ONE WORKSHOP. FOUR WAYS TO MOVE FORWARD.
THE WORKSHOP / 03 / CUSTOM BUILDS

THE BUILD FLOOR

MAKE IT REAL.
MAKE IT LAST.

Focused prototypes, application foundations, and the engineering that gets a product over the line. Work directly with the people building your software, from the first prototype through production.

REQUEST TWO HOURS ↗

$500 reference · pay what you will afterward · no payment now

PROTOTYPES / PRODUCT ENGINEERING / PRODUCTION

YOUR SKILLS. YOUR PROJECT. YOUR NEXT STEP.

WE CAN HELP.

Bring the project already on your disk, the work you want to finish, or the skills you want to build.

TELL US WHAT YOU NEED ↗
  • Learn, train, practice. Build skills and confidence through hands-on work.
  • Finish your projects. Get unstuck and carry unfinished work through to a useful release.
  • Add thorough testing. Build test suites, testing harnesses, and test automation for your projects.
  • Improve the project on your disk. Strengthen architecture, patterns, engineering practices, and security hardening.
  • Train your local AI for your work. Customize prompts, instructions, agents, skills, CLIs, and EDO Flows so your assistant has guidance that fits your project.

CUSTOM BUILDS / A PRACTICAL WAY TO START

YOUR NEXT BUILD.
A PLAN THAT FITS.

Start something new, finish an existing application, or build the next useful capability into your product.

LET’S SCOPE YOUR BUILD ↗

Starting around $5,000

Payment plans available. Let’s turn your first ideas into a working system during our initial conversations. Spend less time on paperwork and mockups, and more time trying the real thing together.

From there, we stay connected with you inside your live build. As you use it, share ideas, request changes, and give feedback in real time, right where it happens. Our team regularly checks in on your builds and works to get useful changes in place quickly.

For some requests, our automation can confidently make the change, run the checks, and redeploy your solution within the hour. For others, our team works with AI to design and implement the best path forward, with care for the details that make your system a delight to use.

With ongoing managed care, we also proactively monitor for security issues, structural problems, and outdated or underperforming AI skills and prompts, then work to keep your system and its AI guidance in shape.

Fully managed AI, with a person who cares. Someone who knows your project, stays involved, and wants to help you succeed.

Software at the speed of a dream. Try it. Shape it. Keep building.

Long-term options, too. Keep building with ongoing development, maintenance, support, or managed operation. Choose a handoff to your team, continued collaboration, or a longer-term partnership.

Final pricing and terms depend on the project. We’ll work through the options with you before work begins.

EXPLORE CUSTOM BUILDS ↗

A SMALL START / YOUR AGENDA

Two hours.
One useful slice.

Bring the application and the thing you wish it could do next. We’ll pick a manageable slice, inspect what is already there, and work toward a useful artifact or an implementation plan you can build on.

Something to carry forward. A focused artifact or implementation plan, plus a personal recap of what changed and what comes next. Any promised resources follow with it.

NEED A STARTING POINT? EXPLORE SIX POSSIBILITIES

Pick one thread, combine a couple, or bring something completely different. We’ll agree on a useful focus before we meet.

Protect the feature you keep fixing

Start automated testing with one regression worth catching.

Choose a brittle path, find the right test boundary, and work on a repeatable check. Talk through how to run it locally and in the delivery pipeline.

LET’S FOCUS ON THIS ↗

Harden one important path

Make a critical workflow more dependable.

Inspect validation, permissions, error handling, retries, and observability in one bounded flow. Work on the highest-value improvement and identify the wider hardening work.

LET’S FOCUS ON THIS ↗

Put an assistant where the work is

Explore an AI helper inside your application’s actual workflow.

Sketch or prototype a focused assistance capability with relevant context, structured output, and a review step. Decide what the assistant may suggest and what still needs human approval.

LET’S FOCUS ON THIS ↗

Bring one screen to life

A live status board, progress stream, or collaborative view.

Choose a bounded real-time experience and work through its event contract. Explore a small SignalR, Socket.IO, or SSE slice with reconnect and failure behavior in view.

LET’S FOCUS ON THIS ↗

Get the next release over the line

Work through the deployment problem in front of you.

