Your app is shipped. Keep it shipping.
Senior mobile engineers embedded in your team so release cadence doesn't slip, crashes don't pile up, and OS revs don't catch you flat-footed. Monthly retainer, two tiers, 3-month minimum at launch. Without waiting on a full-time CTO hire, and without the premium rate.
Embedded senior team · Release cadence that doesn't slip · 3-month minimum at launch
Why teams bring us on
Each of these is a Partner shape, not a Build project or a Rescue engagement.
“Our senior mobile engineer left. We need continuity, not another rebuild.”
→ Embedded team
The person who owned this is gone. The codebase works but no one's steering it. You need a senior team that can pick it up and keep shipping this quarter, not next.
“We're scaling and need senior mobile judgment on the team every week.”
→ Embedded team
Your product is past MVP. Store submissions, release cadence, and architecture decisions are piling up. You need people who've done this before, not your existing team learning on the job.
“We have a product shipped and nobody owns the mobile or wearable surface.”
→ Embedded team
The web side is handled. iOS, Android, tablet, wearable: those are the gaps. You need ongoing platform ownership without hiring a full mobile team.
“We need someone accountable for the mobile surface at the leadership level.”
→ Embedded leadership
You're not ready for a full-time CTO hire, but the board wants senior accountability on mobile. Release cadence, architecture bets, hiring input, technical voice in strategy conversations. That shape.
Partner: Embedded team
We own the mobile surface. Alongside your team, for as long as it fits.
Starting at $3,000 / mo · 3-month minimum
Who it's for
You shipped a product (or inherited one) and need ongoing senior ownership (release cadence, platform evolution, incident response, wearable and tablet surfaces) without hiring a full team internally. Most embedded engagements replace a departed senior engineer or bolt onto a web-focused team adding mobile.
What we deliver
- Ongoing iOS, Android, tablet, and wearable ownership
- App Store and Play Store submissions and release QA
- OS and SDK updates as Apple and Google release them
- Crash monitoring, performance tracking, and incident response
- Sprint-level planning and monthly roadmap review with your team
- Third-party integrations and backend connectivity work
- Architecture reviews on major changes
- All code and commits in your repo. You own everything
Engagement shape
Monthly retainer. 3-month minimum at launch, then month-to-month with 30 days notice. Tier scales with scope: one platform vs two, phone vs phone+wearable, reactive vs active roadmap.
Case study
Partner after a Build: ongoing platform ownership
Took a React Native therapy app from a crisis rescue into ongoing Partner ownership. Biweekly crash triage, store submissions, release QA, and feature work on both platforms, without the client having to hire a full mobile team.
Partner: Embedded mobile leadership
Senior technical accountability for the mobile surface, at the cadence you need it.
Starting at $8,000 / mo · 3-month minimum
Who it's for
You have a team and a product, but the senior judgment gap is real: release cadence, architecture, hiring input, the technical voice your board wants to hear from. You're not ready for a full-time CTO hire. You need someone accountable, in the room, without adding a full-time executive seat.
What we deliver
- Release cadence and engineering-process ownership for mobile
- Architecture decisions for the mobile surface
- Hiring input when you grow the mobile team: interviews, leveling, candidate evaluation
- Technical voice on mobile at leadership or board level
- Quarterly architecture review signed by Chris
- First-line on-call: Chris as the primary contact for production issues
- Agentic pull-request reviews that check accessibility, security, reusability, and test coverage before merge
- AI tooling that gives your PMs and POs clear visibility into ticket quality, plus faster QA turnaround
- Transitions cleanly to a full-time mobile leader when you hire one
Engagement shape
Monthly retainer. 3-month minimum at launch. Designed for the engagement to end cleanly when you hire a full-time mobile leader. No lock-in, no pretending we're a full replacement.
Case study
Embedded leadership alongside a growing team
Served as the accountable technical voice on mobile for a growing product team: release cadence, architecture decisions, hiring input, board-facing summaries. Scoped for a clean transition to a full-time hire when the team was ready for one.
AI-fluent leadership, built into the engagement
Embedded leadership here means more than shipping mobile code. In client engagements I bring an AI operating system to the whole team, and a human still reads and signs every line that ships.
Standards enforced on every pull request
Agents review each PR for accessibility, security, reusability, and test coverage, so issues surface before a change reaches the main branch, not after it ships.
Faster QA, with a paper trail
Finished work is summarized so anyone can reference it later. QA runs their pass, and an agent checks the result against the acceptance criteria, then points to the likely files when something fails.
AI for the product side, not just engineers
Agents connected to your Jira or Azure DevOps give product managers and owners clear visibility into ticket quality: where work bounces back and why, and how to write tickets that build right the first time.
Plans that get a second opinion
A separate review agent validates each plan with fresh context before code is written, catching the reusability and security gaps a single pass routinely misses.
None of this is a separate product I sell. AI is how I deliver mobile work and how I help your team deliver better. That is what embedded leadership looks like in practice.
How partnering with us works
Same rhythm across both shapes. Simple, senior-led, clear concrete steps.
Discovery
A focused conversation about your current team, codebase, and what 'a team that stays' needs to own. No sales pitch. We tell you honestly whether Partner is the right shape or whether Build or Rescue fits better.
Plan
A written engagement plan: scope, cadence, deliverables, budget, ramp plan, and the first checkpoints of ownership. You decide whether to proceed.
Embed
We're in your Slack, standups, PRs, and releases by week one. Ramp happens while your team keeps shipping. No freeze, no hand-off tax.
Measure & evolve
Quarterly review against the metrics we agreed on. If we're not delivering, we change the plan or end the engagement. Clear, concrete steps; no margin fiction.