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Etraders Group

How It Works

How It Works

Four phases, each ending in something you own. No phase assumes you have bought the next one, and nothing is designed so that leaving us is expensive.

Delivery Phases

  1. 01 1–3 weeks

    Diagnose

    Understand the problem properly before anyone commits a budget to it.

    We interview the people doing the work, review the systems and data involved, and map the constraints that will actually govern the solution — regulatory, commercial, and technical. The output is a written diagnosis, not a proposal.

    You end up with

    • Opportunity or process map
    • Data and systems assessment
    • Risk register
    • Costed recommendation
  2. 02 2–4 weeks

    Design

    Make the solution concrete enough to price honestly.

    Architecture, data model, interface design, and integration contracts. For conversational work this is where persona and dialogue design happen; for apparel it is where the tech pack is built. We finish with a fixed price for the first build phase.

    You end up with

    • Technical specification
    • Clickable prototype or design files
    • Integration contracts
    • Fixed price for phase one
  3. 03 6–24 weeks

    Build

    Two-week iterations, each ending in a demo of working software.

    You see the system running in a real environment every two weeks and can change direction at each boundary. Testing, CI, and documentation are written as we go rather than promised for the end, because the end is where they get cut.

    You end up with

    • Working software in your repository
    • Automated test suite
    • CI/CD pipeline
    • Runbook and documentation
  4. 04 Ongoing or handover

    Operate

    Run it with you, or hand it over cleanly.

    Launch support, monitoring, and a defect warranty. Then either a support retainer, or a structured handover with recorded walkthroughs so your team can own it. Both are normal endings and we price them the same way.

    You end up with

    • Monitoring and alerting
    • Defect warranty
    • Recorded handover sessions
    • Optional support retainer

How We Manage Software Project Risk and Communication

Bad News Travels Fast

If a date is going to slip or an estimate was wrong, you hear it in the next weekly update, not at the deadline. Late disclosure is the most expensive thing an agency can do to a client.

One Named Team

The people at the pitch are the people doing the work. We will not sell you a senior team and staff a junior one.

Your Infrastructure from Day One

Code goes into your repositories and deploys into your cloud accounts from the first week, so there is never a point at which we hold the system.

Written Over Verbal

Decisions, trade-offs, and their reasoning are recorded where you can find them later, which matters most when the people involved have moved on.

Scope Changes Are Priced, Not Absorbed Silently

Changes get an estimate and a schedule impact at the iteration boundary. Silent absorption is how quality quietly degrades.

We Say No

To work outside our competence, to timelines that require cutting testing, and to projects we think should not go ahead. Saying yes to those helps nobody.

FAQ

How Working with Us Actually Feels

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What Happens in the First Two Weeks?
Interviews with the people who do the work, a review of the systems and data involved, and a written diagnosis with a costed recommendation. You own that document whether or not you continue with us.
How Often Will We Hear from You?
A written update every week, and a demo of working software every two weeks. Access to the team's working channel throughout, not a weekly account-manager call.
What If We Want to Stop Mid-Project?
You can, at any iteration boundary. You pay for completed work and keep everything produced up to that point, including source code, documentation, and design files. There are no termination penalties and nothing is architected to make leaving painful.
Do You Work Fixed Price or Time and Materials?
Both, chosen to suit the risk. Discovery, scoping, and defined builds are fixed price. Embedded teams and open-ended roadmaps are billed monthly per person, because pretending an unknown scope has a fixed price serves nobody.
Who Is on the Team?
A named delivery lead plus the specialists the work requires. You meet them before you sign, and they are the people who do the work.

Tell Us What You Are Building, and We Will Put Real Numbers on It.

Thirty minutes with the engineer who would run your project. You leave with a scope, a cost range, and a recommended next step — whether or not you work with us.

Book a Discovery Call See Starting Prices

A 30-minute call with an engineer, not a salesperson. You leave with a scope, a rough range, and a recommended next step — whether or not you work with us.

  • Written scope before you commit
  • NDA signed on request
  • You own all work product