What is forcing your timeline?
Every engagement works the same way
A fixed-price assessment of one application or one team, delivered as a written report your management can act on.
For each phase of the work that follows, quoted from the report and valid for 90 days. Never an hourly rate.
If the assessment concludes you should not do the work, or should not do it with us, you pay nothing for it.
Most engineering work is sold as a rate and a rough estimate, which puts the risk of the unknown on you. That is why it overruns. We sell it as two fixed prices, and the first one exists to make the second one honest: the assessment finds what nobody can see from outside, and it is why we can hold a fixed price afterwards. How an engagement works.
You get the engineer who does the work
Twenty years building systems where being wrong was expensive: a real-time credit bureau at 99.99% availability, healthcare, payments, and an event-driven platform on Elixir and Kafka. Reid Morrison does the work himself, from the assessment to the last phase. You are not sold a principal engineer and handed a junior.
The proof is public. He maintains 11 open-source Ruby libraries with over 81 million combined downloads, and shipped new versions of four of them in July 2026 using agentic workflows. You can read those diffs, and judge the increment size, the ordering and the test discipline, before you hire anyone. See the libraries.
AI-assisted, with restraint. The failure mode with AI tooling on a production system is not that it is too slow. It is that it is too fast. The value is knowing which step happens first and how little to change in any one iteration, and that comes from having done this before on systems where a bad deploy had consequences.
Built to pass your vendor review
The agreement is with Reid Morrison Inc., a Florida corporation, corp-to-corp, with liability capped at fees paid and the AI tooling disclosed in the statement of work. Where the work happens is your choice: our own managed machine, your Anthropic tenancy, or a virtual desktop you supply, on which your source code is never downloaded at all. How we work with your code, written for the reviewer your CISO forwards it to.
Who this is for
Mid-market software companies, weighted toward SaaS, with a business-critical application and a problem that already has a date on it: an audit, a blocked enterprise deal, a launch or seasonal peak, a contract with a service level in it, or a renewal of the AI seats. Mostly Rails, Ruby and Elixir.