A small practice, deliberately.
YC Solutions is a small engineering practice working remotely with clients worldwide. Companies bring us the software problems that need senior engineers rather than more hands, and we stay small enough that the person who writes your estimate is accountable for meeting it.
01 Origin
Why the practice exists
Most of our founding team spent years inside larger firms watching the same pattern: the people who sold the work were not the people who did it, and by the time that became a problem the contract was signed.
YC Solutions is organised to remove that gap. Engineers scope the work, engineers price it, and engineers sit on the call when it goes wrong. There is no separate sales function to protect.
That constrains how much we can take on at once. We would rather decline a project than staff it with people who have never built one like it.
02 Principles
How we operate
Five working principles. They are not aspirational, they are the reason some engagements do not happen.
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Written before started
Scope, assumptions and exclusions go in a document you approve. If it is not written down, it is not in scope.
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No sales layer
The engineers who scope the work price it and build it. Nobody hands your project to a team you have not met.
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Demos, not percentages
Progress is a working environment you can open yourself, at the end of every two week cycle.
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Handover from day one
Code and infrastructure live in your repository from the first commit, so leaving is never a negotiation.
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Say no early
If we think the work should not be done, or not by us, we say it before invoicing for the discovery.
03 Boundaries
What we are not
Worth stating plainly, so the first call is not spent discovering it.
Not a body shop
Augmentation engagements have a named team, a minimum term and a technical lead attached. We do not send whoever is free.
Not a reseller
We hold no vendor quotas and take no referral commissions, so a recommendation is not a sales channel.
Not a full service agency
No brand work, no campaigns, no media. Software, infrastructure, data and the advice around them.
Not the cheapest
We price for senior engineers and written scopes. If cost is the only criterion, other firms will beat us.
Speak to an engineer, not a salesperson.
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