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After developer layoffs

Reduce development costs. Keep the roadmap.

Companies that have reduced their engineering teams to save money still have a product to ship. AIPOS OÜ delivers defined scopes at a fixed price with a multi-agent system that builds, tests and documents production code around the clock. The cost is known before work starts, and it ends when the scope is delivered.

Fixed price, no payrollTested code delivered as a packageStarts within days, not a hiring cycle
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The situation

The team is smaller. The backlog is not.

Cost reduction removes capacity faster than it removes commitments. The remaining engineers inherit the roadmap, the on-call rota and the hiring freeze at the same time.

Commitments

Customers were promised features by the old team

Contracts, renewals and partnerships depend on a roadmap that was planned for a larger team. The dates did not move when the headcount did.

Burnout

The remaining engineers carry everything

A smaller team spends its time on maintenance and support. New development stops, and the people who stayed start looking elsewhere.

Re-hiring

Rebuilding the team later costs more than it saved

A hiring freeze followed by a hiring scramble pays recruitment fees, ramp-up time and higher salaries, often for the same roles that were cut.

What you get, compared with the alternative

What you get After developer layoffs

Development you pay for by scope, not by the month

Order the roadmap items that matter as fixed-price scopes. Your remaining team keeps ownership of the codebase and reviews the delivered code; the building happens in AIPOS OÜ's own environment, never in your systems.

  • A written scope description and a fixed price before any commitment
  • A trial build within 72 hours of written confirmation: a real roadmap item, tested and documented
  • The full scope at one fixed price, with the trial price deducted
  • Tested code packages your team can run, review and own
  • Architecture and specification by AIPOS OÜ, agreed with you before any code is written, so your senior people are not pulled into design work
  • No salaries, employer taxes, tooling seats, or notice periods
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Compared with Re-hiring or contracting by the hour

Variable cost with a fixed overhead

Hiring back means recruitment, onboarding and payroll before output; hourly contractors bring back the same monthly cost structure that was cut. A fixed-price scope has a known cost and a known end, and leaves your team in control of the codebase.

  • Recruitment fees and ramp-up before output
  • Monthly cost returns with the headcount
  • Hourly contractors own no result
  • Notice periods when the work is done

Instead of hiring developers: the full comparison

Hiring versus ordering

24/7 from sign-off

Your project starts. It never stops.

The roadmap keeps moving at the pace of a full team, without the payroll. From sign-off, an autonomous development system works on each scope 24/7 — no handovers, no waiting for the next sprint. Months of team output, delivered in days.

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Starts within hours

Work begins within hours of your written scope sign-off. No recruiting, no onboarding, no waiting for a sprint to open.

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Runs around the clock

Autonomous and continuous until delivery: no nights off, no weekends, no handovers, no pauses.

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Progress you can see daily

Every change is tested and committed in AIPOS OÜ's own secure development environment. You receive a written progress report every day, and tested code of your product is delivered at agreed milestones — in full after final payment.

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Architecture agreed first

The architecture and specification are designed in-house by AIPOS OÜ and agreed with you in writing before any code is written.

Choose this if you need serious development capacity fast, without hiring a team.

The process

From roadmap item to merged, tested code.

Your team stays in charge of the codebase. We deliver into it, in writing, against a scope you confirmed.

01

Pick the roadmap item

Send the project description, technology, scope and deadline. You receive a written scope description for a trial build.

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Trial build, 72 hours

After written confirmation, the item is delivered within 72 hours as tested, documented code with full IP. Fixed price 9,900 euros.

03

Fixed quote for the rest

Your team reviews the delivered package. If you continue, the remaining scope is quoted at one fixed price; the trial price is deducted in full.

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Deliver in cycles

The system builds, tests, reviews and documents in 24/7 cycles. Your team integrates and owns the result.

Trust & delivery standards

Your systems stay untouched. Your product arrives tested.

All development happens in AIPOS OÜ's own secure environment. We never connect to your code hosting, servers, cloud accounts or development environment, so no outside party enters your systems and your supplier and security risk stays small. You receive tested code as a clean package, not half-finished changes in your main branch, and you follow progress every day without watching any technical tools.

