Seattle
Senior engineering for
Seattle founders
Seattle is the best post-Big-Tech founder market in 2026. Half your engineering pipeline either still works at Amazon or just left. Hiring takes 80+ days because you're bidding against AWS comp — typically $310K base plus RSUs that vest over four years. We work outside that ladder. Flat price, two-week first deploy.
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 Seattle who need to ship before the next round closes.
The local read
Why this works for Seattle
Seattle founders have access to deep technical talent that's mostly busy. The candidates who do interview want AWS comp, or are leaving to start their own thing. Either way, your 90-day hiring cycle becomes 180.
Different math: one named senior engineer plus AI agents, Pacific Time, ships in two weeks. Flat-price quote after a 30-minute call. AWS-native by default — Bedrock, Lambda, DynamoDB, S3 — same stack your team already runs. Code in your GitHub from commit one. Walk away clean at the end.
Did you know · Seattle
Amazon employs more people in Seattle than the next nine largest local employers combined.
Time zone
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PT
Pacific Time, same window as your team, your customers in Bellevue, and the Big-Tech mafia your investors keep mentioning.
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 Seattle 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 Seattle
Founders here shipped these
Real Seattle founders. Real shipped product. Not a stock-photo lineup of "trusted by" logos.
Campaign Refinery
Campaign Refinery is an advanced email marketing and automation platform that focuses on helping businesses send better emails, improve deliverability, and drive real engagement. It combines powerful automation, smart list management, and deep analytics to make email campaigns more effective and easier to manage.
Visit the productThe math
Why founders pick
path B in Seattle
Same shipped product. Different cost, different speed, different risk. Here is how year one plays out.
Hiring in Seattle
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 Seattle founders pick this
What we build in Seattle
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 Seattle
Ship a working v1 in two weeks, not two quarters.
SaaS Development in Seattle
Multi-tenant, billed, deployable. Not a prototype.
React & Next.js Engineering in Seattle
Production frontends shipped on a flat price.
Mobile App Development in Seattle
iOS and Android from one engineer, in your stores in weeks.
Fractional CTO in Seattle
Senior technical leadership without the $300K base.
AI Product Development in Seattle
LLM features that actually ship to users.
Vibe Code Rescue in Seattle
Cursor or Claude Code shipped your MVP. We rebuild the engine without throwing the product away.
Agency Transfer in Seattle
Your current dev team stopped shipping. We pick up where they failed and ship in two weeks.
Cloud Engineering in Seattle
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 Seattle?
We ship from 11 cities.
Worldwide.
Tap any pin to read what working with us looks like from that founder ecosystem. The Seattle pin is where you are now.
Got a question about working from Seattle?
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 Seattle?
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CEO · Start Matter · usually replies in minutes
Hey, I'm Valery. Ask me anything about working with us from Seattle.
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30-minute discovery. Flat-price quote in 24 hours. Code in your GitHub from commit one. No retainer.