How Every Engagement Works
Five phases. Priced up front. You own everything at the end
How We Scope, Build, and Ship
Every engagement runs the same five phases. No surprises mid-project. You know the scope, the price, and what you'll own before work begins
A 30-minute structured call
No slide deck, no sales pitch. Ten questions about your business, your current tools, and where time goes. By the end, we both know if there's a fit. Free. If it's not a fit, we say so and refer you to someone who is.
Paid engagement, half a day to two weeks
We review your current systems, map your workflow, and produce a written assessment with a prioritized roadmap. You know exactly what will be built before a line of code is written. The Design fee credits against Build if you proceed within 30 days.
4 to 12 weeks, priced up front
Ships incrementally: working demo by week 2, you're in production by the end. You get working software in your environment, the full source code in an account you control, written documentation, and a recorded walkthrough. No hourly billing. The price is what we quoted.
14 days post-deploy
Post-launch bugs, tweaks, and training, no additional billing. The phase ends when you're independent: you can run it, explain it, and change it yourself. Included in every Build.
Optional. Month-to-month
Ongoing maintenance, enhancements, and quarterly reviews. Cancel with 30 days' notice and nothing on your end changes. You stay because it's useful, not because you're locked in.
Monthly engagement after a completed Build
A SpearFoundry partner sits in on meetings, guides the tech decisions, and builds what the business needs next: a technology partner who knows the operation from the inside. Available after a completed Build, scoped and priced per client. Three-month minimum, then month-to-month.
Who It's For
Princeton Corridor Small Businesses
Owner-operators across the Princeton corridor and South Jersey. You want someone who returns calls and ships in weeks. No enterprise contracts. This is for the business where the owner still answers the phone.
You Know the Problem
You know your current tools cost you time. You can name the friction points. What's missing is someone who builds the fix without dragging you into a six-month engagement, a committee, or an endless retainer.
Not Every Engagement Is a Fit
If your problem is better solved by a freelancer, a product subscription, or a larger firm, we'll say so in the Inquiry call and refer you accordingly. Engagements that don't fit the model are referred out, not stretched.
The SpearForging Principles
Every deliverable is priced up front. Hourly billing rewards bad estimates
Every deliverable is client-owned. SpearFoundry never holds the keys
The human owns the judgment. AI does the typing
Inquiry is free. Diagnosis is paid
Time returned, SpearForged
Start with the Inquiry call
It's free. 30 minutes. You'll know if we're a fit by the end.