From zero to production
in one quarter.
Stable builds purpose-built software for operations teams: the systems your business runs on but no vendor sells. One senior engineering pod, a fixed 12-week runway, and a working system your team owns at the end of it.
Ops-led returns intake, with
one source of truth per RMA.
The returns team opens 180–220 RMAs per day across four warehouses. Today they live in email, a shared spreadsheet, and three separate WMS screens, reconciled by hand at end of shift. This system gives ops a single RMA record, tied to the original order, the inbound receipt, and the restock decision.
A pod of senior engineers,
a fixed runway, a working system.
We work one way. A small pod, fully dedicated, for a scoped window, typically 12 weeks. Paid against delivery milestones, not hours. Your team reviews every week. On handoff, you own the codebase, the infrastructure, and the runbooks.
One tech lead, two engineers,
a product partner.
A four-person pod dedicated to your engagement. Average eight years of experience. No staff rotations, no "bench resources." The people who scope the work are the people who build it.
Fixed scope, fixed date,
fixed fee.
We write the spec with your team in weeks one and two, then commit to a delivery date and price. If the scope shifts, we tell you the new number before we start building. No change orders disguised as "discovery."
Reviewable progress
every Friday.
Your team sees running software every week from week three. Written progress notes, an open review channel, and a half-hour demo. No status-report theater, no surprises in week eleven.
You own the repo, the cloud
account, the runbooks.
Code sits in your GitHub from day one. Infrastructure runs in your AWS or GCP account. We hand over architecture docs, a 30-day warranty, and a named engineer on-call through your first month in production.
Tools your team
can maintain.
TypeScript and Python on the server. Postgres as the source of truth. React on the front. Terraform for infra. Boring, well-documented tech, so the engineer you hire next year can pick it up on day one.
One number on the SOW.
Paid on milestones.
Engagements typically run $180K–$420K for a 12-week pod. Paid in three tranches on signed milestones: not hourly, not monthly retainer, not time-and-materials. You know the total on page one.
Three phases, reviewable weekly,
live on week 12.
Every engagement follows the same shape. Discovery and spec in weeks one–three; build and integrate in weeks four–nine; harden, cut over, and hand off in weeks ten–twelve. Longer scopes compose additional 12-week runways. Never open-ended billing.
Kickoff & onboarding
Pod meets your team. Access granted, repos created in your org, success criteria signed off.
Current-state audit
We shadow the workflow, interview users, document the systems we're replacing or integrating with.
Written scope & SOW
A numbered spec, a data model, a risk register, and a final price. You approve before we build.
Foundations live
Schema, auth, the core domain model, and a deployable app shell in your cloud account.
First workflow usable
One end-to-end slice, enough for an ops user to complete a real task in staging.
Integrations wired
ERP, WMS, identity: the upstream systems your workflow reads from and posts back to.
Full workflow coverage
Every requirement on the spec behind a feature flag. Your team starts shadow-running on real data.
User testing
We sit next to your ops team for a week. Rough edges get filed and fixed inside the sprint.
Feature-complete
All scoped work merged. Feature flags off in staging. The system behaves like production.
Hardening & load
Performance, error paths, data migration dry runs, observability. We fix what we find.
Production cutover
Traffic moves. The pod is on-site or on-call through the full business day of go-live.
Handoff & warranty
Runbooks, architecture doc, named engineer on-call for 30 days, retrospective with your team.
Why clients pick Stable over
agencies and staff aug.
Most companies have tried a consultancy, a staffing firm, or both, usually with the scar tissue to show for it. Here's the short version of what's different about working with us.
What one quarter
has looked like, lately.
Anonymized for client confidentiality. Metrics are measured in the first quarter after handoff. Not projections.
Replaced a spreadsheet that touched $41M of returns.
A mid-market apparel wholesaler ran returns across four warehouses through email, a shared spreadsheet, and three WMS screens. We built a single RMA system tied to their SAP posting journal, shipped in twelve weeks, and cut the reconciliation team's end-of-shift from ninety minutes to six.
Unwound a 19-year-old dock scheduler.
A regional 3PL still ran appointment booking through a VB6 desktop app and a printed whiteboard. We replaced the scheduler, kept the existing WMS untouched, and let the warehouse team book their own appointments from a tablet, without changing a single carrier integration.
Closed the gap between forecast and supplier PO.
A premium DTC food brand was manually keying supplier POs from a forecast spreadsheet into NetSuite: four days a week, one senior planner, two hundred SKUs. We built a forecast-to-PO workflow in eight weeks that issued POs automatically against committed inventory rules.