- Agency-Only
- White Label Delivery
- Time Zone Aligned
- NDA - Ready
Stellites is the white-label custom software team behind digital agencies whose clients need a web portal to automate a manual process, connect disconnected systems like ERP and inventory platforms, or give different stakeholders their own view into shared business data. Every project starts with a free BRD, SOW, and technical architecture plan, so you quote your client a fixed price built on real integration and infrastructure decisions, not a guess. Stellites builds on Node.js, Next.js, React, Angular, Python, ASP.NET, Laravel, and more, across AWS, Google Cloud, and your client's hosting environment of choice, and stays on for ongoing feature development once the system is live. You stay in front. We handle the architecture, the integrations, and the build behind the scenes.
Agency Owner, UK
Custom software development is not just a build problem. It is a trust problem between two agencies who never fully aligned on what success looks like before the contract was signed. Whether you subcontract to another dev agency or try to manage a freelancer through something this complex, the same structural failures keep repeating. And the cost shows up as your credibility with the client, not just a line item.
Most outsourced software engagements start without a real definition of success, which means both sides quietly define it their own way and discover the gap only when a deliverable gets rejected. A fixed price without a real specification behind it is not a fixed price. It is a disagreement waiting for a deadline.
Your client's real process, the one running today across spreadsheets, email threads, and someone's memory of how approvals actually move, has to be understood correctly before a line of code gets written. A vendor who only reads the brief builds something that technically works and practically gets ignored, and the project quietly gets written off as a failed experiment.
The experienced developer on the discovery call, the one whose portfolio closed the deal, is rarely the one actually writing the system. What gets built is handed to whoever was available that week, and your agency finds out the gap exists only when the delivered work does not match what was promised.
Requirement drift is normal on any real software project. What is not normal is a vendor who turns cold the moment a clarification threatens their margin. Every follow-up question starts getting answered with "that was not in scope," and the collaborative relationship you signed up for becomes an adversarial one.
A number quoted off a vague conversation is not a fixed price. It is a starting point with change orders waiting behind it. By the time the project ships, the invoice reflects everything the original scope conveniently did not mention, and your agency is the one explaining the overage to a client who was promised a number.
Who actually owns the codebase, where it lives, and whether it sits in your repository or the vendor's is a question most agencies never ask until a dispute forces the answer. By then, the system your client depends on may be something you paid for but cannot actually take anywhere else.
A subcontracted vendor slipping their internal timeline does not stay their problem. It becomes the date you promised your client, the one you now have to walk back with no real explanation you are willing to give them. Your agency absorbs the reputational cost of a delay you did not cause and could not see coming.
Once a vendor is the only one who understands how the system actually works, undocumented and unexplained to anyone else, your agency has no real leverage left. Every future change, every fix, every new feature runs through the one team that holds all the context, at whatever price they decide to charge for it.
We provide the custom software delivery system that protects your client relationships, your margin, and your credibility on every project. Because a fixed price should not come with fine print you discover after the contract is signed.
Most custom software requests are not startup pitches. They are a business trying to stop running critical work through spreadsheets, email chains, and systems that were never built to talk to each other. Stellites builds across that full range, from process automation to full SaaS products, under one agency relationship instead of a chain of subcontracted vendors.
A manual process running on spreadsheets and email gets mapped, understood, and turned into software that actually matches how the business works, not a generic form-and-database approximation of it. Approval chains, escalation logic, and audit trails are built to reflect the real workflow, so the client's team trusts the system enough to actually stop using the spreadsheet.
Connecting a new portal to an existing ERP or inventory platform is where most custom software projects actually succeed or fail, not in the interface. Integrations are scoped and architected as a core part of the project from day one, not bolted on after the interface is already built, so data stays synchronized instead of becoming one more disconnected source of truth.
Internal teams, vendors, field staff, and customers often need access to the same underlying data, but never the same view of it and never the same permissions. Role-based access is built into the architecture from the start, so the right person sees exactly what they need and nothing they should not.
Beyond process automation specifically, Stellites builds general-purpose custom web applications and internal admin dashboards on Node.js, Next.js, React, Angular, Python, ASP.NET, and Laravel, matched to whatever stack your client's environment already requires or your agency prefers to standardize on.
