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Book a Sprint Call.

Thirty minutes with a DaWabbit engineering lead. You leave with a scoped first sprint, a named lead on the bench, and a start date inside 72 hours of contract signature. No discovery deck, no slideware, no follow-up email asking for your budget range.

  • Duration30 minutes
  • FormatGoogle Meet, screen-share optional
  • OutcomeA scoped 14-day first sprint, artifact defined
  • Ramp after sign-offMedian 58 hrs to first commit
Terminal screenshot of a first commit on a newly provisioned client repository.
First commit, 58 hours after the dotted line was signed. Verified via time-tracked GitHub audit.

NEXT WEEK'S OPEN SLOTS — WEEK OF THE CALL

Three windows this week. Pick the one your calendar forgives.

Each slot is held by a DaWabbit engineering lead, not an SDR. Bring a repo link and the one deadline you're racing; we hold the room for 30 minutes exactly.

  1. SLOT 01 / 03

    Tuesday

    This week

    10:30 AM – 11:00 AM PT

    Run by Mira Okafor Staff backend, ex-Stripe Issuing · ships on Ruby, Go, Postgres

    Hold This Slot

  2. SLOT 02 / 03

    Wednesday

    This week

    1:15 PM – 1:45 PM PT

    Run by Daniel Reyes ML lead, ex-Shopify Risk · PyTorch, embeddings, ranking systems

    Hold This Slot

  3. SLOT 03 / 03

    Thursday

    This week

    4:00 PM – 4:30 PM PT

    Run by Priya Shankar DevOps lead, ex-Linear · Kubernetes, Terraform, SOC 2 paths

    Hold This Slot

None of these work? Email [email protected] with two windows that do and we'll open a new one within a business day. Average client response time from a DaWabbit lead is 9 minutes during business hours.

SPRINT CALL — SCOPING BRIEF

What we'll cover in 30 minutes.

This is a scoping call between engineers, not a discovery conversation between a vendor and a buyer. Bring the three things below and you'll leave with a 14-day sprint written on the whiteboard.

Bring to the call

  1. 01 One repo link. Public, private with a temp token, or a Loom walking through the surface. We read it live, not async.
  2. 02 One deadline you're racing. A demo, a board meeting, a fundraise close. Specific dates scope better than feelings.
  3. 03 One stack you're stuck on. The thing that's been on your sprint board for six weeks. We staff against the stuck, not the wishlist.

Leave the call with

  1. A A scoped 14-day first sprint. One measurable artifact, written down, with acceptance criteria. No artifact in 14 days and the sprint is on us.
  2. B A named lead from the bench. One engineer, one face, one Slack channel. Top 4.7% of vetted applicants, every lead has shipped at scale at a YC, a16z, or Sequoia-backed company.
  3. C A start date inside 72 hours. Median ramp of 58 hours from signed contract to first commit on your repo. Weekly billing, one sprint at a time, no minimum commitment longer than a single sprint.

§ 04 — Objections, Pre-empted

Before you book — straight answers.

Two questions kill more sprint calls than any other. Here are the honest, contractual answers, in plain type, before you commit 30 minutes of a Tuesday.

  1. Q.01

    How does billing actually work? Is there a six-month minimum?

    No. We bill weekly, in arrears, against an agreed sprint price. There is no minimum commitment longer than one sprint — typically two weeks. You can pause, scope a new sprint, or walk away between any two sprints. That structure has been used by 480+ startups since 2019 to bridge fundraising gaps without taking on a full-time hire they'd have to lay off in eight months.

    Weekly invoices are issued every Friday, payable on net-7. The first sprint is the only one with a deposit (25%) and it converts to credit on the final invoice.

  2. Q.02

    What happens if the first sprint ships nothing?

    The first sprint is free if we do not deliver a deployable artifact inside 14 days — a working branch on your repo, a staging URL, a benchmarked model output, whatever the sprint was scoped to ship. No partial credit, no "we'll make it up on the next sprint." 312 sprints have closed under this guarantee without a refund claim, and our 92% client retention rate across the last 8 quarters is the downstream receipt.

    The artifact definition is written into the SOW before the clock starts, signed by both parties, and arbitrated by the engineering lead — not the sales lead.

  3. Q.03

    Who, exactly, shows up in the first 72 hours?

    A senior full-stack engineer, ML specialist, or DevOps lead — depending on the sprint scope — plus an engineering lead who runs the call and owns delivery. Every lead has shipped at scale at a company that went through YC, a16z, or Sequoia, and every contributor is selected from the top 4.7% of applicants to our curated bench of 140.

    Median ramp-up is 58 hours from contract signed to first commit on your repo, verified via time-tracked GitHub audit logs. You get read access to that log on day one.

  4. Q.04

    Is the 30-minute call actually a sales call?

    No. It's a scoping call with an engineering lead, not an account executive. Bring an architecture diagram, a repo link, or a half-baked PRD and we'll come back with: a sprint size, a price band, a candidate shortlist from the bench, and a draft SOW with the artifact definition already in it. If we are not the right fit, we'll say so on the call and refund the time — it has happened.

    Average response time from a DaWabbit lead on Slack after the call is 9 minutes during business hours. You will leave the call with a calendar invite, a Notion doc, and a yes/no.

Still uncertain? Email [email protected] and a lead will reply, usually faster than the form.

// The terminal beat — book the call.

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  • 9 min avg. Slack reply during biz hours
  • 92% client retention · last 8 quarters
  • 1,840+ sprints shipped since 2019
  • 11.2 d avg. first production deploy (G2, 2024)

No minimum beyond one sprint · weekly billing · SOC 2 Type II since 2022