Your tech team, without the payroll.
Senior engineers who take on the work your team has no room for: the build, the platform, the Kubernetes cluster, the cloud bill. Priced per service, fixed before we start.
Building without a technical co-founder? Start here.
Cheaper than a hire. Faster than an agency.
A senior hire takes months to find and costs a salary whether or not anything ships. An agency bills by the hour and hands you to juniors.
Start your project- Affordable by design
- One price, agreed before we start. No hourly meter, no change-request surprises. Typically a fraction of one senior salary.
- AI speed, expert quality
- Frontier models (Claude, GPT, Gemini) wired into our own agent workflows write the first draft of code, tests and docs. Senior engineers review every line before it ships.
- You own everything
- Code, infrastructure, designs and documentation are yours from day one. No licence, no hostage repo.
- Pay for results
- Half when you sign, half when it runs in production as agreed. Late or broken is on us, not your invoice.
What it costs, side by side
For engineering teams that need a project delivered, not more headcount. Starting prices, excluding VAT, fixed before work starts.
| Service | ZerPaper | Upwork | Malt | Agencies |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Full-stack product development: web, mobile and API | €4,500 | €10,150 | €22,350 | €13,150 |
| Platform engineering: internal developer platforms, IaC and GitOps CI/CD | €3,300 | €4,900 | €5,730 | €8,870 |
| Kubernetes: setup, autoscaling, right-sizing and migration | €2,500 | €4,990 | €5,730 | €4,000 |
| Security: security and penetration test reviews, SSO, IAM and WAF | €700 | €910 | €1,540 | €2,220 |
| AI adoption for engineering teams: secure setup, training and agent workflows | €4,000 | €9,130 | €12,080 | €25,000 |
| Enterprise DevOps as a Service | €1,400 / mo | €2,490 / mo | €2,870 / mo | €3,200 / mo |
| What you get | ||||
| Fixed price before work starts | ✓ | – | – | – |
| Senior engineer leads your project end to end | ✓ | – | ✓ | – |
| You own all code and infrastructure | ✓ | ✓ | – | ✓ |
| Weekly working demo | ✓ | – | – | – |
From brief to handover, three touchpoints
Day 1: the call
Fifteen minutes with the engineer who will do the work. Within 48 hours, a one-page proposal: price, date, what done means.
Every Friday: a demo
Something working to click through, plus a written update. No standups, no decks, no surprises.
The date: handover
Docs, runbooks, a recorded walkthrough, and the keys. Keep us on to run it, or walk away with everything.
Ready when you are.
Two minutes to describe it, then a free 30-minute call with the engineer who would build it. You leave with a plan, a price and a date.