An inherited system from a previous vendor, agency, or internal team is audited and given an honest assessment of what is salvageable versus what needs rebuilding, documented before any new work begins. Your agency can say yes to a client whose existing system needs rescuing, not just to greenfield builds.
For clients building an actual subscription product rather than an internal system, Stellites handles multi-tenancy, user management, and subscription billing integration through partners like Stripe, built on the same architectural discipline as every other project this page covers.
Systems handling business-critical data, inventory records, financial workflows, or stakeholder information are built with access control, data security, and audit logging as architecture decisions, not afterthoughts added once a client asks about compliance.
A custom system rarely stops evolving once it launches. New features, integration updates, and platform changes are available as an ongoing engagement, so your client's software keeps pace with how their business actually changes instead of freezing at version one.
When custom software delivery is built right, your clients get systems that actually match how their business runs, integrations that hold instead of quietly drifting out of sync, and a project that closes without a dispute over what was owed. This is what white-label custom web app and SaaS development looks like when Stellites runs behind you.
The process gets mapped correctly before development starts, not approximated from a two-line brief. Approval chains, exceptions, and edge cases reflect how the client's team really operates, which means the system gets adopted instead of quietly abandoned for the spreadsheet everyone trusted before.
ERP, inventory, and CRM connections are architected as core scope from day one, then tested against real data volumes before go-live. Your client's systems stay synchronized months into the engagement, not just in the demo that shipped it.
A 15+ year Delivery Manager reviews architecture and code quality against the approved SOW before anything ships. Scope disagreements are resolved against a written document, not a memory of a conversation from six weeks ago. Your agency stops mediating disputes and starts presenting finished work.
One project or several running in parallel across different stacks, the delivery system scales with your pipeline. No emergency hiring, no framework knowledge gaps between Node.js and ASP.NET, no founder pulled into managing a build they cannot fully evaluate. Your agency quotes custom software work confidently, knowing the scope, the integrations, and the margin will all hold.
Of projects pass client review with the workflow matching the business process as actually run, not as assumed.
Average reduction in post-launch integration issues compared to agencies using freelancers or generic dev shops.
Agency and end-client retention rate across active engagements, because systems built right do not get quietly abandoned.
Custom web app and SaaS projects delivered across active agency partnerships to date.
We partner with agencies of every size and specialization, as long as getting your client's business process right, not just the interface, matters to you.
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Most agencies get burned by custom software quotes because the vendor never actually understood the business process being built. Stellites runs every project through a structured scoping process before a single number is put in front of your client, so the fixed price you quote is one both sides can actually stand behind.
Custom software and systems integration work has a different failure mode than most development projects. The risk is not usually the code. It is misunderstanding the business process, mismapping data between systems, or losing track of an integration once it drifts out of sync months after launch. Stellites has built AI into every stage of this specific risk, so your project starts from an accurate understanding of the business and stays reliable long after it ships.
Before any architecture plan is written, Stellites uses Claude to analyze the actual artifacts a business process already produces: exported spreadsheets, sample data, existing forms, and email threads describing how approvals really move. This surfaces the exceptions, edge cases, and informal rules that never make it into a client's verbal description of their own process, the same gap that causes most custom software to get built technically correct and practically ignored. The output feeds directly into the BRD, so the specification your client approves reflects how the business actually runs, not an idealized version of it.
Your client's system gets built around their real workflow from the start, including the exceptions nobody thought to mention on the discovery call. That is what determines whether the team actually adopts the system or quietly goes back to the spreadsheet.
Connecting a new system to an existing ERP or inventory platform usually means reconciling two different naming conventions, data structures, and years of undocumented business logic. Stellites uses AI-assisted semantic mapping to understand that a field named CUST_NM in a legacy system corresponds to customer.full_name in the new schema, correctly handling abbreviations, encoding inconsistencies, and domain-specific terminology that a literal field-by-field mapping would miss entirely. For direct API generation from existing database schemas, tools like DreamFactory expose REST endpoints from the client's existing SQL Server, Oracle, PostgreSQL, or MySQL database without requiring the underlying data to move, which matters for clients whose compliance requirements restrict where sensitive business data can live.
Integrations connect correctly the first time instead of surfacing mismatched data three weeks after go-live. The mapping logic is understood and documented, not guessed at and patched when something breaks.
