Your dedicated dev team + fractional CTO
A full-time developer on your roadmap, managed by us. We find the developer, vet them, and manage them in your place. You bring what the business needs. Our CTO turns that into technical decisions.
01The problem
You priced this as one hire. What you took on is a system that has to be directed and maintained every month by someone who knows how. Most owners find this out months in, once the work has piled up and progress is well behind plan.
Every one of these happens to owners who did the reasonable thing at each step. You may already have tried a hire, an agency, or a freelancer. What it left behind is a product you still cannot staff, and less appetite to try again.
The same thing happens with process. You bring in better tools or a better way of working, your team agrees it is better, and six months later nothing has changed. A team carrying a full workload does not have the room to change how it works.
02What you get
Everything below is included. There is no setup fee and no hourly billing.
Hired specifically for your project and working only on your roadmap. Full-time, on one client’s work.
Technical direction on what gets built and how, and on what you should be saying no to. Your developer reports to them, so the technical management is theirs rather than yours.
You say what matters to the business. We turn that into scoped, sequenced work and track it through to done.
The layout and flow calls that would otherwise sit in your queue waiting on a designer, made by someone who has shipped software people use.
Before your developer starts, our senior engineers get everything set up and start on your work. You have progress and a written read on your software in your first month, at no extra cost.
Everyone wants AI and everyone uses it, but not everyone uses it professionally. We have an opinionated methodology that we use ourselves, and we set it up in your codebase: our AI prompts and our AI infrastructure. We intentionally add human gates to raise quality. Anyone can vibe code; our process is built for production standards, which vibe coding does not meet.
The hidden cost. It seems unimportant, but it makes all the difference: engineering culture is what sets the standards of a codebase. Your developer works inside ours.
What shipped, what is next, and what is at risk. Every two weeks.
03How it works
A call about what you are building and where it is stuck. We work out the strategy with you and put the highest-impact work first.
Our own engineers get everything set up and start working your roadmap, so the work begins without delay while we hire.
We only hire engineers we would put on our own products, so this takes as long as it takes. We keep engineers on internal work specifically so there is always someone free to hold a new client’s seat. When your developer starts, our developers begin training them immediately to get them running.
They work your roadmap the way we work, with the product and project people the work needs. If you already have a system, we can work inside it. Our CTO is responsible for every technical decision. Every two weeks you get a written status update and a session to walk through it, and you never have to read code.
No renewal conversation, no exit fee. You are free to scale up or down how you see fit. Just give us 30 days’ notice and we will make it work for you.
04AI development
AI now produces code faster than any team can read it. The mistakes that cost the most are made before a line is written, and that is where our people spend their time.
Hierarchy of leverage
Boomer CodingThe old way of development. Whether writing code manually or using AI through a back and forth session
1 bad line of Code = 1 bad line of code
1 bad line of Plan = 10 to 100 bad lines of codeWrong solution
1 bad line of Research = 1,000+ bad lines of codeMisunderstanding the system
1 bad line of Specification = 10,000+ bad lines of codeWrong problem
1 bad line of Standing instructions = 100,000+ bad lines of codeCore infrastructure
The Elite WayThe higher the lever, the faster you go. This is where one developer starts outrunning a whole team.
Using AI is not the edge, it’s proper context management that lets the agent know your codebase, so you don’t spend time fighting what it’s generating.
The first month, we go through your codebase and tell you what needs fixing first. Then we set the AI up inside it, so it understands your code before it touches anything and your developer isn’t fighting the output. We’ll help figure out where in the system requires tweaking so that code output is reliable. Then lastly ensure your codebase in a healthy spot in order to really turn up the heat on implementation
05Who runs it
Two CTOs run HypePilot, and your project gets direction at that level.
Isaac Duran is the CTO of Advanced POS and of HypePilot. He runs both teams on this exact framework and still writes code himself. Advanced POS is a point-of-sale software company running live payments. HypePilot is where our own internal projects are built. LinkedIn.
Hector Calderon co-owns HypePilot and is the CTO of Metacerius, the client below. LinkedIn.
06Proof
We did not build a service and go looking for someone to sell it to. We built it to run our own products, and it runs them.
A DevOps company with multiple teams working across multiple workspaces.
We ran their team through the Viable Coding bootcamp, set up multiple workspaces with our AI development methodology, and reworked their whole AI setup for both Cursor and Claude Code.
