$4,000 / month · ~10 hrs/week · ~40 hrs/month
Your dedicated engineer. Shipping alongside you, week after week.
Somewhere between a reviewer and a full-timer, there's a slot that most founders don't know they can hire for. Partner is that slot.
Ten hours a week sounds small until you realise what it actually is — a senior engineer who knows your codebase, who was in the architecture conversation three weeks ago, who remembers why you chose Firestore over Postgres, and who's shipping real PRs while doing it. Not reviewing from a distance. In the work, with you.
That context compounds. By month two, I'm not asking you to re-explain the product every time. By month three, I'm catching things before they land on your plate. That's the point of the tier.
Workflow
Weekly sync — short, warm, useful. We align on what's actually blocking you that week, and what I'm picking up before the next one.
Async access through the week for everything else. Slack, PR threads, whatever your team already uses; I slot into that rather than making you maintain a separate channel for me.
Hands in the code. I ship features, fix things, clean up the places that have been bothering the team. Architecture decisions get made with me in the room — not after the fact, when it's already painful to change.
Two passes on anything I write. The first pass is me thinking on the page. The second is me making sure it'll hold.
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A technical partner who's genuinely in the work with you.
Architecture decisions made together, before they calcify. Features shipped. Fixes landed. The quiet, ongoing reliability work that nobody has time for until it breaks.
Ten hours a week of someone who treats your product like it matters; because by month two, it does.
Is this for you?
Small teams, shipping fast
Founders building actively — shipping weekly, making real architecture decisions, feeling the cost of not having a senior partner in the room. Post-seed startups that aren't ready to hire a CTO and don't need to. Profitable bootstrapped teams that want the calibre of a senior hire without the commitment of one.
If your team is small and the decisions you're making now are the ones you'll still be living with in two years, this is probably the tier.
If you want me mostly as a sanity-check with occasional reviews, that's Starter. And it'll save you money. If you want me functionally on the team, shipping twenty hours a week, that's Fullstack.
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let's start and get to work
If this sounds like the right shape, there's a discovery call on the other side of the button.
Still comparing tiers? The full picture is over here.