You describe the problem
In your own words. Not a feature list — what breaks today and what it costs you.
How it works
Eight steps, each of which leaves a record.
The point is not the process. The point is that at any moment you can ask what was agreed, what was charged and what was delivered — and get an answer with evidence.
The order of things
Nothing here is skipped to move faster. The step that gets skipped is always the one somebody wants back at the end.
We turn that into a structured requirement
Capabilities, scale, integrations, data, constraints and — importantly — what we still do not know. That structured record, not the conversation, is what gets priced.
A check runs on your behalf
Is there a cheaper ready product? Is custom development genuinely needed? Would a smaller first phase do? Whatever it finds is recorded and shown to you.
The price is calculated
From a versioned cost model, deterministically. Where we do not hold real cost data, a specialist prices it — you do not get a confident number nobody stands behind.
A human reviews anything that is not routine
Low confidence, elevated risk, custom work, an unusual amount — any one of those routes the deal to a person before you see it.
You accept a specific, hashed proposal
The exact figures, scope and exclusions you agreed to are fingerprinted. If anything differs at acceptance, the acceptance is refused.
Payment, then work — in that order
Delivery cannot begin before payment is confirmed. That is enforced in the database, not just in the interface.
Delivery with evidence
Every release and every download is recorded with time, address and checksum. Good for you, and decisive if a payment is ever disputed.
Step one
Tell us what should work better.
Everything above follows from that sentence. You do not need to know the technical answer, and the first piece of work is on us.