Engagements.
Three ways to engage. One way of working.
Every Wellmade engagement is run by product engineers — people who think about the whole problem and build it. What changes between engagements isn't who shows up or how they work. It's the shape of the commitment.
For building something new
Open Build.
A defined block of days with a clear scope and a clear end. You're involved as we go: staging environments you can click around in, short check-ins, no curtain drawn across the work. When it's done, it's documented, explained, and handed over.
For keeping it moving
Open Studio.
A bucket of days, drawn down as your needs surface. New features, integrations, maintenance, technical advice, the small valuable things that never justify a full project. Your work is in our schedule, your context is in our heads, and when something comes up, we can move.
For leading your team
Open Lead.
Embedded technical leadership, as a Tech Lead or a Fractional CTO. Not advice from the sidelines — leadership from inside the work, from someone who still builds.
Something else?
There is always room to talk.
These three are starting points, not boxes. Engagements often combine — a build that becomes a studio relationship, a leadership seat alongside a product we're building. If what you need doesn't map cleanly onto one of the three, describe the need and we'll shape the engagement to fit.
How the days flow.
We work in days. Simple to track, honest to invoice, easy to talk about. No "consulting hours" that mean something different to everyone.
Payment follows the shape of the work. An Open Build is prepaid as a bucket, with any extension agreed before the days are used — no silent overruns. An Open Studio is billed monthly against the bucket you've committed to. An Open Lead is flat monthly, because what you're buying is presence and accountability, not a stack of days.
Time and materials exists for the edge cases — early exploration, genuinely unknown scope. It's not a competing shape, it's a payment mode that sits inside a shape when the shape needs it.
The full operating manual — communication rhythm, external expertise, code ownership, what happens if you leave — lives on How we operate.
Which one fits?
Tell us what you're trying to build, fix, or lead. We'll tell you which shape makes sense — or shape a new one if none do.
Let's talkLean builders. We deliver.