How do we handle the time difference in practice?
A fixed overlap block every working day, agreed before the project starts and staffed properly. Everything outside that window is written down rather than left to be explained on a call that neither of us wants at six in the morning.
Who owns the intellectual property?
You do. Work for hire, assigned in the contract, in your repository from the first commit. We do not keep a licence to anything we build for you.
Are you SOC 2 certified?
No, and we would rather say so than imply otherwise. If your buyer requires a certified vendor we are not the right fit for that piece of work. What we can do is work inside your controls, your cloud account and your review process, and document what we touch.
Can you work with our existing engineering team?
Yes, and it is usually the better arrangement. Your team keeps the architecture decisions and the core product, we take a defined stream, same repository and same review standards.
What about healthcare or financial data?
Tell us at the start. Regulated data changes where things can be hosted and who can see what, and it is far cheaper to design for that on day one than to retrofit it in month five. Where a rule needs a certified partner, we will say so.
What does a first project usually look like?
Four to eight weeks, fixed price, one clearly bounded piece of real work. Long enough to be genuinely useful, short enough that being wrong about us costs very little.