For agencies
White-label development for agencies
For agencies and developers with more work than hands, or a build that has gone somewhere they would rather not go. A good share of my work arrives this way, and it is some of my favourite.
The thing you actually care about
I work under your name, to your process, and I do not approach your client. Not while the project runs, not after it ends, not two years later. That is the whole arrangement, and I will sign it.
If your client should not know a subcontractor exists, they will not. Communication goes through you, commits go where you tell me, and I am happy to be introduced as part of your team or not introduced at all.
What I take on
Regulated and healthcare work is the specialism: the projects that arrive on your desk with a BAA attached and nobody in the studio wanting to own them. I have shipped EHRs, clinical assessment platforms and patient intake systems, and I am comfortable with the compliance side rather than learning it on your client.
Outside healthcare: takeovers of half-finished builds, migrations that need doing without losing search rankings, API and integration work, and the unglamorous debugging nobody has time for.
How it usually runs
Fixed scope and fixed price per project, agreed in writing before anything starts, so you can quote your client with confidence rather than a guess. Progress in writing at each stage, in language you can forward without editing.
On one engagement I ran fourteen phases with written sign-off at every one, delivered through an intermediary who owned the client relationship throughout. That is a normal way for me to work, not an exception.
Questions
Before you ask
Will you approach our client?
No. Not during the project, not after it, not ever. I will sign a non-solicitation clause saying exactly that, and I would expect any subcontractor you use to do the same.
Can you talk to our client directly if we want?
Only if you ask me to, and under whatever name you prefer. The default is that everything goes through you.
Do you sign NDAs?
Yes, and I am happy to sign before you describe the project. That order round is normal, not paranoid.
Next step
Tell me what you’re dealing with.