Product Partnership

Ongoing Django & Python product development · Amsterdam

A TECHNICAL PARTNER
WHO OWNS YOUR PRODUCT
WITH YOU

One monthly fee. Architecture, development, QA, and product thinking — all in.

You have a product that works. The question is whether it’s keeping up with where your business needs to go.

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The problem

Most development setups leave a gap.

Someone builds what you ask for, sends an invoice, and moves on. Nobody tells you what you should have asked for. Nobody flags technical risk building up in the codebase. Nobody walks into your next meeting with a product roadmap.

That’s what we do.

What this means

We take responsibility for the whole product layer.

DEVELOPMENT

We build new features in Django and Python, fix what is broken, and keep the product moving forward. AI makes us faster. That speed goes into your product.

ARCHITECTURE

We own the technical decisions. Not just the implementation — the structure, the patterns, and the calls that are hard to reverse.

QA

We test what we build before it goes near your customers. Not because we have to. Because shipping broken code is not something we do.

MAINTENANCE & SECURITY

Monitoring, updates, and security patches applied before you have to ask for them. We have been running Inboxroad’s platform since 2017.

PRODUCT THINKING

This is what most development partners skip. Software is about what goes in and what comes out — a business problem in, value for a real customer out. We sit close enough to your product to see what it could do next. We bring those ideas to the table. You decide which ones to act on.

Not a project

A project ends. A partnership doesn’t.

A PROJECT

A project has a start date and an end date. When it ends, the agency moves on. You’re left with something that worked at launch and slowly accumulates technical debt while your business keeps moving.

A PARTNERSHIP

A partnership has no end date by design. We’re invested in what happens to your product six months from now, not just whether the sprint delivered.

The model

One monthly commitment. Everything included.

Django Web Studio works on a monthly retainer. One fee covers development, architecture, QA, maintenance, and security. There are no hourly rates, no project budgets, and no end date built into the arrangement. The work continues for as long as the product needs it.

We stopped billing by the hour because it was the wrong incentive for both sides. When you pay hourly, you watch the clock. We watch the clock. Nobody is thinking about your business.

The fee is set based on your product’s complexity. We review the codebase, agree a monthly rate, and start. It covers development, QA, architecture, maintenance, and security.

See how a typical month works →

No surprise invoices. No scope arguments mid-sprint. Minimum commitment: 12 months.

What this looks like

A rhythm you can rely on.

  1. 1.We review what has been built, discuss what matters most to the business right now, and agree what comes next. You set the priorities. We plan the work.
  2. 2.We build, test, and check in as decisions come up. Nothing ships without QA. You see progress before the month ends.
  3. 3.We ship what was agreed. On time and working. If something changes mid-cycle, we talk about it before we build it, not after.
  4. 4.We review what we learned and plan the next cycle. The product gets smarter. The team gets faster. The backlog gets shorter.

This repeats. The product gets better every month.

Boundaries

We own the technical layer. You own the business.

Your business. Your customers. Your sales. Your positioning. We don’t take those over.

We bring ideas about what to build next. You decide what actually gets built. That’s the right balance.

Good fit

This works best if your product is already part of how your business makes money.

You run a digital business whose revenue depends on your product. You don’t have a full internal product team. You want a partner, not a vendor.

It doesn’t work if your website is a cost centre rather than a revenue driver. That’s not a judgement. It’s just not what we’re built for.

Our longest client relationship is with Inboxroad. We have been running their platform since 2017. That is what it looks like when this model works.

Talk to us about your product.

The fastest way to find out if Product Partnership is the right model for you is a 30-minute call. No pitch. We look at your product, your situation, and tell you honestly whether this fits.

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