AI writes demos. Engineers ship products.

Almost never. I read the repo before quoting and tell you what is worth keeping, what needs rewriting and what each costs - in writing, before anyone touches main.

Everything lands in your repo, your cloud and your Stripe from day one, documented as it ships. If I vanish, the next developer reads the handover doc and keeps going.

It usually does. New work is priced as a short written addendum before I build it, so the final invoice is a number you already approved.

One 30-minute call a week and quick answers when I'm blocked. Every Friday you get a deployed preview link instead of a status email.

Yes. Figma, a Sketch export, or just the live site and screenshots. Where the source is missing states, I design them and get them approved before building.

That's the device I test on, not my laptop. Motion runs inside a 60fps budget and Core Web Vitals are measured throttled before handover.

A documented component library in your repo - named, typed, every state built - so your team ships the next ten screens without me.

I derive one as I go: type scale, spacing, colour roles and motion rules, written into the repo so the next screen doesn't drift.

Into your accounts, through API keys you own, with training opt-out on by default. Every place data leaves your infrastructure is written down before it runs in production.

Anything touching money or a customer stops for a human. Every run is logged with its inputs and output, so a bad answer is replayable instead of a mystery.

Integrations are versioned, idempotent and retried, and they page you when a provider changes shape. Loud failure beats work silently skipped.

A fixed fee for the build, no hourly rate and no retainer. Each workflow then gets a cost ceiling per run and a dashboard of spend against work done, so the saving is a number you can check rather than a promise.

That's the job. I work from the repo, the deploy config and the database; what the code can't answer goes in the report as a risk, not a guess.

Neither alone. Every area gets a keep / refactor / rewrite call with a cost and a reason, so you can argue with the reasoning instead of a vibe.

It's written for them: ordered, costed, risky items flagged. Hiring me for the fixes is an option, not the point of the document.

Three to five days for the full read. If it is structurally doomed you hear that on day two, not at the end of the week.