Founders staring at a long list of stuff to build
You have paying users. The roadmap keeps growing. Hiring takes months. You need shipped work this week — not another stack of CVs.
Work in sprints. Pause anytime.
You bring the to-do list.We ship the software.
Senior engineers, AI speed. Send a clear request — get working software back. No meetings. One job at a time.
Built with AI · Reviewed by humans · Nothing ships until a senior signs off
Built by engineers who actually ship — for the teams that need it most.
The problem
The other options? They break.
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AI that almost works
Fast drafts. Falls apart when real users touch it. Someone still has to clean it up.
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Fuzzy plans, shifting goals
Open-ended "discovery" drags weeks into months. Nothing actually ships.
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Endless meetings
Daily check-ins and recurring calls eat up the focused time you paid for.
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Renting engineers, dressed up as a service
All the headache of hiring, none of the commitment or continuity.
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Retainers that lock you in
Year-long contracts. Fixed seats. No way to ease up when the roadmap goes quiet.
Our answer
Here's what we do instead.
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Clear request in. Working code out.
Send us the request. We tighten the brief, agree what "done" looks like, and ship the build.
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Zero meetings. Visible progress.
Watch the board move. Updates every 48–72 hours. Nothing on your calendar.
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Senior brains, not "hope-it-works" AI
Every change gets a real engineer's review before it goes out.
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One job at a time
Deep focus. Predictable turnaround. Nobody cuts the line.
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Subscribe when busy. Pause when you're not.
Pause when the to-do list goes quiet. Unused days carry over for when you're back.
Is this you?
Who this works for.
Teams whose engineers are buried in the hard stuff
The core team is locked in on the thing only they can build. Everything else — the second-tier features, the admin pages, the polish — is piling up. We clear the pile.
Operators putting AI into a real product, not a demo
AI features that need real reliability, real testing, and clean handling when things go wrong. Internal tools your team will actually use. Scoped, shipped, stable.
Examples
What a good request looks like.
Specific. Scoped. Ready to build. Bug fixes, new pages, features, quick prototypes, dashboards — anything that fits in a clear brief.
- REQUEST · 0001SHIPPED
Make the admin orders page load 8x faster
Query trace, eager-load fix, regression test pinning the worst-case query.
Bug · Performance
- REQUEST · 0002SHIPPED
Add a "quiet customers" view in the admin — anyone inactive 30+ days, sorted by revenue
Postgres view, server-side sort and pagination, CSV download.
View · Postgres
- REQUEST · 0003SHIPPED
Let users schedule weekly data exports straight to their inbox
Cron job, S3 dropoff, retry on send failure, status visible in settings.
Feature · Exports
- REQUEST · 0004SHIPPED
Quick prototype: "find similar tickets" search across 90 days of support data
pgvector, embedding job, single demo page with top-5 results and similarity scores.
Prototype · Vector search
- REQUEST · 0005SHIPPED
Build a customer-success dashboard from a clear spec
DAU/WAU per workspace, top features, drop-off chart. Filters by date and workspace, role-gated route.
Dashboard · Analytics
- REQUEST · 0006SHIPPED
Plug OpenAI into a feedback workflow with reliable, structured replies
Typed schemas, evals on a fixed sample, retries on schema mismatch.
AI · Schemas
Out of scope
What we won't take on.
The limits are the product. If you need any of these, we're not your fit.
The process
How it works.
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Send us the job
Drop it on the board with a clear definition of "done".
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We tighten the brief
Anything fuzzy comes back for shaping before we write a line of code.
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We build, one job at a time
One thing at a time. No multitasking. Nobody cuts the line.
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Updates every 48–72 hours
Live progress: code updates, screen-recorded walkthroughs, preview links you can click.
- Up next
- Scoped
- Building
- Shipped
The math
Senior engineering. None of the senior overhead.
| Full-time senior engineer | Ondemandly | |
|---|---|---|
| Monthly cost | ~$19,000 (fully loaded) | $4,000 flat |
| Total in year one | ~$228,000 | $48,000 |
| Time before they're productive | 2–3 months | Day one |
| Lock-in | Stuck until you fire | Pause anytime |
| Scope risk | Unlimited | Locked in |
$180,000saved in year one. Same work shipped. None of the overhead.
Cumulative cost — 12 months
Full-time senior engineer (fully loaded)Ondemandly subscription
Fully loaded cost = $160K base + ~30% for benefits and payroll taxes + recruiting and ramp-up. Based on US senior-engineer averages. Ondemandly figure assumes 12 active monthly cycles with no pause; pausing extends the runway further.
Who's behind this
One operator. The same one shipping every ticket.
Background spans Fortune 500 platforms, Brazilian household names, and seed-stage startups. The last ~2 years fully remote and fully async — the way this service runs.
See personal projects →This GitHub is for personal and side projects only. Client work stays strictly confidential, and every subscription is covered by a signed NDA.
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Partner + day-to-day operator at a startup
Owned scope, code quality, deploys, and engineering practices end-to-end. Same hat here, smaller surface.
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Shipped across every company size
Fortune 500 platforms, Brazilian giants, seed-stage startups. Different stakes, same shipping discipline.
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2 years remote-first, async-only
No standups, no Slack-as-meeting. Tickets ship while you sleep — same cadence this service runs on.
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AI workflows, in production
Building and shipping AI-assisted workflows weekly — client work and own projects. This service runs on the same workflow.
Pricing
Pricing.
Two ways to start. Try a 10-job pack, or jump straight onto the monthly plan.
Pack · 10 jobs
Starter pack
$1,500one-time
10 jobs · First-time only
- 10 jobs, no rush — they don't expire
- Same rhythm — updates every 48–72 hours
- One job at a time
- Built with our approved tools
Plan · 30-day cycle
Subscription
$4,000/ month
30-day cycle · Pause anytime
- Steady flow through your to-do list
- Updates every 48–72 hours
- One job at a time
- Built with our approved tools
- 75% refund in the first 7 days, no questions asked
Pause mid-cycle and your unused days carry over. Pick it back up when the to-do list is back. You only pay for the time you actually use.
Subscriptions include a first-week safety net — back out inside 7 days and get a 75% refund. See full refund policy →
Questions
Frequently asked questions.
Apply for a spot.
Tell us what you want built. Anything broad gets shaped up before we start.