Book a scoping sprint
For teams whose AI demo met real users — and businesses ready for real software

Custom software, fully managed.

The software team you build your company on. We learn your business, build the system, deploy it, run it — and keep making it better every week. Everything managed for you, infrastructure included. You own the code, the accounts, and the data from day one.

Start with a scoping sprint Rescue an existing build
Senior engineering only You own everything from day one A capped client roster — by design
If you've hired developers before, you know

How it usually goes.

We paid twice — once to build it, once to rebuild it.

The most common ending. The code only has to outlive the final invoice.

They held the code until the last invoice cleared.

The repo, the hosting, the domain — all of it under the vendor's account.

It worked in the demo. Then real users arrived.

The 2026 version: an AI-built prototype with no one accountable for production.

None of these are bad luck. They're what happens when the people who build your software never have to live with it. We fixed the incentive instead: we run what we build.

How it works

Three steps. The third one is the point.

You only ever pay for the work you actually need — a big team while you're building, a light touch while you're running, and more whenever you ask. The relationship flexes to you, never the other way around.

v1 v2 v3 …
Capacity — and cost — rise only when you're building. Never a bench, never idle hours. Between versions it just runs, kept healthy for a flat monthly. v2, v3, and beyond happen when you're ready — the cycle is the relationship.
STEP 1

Scoping sprint

fixed fee, fully credited into the build
  • We learn the business first — where the money, hours, and mistakes actually flow
  • You get a spec written in business outcomes and a fixed quote
  • Including a written list of what we'd advise against building
  • Walk away anytime and keep all of it
STEP 2

The first version

fixed quote from the sprint · clickable milestones
  • Every milestone is software you can click on staging — not a slide deck
  • Your GitHub, your cloud, your domain — from week one
  • No third-party paid tooling without your sign-off
  • The quote is the price. And v1 starts the loop — it doesn't end it
Where it's headed STEP 3

Your software team, for years

flat monthly · cancel anytime · keep everything
  • Everything managed — infrastructure included, set up your way, in your accounts
  • Hosting, monitoring, patches, verified backups
  • Defects in our code fixed free. Always
  • Improvements shipped weekly, with a written update you can read in two minutes
What "fully managed" means

All of it. Including the infrastructure.

We set up your cloud, your environments, your domains, and your integrations — in your accounts, on the stack you prefer, shaped to the way you want to work. You never touch a server. You just own them.

Run

Your system, kept healthy — without you thinking about it.

  • Hosting & infrastructure managed in your accounts
  • Monitoring and alerts — we see problems before you do
  • Security patches and dependency updates
  • Verified backups — tested, not assumed
  • Defects in our code fixed free, always
  • Plain-English monthly health report
Run + Improve

The standing software team. The system gets better every week, for as long as we work together.

  • Everything in Run
  • A standing improvement queue — you add, we ship
  • Improvements shipped weekly, each with a written update
  • One improvement sprint at a time, 48-hour response — named capacity, honestly stated
  • Ongoing advice — including what not to build
  • Priority response when something's on fire

No "unlimited" promises — named capacity and honest turnaround on a capped roster. A flat monthly fee, quoted in the scoping sprint. Cancel anytime and keep everything: code, cloud, domains, docs.

The third option

A real software team to build your company on.

Between a project vendor who disappears at launch and a full-time hire you can't keep busy, there's been nothing. That's the gap baqlai exists to fill.

Capacity that fits the work

When the build is big, delivery scales like a big team's. In a quiet quarter, you pay nothing for a bench — and you're never handed off to whoever's free. One accountable senior team, sized to the moment.

A team that never forgets your business

No rotations, no junior swaps, no re-explaining your quoting rules to a new PM every six months. Decision records and runbooks are maintained continuously — a year-three change is as safe as a week-three change.

Understanding that compounds

Every month we know your business better, so the work gets faster and the suggestions get smarter. That's the quiet economics of a standing team — at a fraction of one salary.

Production rescue

Built something that can't survive real users?

Lovable, Replit, Bolt, or an agency that's gone quiet — no judgment. The prototype did its job. Now it needs to grow up. We start with a free 30-minute assessment, give you a fixed-price path to stable, and then keep it running like everything else we manage.

Fixed-price stabilization, quoted after the assessment · no strings attached

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Who's behind it

Built with world-class engineering.

baqlai is built by engineers who've shipped production software at companies you know — and who've built and run startups end to end. The same caliber of engineering the big companies get, pointed at your business. No sales layer, no account managers, no junior bench behind the curtain.

Google Microsoft Nokia Clearco

Day-one ownership

Your repo, your cloud, your domain — from the first week, not the final payment.

Clickable milestones

Progress is a staging URL you can use, never a status meeting.

Defects fixed free

If it's a bug in our code, fixing it is our cost. Forever.

Fire us cleanly

A continuously maintained runbook means leaving is boring — by design.

Capped roster

We take on few clients, on purpose. Your work is never queued behind someone else's.

FAQ

Asked before signing, answered straight.

You own everything already — code, cloud accounts, domains, and a continuously maintained runbook that documents how it all runs. Any competent engineer could take over tomorrow. Leaving us is boring by design; that's the point of the guarantee.
Yes — like every serious engineering team in 2026. Every line ships under senior review and automated quality gates, and we're happy to walk through exactly how in the scoping sprint. What you're buying is the outcome: software that works in production, with someone accountable for it.
Capacity scales to the build. Large builds get big-team delivery; steady-state gets a focused senior team that already knows your system. What you never get is a bench of juniors learning on your invoice.
True — yet. The scoping sprint exists precisely to map where your money, hours, and mistakes flow before we write a line of code. And because the relationship is long-term, that understanding compounds instead of resetting with every team rotation. By month six, we know your operation better than most vendors ever would.
Those quotes carry office space, account managers, sales commissions, and a junior bench — overhead, not better engineering. We run lean and senior-only, and we'd rather price the relationship for the decade than maximize the first invoice. You'll have an exact, fixed number after the scoping sprint.
Try them — genuinely. They're great for validating an idea. We start where they hit the wall: real users, real data, security, integrations, and someone to call when it breaks at 9am on invoicing day. A good number of our clients arrive exactly that way.
We'll tell you — in writing. The scoping sprint includes a documented "we advise against this" list, and it continues for as long as we work together. Order-taking is how projects die; you're paying us partly to say no.
Few, deliberately. A kickoff call, a short demo every two to four weeks, and a written weekly update you can read in two minutes. Status is a staging URL you can click, not a recurring calendar invite. If you want more calls, we can do that — most clients find they stop wanting them.
No — and we won't pretend otherwise. You get monitoring that catches problems early, honest response targets, and priority handling on the Improve plan when something's genuinely on fire. For the systems we build, that's what actually matters.
Teams that want to take the code in-house within the next quarter (you'd be paying for a relationship you plan to leave), idea-stage projects with no validation or budget, anyone expecting daily standups, and regulated builds beyond our honest capacity — we'll tell you in the first call, not after discovery.
One scoping sprint. A fixed quote. No surprises.

The demo convinced everyone. Now it has to work.

A ChatGPT prototype is a brilliant start — it's just not a product. We build the part that has to survive real users, and we stay to run it. Tell us what you're working with; we'll reply within one business day.

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The managed roster is capped. When it's full, it's a waitlist.