The two most common ways to hire a dev shop solve different problems. Picking the wrong one is the most common reason a project relationship goes sideways.
Fixed-price and dedicated-team retainers aren't two pricing options for the same thing — they're suited to genuinely different situations, and picking the wrong one is the most common reason a client relationship goes sideways.
If you can't yet describe what "done" looks like in concrete terms, that's a signal the work needs a dedicated-team model, not a fixed quote.
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Archiom's backend group — multi-tenant SaaS, APIs, and the infrastructure decisions that quietly determine whether a product scales.
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