One senior engineer. Fixed prices or month-to-month retainers. No hourly meters, no long discovery phases, no junior rotation. Here's the full menu.
Part-time senior technical leadership until you hire a full-time CTO. Strategy, architecture reviews, hiring, vendor calls, security, and technical due diligence.
From $5,000/month, month to month.
Learn more →A ranked opportunity map, working sessions, async access, and vendor calls with no reseller margins. For teams whose AI pilot ran and nothing changed.
Advisor $5,000/mo · Embedded $9,000/mo
Learn more →A working product in 4–6 weeks with auth, payments, and integrations. Conventional stack so your future hires can maintain it.
Typically $25K–$60K, fixed price.
Learn more →Stabilize the Lovable, Bolt, v0, Cursor, or Replit app that breaks under real users. Security, stability, and a codebase a team can take over.
$1,500 audit, then a fixed-price quote.
Learn more →An embedded senior engineer for AI teams: agents, integrations, evals, and demo-to-production hardening. In your repos, on your Slack.
$9,000/month, month to month.
Learn more →Internal tools, workflow apps, integrations, and the systems that replace the spreadsheet everyone is afraid to touch. Scoped and quoted up front.
Quoted per project after a free call.
Describe the project →A long-term staffing answer, not a contractor rotation. Build your in-house team (roles, hiring, onboarding, handoff) or get a managed team of senior engineers that I lead for you.
Scoped per engagement after a free call.
Learn more →Legal technology products and services live under the BetterDocket brand, a DBA of Product Advantage LLC. Matter management software for solo and small firms, plus the operational services a new firm needs.
Product Advantage is for startups, SMBs, and AI companies that need technical leadership, a product built, or a codebase rescued.
BetterDocket is for law firms that need matter management software or help running the business side of the practice.
Same engineer either way. If you're not sure, use the contact form here and I'll route it.
The same four steps whether it's a six-week build or a twelve-month retainer. You always know the cost and the timeline before work starts.
Free, 30 minutes. You describe the problem. I tell you whether I can help and roughly what it would take.
A written scope with a fixed cost and timeline, or a retainer tier. If the honest answer is "don't build this," you get that instead.
Build in one- to two-week cycles with something clickable at the end of each. No six-month silence.
Full code ownership, documentation, and an optional ongoing relationship on your terms.
| Dev agency | Freelance marketplace | Product Advantage | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Who does the work | Account manager, PM, rotating devs | Whoever accepted the gig | One senior engineer, start to finish |
| Pricing | $50K–$200K+ MVPs, hourly overages | Hourly, hard to predict | Fixed price or flat monthly retainer |
| Timeline | 3–6 months | Unpredictable | MVPs in 4–6 weeks |
| Business judgment | Scoped to the SOW | Usually none | Founder, operator, and investor perspective |
| Code quality | Varies by team | Varies widely | Conventional stack, tests, docs, your repo |
| Will say "don't build it" | Rarely | Rarely | Yes, and often |
Book the free call. Most people leave with a clear next step, and about a third of them don't need to hire me.