New York City
Senior engineering for
NYC founders
New York is the second-largest pre-seed metro in the US and the loudest one. Founders compete with Google, Stripe, and a dozen YC-backed fintechs for the same five engineering candidates. Hiring takes 90+ days. We do it in two weeks — one senior engineer, flat price, no recruiting cycle.
Day 0
Your product is live on the web
Day 0
Source code lands in your GitHub
From $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 $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 New York who need to ship before the next round closes.
The local read
Why this works for NYC
NYC founders have a worse hiring problem than the funding headlines suggest. Half your top engineering candidates are weighing your seed offer against a $400K Google package. The dev shops in town are agency-of-record operations billing hourly, or staffing shops shoveling juniors into your team.
We're neither. One named senior engineer owns the build end-to-end. Flat price quoted after a 30-minute call. Eastern Time, same as your General Catalyst partner and your midtown customers. When we finish, the code is in your GitHub and the contract is over. No retainer.
Did you know · New York
NYC has roughly 25,000 active tech startups, second only to the Bay Area in the US.
Time zone
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Eastern Time, same as you. Meetings happen during your morning coffee, not midnight Slack pings.
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 New York 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
Built from New York
Founders here shipped these
Real New York founders. Real shipped product. Not a stock-photo lineup of "trusted by" logos.
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Why founders pick
path B in New York
Same shipped product. Different cost, different speed, different risk. Here is how year one plays out.
Hiring in NYC
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 $310,000 year-one cost: Salary $170,500 · Recruiter $49,600 · Benefits $46,500 · Equity $18,600 · Ramp $24,800
From $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 New York founders pick this
What we build in New York
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 New York
Ship a working v1 in two weeks, not two quarters.
SaaS Development in New York
Multi-tenant, billed, deployable. Not a prototype.
React & Next.js Engineering in New York
Production frontends shipped on a flat price.
Mobile App Development in New York
iOS and Android from one engineer, in your stores in weeks.
Fractional CTO in New York
Senior technical leadership without the $300K base.
AI Product Development in New York
LLM features that actually ship to users.
Vibe Code Rescue in New York
Cursor or Claude Code shipped your MVP. We rebuild the engine without throwing the product away.
Agency Transfer in New York
Your current dev team stopped shipping. We pick up where they failed and ship in two weeks.
Cloud Engineering in New York
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 New York?
We ship from 11 cities.
Worldwide.
Tap any pin to read what working with us looks like from that founder ecosystem. The New York pin is where you are now.
Got a question about working from New York?
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 New York?
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CEO · Start Matter · usually replies in minutes
Hey, I'm Valery. Ask me anything about working with us from New York.
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