For the engineering buyer
What you're probably going to ask.
The questions a CTO, a founder-engineer, or a careful operator would lead with. Answered without hand-waving.
- Will I own the code?
- Yes · from day one. Your GitHub repo, your domain, your Supabase project, your Vercel project. We hand you owner access at the end. No leasing, no white-label, no walled garden.
- Where does my data live?
- In a database you control · Supabase, AWS RDS, or your call. Row-Level Security on every table, audit logs on every privileged action. We don't proxy your data through us.
- Can I rip the system out and self-host later?
- Yes. The whole stack is open standards · Postgres, Next.js, standard Vercel deploys. You can move it to your own infrastructure in a weekend. We document the schema, the env vars, and the deploy steps · so any future engineer can pick up where we left off.
- What happens after handover?
- 90 days of included support · bug fixes, small changes, AI-cost pass-through, monitoring. After that · keep us on a quiet retainer, hire someone in-house, or run it yourself. The code is yours either way.
- Do I need a developer on staff?
- No. The system is operator-friendly by design · most clients run it without a developer in the loop. Every engagement ships with a CLAUDE.md, a README, and a schema diagram so any future engineer can onboard in an hour.
- What if a model goes down?
- The system runs without it. AI is a layer · sales, inventory, repairs, payables all keep working if every model is offline. You can also bring your own keys (Anthropic, OpenAI, Gemini) and pay providers direct.
- How do you handle data migrations from what we have today?
- We import what exists · CSVs, spreadsheets, vendor invoices, even hand-written ledgers via AI vision · then build the schema around how your team actually works. We don't make your business fit a template.
- How long is a typical engagement?
- Four to twelve weeks for the spine. Then we're either done, or we're moving into a quiet retainer for new features and integrations. We don't run open-ended SOWs.