Project if the scope and the end are clear: a feature, a redesign, a new product.
Embedded if your roadmap keeps changing and work comes up regularly, but you are not ready to hire.
Not sure? Book a fit call. Twenty minutes, and we both know which fits, or that neither does.
We work out what you actually need, what we can contribute, and where that is worth doing. By the end of the day there is a focus, a scope, and the same expectations on both sides about who does what.
Whether we are a fit at all is settled before this. That is what the fit call is for, not this day.
One partner leads your engagement from start to finish. Which one depends on the work: a design-led engagement ships an interactive prototype alongside the design, more often than not in real code. A build-led one is development first and usually runs with two partners.
Design and build come together as a rule. If you only want the design part, say so and we scope it that way.
Your partner runs the engagement. The other two come in as sparring: key reviews, input in Slack, and a second opinion when the direction changes. Up to two hours per partner every four weeks, included.
If one of the other two actually builds with you, over days or weeks, we scope that separately.
Remote is the normal case: Slack or Teams daily, an update three times a week, a review every week.
You always know what we are working on and where it is stuck. We tell you before you have to ask.
When something needs a room, we come to you. How often we meet in person depends on the engagement.
It happens, and a lot of it we absorb along the way. When it goes beyond that, we tell you in the same week we see it. A Project has a fixed price and a fixed date, so the scope does not simply grow with it.
You then have three options: cut something else and keep the date, book the new work as a further Project, or add Embedded time.
What we don't do is quietly stretch the scope and send a larger invoice at the end.
Everything is yours: design files, design system, documentation, code.
A Slack channel stays open for 30 days. If you want to carry on after that, we book a new engagement, Project or Embedded.
In our experience Embedded is the fastest way to widen a product range. At Nomad a proof of concept turned into five product areas.
No recruiting, no onboarding cycle. Billed monthly, one month minimum, then two weeks' notice to stop, prorated: no overhead, no equity, no severance, no open-ended contract.
Ideal for teams that need senior capacity now, but aren't sure they need it permanently, or who have a funding round ahead and no headcount for it.
That is how a lot of our work arrives. You can contract us directly and stay your client's single point of contact, or we contract with the end client and you stay in the room.
Where an engagement needs it, we work under your name. Prices are the same either way.
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