How we work

Discover. Design. Build. Secure. Launch.

A disciplined five-phase loop with weekly demos on a real staging URL. The same process for a landing page or a platform rebuild — only the depth changes.

The five phases

What happens, week by week.

Every phase has a scope, a timeline, and a deliverable you can see and use.

Phase 01
Discover
1–2 weeks

We start by understanding the business, not the brief. Constraints, revenue model, existing stack, and where the pain actually lives.

Activities
  • Stakeholder interviews and workshop
  • Codebase, data, and infra audit
  • Competitor and analytics review
  • Risk and dependency mapping
Deliverables
  • Architecture map
  • Prioritised roadmap
  • Fixed-scope proposal
Phase 02
Design
2–3 weeks

Information architecture, brand-safe UI, motion, and accessibility contract — approved before we write product code.

Activities
  • IA and user flows
  • Design system tokens and primitives
  • High-fidelity screens + motion specs
  • Accessibility acceptance criteria
Deliverables
  • Design system in Figma
  • Reviewed prototypes
  • A11y and content specs
Phase 03
Build
4–10 weeks

Weekly demos on a real staging URL. Type-safe frontend, tested backend, CI/CD from day one — no big-bang reveal.

Activities
  • Vertical slices, shipped weekly
  • Server functions, DB, and integrations
  • Automated tests + preview deploys
  • Content, SEO, and analytics wiring
Deliverables
  • Staging URL from week 1
  • PRs reviewed and documented
  • Test + coverage reports
Phase 04
Secure
1 week

Threat model, RLS + policy review, pen-test, headers, secret hygiene. Findings are fixed, not filed.

Activities
  • Threat model + attack surface review
  • RLS, auth, and role hardening
  • Automated + manual pen-test
  • Secrets, headers, and dependency audit
Deliverables
  • Security report + fix log
  • Retest confirmation
  • Runbook for incidents
Phase 05
Launch & operate
1 week + optional retainer

Observability, SEO, cutover plan, and a handoff you can actually maintain. Retainer optional, not required.

Activities
  • DNS + zero-downtime cutover
  • Metrics, logs, alerts wired to on-call
  • SEO submission + indexing check
  • Team training + handoff docs
Deliverables
  • Live production system
  • Ops runbook + dashboards
  • Post-launch review
Principles

Four rules every engagement follows.

Fixed scope, transparent price

Every phase has a written scope, timeline, and price before it starts. Change requests are logged and priced separately.

One senior point of contact

You brief one engineer who's on every call and in every PR. No account managers translating between you and the team.

Weekly demos, not milestones

Every Friday there's a real staging URL and a working demo. If something's off-track, you know at day 7, not day 70.

Security is inside the build

Threat modelling, RLS, headers, and dependency review are line items in every phase — not a separate quote after launch.

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Before phase starts
Ready when you are

Start with a discovery call.

30 minutes with a senior engineer. Written scope and approach within 48 hours.

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