We get asked the same question every quarter: how can you charge senior rates and still come in under the big agencies? The answer is that we don't pay for the layers.
A senior engineer ships a feature in a week that a junior + manager + reviewer takes three weeks to deliver. The agency model is built around billing those three weeks; ours is built around shipping the feature.
What this means for clients
Higher hourly rate, fewer hours, smaller team, faster turnaround. The total cost per shipped, working, maintainable feature is consistently lower — and there's no junior code waiting to be rewritten in 18 months.