System Design Package

A complete, implementation-ready system architecture for your next feature or service.

What You Get

A comprehensive design package delivered as a zip archive containing:

  • Architecture Overview — High-level system diagram and component relationships
  • Infrastructure Specification — Required services (databases, caches, queues, object storage, etc.) with recommended configurations
  • Service Design — API endpoints, data models, network topology, security considerations
  • Implementation Plans — Sequenced tasks with dependencies organized into Beads, ready for your team to execute
  • 3 Months Knowledge Base Access — Curated operational knowledge built from real-world experience
  • Package Contents — Markdown, PDF, and Beads

The design is infrastructure-agnostic — deployable on AWS, GCP, Azure, bare metal, or any combination.

The Process

1. Initial Contact

You reach out via form or email describing what you want to build.

2. Feasibility Review

We review your request internally and assess fit. Not every project is right for this format — we'll be upfront if yours isn't.

3. Discovery Call

If there's a good fit, we schedule a 30–90 minute call to understand your requirements in depth: business context, technical environment, performance and scale requirements, timeline and team capabilities.

4. Design Phase

We create your system design. This is where the expertise happens — translating your requirements into a concrete, implementable architecture.

5. Handoff Call

We walk through the complete design together, explaining our decisions and answering questions. You leave with full understanding of what to build and why.

6. Delivery

You receive the complete package — rendered PDFs for easy reading, source files for your team to reference and maintain.

What's Included

  • Discovery call (30–90 min)
  • Complete system design documentation
  • Architecture diagrams
  • Infrastructure specifications
  • Implementation roadmap with sequenced tasks
  • 3 Month Access to our Knowledge Base

What's Not Included

  • Implementation or coding
  • Ongoing support or consultation
  • Post-delivery revisions
  • Project management
  • Code review

These can be negotiated as separate engagements.

Our Approach to Revisions

We approach this like a tattoo artist approaches their craft.

We invest significant time upfront in the discovery call to understand exactly what you need. During design, we're drawing on years of experience to make sound architectural decisions. At handoff, we explain everything and ensure you understand the design fully.

What you're paying for is that expertise and the resulting artifact — not unlimited iterations. The discovery and handoff calls are where we align; the design phase is where we deliver.

If your requirements change significantly after delivery, that's a new engagement.

Good Fit

  • Greenfield features or services that need solid architecture upfront
  • Teams with implementation capability but lacking senior architecture expertise
  • Startups wanting to build on a solid foundation without hiring a full-time architect
  • Projects where getting the design right matters more than getting started fast

Not a Good Fit

  • "We need someone to figure out what we should build" — we design systems, not products
  • Rescue projects requiring deep archaeology of existing codebases
  • Ongoing architecture consultation (see retainer option)
  • Projects requiring immediate implementation
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