Inspect a build failure, configuration problem, health check, or release workflow. Work toward a fix or a clear publish plan, including how to observe and reverse the change.

LET’S FOCUS ON THIS ↗

Give a tangled module some breathing room

Make the next change easier without starting a rewrite.

Take one crowded boundary, identify a useful seam, and plan or make a small refactor. Keep behavior visible with tests or a verification checklist.

LET’S FOCUS ON THIS ↗

Two hours gives us room for a focused review, practice, experiment, or bounded piece of work. Larger implementations, formal security audits, and ongoing support are scoped separately. Before we start, we’ll agree on confidentiality; recording or AI transcription requires your permission.

FROM FIRST SLICE TO SOMETHING DEPENDABLE

BUILD THE NEXT
USEFUL THING.

A rough idea, an unfinished application, or a product ready for its next chapter is enough to start.

01

PROVE THE
POSSIBILITY.

Choose an end-to-end scenario. Build a focused prototype, test the assumptions, and leave with an artifact and a clearer next decision.

02

FINISH THE
APPLICATION.

Strengthen what needs to survive real users: accounts, data, integrations, reliability, and operating guidance.

From prototype to production

Keep the builder involved while strengthening the application for real users.

  • Accounts, authentication, teams, roles, and permissions
  • Data storage, database design, and migrations
  • Payments, subscriptions, APIs, and integrations
  • Privacy, security, and automated testing
  • Logging, monitoring, backups, and recovery
  • Deployment, domains, email, and infrastructure
  • Performance, reliability, and operating guidance

Choose a documented handback, ongoing collaboration, or a managed operating arrangement. Scope and responsibilities are agreed for the engagement.

03

BUILD
AI IN.

Design the intelligence layer around a useful outcome, including knowledge, tools, memory, permissions, and human review.

The complete intelligence layer

Build useful intelligence directly into a product, with the surrounding engineering it needs.

  • Model integration, provider selection, and routing
  • Prompt architecture and structured generation
  • Knowledge retrieval and document understanding
  • Tool use, actions, and multi-step agent workflows
  • Persistent memory and working state
  • Human approval, permissions, and safety boundaries
  • Quality evaluation, cost and token visibility
  • Latency, tracing, observability, and fallback strategies

We can teach it, build it, or build it with your team.

CHOOSE HOW WE CARRY IT FORWARD

Ready to hand back. Documentation and a clear path to ownership.

Operated together. Support while your capability grows.

Managed operation. Agree the hosting, maintenance, and support scope.

CONTEXT FEEDBACK BRIDGE / BUILT INTO YOUR PROJECT

TURN FEEDBACK
INTO FORWARD MOTION.

We build user-aware Context Feedback Bridge (CFB) capabilities into your products, plus internal CFB EDO Flow automations. Choose the pieces that matter to your staff, admins, and customers.

01 / STAFF

CAPTURE THE
REAL PROBLEM.

Give support, QA, and internal teams a way to report a bug or suggest an improvement where the work happens. Include useful screen, route, or build context and optional screenshots so the next person has less to reconstruct.

02 / ADMINS

MAKE FEEDBACK
A WORKFLOW.

Bring reports into a reviewable inbox, screen and consolidate related feedback, and prepare prioritized work orders. Connect internal EDO Flows—Execute, Do, Orchestrate—to your project’s context, engineering checks, and release process, with human review at agreed decision points.

03 / CUSTOMERS

LET PEOPLE
SEE PROGRESS.

Embed feedback in your website, app, game, or tool. Add release notes and product news, with optional private in-app replies and thank-yous so contributors can hear what happened to their feedback.

Start with the benefit you want.

Better bug reports. A clearer feature-request backlog. Less manual triage. A repeatable feedback-to-release loop. We can adapt an embedded widget, SDK, native panel, browser capture, or desktop capture, and scope local, hosted, or hybrid operation around your project.

User awareness means relevant product context and optional account or inbox continuity, with deliberate choices about permissions and what information is shared. We agree the integration, automation, and review steps with you.

BUILD CFB INTO MY PROJECT ↗

CONNECTED WORK / DIFFERENT DOOR

Keep exploring the workshop.

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