Custom Engagements · Scope on Application

Build something that does not exist yet.

For the work that does not fit a productized tier: custom web applications, AI tooling, integration projects, internal automation, scale migrations. Fixed-scope or time-and-materials with a hard cap. Project floor $5,000. Every engagement starts with a free discovery call.

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The work we actually do.

Not a generic agency menu. These are the six categories where we have shipped enough engagements to know the failure modes and the shortcuts. If your project does not fit a shelf, tell us anyway — we will tell you honestly whether we are the right team.

01

Custom Web Applications

Full-stack builds on Next.js 16 + Postgres + Vercel. SaaS dashboards, client portals, ops tooling, multi-tenant platforms. We have shipped enough of these to know where the bodies are.

  • Next.js
  • Astro
  • Postgres
  • Drizzle
  • Vercel
02

AI Tooling & Agents

Anthropic-powered tools, agent loops, RAG pipelines, structured-output systems. Cost-discipline built in (prompt caching, model tiering, agent budgeting). We do not ship a $400/day demo and call it production.

  • Claude
  • OpenAI
  • Embedding stores
  • Inngest
03

Integrations

CRM (Close, GHL, HubSpot), payments (Stripe, Stripe Connect), analytics (GA4, Meta CAPI, Posthog), email (SES, Resend, Postmark), Slack, GitHub. The plumbing nobody else wants to own.

  • Webhooks
  • OAuth
  • REST/GraphQL
  • CSV ETL
04

Internal Automations

Cron-driven workflows, validator-enforced data pipelines, observability primitives, self-healing crons. The kind of infrastructure ops teams write at the FAANG salary grade but local businesses can never afford.

  • Inngest
  • Vercel Crons
  • Drizzle
  • Atomic claims
05

Custom SEO & Content Engines

Beyond the $185 tier — multi-site content engines, programmatic SEO at scale, automated content QA. The Gray Reserve daily blog ships every 48 hours from a Claude-driven pipeline; we can build yours.

  • Astro
  • Sonnet
  • JSON-LD
  • GSC API
06

Migrations & Rebuilds

WordPress to Astro. Squarespace to Next.js. PHP to TypeScript. Shopify to a real headless storefront. Migrations done right — content preserved, redirects honored, SEO ranking intact.

  • Astro Content
  • Redirect maps
  • Schema parity
  • Image CDN

Four steps. No deck.

  1. 01

    Inquiry

    Submit the form below. We review your existing site, the project brief, and where you are in the build cycle. No discovery call needed yet.

  2. 02

    Scoping Call

    Thirty minutes, no cost. We talk through what you are building, what you have tried, and where the real bottleneck is. You leave with our honest read — sometimes that is "you do not need us."

  3. 03

    Written Proposal

    Within 48 hours of the call: a written scope, fixed-price quote (or T&M with a hard cap), a milestone-by-milestone delivery plan, and a stated stop-work clause if either side wants out.

  4. 04

    Build

    We work in two-week sprints with end-of-sprint demos. You see code, not slides. Anthropic-augmented engineering means we ship at 4-6x classical agency cadence without sacrificing review depth.

We take fewer engagements on purpose.

Right for us if you…

  • Have a defined problem (or a fuzzy one you want help defining)
  • Can commit a real budget — $5K floor, most engagements land $15K-$120K
  • Want a small team that ships, not a six-person account-management layer
  • Are open to weekly check-ins and real-time decisions over endless slack threads
  • Care about code quality + observability + post-launch maintainability

Not right for us if you…

  • Need a $500 "cheap-and-fast" build — that is the $185 program, not this
  • Want to commission a clone of someone else's product line-for-line
  • Require a 30-page MSA review before the first conversation
  • Expect us to build, ghost, and never speak again — we stay around

Tell us what you’re actually building.

The more specific you are, the more useful our first reply will be. One paragraph is enough — we will follow up with the right questions inside the scoping call.

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