Get experienced help during the part of the journey where most startups fail

We provide expertise and mentoring that enables startups to have a lower total cost of ownership and better long-term maintainability. This is done by helping founders hire a development team that fits their unique post-launch operational needs and budget, while simultaneously providing solutions architecture, writing code, mentoring your new team, and managing the day-to-day processes of software development.

When a startup is finished working with us, they have a maintainable product and their own well-trained development team to help it grow.

Managing a startup is HARD, there is an overwhelming amount of work to do. You need to do the “invisible” work of hiring a team, creating processes to manage them, and meeting with investors. All while leading from the front to bring your idea to the market. We've been there, it's why we created the Startup Assistance Service. Our goal is to help startups optimize the value of seed funding, We do not ask for any equity in your business.

How the Startup Assistance Service benefits Your Startup

We will interview, help you hire, and train an in-house team that fits your budget and technical needs. They will be your employees, who are invested in the long-term success of your business and have the skills needed to maintain your software.
Your company will be self-sufficient, and not dependent on a long-term relationship with SofSafe. We will have trained your in-house team to maintain your software and add new features. If you require future help, we provide solutions architecture, coaching, mentoring, hiring, and training services to keep your in-house team running efficiently.
We do not ask for an equity stake in your company.
You get a skilled team that has years of experience collaborating on complex software during the part of the journey where most startups fail.
SofSafe does the Solutions Architecture for your product and builds it alongside your new team while mentoring them.
We provide you with a proven system for running a software company and train your team on how to use it. This includes meticulously documented processes on everything from hiring to the day-to-day tasks like writing code.
We help you create a strong culture of technical excellence early, which can stay with your company for years to come.
If your operation requires it, we will train your team on how to do 24/5 development. Read the 24/5 Development Cycle Benefits and Overview PDF for more details.

Why we do it

Our long-term goal is to help create many innovative solutions that have a positive impact on the environment or society as a whole.
We get to work on a variety of cool projects and solve fascinating technical challenges.
We like to take breaks between projects to travel and spend more time with their families.
In between projects, we get focused time to learn new technologies in detail, so we can use those skills more effectively on future projects.
Work never gets boring because we get to experience the thrill of working with a variety of cool founders, co-founders, and other awesome people.

Startup Assistance Service Pricing

For startups focused on a budget, we have a 50/50 plan to help you get your idea to market without over-extending your budget. You pay 50% of our hourly rates while we are actively developing your product. Then, when you get more funding or start bringing in revenue, you pay us the remaining 50%. We do not charge interest and only do this for ideas we believe have a good chance of success, or ideas we believe will have a truly beneficial impact on society.
For startups that have the luxury of being flush with cash, we charge our standard hourly rates.
We keep track of time spent on tasks down to the minute and charge an hourly rate based on the expertise needed to accomplish the task. This allows us to be fair to you and fair to our team members.

SofSafe Hourly Rates

Fractional-CTO: The type of work that a VP or CTO would do. Some common examples of this type of work are interviewing talent for your team, participating in meetings with investors, and anything that involves having to wear a suit and tie.

- - Standard: $200/hr for work performed, paid on a monthly basis.
  - 50/50 Plan: $120/hr for work performed, and $120/hr after you get revenue or more funding.

Scalable Database Design: This is work that would typically be performed by a senior database designer.

- - Standard: $200/hr for work performed, paid on a monthly basis.
  - 50/50 Plan: $120/hr for work performed, paid on a monthly basis, and $120/hr after you get revenue or more funding.

Expert: This is work that would typically be performed by a principal software engineer, or an engineering manager. Some common examples of this type of work are Solutions Architecture, mentoring / coaching, high-performance database design, technical feasibility assessments, and scouting talent for your team.

- - Standard: $100/hr for work performed, paid on a monthly basis.
  - 50/50 Plan: $60/hr for work performed, paid on a monthly basis, and $60/hr after you get revenue or more funding.

Advanced: Work at this expertise level would typically be performed by a senior software engineer, tech lead, project manager, or business analyst. Some common examples of this type of work are user experience research, code review, designing code-level architecture, debugging complex issues, and managing tasks on Jira.

- - Standard: $50/hr for work performed, paid on a weekly basis.
  - 50/50 Plan: $30/hr for work performed, paid on a weekly basis, and $30/hr after you get revenue or more funding.

Intermediate: This is work that would typically be performed by a developer with 3 years of experience.

- - Standard: $35/hr for work performed, paid on a weekly basis.
  - 50/50 Plan: $19/hr for work performed, paid on a weekly basis, and $19/hr after you get revenue or more funding.

Basic: Work at this expertise level would typically be performed by a person with 1 year of relevant software engineering or QA experience.

- - Standard: $20/hr for work performed, paid on a weekly basis.
  - 50/50 Plan: $12.50/hr for work performed, paid on a weekly basis, and $12.50/hr after you get revenue or more funding.

How to learn more

Download the Quickly Launching a Maintainable Software Product PDF and the Startup Assistance Service Process PDF
Contact us at Info@SofSafe.cloud, so we can help you determine which Startup Assistance Service is best for you, the High-speed version or the Low-Risk version.