Our CTO runs the engineering team here with the same AI methodology, on a more advanced development pipeline that keeps the project manager, UI/UX, and developers constantly communicating. Advanced POS currently writes close to no code by hand and generates all of it.
Advanced POS is a point of sale built and designed around high-volume bars. The environment is more demanding because of PCI DSS compliance. Dealing with compliance while trying to develop can get overwhelming, and the process we laid out has tamed the chaos: the tedious workflows that keep a highly secure environment running are used every week.
Everything we sell, we run. Our own operations, reporting and delivery run on the same methodology we set up in your software. We have also built no-code solutions and a custom CRM for Metacerius.
Our own A/B testing product, built start to finish by one developer working the way your developer will.
Most A/B tools test one change at a time. LiveShift runs several experiments on a single campaign at once and updates in real time as results come in. It connects your published content, your analytics, and an automated research loop, so going from an idea to a measured answer is repeatable.
07Compare
| Option | What it costs | What you still have to do |
|---|---|---|
| Hire a senior developer | $164,000–202,000 in year one | Evaluate them, direct them, manage them, and pay for it again if it is the wrong person |
| Developer marketplace | $10,000–21,000 a month | Scope the work, review the work, make every technical decision |
| An outsourcing firm assigns you an engineer | $9,000–17,000 a month | Manage the engineer |
| Offshore developer | $5,000–13,000 a month | Manage the engineer, and the time difference |
| Project agency | $30,000–150,000 per project | Start over when the project ends |
| Fractional CTO alone | $5,000–10,000 a month | Find, hire and manage the developers yourself |
| Viable Teams | $7,000 a month | Tell us what the business needs |
08Why month-to-month
Most alternatives want a year, or at least a minimum term.
This agreement has neither. Leave with 30 days’ written notice, any time, for any reason.
No minimum term and no cancellation fee. 30 days’ notice, that’s all.
Software makes people optimistic. A plan runs long, then longer, and by the time it is clearly not working you have already spent enough that stopping feels like throwing it away. So most people keep paying, and that is where the real cost of software comes from.
You pay for a month, we work that month, and you decide whether there is another one. Part of what you are paying for is a straight answer about whether this is working. A developer you hired on your own will tell you it is almost there, and keep telling you that for a year. We will tell you in the first month.
Whatever we set up in your software is yours either way.
You do not have to justify it or sit through a performance process. We keep replacing until you have someone you want to keep. Finding them, screening them and eating the cost of a wrong one is our job, not yours.
09Fit
10Pricing
One line item, with no setup fee and no hourly billing.
Same terms and the same month-to-month cancellation, with one technical lead across all three.
$15,000/ month
On the same terms
$7,000/ month
All in. Month-to-month, 30 days’ notice to cancel.
Need more than one developer? Three is $15,000/month. Add or drop capacity on the same 30 days’ notice.
$3,000one time
For companies that already have developers. We teach your team the way we build with AI, on your own software. Included with every developer. What it is →
Pay for twelve months up front and pay for ten. Same terms otherwise.
By default everything runs on your accounts, so you’re never locked in. If you’d rather we run it, hosting is quoted for what your project actually needs and billed separately.
11The bootcamp
You can buy the bootcamp on its own, without hiring a developer from us. It is for companies that already have a team and want them building the way we do.
If you decide you want us to do the building too, it comes with every developer, already done.
Building software has changed. AI now does most of the writing, and the job of a developer has moved to deciding what to build, checking what comes back, and explaining it. We have a workflow for working that way. We run our own companies on it, and in two sessions we teach it to your team, on your own software.
We walk your whole team through how development changed, how we arrived at our workflow, and how it works, step by step. Everyone who touches the software sits in on this one, developers or not.
We put our tools and prompts into your software, along with a written read on where it stands and what to fix first. Your team reviews it before it goes in.
Your team uses it on real work for a week. Then we sit with your developers and work one of their own tickets through the workflow, so they see it done on their code.
Time for your team to ask anything about the workflow, and a written read from us afterward on where they are and what to work on next.
$3,000, one time. Nothing to cancel and nothing to renew. Everything we put in stays with you.
12Free
Tell us about your software and we will take a look. You get our honest read on where it stands, what is at risk, and what we would fix first. No cost and no obligation.
It takes us an hour or two. If it makes sense to talk afterward, we talk.
Fill in the form and we will be in touch.
Book a call and we will talk about what you are building and what it would take. If you are not ready to talk, start with a free read on your code.
Either way, the most this can ever cost you is one month.