When Stellites takes over a system a previous vendor or an internal team built, AI-assisted codebase scanning and dependency mapping produce a complete inventory of the existing system, including undocumented stored procedures, unused code paths, and hidden dependencies between components that were never written down anywhere. This is the same class of analysis enterprise modernization programs use to avoid the most common failure mode in takeover work: strong development capability applied to a system nobody actually understood first. Claude Code is used to answer specific diagnostic questions directly against the inherited codebase, tracing exactly what a piece of undocumented logic does and why it exists before anyone decides whether to keep it, rebuild it, or remove it.
Your agency gets an honest, fast assessment of what is actually salvageable in an inherited system, instead of a vendor who either rebuilds everything unnecessarily or breaks something they never understood in the first place.
Cursor and Claude Code handle architecture-level, multi-file work across the full range of technologies this page covers: scaffolding a Node.js or Python API layer, generating correctly structured React or Angular frontend components, or building out ASP.NET and C# business logic for a client already standardized on a Microsoft stack. GitHub Copilot handles the inline, moment-to-moment suggestions during active development. None of this replaces the architectural judgment that determines whether an integration-heavy system holds up under real business use. AI writes the boilerplate, the CRUD scaffolding, and the repetitive patterns. The developer decides how the data model should actually be structured and where a generated suggestion needs to be rejected.
Your project moves through the mechanical parts of development faster, regardless of which stack it requires, without sacrificing the architectural judgment that determines whether the system is still reliable a year after launch.
Integrations that work perfectly at launch can silently drift out of sync months later, when a source system changes a field, a batch job fails quietly, or two systems disagree about the current state of the same record. Stellites uses AI-assisted reconciliation that continuously compares source and target data after go-live, generating discrepancy reports when the two systems disagree rather than waiting for a client to notice their inventory count is wrong. This is the ongoing counterpart to the integration mapping done during the build, and it is what keeps a system's data trustworthy long after the initial delivery.
Data integrity issues get caught and flagged automatically, before they turn into a client asking why their dashboard and their actual warehouse do not agree with each other.
Most technical documentation is accurate on the day it is written and stale within months, because updating it after every change requires a discipline most teams do not maintain. Stellites uses AI to generate and maintain API documentation directly from the system's actual code and schema, with governance tooling checking that documentation stays aligned to what the system actually does rather than what it did at initial handover. Architecture decisions, integration logic, and system behavior are documented as living artifacts connected to the codebase itself, not a static PDF that describes a version of the system that no longer exists six months later.
Any developer, at Stellites or anywhere else, can pick up the system months or years later and understand it accurately, not read documentation that quietly stopped matching reality after the third update nobody wrote down.
No standing retainer required. Choose the model that matches how your agency actually takes on custom software work.
Choose Fixed Price when you want a defined scope, a defined architecture, and a number your client can sign off on with confidence. This is the right model for the majority of custom software projects.
Every Fixed Price engagement starts with the free BRD, SOW, and technical architecture plan described earlier. Your client's actual business process gets mapped, the integration and infrastructure decisions get made deliberately, and the price you quote is built on that specification, not a guess. Code ownership terms are confirmed in the SOW before development starts, and source code lives in your agency's repository from the first commit. UI/UX design is included in the quote only if your client needs it.
Choose Hourly when the scope is still moving, the project is exploratory, or you need a developer for ongoing integration maintenance rather than a single defined build.
Hourly engagements suit work that does not fit a fixed scope cleanly: an MVP where requirements are expected to evolve, a legacy system takeover where the real scope is not knowable until someone actually looks at the codebase, or ongoing reconciliation and integration maintenance for a system already live. You get a developer matched to the project's technical requirements, billed for the hours actually worked, with no obligation to convert to a standing engagement.
Choose Dedicated when your client's system is not a one-time build but an actively evolving product: a SaaS product with an ongoing roadmap, or a business-critical internal system that keeps changing alongside the business it supports.
A Dedicated Developer works exclusively on your agency's custom software projects, matched to your time zone so their working hours genuinely overlap with yours, the same standing-resource model used across Stellites' other services. Rather than re-scoping and re-quoting a new developer relationship every time your client needs a new feature or integration, you get one developer who carries the business process and architecture context forward, backed by the same 15+ year Delivery Manager oversight and Complete Operational Support that runs behind every Fully Managed engagement.
