Technical Growth Partner

Your Product Is Too Importantfor Bad Technical Decisions.

We build, protect, and scale your technology, so one bad call doesn't cost you six figures and six months.

Whether you need a technical team, a second opinion on your codebase, or a partner who'll tell you what NOT to build, we're the team founders trust when the stakes are high.

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10+ Years

Building products that survive and scale

4 Years

Longest ongoing client partnership

$200K+

Average cost of a bad technical decision

3 Paths

Build, protect, or scale, we meet you where you are

Build, Protect,
and Scale.

Three ways we help, depending on where you are and what you need.

Build With Judgment

Most teams build what you ask. We build what you actually need, and push back on the rest. From MVPs to full product builds, every line of code comes with the strategic thinking most dev shops skip entirely.

For: Founders who need a technical team they can trust to make good decisions, not just take orders.

Protect What You've Built

Your codebase is a liability you can't see. We audit your technology, find the decisions that will cost you later, and give you a clear plan to fix what matters, before investors, acquirers, or your next 10,000 users find it first.

For: Teams shipping fast who need someone to check their work before it's too late.

Scale With Confidence

You've got product-market fit. Now you need a technical partner who can grow with you, handling architecture decisions, new feature development, and the hard "should we or shouldn't we" conversations that determine whether you scale or stall.

For: Companies doing $500K–$5M+ in revenue who need ongoing technical leadership without a full-time CTO hire.

Speed Without Judgment Is the Most
Expensive Mistake in Tech.

Whether your code was written by AI tools, offshore developers, a founding engineer who left, or your co-founder learning as they go, the problem is the same: you're shipping fast, but nobody is asking whether you're shipping right.

The mistakes that kill startups aren't bugs. They're decisions: the wrong architecture, the wrong database, the wrong framework, the shortcut that saves a week now and costs six months later. And by the time you see the damage, you're choosing between a painful rewrite and a painful explanation to your investors.

That's where we come in. Not just to build, but to make sure what gets built can actually survive what comes next.

What Most Teams Do vs. What Vermillion Does

What Most Teams Do
What Vermillion Does
Hire developers who build whatever you ask
Partner with a team that challenges your assumptions first
Ship features and hope the architecture holds
Design architecture that's ready for 10x growth from day one
Find problems after users complain
Catch problems before they reach production
Google "best practices" and hope for the best
Apply 10+ years of knowing what actually breaks in production
Treat code as a cost center
Treat your codebase as a strategic asset

We're the Team That Builds
AND Questions.

Area
Typical Dev Shop
Vermillion
Primary goal
Ship what you asked for
Ship what will actually work
Relationship
Project-based, then gone
Ongoing partnership
Technical judgment
"You're the boss"
"Here's what we'd recommend, and why"
Risk awareness
Not their problem
Built into every decision
When things go wrong
Change order / scope creep bill
We saw it coming and flagged it
Ideal outcome
Features delivered
Business protected and growing
"You're not paying for code. You're paying for judgment that saves you from expensive mistakes."

Does Any of This Sound Familiar?

  • You've spent $50K+ on development and you're not sure what you actually got
  • Your "temporary" technical decisions from 6 months ago are still running in production
  • You don't have anyone on your team who can honestly tell you if your code is good
  • You're about to raise money, get acquired, or scale, and you're not sure your tech can handle it
  • You hired developers (or used AI tools) and the features work, but you have no idea if the foundation is solid
  • You've been burned by a dev shop before and you're cautious about who to trust next

If you nodded at even one of these, let's talk. The first call is free and there's no pitch.

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Long-Term Partnerships. Real Results.

PicklePlay → Universal Tennis
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Long-Term Partnership

PicklePlay → Universal Tennis

The Challenge

Big choices to make as the company grew toward a sale.

Our Partnership

4-year partnership through acquisition. We were there for every hard call.

Sold to UTR

Result

Technical Partner

Our Role

4 Years

How Long

Saying "no" to the wrong ideas saved them from costly rebuilds.

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Washlava
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Ongoing Partnership

Washlava

The Challenge

A marketplace that needed to grow without breaking.

Our Partnership

Ongoing technical partnership scaling an IoT marketplace.

Scaled Up

Result

Growth Partner

Our Role

Ongoing

How Long

We caught problems as the platform grew bigger.

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Artfare
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Build & Grow

Artfare

The Challenge

Building a platform for artists to connect with collectors using AR technology.

Our Partnership

Built the platform from zero, stayed to grow it.

5K+

Artists

Platform Builder

Our Role

Growing

Status

AR technology helped artists showcase work in new ways, driving collector engagement.

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If You Do Nothing.

  • Bad decisions compound, what costs $10K to fix today costs $200K in a year
  • Technical debt accumulates quietly until it blocks every new feature
  • Your best engineers leave because they're tired of working around bad architecture
  • Investors and acquirers find the mess when they look under the hood
  • A full rewrite becomes your only option, and your competition doesn't wait

A 30-minute call won't fix everything. But it will show you what you're dealing with, and that's where smart decisions start.

How to Get Started.

Option 1

Strategy Call

Free, 30 minutes, no pitch, actionable insights

Option 2

Technical Health Check

$7,500: One week, full codebase audit with risk map

Option 3

Monthly Partnership

$5,000 to $15,000 per month: Ongoing build, protect, and scale

Book Your Free Strategy Call

Who We Work With.

Funded Startups ($500K–$5M+ raised)

You're shipping fast and need a technical team with judgment, not just hands on keyboards. We help you build right the first time so your runway goes further.

Bootstrapped Companies ($500K–$5M+ ARR)

You've built a real business and your technology needs to keep up. We're the technical leadership layer you need without the full-time CTO price tag.

Post-Layoff Teams

You just lost senior technical talent and need to keep shipping without losing quality. We step in fast and stabilize while you figure out your next hire.

Pre-Acquisition Companies

Buyers will look at your code. We make sure what they find tells the story you want it to tell.

Not the Right Fit If You're:

  • Looking for the cheapest option
  • Want a body shop that builds without questioning
  • Pre-revenue with no funding

We work with companies where bad technical decisions have real financial consequences.

Three Ways to Work With Us.

Start with a conversation. Scale into a partnership. Every engagement includes our technical judgment, that's not an upsell, it's how we work.

Strategy Call

Free

30 minutes. No pitch. We'll look at where you are, what you're building, and whether we're the right fit. Most founders walk away with at least one insight they can act on immediately.

Best for: Anyone exploring whether Vermillion is a fit.

Book Your Free Call

Technical Health Check

$7,500Credited toward your first month if you become a retainer client.

One week. We audit your entire codebase, architecture, and technical decisions. You get a Red/Yellow/Green risk map and a clear action plan.

Full codebase and architecture review
Irreversible decision identification
Scalability stress points
Red/Yellow/Green risk map
90-day risk projection

Best for: Teams who want a second opinion before committing to a partner.

Start Your Health Check
Most Popular

Monthly Partnership

$5,000–$15,000/mo

Ongoing development, technical leadership, and strategic guidance. We embed with your team, build what needs building, and protect you from the decisions that kill companies quietly.

$5,000/mo, Advisory + limited dev support (early-stage)
$10,000/mo, Core development + architecture + guidance
$15,000/mo, Full technical partnership with dedicated team

Best for: Founders who want a technical partner, not a vendor.

Explore a Partnership

Questions We Hear.

Let's Talk About What You're Building.

30 minutes. No pitch. We'll look at where you are, what's at risk, and whether we're the right fit. Most founders walk away with at least one actionable insight.

Book Your Free Strategy Call

Free 30-minute call

No obligation, no pitch

Honest advice you can act on