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Built by engineers.Run like a product team.
Not a staffing agency. Not a dev shop. A small team of senior engineers who own problems end to end — and stay until they're solved.
We exist because good engineers were being wasted.
The market had no shortage of engineers. What it lacked was senior engineers who could own a problem without being managed through it — people who thought like owners, not contractors. That’s the gap CipherCru was built to fill.
Founded
We kept watching the same failure play out — a vendor who couldn't ramp fast enough, an agency passing off junior engineers as seniors, a contractor needing three weeks of hand-holding before shipping a line. The gap between what companies needed and what the market offered was real, consistent, and exploitable.
First retainer. First proof.
Eighteen months in, we landed our first long-term retainer with a fintech platform running a Java monolith that hadn't scaled in two years. We decomposed it live — no downtime, no rewrite, no drama. That engagement ran fourteen months and became the model for everything that followed.
The principles behind every engagement.
Communication
Commitment
Integrity
Innovation
Customer Centricity
From first call to first commit.
The stage indicator pins while the detail scrolls. Progress advances as you move through — built for a story, not a summary.
We find out if this is even a fit.
Discovery call
A working session, not a sales pitch. We map the gap, the constraint, and the deadline — then tell you honestly whether we're the right team. If we aren't, we say so and point you somewhere better.
- Problem mapped
- Fit confirmed or declined
- Stack + timeline scoped
Scope & match
You get a written scope inside 48 hours — engagement model, named engineers, weekly cadence, and a fixed rate. No discovery-phase invoice, no vague statements of work, no bait-and-switch on who actually shows up.
- Written scope + fixed rate
- Named engineers, not profiles
- Start date locked
Ramp-in
We read the codebase before we ask questions. Repo access on day one, environment running by day two, first production commit inside five days. No four-week onboarding tax billed back to you as ramp-up.
- Repo + env running, day 2
- First prod commit < 5 days
- Zero KT sessions required
Delivery cadence
Async updates daily, a written summary weekly, and a call whenever you want one. We flag risks the week we see them — not the week they land. If a date is going to slip, you hear it early enough to act.
- Daily async, weekly written
- Risks flagged early, in writing
- Your board, your tools, your process
Extend or hand off
Most engagements extend — 97% of them. But if you're taking it in-house, you get documented architecture, runbooks, and a walkthrough with your team. We would rather leave you self-sufficient than locked in.
- 97% of clients extend
- Runbooks + architecture docs
- Walkthrough with your team
What five years of senior-only delivery looks like.
No junior padding, no bench filler. Every number below comes from live client engagements.
Products shipped
0+
Across 5 verticals
Clients extend
0%
Beyond initial scope
To first commit
<0d
From repo access
Critical audit findings
0
Across all engagements
Engineers on team
0
Senior-only, no bench
Avg engagement
0mo
Per client relationship
Stop managing
vendors. Start
shipping.
We embed like an in-house team you didn't have to recruit — and leave you self-sufficient when the work is done.
What happens next
- A senior engineer on your board inside a week
- Written scope in 48 hours, fixed rate
- Named engineers — not profiles from a bench