Trusted by agencies worldwide who want a development partner that understands the business process first, scopes accurately, and stays through the difficult conversations, even before profitability shows up.
"Our client's entire order approval process lived across three spreadsheets and a shared inbox, and every previous developer we brought in just built a form that ignored how approvals actually moved between departments. Stellites mapped the real process before writing the architecture plan, and the exceptions that mattered, the ones nobody had thought to mention, were already in the SOW before we signed anything. The client's operations team actually uses the system now instead of quietly going back to the spreadsheet."
Agency Owner, Full-Service Digital Agency, USA
"We needed a portal that pulled live inventory data from a legacy ERP system nobody fully understood anymore. Three weeks after launch, the reconciliation monitoring Stellites built flagged a sync issue between the ERP and the new system before our client noticed a single unit was miscounted. That kind of catch is the difference between a vendor relationship and an actual technical partner."
Agency Owner, Digital Agency, UK
"We inherited a client whose internal system had been built by three different developers over five years, with zero documentation and stored procedures nobody could explain. Stellites produced a complete inventory of the codebase, including the undocumented logic, within the first week. We finally knew what we were actually dealing with before committing to a single hour of rebuild work."
Agency Owner, Enterprise Software Agency, Canada
"Our client needed a portal where vendors, internal warehouse staff, and their own customers all saw different slices of the same inventory data, with none of them able to see what the others could. Every previous quote treated this as an afterthought to bolt on later. Stellites architected the role-based access from day one, and it has held up cleanly as we have added two more stakeholder types since launch."
Agency Owner, Logistics Technology Agency, Australia
"We had been burned before by a fixed price that quietly became a much larger invoice once development started. This time, the SOW named exactly what was in scope, code ownership was confirmed before a single line was written, and when our client asked for one additional integration midway through, it came back as a documented, priced change request instead of a dispute. The number we quoted our client is the number the project actually cost."
Agency Owner, B2B Digital Agency, UAE
"Eighteen months after Stellites delivered our client's internal operations platform, we needed a different developer to add a new module while Stellites was fully booked on another project. The handover documentation was thorough enough that the new developer was productive within two days, with no need to reverse-engineer a single integration. That is not something most vendors are actually built to allow."
Agency Owner, Operations Software Agency, Singapore
"Our client's SaaS product needed continuous feature development, not a one-time build, so we moved to the Dedicated model after the first project. Having the same developer who understood the original architecture and the client's business logic meant every new feature shipped faster than the last one, instead of starting from a fresh scoping conversation every time."
Agency Owner, SaaS Product Agency, Germany
Running a complete custom development stack independently costs agencies thousands of dollars every year across AI coding tools, integration platforms, database infrastructure, and testing tools. Stellites licenses and manages every tool across your projects. Your agency pays nothing extra.
See what changes when custom software development is built to protect your client's business process and your agency's margin. We take responsibility for scoping, integration integrity, and code ownership the same way a dedicated internal team would, without the overhead of building one.
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Freelancers | In-House Hire | Competitor Agency |
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| Strategic Oversight and Leadership | Yes | No | Overheads | Inconsistent |
| Quality Assurance Before Client Handoff | Yes | Self-Managed | Self-Managed | Inconsistent |
| Developer Matched to Your Project's Tech Stack | Yes | Self-Managed | Self-Managed | No |
| Complete Handover Documentation and Code Ownership | Yes | Rarely | Self-Managed | Varies |
| Agency-Only Focus (No Direct Clients) | Yes | Poaching Risk | Poaching Risk | Poaching Risk |
| NDA and Data Security Protection | Yes | No | Yes | Varies |
| Your Launch Date Holds, Regardless of Staffing Changes | Yes | No | No | No |
| Fixed Price Scope Protection (No Hidden Change Orders) | Yes | No | Absorbed as Overhead | Varies |
| Ongoing Integration Monitoring and Data Reconciliation | Yes | No | Overheads | Varies |
| AI-Ready Team and Workflows | Yes | Inconsistent | Added Cost | Inconsistent |
| Premium Tools Included | Yes | No | Added Cost | Varies |
| One Partner for Process Automation, Integrations, and Custom Software | Yes | Rarely | Limited | Varies |
| Responsive Communication and Milestone Updates | Yes | Varies | Yes | Varies |
| Free BRD, SOW, and Architecture Plan Before Any Commitment | Yes | No | Self-Managed | Rarely |
A simple 4-step path from first call to a scoped, fixed-price custom software project running behind your agency.
