Three steps, designed so you see value before you commit, and so the work compounds instead of evaporating when we leave.
How an engagement works
1. Forward Deploy Sprint
A fixed-fee, 30 to 60 day embedded engagement on one painful, expensive workflow. Real users, real data, a defined finish line. You keep everything we build, whether or not you continue. This is how we both find out, fast and at low risk, whether we are the right fit.
2. Embedded FDE Retainer
A senior engineer embedded in your team on a monthly basis, building and shipping the way an in-house principal would, except we also bring a decade of patterns and a library of reusable accelerators. Think of it as a fractional CTO who actually writes the code and runs the platform.
3. Managed Platform + Jakada.ai
We stand up and operate your open-source ERPNext / Frappe platform (hosting, upgrades, operations, and support) so the work we shipped keeps running and improving. Then we layer Jakada.ai, our browser-native AI agent for ERPNext, on top, so your team operates the system in plain language. It is also the platform we run our own company on: PenDraco's books, billing, CRM, and payroll live on the same stack we operate for clients, a reference implementation we depend on every day, not a pitch. This is the part that keeps paying off after the build is done.
It is also the platform left behind: when the embedded engagement winds down, the operated platform and Jakada.ai stay with you, and the value keeps compounding. The engineer leaves; the platform does not.
We hold ourselves to first integration within two weeks and production within ninety days. If a problem cannot reach production in ninety days, it was mis-scoped, and we say so.
What the embedded FDE builds
The same capabilities that powered a decade of enterprise delivery, now pointed at the problem in front of you. These are not a menu to shop from. They are what a senior FDE reaches for once the expensive workflow is found.
- Platform and integration. ERPNext / Frappe depth, API bridges that are idempotent and observable, webhook infrastructure, and the middleware that keeps your stack talking.
- Web platforms. SvelteKit, Next.js, and installable PWAs, built to match the team taking over.
- Native mobile. iOS and Swift, custom keyboards, App Store release engineering, on-device machine learning.
- Agentic and on-device AI. Tool-calling agents, retrieval and reconciliation engines, and inference that can run on hardware you control.
How we price
We price to the business value at stake, not to hours on a timesheet. The Forward Deploy Sprint is a fixed fee with a defined finish line, and the work is yours either way. See how we price, or start a Sprint and we will scope it with you.