Code quality

How the code is built and handed over

  • Tests and independent review. Every change passes the automated test suite and an independent review agent before it is merged.
  • Documentation, tests, history. You receive the documentation, the tests and the complete git history of your product's code.
  • No dependency on our tools. Code and intellectual property transfer to you without any dependency on AIPOS OÜ's tooling: the product builds, tests and runs from the delivered package with publicly available tools.
  • 30 days of free fixes. Defects found within 30 days of hand-over are fixed free of charge, within the written scope description.
Project delivery

How you verify the work without seeing our environment

  • Specification first. A written specification with measurable acceptance criteria, prepared by AIPOS OÜ and confirmed by you before development starts.
  • A written report every day. By e-mail: what was done, which tests passed, where the work stands against the criteria, the next step, and whether anything needs your answer.
  • Preview at every milestone. A password-protected preview link where you try your product working, at every milestone.
  • Code you can audit. At every milestone, a test report and the product's code at that point as a file package: run it yourself or have an independent developer audit it. The complete code follows final payment.
  • Written acceptance. You accept in writing against the agreed criteria. 50% is paid on scope confirmation and 50% only after acceptance; then 30 days of free defect fixing within the written scope. All communication is by e-mail.

Company details, security, warranty, payment and VAT terms in one place: Trust & delivery standards. The binding wording is in the terms of service.

Prices

Two steps, both at a fixed price.

You see the price before any work starts. There is no hourly billing and no staff rental. The trial build is a real piece of your plan, and its price comes off the main project in full.

Step 1 · Trial build
€9,900fixed · excl. VAT

A real part of your development plan, delivered within 72 hours of your written scope confirmation as a preview link, a test report and a code package. Full intellectual property to you. 50% on sign-off, 50% after written acceptance; 30 days of free defect fixing. Deducted in full from the main project.

Founding clients
€4,900first three clients · excl. VAT

The first three clients receive the trial build for 4,900 euros in exchange for a public reference once the work is delivered.

Step 2 · Main project
Fixedquoted in writing · excl. VAT

The whole scope at one fixed price, delivered in days and weeks. Every change is tested and committed. Every project is built on a software architecture and technical specification designed in-house by AIPOS OÜ — reviewed and agreed with you in writing before development begins.

A good fit when

The roadmap survived, the headcount did not

  • A product with committed features and a reduced engineering team
  • A codebase your remaining engineers can review and own
  • Roadmap items that can be written down and tested against
  • Any stack; any country; remote only
Not a fit when

You need people on call, not scopes delivered

  • Outsourced support, on-call or maintenance by the hour
  • Staff augmentation or renting developers
  • Small, isolated one-off tasks
  • Work that requires calls or meetings

Questions

Questions after a reduction in force.

Can an outside system work in a codebase our team still owns?

Yes. That is the normal case. You send a copy of the relevant code as a file package; AIPOS OÜ works on it in its own environment and never connects to your systems. You receive tested code as a package at every milestone, and your team reviews and integrates it. The architecture and specification are designed in-house by AIPOS OÜ and agreed with you in writing, so your engineers are not pulled into design work they no longer have time for.

How does the cost compare with keeping the developers?

A fixed-price scope has no salary, employer taxes, tooling seats, recruitment fees or notice period attached, and it ends when the scope is delivered. We do not publish comparative figures, because they depend on your market and roles; the trial build gives you a measured data point on your own backlog for 9,900 euros.

How quickly can you start?

You receive a written scope description after sending the form. The trial build is delivered within 72 hours of your written confirmation of that scope. There is no hiring cycle.

Will the code be maintainable by our smaller team?

Every change is tested, documented and delivered to you as a package with its history, and the architecture is designed in-house by AIPOS OÜ and agreed with you in writing before anything is built. The deliverable is designed to be owned by your team, not by us.

Can we use this for maintenance and support work?

No. The service delivers defined scopes at fixed prices. It is not an hourly maintenance, on-call or support arrangement.

What about our data and security obligations?

Each project runs in a separate, disposable environment inside AIPOS OÜ's infrastructure, with isolated containers and a locked-down network, and AIPOS OÜ never connects to your systems. Every delivery is scanned and reviewed by an independent review agent. The work runs through commercial AI model APIs; which providers and under which terms is set out in the contract.

Read before you decide

Guides for this situation

Guide · 8 min read

How to keep shipping after developer layoffs

Triage the roadmap, protect the remaining team, decide which work to buy as fixed-price scopes, and avoid paying twice for the same capacity.

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The real cost of an in-house developer

Acquisition, employment overheads, ramp-up, management, tooling, utilisation and exit: the full cost structure, and how to compare it with a fixed-price result.

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The threat model for autonomous coding agents building a client's software and the controls that address it, from isolation and zero access to client systems to scanned deliveries and provider terms.

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Send the roadmap item your customers are waiting for.

Describe it in the form. You receive a written scope description for a trial build with a fixed price and a 72-hour delivery.

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