Honest answers to the questions agencies ask before, during, and after bringing Stellites in for a custom web app or SaaS project.
White-label custom software development is a delivery model where Stellites builds your client's web application, portal, or SaaS product entirely under your agency brand. Every specification, deliverable, and communication goes out under your name, from the first BRD through the final handover. Stellites never contacts your client directly, and your client never learns Stellites exists.
General custom web apps, portals, and internal systems make up most of what Stellites actually delivers. SaaS products with subscription billing and multi-tenancy are one category this page covers, not the whole of it. Most requests coming through digital agencies are business process automation and systems integration work: a portal replacing a manual process, a system connecting to an existing ERP or inventory platform, or a tool giving different stakeholders their own scoped view into shared data.
No. Every document, deliverable, and communication carries your agency's name. Stellites does not brand anything, does not contact your client, and does not disclose its involvement at any stage of the project.
Never. Stellites works exclusively with digital agencies, and every engagement is white-label by design. Stellites will never approach your client, pitch competing services, or build a relationship that competes with yours.
Most freelancers and generic dev agencies quote off a short conversation and start coding. Stellites produces a free BRD, SOW, and technical architecture plan before any price is attached to a project, mapping the client's actual business process before an architecture decision gets made. A named developer, matched to the confirmed stack, is known to your agency before development starts, and a 15+ year Delivery Manager reviews architecture and code quality before anything ships.
A portal automating a manual business process, a system connecting to an existing ERP or inventory platform, a client portal serving multiple stakeholder types with different access levels, a legacy system takeover that needs an honest assessment before committing to rebuild work, and SaaS products with an ongoing development roadmap.
A developer matched to your specific project's confirmed technology stack and integration requirements. On Fixed Price and Hourly projects, that developer is matched per project. On the Dedicated model, the same developer works exclusively on your agency's custom software pipeline across projects, carrying business and architecture context forward.
No. The developer executes against the approved SOW and architecture plan. Stack selection, integration architecture, and code quality sign-off belong to the Delivery Manager, a 15+ year custom software professional. That split exists because an architecture decision made early on an integration-heavy system is expensive to reverse, and Stellites will not leave that call with the person closest to the keyboard.
A minimum of five years building inside digital agencies, verified through a custom technical test built from your actual project type, a live technical interview, and a Head of Delivery interview, not a portfolio review. Proficiency with AI-assisted development tools and integration mapping techniques is assessed in the same stage.
Yes. Day-to-day build questions and milestone updates route through the developer. The Delivery Manager is directly accessible for architecture decisions, integration risk, or escalations, since those calls should not sit with the person closest to the code.
On a Fixed Price or Hourly project, a developer is matched per project based on that project's specific requirements. If your agency wants the same developer carrying business and architecture context across an ongoing product roadmap, that is exactly what the Dedicated model exists for.
The BRD translates your client's actual business process into a specification they can read and confirm is accurate. The SOW turns that specification into deliverables, milestones, and a fixed price. The technical architecture plan documents the stack, integration approach, and infrastructure decisions the SOW alone would not capture, since those decisions are more consequential and expensive to reverse on custom software than on most projects. All three are produced before any commitment is made, because a price quoted off a vague brief is a guess, and the whole point of Fixed Price is that the number should not move once development starts.
Correct. You receive all three with no fee and no requirement to proceed. If the scope, architecture, or price does not work for your agency, you walk away with documentation you can use however you want.
Custom software quoting depends on infrastructure and integration decisions a simpler project does not. Which database fits the data model, how the system connects to an existing ERP or inventory platform, and what happens if that integration needs to scale are all decisions that change the actual cost and risk of the project. Scoping cannot stop at requirements alone here.
Any change to approved scope is documented as a formal, transparent change with its own price and timeline impact stated clearly before work continues, never absorbed silently or surfaced as a surprise on the final invoice.
Code ownership is confirmed in the SOW before development starts, not discovered during a dispute. Source code lives in your agency's repository from the first commit, not handed over only at project close.
