Creative Codes

Process

How engagements work.

Every engagement follows the same four steps.

The four steps

30 minutes · Free

Discovery Call

30 minutes on a call. We hear about your data problem, you hear whether we can help. No slides.

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By the end, you'll know if it's worth building and roughly what a build plan looks like.

1–2 weeks · Paid

Discovery Sprint

Complex projects start with a paid discovery sprint. We audit your data landscape, prototype key components, test scraping feasibility against the target sources, and deliver a technical architecture document with a fixed build plan, timeline, and cost.

The architecture document is yours regardless, even if you don't proceed with us.

Architecture document, feasibility report, build timeline, and fixed-price quote.

4–10 weeks · Fixed price

Build & Deploy

We build the pipeline in focused sprints. You get weekly written progress updates with Loom walkthroughs, no status meetings unless you want them. Every component is tested, documented, and deployed to staging before going live. We work async-first, aligned with US East and UK business hours.

  • Weekly Loom updates + written summaries
  • Code in your GitHub repo from day one
  • Staging environment for review before production
  • 4-hour response SLA during overlap hours

Production-deployed pipeline with documentation, monitoring, and handoff.

Ongoing · Monthly retainer

Monitor & Maintain

Things break. Sites change their HTML. Models drift. We keep your systems running on a monthly retainer so you don't wake up to a broken scraper on Monday morning.

Pipeline health monitoring, scraper maintenance, and model retraining on a monthly retainer.

How we communicate.

You get weekly Loom walkthroughs showing what got built, direct Slack access to your engineer (no account managers), and all code in your GitHub repo from day one.

Ready to start with a discovery call?

Schedule 30 minutes