You get a senior developer with 10 years of platform experience. No salary. No benefits. No onboarding. Just reserved hours each month and priority access when things break.
Hiring a full-time senior developer costs $150K+ and takes months. Grabbing someone off Upwork or Fiverr is a gamble every time. You need a third option: a developer you trust, available on demand, without the overhead of a full-time hire.
A senior developer for complex builds, without the $150K commitment.
10 Hours
$2500 per month
For agencies that want a safety net. Enough hours for urgent fixes, small feature requests, and knowing someone senior is a message away when something breaks.
20 Hours
$5000 per month
For agencies with steady development work. Bug fixes, platform updates, feature builds, and ongoing attention from someone who knows your codebase.
40 Hours
$10000 per month
For agencies that need a dedicated senior developer without the salary. Enough time for substantial builds, migrations, and deep technical work alongside the day-to-day.
All tiers require a 3-month minimum. Paid monthly. Hours don’t roll over.
How It Works
Week One: We get on a 30-minute call. I learn your stack, your pain points, and your priorities. You give me access to your repos, staging environments, and whatever project management tool your team uses. By the end of the week, I’m ready to take tasks.
Submitting work: Email, Slack, or whatever your team already uses. Send me the task, I scope it against your remaining hours, and I get to work. No ticketing system to learn. No portal to log into.
Turnaround: Most tasks ship within 2-3 business days. Urgent issues get same-day attention. If something will take longer, I’ll tell you upfront so your team can plan.
Communication: I’ll send a weekly summary of what I worked on, how many hours I used, and what’s queued up. No surprises at the end of the month.
The retainer reserves my time and attention. You’re buying access to a senior developer who already knows your stack, responds the same day, and doesn’t need to be managed. You’re not buying a guaranteed number of deliverables or a fixed output per month. Some months you’ll use every hour on a big migration. Other months you’ll use three hours on bug fixes and know the rest is there if something catches fire. Both of those months cost the same, and both of them are the retainer working as intended.
If you’re consistently hitting your hour cap, we’ll talk about bumping to the next tier. If a project comes up that clearly exceeds your monthly hours, I’ll scope it separately as project work with its own timeline and budget. Retainer clients get priority scheduling on project work, and most project engagements I do started as retainer conversations.
What To Expect
30 minutes.
No pitch deck.
I’ll ask about your team, your projects, and where you’re getting stuck.
- We’ll talk about your current dev workflow
- I’ll tell you if I can help (and if I can’t, I’ll try to point you in the right direction).
- No contracts or commitments from this call
Pick a date and time
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