023 business days

The Technical Brief

$490Fixed price

Know what to build and what it costs, before you spend.

You have a spec, a half-built codebase, or an agency quote you don't trust, and want a straight answer.

  • 60-minute recorded working session on your product and constraints
  • Review of what exists: repo, spec, designs or a vendor's proposal
  • Recommended architecture and build sequence, with named risks and mitigations
  • A real cost and time range, including the option of not building
  • One round of written follow-up questions after you've read it
You get
A 4–8 page brief in your drive. Hand it to any developer or investor.
Not included
Code. Designs. Vendor introductions. More than one codebase or spec.
Guarantee
If it tells you nothing you didn't already know, reply within 7 days for a full refund. You keep the document.
0310 business days

One Workflow, Automated

$2,900Fixed price

One task your team repeats daily, running without them.

Your team spends 20–60 minutes a day on the same copy-paste, triage or data-shuffling.

  • Mapping session on one workflow, with the person who does it now
  • Built and deployed on your infrastructure: LLM steps, API calls, glue code
  • Connected to up to three systems you already use
  • Retries, a dead-letter path, and alerts to a channel you choose
  • Loom walkthrough, written runbook, and 14 days of post-launch fixes
You get
A running automation, its source in your repo, and a runbook someone else can maintain it from.
Not included
A second workflow. A UI or dashboard. Model fine-tuning. Systems with no API.
Guarantee
If it doesn't run end to end on your data by day 10, you don't pay the second half.
0412 business days

Contract Sprint

$3,900Fixed price

One smart contract, written or torn down before mainnet.

You're shipping one on-chain mechanism, or holding a contract that needs a hard read before mainnet.

  • Build track: one Solidity contract to spec, full tests, testnet deploy
  • Teardown track: line-by-line review up to 500 lines, graded by severity
  • Gas notes on hot paths, with before/after numbers where we change things
  • Written report: assumptions, trust model, and what an attacker can do
  • One walkthrough call, and one revision round within 14 days
You get
The contract and its tests in your repo, or a severity-graded findings report for your auditor.
Not included
A formal audit or certificate. This is pre-audit work, and we say so in writing. Mainnet deploys, key custody, contracts over 500 lines.
Guarantee
Teardown track: if we find nothing above informational severity, you pay half and keep the report.
05Monthly, rolling · 30 days notice

Fractional CTO

$1,750per month

A senior engineer checking the work, eight hours a month.

You have developers or a contractor, and nobody senior on your side checking what they build.

  • 8 hours a month, tracked and reported. No rollover, no surprise overage.
  • Two 60-minute calls a month: architecture, hiring, vendors, roadmap
  • Shared async channel, with replies within one business day
  • Code and PR review on request, up to 4 of your 8 hours
  • Hiring help: JDs, interview questions, final-round technical interviews
You get
A one-page monthly note: every technical decision, the reasoning behind it, and what to decide next.
Not included
Writing the code. Being on call. Managing your developers day to day.
Guarantee
Cancel before day 30 of your first month and we refund that month.
Compared

Same work.
Different terms.

What you sign up forTypical agencyRump Labs
ScopeAgreed as the work goesLocked in writing before we start
PriceAn estimate, billed by the hourFixed, and printed on this page
Extra workFound on the invoiceA new document and price, agreed first
Code and cloudTheir accounts until handoverYour repo and keys from the first commit
TimelineOpen-endedDays or weeks, dated in writing
If it missesA change requestA written guarantee on all five
If you leaveA handover projectAny engineer picks it up the next day
How it starts

Every service starts
the same way.

  1. You talk, we listen

    What you're building, what's stuck, what you've already spent. No deck from us.

  2. We scope it out loud

    Architecture, sequence, and the parts that will be harder than they look.

  3. You get it in writing

    What ships, what doesn't, the date, and the price. Before anything is signed.

  4. The plan is yours

    Build it with us, in-house, or with someone else. No follow-up sequence.

Questions

Asked before anyone books.

Ownership, scope and fit, answered straight.

Still deciding?

Thirty minutes with an engineer, free. If we're the wrong fit, we'll say so.

Book a call
Working with us5 questions

You do, from the first commit. Everything lives in your GitHub organisation and your cloud account, with your keys. If you stop working with us, any competent engineer can pick it up the next day.

Not silently. Anything outside the written scope becomes a new document with its own price and date, agreed before we build it. You never find unapproved work on an invoice.

Judge what you can check. Our code is public, you get a written scope before money moves, and everything is built in accounts you own. We're based in India and work global hours, with calls at a time that suits you.

The layer above them: architecture decisions, code review, sprint discipline, and one person accountable for the ship date. That's usually the Technical Brief or the Fractional CTO retainer, not a build.

Work lands in your repo continuously, deploys run in your cloud, and decisions are written down as they're made. Engagements last days or weeks, so your exposure is small by design.

Next step

Not sure which one?
Ask an engineer.

Thirty minutes, free. We'll tell you which service fits, or that none of them do.