our FAQ. If I don't have a clean match, I'll email you back within a day.
Founders here usually ask
- How fast can you start a build?
- What does a typical quote look like?
- Do we own the code from day one?
- Do you have customers in Boston?
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