The requirements deep dive maps the real process, the approval chains, the exceptions, the workaround everyone still uses, before any architecture decision is made. AI-assisted analysis of the client's existing spreadsheets, forms, and data exports surfaces the informal rules that never make it into a verbal description of the process. That mapping goes into the BRD, so the specification your client approves reflects reality, not an idealized version of it.
Yes, and this is the most common request coming through this page. Integration architecture is scoped as core work from day one, not bolted on after the interface is built. Semantic mapping techniques handle the reality that a legacy system's field names rarely match a new schema's naming conventions, so data gets connected correctly rather than approximately.
Ongoing reconciliation monitoring compares source and target data continuously after go-live, flagging discrepancies before your client notices a mismatch between systems. This is available as an ongoing engagement, since integrations that work perfectly at launch can still drift months later when a source system changes.
Yes. Role-based access is architected from the start as a core design decision, not an afterthought. Each stakeholder type sees exactly what they need and nothing they should not, and this structure holds up as new stakeholder types get added later.
That is exactly what the requirements deep dive and free BRD exist for. Generic templates fail on unusual processes precisely because they were built for a typical case. Stellites maps the specific process in front of it, however unusual, before architecture decisions are made.
Every build is reviewed by the Delivery Manager against architecture, integration integrity, security, and code quality before anything ships. Issues are caught inside the delivery process, not discovered when a client's operations team tries to use the system for the first time.
Raise it and it gets addressed immediately. If a single issue does not meet the standard, it is fixed before your client sees it. If a pattern of issues emerges, the Delivery Manager addresses it structurally rather than piece by piece.
Yes, and this is confirmed contractually, not left as an assumption. Code ownership terms are written into the SOW before development starts. Source code lives in your agency's repository from the first commit, and complete handover documentation means any future developer, at Stellites or anywhere else, can pick up the system without reverse-engineering it first.
Yes. Architecture decisions, integration logic, and system behavior are documented as living artifacts connected to the codebase, with governance tooling checking that documentation stays aligned to what the system actually does, not a static document that describes a version of the system that no longer exists.
Never. Stellites operates fully behind your agency brand with no commercial interest in your client, and that is not only a contract clause. Stellites pivoted to the agency-only model because we realized we could not achieve our vision of delivering the best digital outcomes to the maximum number of brands by working directly. By partnering with digital agencies, we can help far more brands than working directly ever allowed. We do not chase recognition. We are completely fine being behind the scenes, because what fulfills us is seeing brands expand, teams thrive, and livelihoods improve. This is not just business for us. It is a responsibility we choose, and we will keep doing it with consistency, without expectation.
Every document, deliverable, and communication is produced under your agency's name. Stellites does not brand anything and does not contact your client at any stage.
Yes, before the requirements deep dive begins, not after. Nothing about your client's business or systems moves until the NDA is in place.
Developers access project repositories, integration credentials, and any client-provided data through secure, access-controlled environments as part of Operational Support. Where a client's compliance requirements restrict where sensitive data can live, integration approaches that avoid unnecessary data movement are used wherever the architecture allows it.
Access to repositories, integration credentials, and infrastructure used during the build is revoked as part of project closeout, unless an ongoing maintenance engagement is in place. Everything handled during the project remains covered by the NDA, which survives the project ending.
The requirements deep dive typically happens within days of the discovery call. The free BRD, SOW, and architecture plan are usually ready within one to two weeks after that, depending on integration complexity. Development begins once all three are approved.
Availability for the discovery call and requirements deep dive, whatever your client can share about their current process, even informally, access to relevant systems for integration scoping once development begins, and any existing documentation of the systems the new work needs to connect to. Stellites builds the rest of the process around what you provide.
It depends entirely on scope and integration complexity, which is exactly why the free BRD, SOW, and architecture plan exist before any timeline is promised. A straightforward internal tool moves faster than a system integrating with multiple legacy platforms. The SOW states the realistic timeline for your specific project.
As involved as you want to be. Milestone check-ins keep the project visible without requiring daily oversight. Questions raised during the build get a same-business-day response.
Raise it immediately. Concerns are addressed at the Delivery Manager level. If the fit genuinely is not right, Stellites will discuss next steps honestly rather than pushing a project forward that is not working.
