K15K15 Labs

Finally.Software,handled.

A team you trust, building whatever you decide - in your accounts, owned by you. No hiring, no HR, no payroll. One monthly price, one point of contact.

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$7,500/mo
One price, all-in
3–5 weeks
To a team, working
Zero
Hiring · HR · payroll
01Whatever's on your roadmap

You decide. It gets built.

You set the priorities; the team builds them. A Technical Lead holds every change to your standards - so you never have to wonder whether it was done right.
01

Automation

Internal workflows, ops tooling, batch jobs, and scripts that move data between the systems you already pay for.

02

Orchestration

Multi-step processes wired across services, queues, and APIs. Reliable, observable, and built to be debugged.

03

Agentic workflows

Production AI agents and tool-calling pipelines that solve real business problems - not demos.

04

Production-grade web

Payments, integrations, dashboards, customer-facing apps - shipped in your stack and held to your standards before it lands.

02What you can stop worrying about

Everything's handled.

No recruiting. No HR. No payroll. No freelancer roulette. No wondering if the code is any good. Every pod ships with the people and the guarantees that make software simply handled.

You never wonder if the code is good.

A Technical Lead holds every change to your standards - owning technical direction against your strategy, roadmap, and spec, and reviewing every pull request before it ships. AI accelerates the work; a person you trust guarantees the quality.

Your standardsEvery changeFully reviewed

One point of contact.

A dedicated Pod Owner plans the rhythm, runs the standups, and owns the weekly report - so you talk to one person, never a crowd.

A team that keeps building.

AI-native engineers working under a Technical Lead - so progress never stalls on a single hire.

You always know where things stand.

Planning, build, review, and a written report every week. No black box, no chasing updates.

You own everything, from day one.

NDA and a comprehensive MSA - with IP ownership and talent protection inline - readable on this site before you sign. Nothing to claw back, nothing locked away.

03Pricing

One number. No surprises.

Base pod
$7,500/ month, all-in

A capable engineering team for one monthly price. No setup fees, no surprises. Cancel monthly. ACH preferred.

  • 1 AI-native developer
  • A Technical Lead on your standards
  • Every change reviewed before it ships
  • A dedicated Pod Owner
  • A written report every week
  • You own all of it
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Additional developer
+$6,490/ dev / month

Add up to four more AI-native developers to a pod. At six total, a second pod opens automatically - Pod Owner and Technical Lead included.

Sample math
  • 1 dev pod$7,500/mo
  • 3 dev pod$20,480/mo
  • 5 dev pod (full)$33,460/mo

We confirm role fit before any plan change. Added without a hiring cycle.

04What it feels like

A team in weeks. Handled from then on.

From first call to a team that's working in 3–5 weeks. Then software just gets built, week after week, without you managing any of it.
  1. 1
    Engage

    One call, then the paperwork you can actually read.

    A 30-minute call to confirm fit, work type, and scale. Then NDA, then the MSA (one comprehensive agreement) - both readable on this site before you sign.

  2. 2
    Onboard

    Your team, assembled and wired into your accounts.

    We assemble your Pod Owner, Technical Lead, and the AI-native developers your roadmap needs - then wire in your code, accounts, environments, and access. Everything lives in your world, not ours.

  3. 3
    Operate

    A team quietly shipping, every week.

    Planning, build, a Technical Lead reviewing every change against your standards, and a written report every Friday. Add a developer when the roadmap demands it - no hiring cycle.

One point of contact. Who speaks tech.

No escalation chains, no ticket queues, no managing five different contractors - and no bouncing between a business contact and a technical one. Your Pod Owner comes from an engineering background, so one person streamlines every conversation and coordinates the rest of the pod behind the scenes.

You & your CTOPod Owner

One point of contact - from an engineering background

Because your Pod Owner is an engineer, one person handles everything: turning your roadmap into the plan, running the cadence and the weekly report, and talking architecture and trade-offs with your CTO. You never bounce between people.

Pod OwnerTechnical Lead

Coordinated for you, behind the scenes

Your Pod Owner coordinates the Technical Lead - who reviews every change against your standards - and the developers, so the whole pod moves as one and you never manage individuals.

How we stack up

K15 Labs vs. how you're hiring today.

For one-off work, pick a freelancer - we'll say so. For long-term staff aug, agency retainers, or hiring in-house, here's why K15 Labs is the cleaner deal.

FreelancerWhen a freelancer is right

Pick a freelancer when the work is one-off.

  • The task fits in 4 weeks or less.
  • You can fully define the scope up front.
  • Nobody needs to read the PRs after you sign off.

Right call for: a landing-page rebuild, a migration script, a discrete plugin job.

Staff augWhat you're really buying

Staff aug rents you a body.

  • One developer, nobody reviewing their work - quality lives or dies on a single hire.
  • No Pod Owner. You coordinate, you handle swaps, you manage the handoff. When they leave, the context leaves with them.
  • Typical band ~$8k–$14k/mo per dev, often with a 12-month lock-in - and none of the review or coordination that keeps you out of the weeds.

Same monthly band as a K15 Labs base pod. Without the Technical Lead guaranteeing quality, the Pod Owner handling the day-to-day, or anyone keeping the work continuous when people change.

AgencyWhat you're really buying

An agency sells you the project and keeps the keys.

  • The code, the accounts, and the logins live with them - not you.
  • Every change is a quote. Predictability runs in their favor, not yours.
  • Leaving means a rebuild. Lock-in is a feature for them, not a bug.

Fine for a one-off, fixed-scope build. The wrong shape for an ongoing roadmap, where everything should already be yours.

In-house hireWhat you're really buying

One US senior is six figures and three months. For the same ownership.

  • $225k–$330k fully loaded year one - salary, benefits, recruiting, ramp.
  • 42 days to fill, ~3 months to full output. About 40% of US engineers leave inside year one - that risk lives with you.
  • You get the same code ownership with a K15 Labs pod. Hiring in-house buys you the same thing, slower and more expensive.

Same code, same ownership, three times the cost and twelve weeks of waiting. There is no version of the math where this wins on value.

K15 LabsWhat you get

K15 Labs is for the work that doesn't end.

  • You never wonder if the code is good - a Technical Lead holds every change to your standards and reviews every PR before it ships.
  • Everything lives in your code and your accounts from day one. You own it all, nothing to claw back.
  • You change priorities whenever you want, and scale up or down without a hiring cycle. When someone changes, the next person picks up exactly where they left off.
  • One predictable monthly price. One point of contact. Pod Owner and Technical Lead included.
From $7,500/moOperational in 3–5 weeks
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FAQ

Answers, not pitches.

Everything here is on the record and matches the contracts you can read on this site.

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Certainty. A capable engineering team that is always working on what you decide, without you ever hiring, managing, or retaining anyone. Underneath, that team is made of engineers fluent in modern AI tooling - which lets them ship more, faster - and a Technical Lead who reviews every change before it ships, so you never have to wonder if the code is any good. You buy the outcome; the AI and the review are just how we guarantee it.

Book the strategy call.

30 minutes, no commitment. We confirm fit, scope the work, and walk you through the contracts - including how you own everything we build from day one.

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