Five parts, then a product.
This is what we install, what it produces, and what you keep when the engagement ends.
The factory is five parts.
Once it is installed, you can open, run or read every part.
Each part below is a file or a run, rather than a claim about the way we work. The factory is installed in your infrastructure; the accounts and the cloud bill are yours too. Work happens in your repositories, under your review process, on your release schedule.
- Repository layout
- Where the code, the configuration and the documentation sit, and what may import what. You can clone the repository and read the tree.
- CI gates
- The checks a change has to pass before it can merge, and what each one refuses. You can open a pull request and watch what blocks it.
- Agent pipeline
- How work is specified, handed to a model, and reviewed before it merges. Ask to see one run, from the specification to the merged change.
- Test suites
- What has to be green before anything ships, and what each suite covers. You can run them and compare the count with what CI reports.
- Deployment path
- Every step between a merged change and the running system. You can push a small change and follow it to production.
The real hurdles are internal.
Hiring is the first one: three to six months of notice periods before anyone starts. Consensus is the second, and it binds leadership too. A CTO who knows exactly what to do still waits on both. A factory brought in from outside removes the first. It does not remove the second, and letting an outside party into your repositories and accounts makes it larger.
Three months, extendable to six.
Extending to six is a decision, not a drift into a retainer.
Architecture, technical diligence and advice are not a separate phase; they are how each change is decided. The three below are named by what they produce, not by a week number.
The setup, before the product.
What the opening establishes is the factory itself, standing in your infrastructure and under your accounts. It is the five parts above, in your repositories rather than ours.
One product, end to end.
The middle produces the first product built through the factory. That can be an entire product, a subproduct, or an extension to something already live. All five parts carry it, and it is done when it is in production under real load.
The end is a handover.
You receive the running system and the documented way of working that produced it. Both stay when the engagement ends, and the period does not roll on.
The factory stays with you.
Nothing is taken back at the end, and there is nothing to renew.
The running system is the product in production, in your accounts, taking real load. You already own the infrastructure under it, so there is nothing to migrate.
The documented way of working is a capability that outlives the engagement, and you run it afterwards. The layout, the gates, the pipeline, the suites and the path stay where they were installed.
We refuse two things.
An engagement that needs either of them is one we decline.
No staff augmentation, ever.
There is no staff augmentation, ever; we are never a head to be rented. A rented head leaves when the person does; an installed factory stays.
No fixed-scope waterfall.
There is no fixed-scope waterfall; the scope of a first product is not knowable in advance. What is fixed is the period, and the scope is decided inside it.
Shown in the debriefs.
The stack and the method are not described in the abstract; they are shown where something was built. Each debrief takes one subject through problem, approach and result.
One of them can be checked without asking us. The Docker images debrief links the public repositories it describes and the workflow file behind its claims.
An NDA covers every engagement, so no client, customer or partner is named on this site. The debriefs here are all our own work.
One address, no form.
The address is hello@beevelop.com. Say what you are building, and what is in the way.