We run your engineering. You run your business.
For a product past its MVP that needs owning, not staffing. We take the architecture, the roadmap, delivery and the 2am incident. You keep the business, the code and every account. It is the model our longest-standing clients are on.
Have an engineering lead who wants to run the developers? Dedicated team. An agency reselling our work? White-label.
Two ways to have a team. One sentence each.
Dedicated team
Your management, our developers.
You run the sprints, the priorities and the reviews. We supply engineers who join your team and report to your lead.
That page is here →Technology partner
Our management, your product.
We own the engineering: architecture, roadmap, delivery, on-call, and the decisions nobody else on your side is placed to make. You own the business and the outcome.
Three situations we recognise on the first call
A product past its MVP
You have users and a backlog, and the people who built version one have moved on or were never a team. You need engineering that owns the product, not a developer who takes tickets.
A portfolio of systems nobody owns
Internal tools, an old platform, three integrations — each built by someone different, each needing patches, none with a name against it. You need one team responsible for all of it.
Burned before
A freelancer who vanished, an agency that delivered and left, a vendor who owned the repository. You need a team that stays, in your accounts, with nothing to hand over because nothing was ever theirs.
Six things that are ours to get right
Each one is something you can see, not a promise about attitude.
The architecture, and its consequences
We decide how the system is built and we live with it: we are still here when the choice made in month two costs something in month fourteen. That changes which choices get made.
The roadmap, with you
A quarterly plan agreed together, a monthly review of what shipped against it, and a written note when something we planned should not be built after all.
The team, including who joins it
We hire into the team as it grows, from our bench first. You interview anyone who will touch your product. Nobody is rotated in without your knowledge.
The running system
Deployments, monitoring, the 2am incident, the security patch on a Friday. Ownership includes the parts that are not features.
The paperwork
Everything in your accounts from the first commit — repository, hosting, domains, services. NDA before scoping, your DPA on request. Stopping is a decision, not a negotiation.
The honesty
A monthly report that says what did not work as well as what did. If the partnership is not the right shape for you any more, we say so before you have to.
What a month looks like
- 01
Quarterly plan, agreed together
What we will build and what we will not, in writing, before the quarter starts.
- 02
Two-week sprints, your tools
Jira or Linear, your Slack, your repository. Nothing lives on our side.
- 03
Review, QA, deploy
Code reviewed by a second engineer, tested, shipped. You see the deploy, not a demo.
- 04
Monthly report
What shipped, what slipped, what we now think should not be built, and what it cost.
Proof, and its limit
Most of our revenue is partnerships that have run for years.
- Five clients are on this model today, every one of them under NDA, which is why none of them is named on this site.
- All five are multi-year. The oldest predates the company: it is the engagement Boffin Coders was formed to serve.
We would rather show you fewer numbers that are true than a percentage we could not stand behind.
What it costs
$4,000 a month
per developer — the same rate published everywhere on this site
Most partnerships run two to five people. Three months to start, then month to month with a month’s notice either way. Everything in your accounts from the first commit. You get the exact figure, and who will be on the team, before you interview anyone.
Book a 20-minute callWhat people ask before they commit
Straight answers, including the one about proof.
A dedicated team is your management running our developers: you set the priorities, run the sprints and review the work. A technology partnership is our management running your engineering: we own the architecture, the roadmap, delivery and the running system, and you own the business. If you have an engineering lead who wants to run the developers, take the dedicated team. If you do not, this is the page.
Work we’ve delivered
Talk to the people who would own it
Twenty minutes with the founder, not a sales call. Bring the thing that is keeping you up.