Business resources

What to read before you hire anyone — including us.

Everything here is written for the person paying for the software, not the person building it. No gated downloads, no email wall.

Before you commit to anyone

The questions worth asking any developer or agency, and what a good answer sounds like.

How an engagement actually runs

The method, week by week

The questions you're actually thinking

Work out which problem you have

Most operators arrive in one of six situations. Each page describes the symptoms and what the first week does about it.

Recovering from a bad build

Outgrowing your tools

Modernizing a legacy system

Drowning in spreadsheets

See it done

Written up in full — what arrived, what the verdict was, what got built, and what it does now.

Notes from inside real builds

Read enough? The next step is a week.

One written verdict, an architecture, and a plan you could hand to any engineer — including one who isn't me.