Fixed-scope project
A project has a start, an end and an agreed price. What decides whether it stays that way is not the plan — it is how carefully the edges were drawn before anyone started.
Pick the one that matches where you are. Moving between them as you grow is normal and expected, and none of them locks you out of the others.
Dublin, Ireland Ireland, EU & UK Project, retainer or fractional
A project has a start, an end and an agreed price. What decides whether it stays that way is not the plan — it is how carefully the edges were drawn before anyone started.
Some jobs are different every time. Others we have built often enough that pretending each one is bespoke would only be a way of charging you for the uncertainty.
Most of what a small company needs is not a project. It is a steady trickle of small things, and someone who does not have to be re-briefed every time.
There is an awkward size where nothing is on fire but nobody owns the whole picture — and the person doing it is doing it in addition to their real job.
For agencies that have won work they can sell but cannot staff. The client relationship stays yours; the build is ours.
Plenty of companies are quietly running software nobody else has. Some of that is worth selling. Most of it is not, and knowing which you have is the whole question.
Every one of these says what it does not include, and what we need from you and by when. That is unusual to publish before anyone has signed anything, and it is deliberate. Most work that runs over is not work done slowly — it is work done twice, while waiting for content, or an approval, or a decision nobody had been asked to make. Writing that down early costs a conversation. Discovering it later costs the relationship.
Describe the problem and we will tell you which shape it is — including when it is the cheaper one.