Priced in daylight
Five crafts, each shaped like a product — named deliverables, a timeline, and a starting price you can read without a discovery call. Vagueness is how software gets late; we don't stock it.
Product Engineering
Whole products, from first sketch to first customer.
Strategy, design and full-stack engineering as one team with one deadline. We take products from a paragraph of intent to a version one that real customers pay for — and we name the launch date in week two.
Starting at
$120,000
from, fixed-scope v1
Timeline
12–20 weeks to v1
What you get
- Product strategy sprint — the problem, the bet, the number that proves it
- UX architecture and a design system built in code
- Full-stack build: web, mobile, APIs, admin
- CI/CD, infrastructure and observability from day one
- Analytics and growth instrumentation that answer real questions
- 90 days of post-launch care, included
Design Engineering
Interfaces that announce you before you say a word.
Art direction, motion and WebGL engineered to production standards — sites and product surfaces that make people screenshot the loading screen. The site you are reading is this service, eating its own cooking.
Starting at
$54,000
from, per experience
Timeline
6–10 weeks
What you get
- Art direction and a motion language owned by your brand
- WebGL and shader scenes, engineered to 60fps budgets
- Design system in code — tokens, components, documentation
- Content platform your team can actually drive
- Performance budget enforced in CI (LCP under 1 second)
- Accessibility and reduced-motion behavior as first-class work
Platform & Cloud
The bedrock everything else stands on.
Infrastructure, data platforms and reliability engineering for systems that cannot blink. We build platforms that make your engineers faster and your 3 a.m. pages rarer — then we hand you the keys with the manual.
Starting at
$68,000
from, per platform
Timeline
8–14 weeks
What you get
- Architecture review and a target design your team co-owns
- Kubernetes or serverless platform, built as code (Terraform)
- Streaming and data infrastructure at production scale
- Observability: metrics, traces, alerts that mean something
- Cloud cost engineering — typically 25–40% found and returned
- Runbooks, game days and a real SRE handover
Applied AI
Models that earn their keep, measured weekly.
LLM products, retrieval systems and machine learning that ship with an evaluation harness — because a model without evals is a rumor. We build AI that survives contact with your real data and your real users.
Starting at
$60,000
from, per system
Timeline
6–12 weeks
What you get
- Use-case audit — where AI pays, where it pretends
- RAG and agent pipelines with a permanent eval harness
- Fine-tuning and distillation where the economics say so
- Guardrails, monitoring and human-in-the-loop workflows
- Latency and cost engineering (tokens are money)
- Enablement: your team runs it without us
Embedded Squads
Our seniors, inside your team, at your standup.
A pod of two to four senior ROOSTER engineers with a lead, embedded in your organization — your roadmap, our velocity. No juniors learning on your invoice; the median squad member has shipped for eleven years.
Starting at
$24,000
from, per month
Timeline
3-month minimum
What you get
- 2–4 senior engineers plus a technical lead
- Your rituals or ours — we adapt in week one
- Weekly demo cadence, no exceptions
- Code, docs and decision records that outlive us
- Knowledge transfer built into every sprint
- Scale up or down with one month's notice
Not sure which craft? Tell us the problem — we'll tell you the price.