Why choose us
Six concrete reasons. And one honest reason not to.
Every firm claims senior people and measurable outcomes. Here is what those words mean in our contracts, our pricing and our delivery — plus the cases where you should hire someone else.
What clients measure us on
VerifiedProjects delivered on the scope we agreed
$0
Security as a line item
0
Proprietary runtimes
60d
Notice on any retainer
The differences
Claims are cheap. These are contractual.
Each of these appears in our statements of work, not just on this page.
Senior engineers, not a sales layer
The people who scope your project are the people who build it. There is no handoff to a junior team after the contract is signed.
We publish the numbers
Baselines before, telemetry after, and a written account of what moved. Including the times a result came in under what we projected.
Security built in, not billed later
Threat modelling, least-privilege design and audit trails are part of every engagement at no additional line item.
Fixed scope, fixed price options
For well-defined work we quote a number and hold it. Change requests are priced openly rather than absorbed into a moving estimate.
Your stack, not ours
We build on the platforms you already run and the models that fit your constraints. No proprietary runtime you cannot leave.
A real handover
Documentation, runbooks, architecture decision records and training sessions are part of delivery — not an upsell after launch.
Side by side
What you usually get. What you get here.
Written from the complaints clients bring us about their last engagement.
| Dimension | Typical engagement | With CyberXSolutions |
|---|---|---|
| Who does the work | Partners sell it, a junior team delivers it | The senior engineers who scoped it build it, through to handover |
| Before the build | A proposal based on a workshop and an assumption | A measured baseline: cost per transaction, cycle time, error rate |
| Security | A review gate discovered two weeks before launch | Threat modelling at design review, testing every increment |
| Pricing | Time and materials with an estimate that drifts | Fixed price wherever scope is defined; change quoted openly |
| Code ownership | Shared IP clauses and a proprietary framework | Yours from the first commit, in your repositories |
| After launch | A support contract you now depend on | Documentation, runbooks and training so you do not need one |
| Accountability | The business case is never opened again | We return at 90 days and publish the result either way |
Engagement principles
How we behave when the project gets difficult.
Senior people, start to finish
The engineers who scope your work build it. No handoff to a delivery team you have not met.
Baselines before builds
We measure the current state first. Improvement should be a fact you can point at, not an impression.
Working software over status reports
Every two weeks you see the system running, not a slide describing it. Progress is demonstrated, not asserted.
Change priced in the open
Scope changes get estimated and quoted before they enter the plan. Nothing is silently absorbed into a drifting number.
Security reviewed continuously
Threat modelling at design review and security testing every increment — not a gate discovered two weeks before launch.
Handover is a deliverable
Documentation, runbooks and training are scoped, estimated and delivered like any other feature.
The honest part
When you should hire somebody else.
We would rather lose the engagement than take on work we are the wrong shape for. If any of these describe you, we will say so in the first conversation.
You need it live in three weeks
We will not skip the baseline, the evaluation or the shadow period. If the date is immovable, a faster firm is genuinely the better answer.
You want the cheapest possible price
We staff senior people and include security, documentation and training. There are firms who will quote lower by removing those.
The decision is already made
If you have chosen the technology and want hands to implement it, you want a staffing partner. We will keep challenging the choice.
You are under 200 people with a simple need
Our engagement model often costs more than it can return at that scale. We will point you at a product or a smaller specialist.
Systems in production
Across finance, healthcare, logistics, retail and public sector
Annual client savings
Verified against pre-engagement baselines
Platform uptime
Trailing twelve months across managed environments
Mean time to contain
From first signal to contained incident, autonomous response
In their words
Attribution by role and sector. Names stay confidential.
They spent the first two weeks telling us which half of our plan was a bad idea. That is not what we were used to from a vendor, and it is the reason the rest of it worked.
Time to production: 7 months → 9 weeks
We did not add analysts. We stopped asking the ones we had to prove that thirty-six thousand things were fine every month.
Mean time to contain: 6.3 hours → 2.8 minutes
The number I care about is not the 94%. It is that we stopped having the same argument about unposted liability every single month-end.
Cost per document: $2.40 → $0.07
Two previous apps were built for head office. This one was built for the van. That is the whole difference.
Adoption: 12% → 99.4% daily active
The first month was entirely unglamorous technical work with nothing to show a board. It also produced the biggest single jump we have ever had.
Non-brand organic clicks: +214%
We expected a cost-reduction project. What we actually got was the first time anybody here could rebuild our platform from scratch.
$1.9M annualised saving in 90 days
Selection questions
What procurement usually asks
Still deciding?
Send the question to a senior engineer instead of a form. You will get a straight answer, and a no if that is the honest one.
Our day rate sits below the big four and above an offshore development shop. Total cost is usually well below both, because we staff smaller senior teams, do not bill a discovery phase that produces slides, and include security, documentation and training rather than pricing them separately.
That is a good starting position and it changes the shape of the engagement rather than removing it. We usually bring platform depth, evaluation discipline and the security patterns your team has not had time to build, and we pair deliberately so it stays with them.
Roughly a third of our discovery engagements end that way. It is not a rhetorical position — the assessments are fixed-price precisely so that recommending against a build does not cost us anything we were counting on.
We tell you early, in writing, with options. Every engagement has phase boundaries where you can stop and keep what has been produced. What we will not do is absorb a problem quietly and surface it at the deadline.
Yes, once we are past initial scoping. Most of our clients are under confidentiality agreements, so we arrange introductions selectively and with their permission rather than publishing a list.
Assessments run from a couple of weeks. Production builds usually sit between three and six months. Enterprise platform programmes run six to twelve months and then deliberately shrink as your team takes ownership.
Start the conversation
Bring us the process that keeps breaking.
Ninety minutes with our engineers and strategists. You leave with a systems map, an automation shortlist and an honest read on what AI should and should not touch in your business.
What to expect
- No pitch deck, no obligation
- Senior engineers in the room
- A written plan within five days
Prefer email?
support@cyberxsolutions.us