Because a price shown before your client's business process is understood is a guess wearing a number, and that guess is exactly what causes the scope disputes agencies come to Stellites to avoid. Every project gets a free BRD, SOW, and architecture plan first, and the price you receive is tied to that documentation.
Fixed Price fits most projects with a definable scope, priced against the free BRD, SOW, and architecture plan before development starts. Hourly suits exploratory work, a legacy takeover where the real scope is not known until someone examines the codebase, or ongoing integration maintenance. Dedicated fits a client whose system is not a one-time build but an actively evolving product or business-critical tool, where one developer carries business and architecture context forward across an ongoing roadmap.
Yes. An agency that starts with a single Fixed Price project and later finds its client needs continuous feature development can move to Dedicated without starting the relationship over, since the developer already understands the system and the business.
You can exit at any time without penalty if the reason is Stellites' performance. That protection is written into the contract directly, not left as a verbal assurance.
You pay the difference between the discounted commitment-rate fee and the standard rate for the months you actually used, and nothing beyond that. For example, a 48-month commitment sets your monthly fee at $2,000. You use 12 months. The standard 12-month rate is $2,500. You pay the $500 difference across those 12 months, $6,000 total, and that closes it out.
Fixed Price and Hourly projects are not standing commitments in the same sense. Fixed Price is scoped and priced against a defined deliverable, paid against milestones as work is completed. Hourly is billed for hours actually worked, with no minimum term attached. The formal commitment-breaking terms above apply specifically to the Dedicated Developer model.
No. Ongoing integration monitoring and data reconciliation is available as an ongoing hourly engagement, catching sync issues between connected systems before your client notices a discrepancy. New feature development and platform updates are handled the same way, so the system keeps pace with how the business changes.
Complete handover documentation, including architecture decisions and integration logic, is captured as a standard part of delivery, not an optional extra. Any developer picking up future work inherits that context instead of reverse-engineering an undocumented system.
Adjusts rather than enforces. A client pausing a project, a budget cut, or a delay caused by the client's own team rather than Stellites does not turn into a contract dispute. Stellites has worked with agency partners through situations like these and stayed through them.
Yes. Work completed against approved milestones is billed for what was delivered. The project resumes when your client is ready, without losing the context or documentation already built up.
Tell Stellites before assuming it does not fit. Stellites would rather work out an arrangement that protects the relationship than lose a long-term partner over a short-term situation.
Claude analyzes a client's existing spreadsheets and process artifacts before the architecture plan is written, so the specification reflects how the business actually works. Semantic mapping techniques handle field-name mismatches between legacy and new systems during integration. Cursor and Claude Code accelerate development across the confirmed stack. Ongoing AI-assisted reconciliation compares source and target data after go-live to catch sync issues early. A human developer and the Delivery Manager review and approve at every one of those steps.
AI-assisted, not AI-generated. AI accelerates process discovery, integration mapping, boilerplate code, and post-launch monitoring. The developer makes the architectural decisions AI cannot: how the data model should be structured, how the integration should actually behave under real business use, and where a generated suggestion needs to be rejected. The Delivery Manager reviews architecture and code quality before anything ships.
AI-assisted codebase scanning and dependency mapping produce a complete inventory of an inherited system, including undocumented stored procedures and hidden dependencies nobody wrote down. This gives your agency an honest, fast assessment of what is actually salvageable, rather than a vendor defaulting to a full rebuild because nobody could understand what was already there.
Ongoing reconciliation monitoring continuously compares data between connected systems, flagging discrepancies automatically when a source system changes, a batch job fails quietly, or two systems disagree about the current state of a record. This is what catches sync issues before your client discovers a mismatch on their own.
Cursor, Claude Code, GitHub Copilot, DreamFactory, Talend, Postman, Figma Pro, Docker, BrowserStack, Sentry, and GitHub, all included at no extra cost to your agency.
A minimum of one expert coaching session per month covers new modernization tooling, integration mapping techniques, and platform releases across the confirmed stack. Your named developer learns new capabilities in a structured session, not by testing them for the first time on your client's production system.
Start with a Discovery Call. No pressure. No commitment. Just an honest conversation about your client's project and whether Stellites is the right fit. If it is, we start with a free BRD, SOW, and technical architecture plan so you get a real specification and a fixed price you can trust, before signing anything.
