One owned system for orders, stock, dossiers or reporting, built against your ERP and your real data. Architecture, a Decision of Record, a production build in milestones. Your repository from the first commit.
Hours assume half an hour per person per week for every tool beyond the first, at €45 an hour. No onboarding time, no integration fees. An estimate, not a measurement. The measurement is what the Diagnosis is for.
What you own at the end.
Every engagement produces the same artefacts. Written down, versioned, transferred. Pick one to see what it settles.
Discovery briefv1 · 12 pages
Who
Ops lead + 2
What
Order intake
Done when
< 2 min / order
Shared with 4 peopleReady to sign off
Discovery brief
Discovery, weeks one to two
What it settles
What we are solving, for whom, and how we will know it worked. Ten to fifteen pages you can share internally.
What it settles
What we will build and what we will not. Tech choices, data model, deployment target, scope boundaries. Both sides sign.
What it settles
The repository is yours from day one. Weekly demos ship to staging on a cadence you can see, not a black box that opens at the end.
What it settles
Deployment, rollback, on-call. Written so your team can run the system without us, from the first week.
What it settles
What shipped, what is next, what changed and why. Archived in a shared document so nobody has to ask.
What it settles
Hosting, domains, secrets and monitoring transferred to accounts you control. No dependency on us to deploy.
What it settles
The first month of real usage, covered. After that you run it alone, or extend us by the hour.
How it goes now, and how it goes with Systems.
Most studios bill thinking by the hour and stop where the spec ends. We work the other way around. Here is the difference, line by line.
Traditional
Quote, scope, hand off.
4hand-offs
Separate teams for strategy, design, build, ops
hand-off · new team, new brief
Process-led with revisions billed by round
hand-off · new team, new brief
A quote after a discovery you pay for
hand-off · new team, new brief
Paid in cash, nothing at stake.
hand-off · new team, new brief
Master Services Agreement signed late in engagement
Systems
Built, owned, operated.
0hand-offs
One team across discovery, build, and operate
same team, same brief
Method-led with written decisions of record
same team, same brief
A free call, then published floor pricing
same team, same brief
Optional equity in exchange for rate discount
same team, same brief
Service Agreement published as the default contract
Thirty minutes. You leave with three things.
By video, or at your office if that works better. One engineer from our team who has built and run systems like the one you would replace. You do most of the talking; we ask what runs where, what it costs and where it breaks.
01
A clear picture of the stack.
Which tools run which part of the business, what they cost together, and where the same data is typed twice.
02
One system to replace first.
Not a roadmap for everything. The one that returns the most for the least, and what we would build it against.
03
A yes or a no.
If we see enough, a scope, date and price for the Diagnosis. If not, we say so.
If there is nothing worth building, we tell you, and you keep the notes. A paid step never begins automatically.
A multi-brand D2C operator ran orders, stock and reporting across four SaaS tools. One owned system now does all of it.
The order management system was rebuilt from the ground up against their real data, in milestones, and the four subscriptions were retired as each milestone landed. The codebase lives in their repository.
The full write-up, with the numbers, publishes once the team is comfortable sharing detail. Until then we walk through it on the call.
What we cannot show yet
The internal advisory CRM for an investment firm: client records, document signing and meeting notes consolidated into one deployable system. The team is not ready to share detail publicly. We can walk you through it on the call, under NDA.
The call is free. Only the Diagnosis costs money.
You pay nothing to talk through your stack with us. If we both see enough potential, you receive a fixed scope, start date and price for the Diagnosis. Nothing begins without your approval.
01
€0
Free call
Thirty minutes about the system you would replace first. Both sides decide whether to continue.
€0
02
€1,500remote · €3,000 on site
Accel Diagnosis
The only paid step before a build
One week, fixed scope. We measure the process from your own system's history and write the Decision of Record. If the number disappoints, it stops here.
One integration, one internal tool or one migration, delivered as a single milestone.
from €5,000
04
from €10,000
System MVP
Where the real work starts. Discovery, architecture and a deployed system in four to eight weeks, invoiced per milestone, in your repository from the first commit.
from €10,000
What is included
Discovery and architecture
Decision of Record
MVP build to production
Single deployment target
Thirty days of post-launch support
Optional advisory retainer
05
€150 / hour
Ongoing
After handover, in blocks of ten hours. Retainers available for teams that want us on call.
€150 / hour
The Diagnosis is credited against the first build invoice when work starts within thirty days.
Common questions.
What is the smallest engagement?
Lightweight work from €5,000: one integration, one internal tool, one migration. Full systems start at €10,000, milestone-based, four to eight weeks. Below five thousand the discovery alone does not pay for itself.
Do you work in our tech stack?
Usually. We have strong defaults (TypeScript, Next.js, Postgres, Vercel) but we will work in whatever fits the venture. We will tell you upfront if your stack is one we should not be the team for.
Who actually does the work?
Senior engineers, directly. No project managers, no offshoring, no juniors learning on your dime. The team that pitches is the team that ships.
How do you handle scope changes mid-sprint?
Scope is locked at the Decision of Record. New work surfaced mid-sprint goes into a change log with a written impact assessment, then either rolls into the current sprint with a milestone adjustment or queues for a follow-on block. No silent scope creep.
What happens after handover?
The codebase, docs and runbook are yours, with thirty days of post-launch support included. IP transfers on payment, as the Service Agreement says. After that you run it independently, or extend us at €150 an hour in blocks of ten. Most teams do one or the other; some move to a retainer.
Do you take equity?
Sometimes, in exchange for a rate discount, when there is mutual fit. The Service Agreement covers the standard terms.
Which systems have you integrated with?
Exact Online, Odoo, Plytix, Shopify, Klaviyo, Slack and Microsoft Entra ID, plus a wholesaler's production system nobody outside that sector has heard of. AFAS, Twinfield, HubSpot and Pipedrive are on the list for the sectors we target; we have not built against them yet and we say so on the call.
Where does it run and where does the data live?
Vercel and Neon Postgres in the EU region by default, or your own cloud. Hosting, domains, secrets and monitoring are transferred to accounts you control at handover.
What happens when it breaks at 2 a.m.?
The runbook covers deployment, rollback and on-call, written so your team can act without us. In the first thirty days we act. After that, blocks of ten hours at €150, or a retainer with a response time in it.
Who is this not for?
Three situations. An off-the-shelf tool already fits, and the problem is adoption rather than software. Nobody on your side owns the process; we build against a person, not a department. Or you want a fixed quote before a conversation; the Diagnosis exists so that neither of us guesses. If one of these is you, say so on the call and we will tell you what to do instead.
You speak with the people who will design and build it.
No account manager, no handover after a signature and no generic presentation. In the free call we listen to one system. Only if we see enough potential do we propose a Diagnosis with a fixed scope and price.
