Hiring versus ordering
Instead of hiring developers, order the software.
Hiring buys the possibility of software: people who may, after recruiting and onboarding, build what you need at a cost that is known only in retrospect. Ordering a fixed-price scope buys the software itself: tested, documented code delivered to you, at a price agreed before work starts, delivered in days.
Side by side
What each option actually costs you.
The comparison is qualitative on purpose. Salaries, fees and durations vary by market and role; the structure of the costs does not.
| Dimension | Hiring developers | Ordering from Ship in Hours |
|---|---|---|
| Time to first output | Sourcing, interviews, offer, notice period, onboarding. Output starts after the hire is settled in. | Written scope after your request; trial build delivered within 72 hours of written confirmation. |
| What you pay for | Salary, employer taxes, benefits, equipment, tooling seats, recruitment fees, paid absence. Paid whether or not features ship. | One fixed price per scope, known before work starts. The trial build price is deducted in full from the main project. |
| Price certainty | Open-ended. A project's cost is the team's monthly cost multiplied by however long it takes. | Fixed for the confirmed scope. Scope changes are agreed in writing before they are built. |
| Management load | Hiring managers, one-to-ones, performance reviews, stand-ups, retention. Your senior people spend time on people. | All communication in writing. Architecture and specification are designed in-house by AIPOS OÜ and agreed with you in writing. You confirm the scope, read the daily report and accept against the criteria. |
| Architecture ownership | Depends on who you managed to hire and how long they stay. | Designed in-house by AIPOS OÜ, agreed with you in writing before any code is built, and delivered with the documentation. |
| Quality control | Whatever review culture the team establishes, under deadline pressure. | Every change must pass the test suite and an independent review agent before merge. Every outgoing change is scanned. |
| Working hours | Business hours, holidays, sick leave, time zones. | Starts within hours of sign-off and runs 24/7 until delivery: no nights off, no weekends, no handovers. Automatic continuation and a self-healing watchdog. |
| When the project ends | The headcount remains, or redundancy costs follow. | Nothing to unwind. The code, documentation and intellectual property have been delivered to you. |
| Intellectual property | Owned by the employer under employment contracts; depends on contractor agreements for freelancers. | Full intellectual property in the deliverables is transferred to you; the platform and methodology stay with AIPOS OÜ. |
| Best suited for | Long-term roles that need a person: product ownership, on-call, customer-facing engineering, work that cannot be specified. | Large, specifiable scopes with a deadline: subsystems, platforms, MVPs, roadmap items. |
24/7 from sign-off
Your project starts. It never stops.
A hire starts producing after sourcing, interviews, a notice period and onboarding. An ordered scope starts within hours of written sign-off and is worked on 24/7 until delivery — no nights off, no weekends, no handovers. Months of team output, delivered in days.
Starts within hours
Work begins within hours of your written scope sign-off. No recruiting, no onboarding, no waiting for a sprint to open.
Runs around the clock
Autonomous and continuous until delivery: no nights off, no weekends, no handovers, no pauses.
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.
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 claim and the proof
Why we say: order it instead of hiring for it.
Measured in our own production systems, the system's throughput exceeds the combined work of tens of developers.
The multi-agent system that builds for clients is the same one that has been running 24/7 cycles on AIPOS OÜ's own production systems. Measured there, its output exceeds what tens of developers produce together. We do not turn those internal measurements into marketing numbers: they are specific to our codebases and would not be independently checkable from outside.
24 hours of the system equals four to eight weeks of a small software company, and the trial build proves it on your code.
That is the published, repeatable claim. The way to verify it is not a slide deck but a trial build: a real piece of your plan, delivered within 72 hours of written scope confirmation for a fixed 9,900 euros, deducted in full if you continue. Judge the result on the preview link and in the delivered package.
Who does the work
No subcontractors. No outsourcing. No freelancers.
All development is carried out by AIPOS OÜ's own proprietary delivery system — our own code and tooling, working with leading commercial AI models under business terms. Your project never leaves our hands.
What ordering looks like
Three decisions, all in writing.
There is no hiring pipeline to run. The sequence below is the entire engagement model.
Confirm a scope
Describe the project in the form. You receive a written scope description for a trial build and confirm it in writing.
Judge the trial build
Within 72 hours you have a working preview, a test report and tested, documented code as a package. You decide on evidence, not on interviews.
Accept a fixed quote
The full scope at one fixed price, with the trial price deducted. Delivery in days and weeks, every change tested and committed.
Hire with evidence, if at all
With a working codebase delivered, you can decide which long-term roles you genuinely need and hire for those.
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.
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.
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.
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.
The first three clients receive the trial build for 4,900 euros in exchange for a public reference once the work is delivered.
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.
Questions
Questions about hiring versus ordering.
Is this staff augmentation under another name?
No. Staff augmentation places people in your team, billed by the hour, and you manage them. We deliver a defined scope at a fixed price, in writing, with the architecture and specification designed in-house by AIPOS OÜ and agreed with you in writing. There is nobody to manage.
Does ordering instead of hiring mean losing control of the code?
The opposite. You confirm a written specification with acceptance criteria, receive a written report every day, try the product on a preview link at every milestone and receive the code as a tested package that your team reviews and integrates through its own process. Full intellectual property transfers to you; the platform and methodology stay with us.
What do you mean by the system outperforming tens of developers?
It is a statement about measured throughput in AIPOS OÜ's own production systems, where the multi-agent system has been running 24/7 cycles for the company's own products. We do not publish those internal figures as marketing numbers. The published, checkable claim is that 24 hours of the system's work equals four to eight weeks of a small software company, and the trial build lets you measure it on your own code.
When is hiring the better choice?
When you need people embedded in your organisation for the long term: product ownership, on-call duty, customer-facing engineering, or work that cannot be written down as a scope. Many clients do both: order the large, specifiable scopes and hire for the roles that need a person.
What does it cost compared with a developer's salary?
We do not publish salary comparisons, because they depend on your market and roles. The prices here are fixed and public: 9,900 euros for the trial build, deducted in full from the main project, which is quoted at one fixed price. There are no employer taxes, tooling seats, recruitment fees or notice periods attached.
How fast can work start compared with a hire?
You receive a written scope description after sending the form, and the trial build is delivered within 72 hours of your written confirmation. A hire starts producing after sourcing, interviews, a notice period and onboarding.
Read before you decide
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Describe the project in the form. You receive a written scope description for a trial build at a fixed price, delivered within 72 hours of your confirmation.