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Continuous Product Engineering
Your On-Demand Product Engineering Team
Get ongoing development, maintenance, and AI improvements without hiring overhead. Monthly retainer plans from $6K/mo—cancel anytime, no long-term contracts.
✓ Month-to-month · ✓ Same engineers throughout · ✓ Cancel anytime
Who This Is For
✓ Perfect fit if you:
- • Have a post-launch product with active users (100-10K+ users)
- • Need ongoing feature development + bug fixes + optimizations
- • Want reliable development without full-time hiring overhead
- • Need <120 hours per month (part-time team)
- • Prefer month-to-month flexibility over annual contracts
⚠️ Not the right fit if:
- • You're pre-launch (start with MVP development instead)
- • You need 160+ hours/month (consider dedicated team)
- • You just need a one-time feature (see fixed-price projects)
Monthly Retainer Plans
Flexible Tiers to Match Your Needs
Choose the right level of support. Scale up or down with 30-day notice. All plans include the same senior engineers.
$6K/mo
40 hours per month
What you get:
- • 1-2 mid-size features per month
- • Bug fixes as needed
- • Weekly progress updates
- • Code reviews & testing
- • Month-to-month, cancel anytime
Unused hours roll over one month
Start with Starter$11K/mo
80 hours per month
What you get:
- • 2-3 features + ongoing improvements
- • Priority bug fixes (<24h response)
- • Bi-weekly demos + Slack access
- • Performance optimizations
- • Month-to-month, cancel anytime
Unused hours roll over one month
Start with Growth$15K/mo
120 hours per month
What you get:
- • Ongoing roadmap execution
- • Dedicated 1-2 engineers
- • Weekly sprint planning & demos
- • Full Slack integration
- • Month-to-month, cancel anytime
Unused hours roll over one month
Start with ScaleNeed more than 120h/month? Consider a dedicated team (160h+/month, custom pricing).
The Process
How It Works: Month by Month
Transparent, predictable, no surprises. Here's what a typical month looks like.
Week 1
Plan & Prioritize
Kickoff call, review roadmap, agree on features for the month, sprint planning in your tool (Linear/Jira/etc.).
Week 2-3
Build & Review
Development starts, daily Slack updates, code reviews, testing, demo ready features as they complete.
Week 4
Demo & Deploy
Final demo call, deploy to production, retrospective, plan next month's priorities.
Ongoing
Adjust & Scale
Scale up/down with 30-day notice. Cancel anytime. Roll over unused hours one month.
Team Continuity Guarantee
You'll work with the same 1-2 senior engineers throughout. No rotating contractors. They learn your codebase, your product, and your team. Feels like your internal team, not an agency.
Testimonial placeholder: "We've been with MindEncoder for 18 months. Same engineers, consistent quality." – Client, SaaS Startup
What changes
A team that knows your product.
The same people stay after launch. The shape of the agreement is chosen during scoping.
01
Engineers who already know the product
02
Maintenance, AI improvements and DevOps on one plan
03
A team size you can change, then re-quote
Is this you?
When this is the right service
The product already exists. The work is the roadmap after launch.
- The product is launched, or about to be, and it is still changing.
- Your team cannot cover the roadmap.
- You want maintenance and AI improvements without starting over with a new vendor.
- You need technical leadership without hiring a full-time CTO.
Good fit
- A product that already exists.
- A roadmap past launch.
- Room to agree commitment, team size and notice in writing.
Not a fit
- An idea with no product yet. Start with SaaS or a scoping call.
- A one-off build with no work after it ships.
- A request for a rate card before scoping.
Services
What we do
What is included is the agreement. A response time or a minimum term is written there, not on this page.
Dedicated teams
A squad embedded with you for a longer roadmap. The size is in the quote.
Ongoing development
The next slices of the roadmap, scoped as you go.
Maintenance
Keeping the product running: the fixes in the scope, monitoring, security checks, backups and documentation.
AI improvements
AI added to the live product when a workflow is a fit. The model is chosen during scoping.
Cloud & DevOps
Deployment, monitoring and backups on the stack you already run. The cloud vendor is chosen during scoping if you do not have one.
Fractional CTO
Architecture and priority calls from a senior engineer. Not a full-time executive hire. The time is in the quote.
Ways to engage
Retainer, dedicated team or defined agreement
Best for, commitment, team, how you pay, and notice period. Money, commitment and notice are agreed during scoping. No prices or notice periods are listed here.
| Retainer | Dedicated team | Defined agreement | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Best for | Steady improvement on a live product. | A longer roadmap that needs a squad with your team. | A bounded piece of work with a written end. |
| Commitment | Agreed during scoping. No minimum is published here. | Agreed during scoping. No minimum is published here. | Lasts for the scope you sign. |
| Team | Named engineers on your product. The size is in the quote. | A squad embedded with you. The size is in the quote. | The people named for that scope. |
| How you pay | Quoted during scoping. No price on this page. | Quoted during scoping. No price on this page. | A fixed quote for that agreement, after scoping. |
| Notice period | Written into the agreement during scoping. | Written into the agreement during scoping. | Ends when the agreed scope is delivered. |
How it works
From an agreement to a team that stays
Scaling the team is a scope change. It is quoted before it starts.
- 01
Choose the engagement
We recommend a retainer, a dedicated team or a defined agreement from the roadmap.
You get: that recommendation in writing.
- 02
Agree scope, team and notice
Commitment, team size, how you pay and notice period go into the agreement.
You get: those terms, quoted during scoping. No figures are on this page.
- 03
Start
The named people start on the first scoped slice.
You get: a named lead and that first slice.
- 04
Ship on the roadmap
We release against the roadmap in the agreement.
You get: those releases, plus the maintenance the agreement includes.
- 05
Review and adjust
You can scale the team or the scope. The change is written and quoted first.
You get: an updated agreement, or a handover if you bring it in-house.
Built for production
How we make it dependable
Ongoing work uses the same release checks as a fixed project.
Testing
Tests stay in the pipeline for the behaviour the product already relies on.
Code review
A senior engineer reviews every change, including AI-generated code.
Security checks
Reviewed as part of maintenance, not only at the first launch.
Monitoring
Kept in place so you can see failures. The tool is the one you already run, or one chosen during scoping.
Documentation
Updated when the product changes, so a later team can take it.
Handover
You can take the product in-house. Code, repositories and accounts stay in your name.
Technology
Tools we use, chosen per project
We work on the stack you already run. A new vendor is chosen during scoping, not from a list on this page.
Proof
Work in this area
Client names stay private. Studies are published on Work when they are written.
Next step
Choose a shape, then scope it
Retainer, dedicated team, and defined agreement are compared in Ways to engage above. The quote comes after scoping.
FAQ
Common questions
Minimum term, overlap hours and response times are agreed in the written terms. They are not published here.
The commitment is agreed in writing during scoping. We do not publish a minimum term on this page.
Yes. A change in team size or scope is written down and quoted before it starts.
We overlap with UK working hours and agree meeting times for US and Australian teams. We do not publish a fixed number of overlapping hours on this page.
A named lead on our side. You own the product decisions the scope leaves with you. The lead is named in the agreement.
The maintenance we quote: keeping the product running, the fixes in the scope, and the production practices we agree, including monitoring, security checks, backups and documentation. A response time is in the agreement if you need one. It is not listed here.