14d
First-Artifact Guarantee
A deployable artifact in 14 days — or the sprint is on us. 312 sprints delivered without a refund claim.
Source: internal audit, 2019–2025
ISSUE 014 · FRACTIONAL ENGINEERING PARTNER
Hyper‑agile
engineering squads
for startups that
ship on Tuesday
and pitch on Friday.
Senior full-stack engineers, ML specialists, and DevOps leads plugged into your repo inside 72 hours. Billed weekly. Contractually obligated to ship a measurable artifact in the first 14 days — or the sprint is on us.
Spec Sheet · Issue 014
Numbers we stake our reputation on this issue.
Four audited stats from 1,840 sprints across 612 clients. If we miss, the sprint is free. No asterisks.
58h
Median Ramp, Contract to First Commit
Time-tracked GitHub audit logs. From signed SOW to your first commit on your repo, in under three days.
Source: time-tracked GitHub logs, n=612
4.7%
Bench Acceptance Rate
140 vetted engineers from a curated bench. Every lead has shipped at scale at a YC, a16z, or Sequoia-backed company.
Source: applicant funnel, 2019–2025
47pts
Sprint Velocity / Engineer-Week
Average story points delivered per engineer-week across 2024 engagements. Measured, not promised.
Source: 2024 engagement roll-up, all clients
Also audited · 92% client retention across 8 quarters · NPS 71 (Q1 2025, n=204) · 11.2 days to first production deploy (G2 Fastest Implementation, 2024)
Clause 1 · Page 1
Ship a measurable, deployable artifact in 14 days — or the sprint is on us.
Not a slide deck. Not a “discovery doc.” Not a vague velocity chart. A measurable artifact — a service, a model, a pipeline, a green test suite — merged to your main branch and verifiable by your team. If we miss it, you don’t get invoiced. That’s not a marketing line; it’s Clause 1 of every statement of work we’ve signed since 2019. 312 sprints in, none refunded.
— DaWabbit Labs, Inc. · Statement of Work, standard edition
Chapter II · The Mechanism
The 72-Hour Plug-In Timeline.
From signed contract to first commit on your repo in 58 hours, median. Four steps. No agency intake forms, no “onboarding sprint.”
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01
Hour 0 — Hour 4
Match.
A 30-minute scoping call with a DaWabbit engineering lead. We pull from the 140-strong bench — stack, seniority, timezone, industry scars — and shortlist three candidates within four hours of the call ending.
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02
Hour 4 — Hour 24
Intro.
You meet the leads on a recorded working session, not a sales screen. We open your repo live and walk through the first sprint backlog. Your Slack channel and Linear (or Jira, or GitHub Projects) get provisioned before anyone clocks out.
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03
Hour 24 — Hour 58
First Commit.
Median 58 hours from signed SOW to first commit on your repo. Verified via time-tracked GitHub audit logs across 612 client engagements. Async standups go out the same day; your DaWabbit lead’s average response time is 9 minutes during business hours.
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Day 14 · The Hand-Off
First Artifact.
A measurable, deployable artifact ships to your environment by day 14. Average velocity: 47 story points per engineer-week. If it doesn’t ship — or if it doesn’t measure something — the sprint is on us. We keep going until it does, or we stop the meter.
Tuesday morning, you sign. Friday pitch, you ship.
Book a Sprint Call →Chapter III · The People
Six engineers on the bench this week.
From a curated pool of 140 vetted leads — top 4.7% of applicants. Every lead has shipped at scale at a company that went through YC, a16z, or Sequoia. Profile rows drawn from the active bench this issue.
Name
Stack
Last Ship
Pedigree
Status
Maya Kuroda
Staff Full-Stack · Tokyo
TypeScript, Next.js, Postgres, StripeMigrated seed-stage fintech from monolith to modular monolith in 3 sprints.
YC W22 (acquired by Notion)
Available Mon
Ravi Sundaram
DevOps Lead · Berlin
AWS, Terraform, Kubernetes, DatadogCut deploy time from 47 min → 4 min for Series-A dev-tools co.
ex-Shopify, ex-Stripe (platform infra)
Booked thru Apr 18
Lina Oduya
ML Engineer · Lagos
PyTorch, JAX, Ray, vector DBs, evalsBuilt eval harness + offline-to-online A/B rig for seed-stage LLM co.
a16z portfolio (stealth → public)
Available Wed
Jonas Vetterli
Backend Lead · Zürich
Go, gRPC, Postgres, Temporal, KafkaRe-architected billing system under PCI scope; passed audit sprint 2.
ex-Stripe (payments platform)
Available Now
Priya Anantharaman
iOS Lead · Bengaluru
Swift, SwiftUI, Combine, StoreKit 2Shipped 2.0 rewrite of consumer app — App Store feature in 11 days.
Sequoia Surge S4 (acquired by Linear)
Booking May 6
Diego Tavares
Full-Stack · São Paulo
Node, Postgres, tRPC, React NativeReplaced 6-vendor auth stack with single self-hosted solution; -38% cost.
YC S21 (acquired)
Available Tue
38 in-house engineers · 140-strong curated bench · 19 countries · top 4.7% acceptance rate.
See the full bench →Chapter IV · The Trade-Off
How a DaWabbit sprint compares.
A spec sheet, not a sales pitch. Three rows your CFO and CTO will both sign off on.
| Dimension | DaWabbit Sprint | Full-Time Hire | Traditional Agency | In-House Contractor |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ramp, contract to first commit | 58 hoursmedian, GitHub-audited | 6–10 weeksoffer → start → onboard | 3–5 weeksintake + SOW + staffing | 2–3 weekssourcing + interview loop |
| Billing model | Weekly, no minimumpause after any sprint | Annual salary + equity~$180k–$280k fully loaded | Monthly retainer3–6 month minimum | Hourly, monthly inv.scope-creep risk unmanaged |
| Artifact guarantee | 14 days, or sprint is free312 sprints, 0 refunded | None — employment at-willseverance + 2 weeks notice | Vague — "deliverables"rework billed hourly | None — T&M best effortno SOW, no SLA |
| Bench depth on day 1 | 140 leads, 38 in-housetop 4.7% vetting rate | 1 hire, 1 stackbackfill if it doesn’t work | Unknown until staffed"resources" = unknown humans | 1 contractorsingle point of failure |
Weekly billing. No minimum longer than one sprint. 480+ startups used us to bridge fundraising gaps — without the full-time hire.
Book a Sprint Call →