Growth Partner retainer — senior developers embedded on your product. Features, fixes, conversion, scale. From $5,000/month.
After your MVP launches, you need ongoing engineering: new features, onboarding improvements, billing, admin tools, performance. Our Growth Partner retainer is a senior developer partnership, not a ticket queue.
| Growth Partner retainer | |
|---|---|
| Price | From $5,000 per month, billed monthly in advance |
| Time | 60 hours of senior development per month. Unused hours do not roll over. |
| Output | 2–3 high-impact features, plus bug fixes and performance work |
| Term | Month to month. Pause or cancel with 7 days notice. |
| Support | Slack with the developers, 2–4 hour responses in business hours, emergency support |
No product yet? Start with a 30-day MVP from $5,000, or estimate your build first.
We agree the one metric to move this month (activation, conversion, retention) and the features and fixes that move it.
2–3 high-impact features, unlimited bug fixes and performance work, deployed as they are ready.
Speed, onboarding, conversion and retention improvements on the paths your users actually take.
What shipped, what improved, what broke, and what is next. Then we plan the following month.
| Growth Partner | Hiring in-house | Freelancers | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Start | No recruiting | Months of recruiting | Days to weeks |
| Seniority | Senior only | Depends on budget | Varies |
| Product decisions | We own tech, deployment and prioritisation | You manage the team | You manage each person |
| Commitment | 7 days notice | Salary, equity, notice periods | Per project |
Next.js, React, Node.js, Python, PostgreSQL, MongoDB, Stripe, AWS/Vercel. Production stacks that scale. See our MVP tech stack →
Notion to LinkedIn scheduling for B2B founders. Built as an MVP, then ongoing SaaS engineering on the Notion and LinkedIn integrations.
AI-powered consultation product. A repeat client with ongoing product work.
B2B website feedback widget, launched on the 30-day MVP model and live today.
Real shipped products, not mockups.
If there is no real progress in the first month, you get a full refund plus $2,000.
After you have a live product and need ongoing feature shipping, bug fixes and conversion improvements without hiring a full in-house team. Most clients start the month after their MVP launches.
The Growth Partner retainer starts at $5,000 per month, billed monthly in advance. It includes 60 hours of senior development time; unused hours do not roll over.
MVP development is a fixed 30-day build to launch. The retainer is ongoing monthly engineering on a live product, prioritised by one metric you want to move.
Yes. The retainer can be paused or cancelled with 7 days notice. No long-term contract.
Directly with the developers on Slack. Responses within 2 to 4 hours during business hours, with emergency support for retainer clients.
Senior developers. From $5,000/month. Pause or cancel with 7 days notice.
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