(01) — Technical Consultancy
Typefast is a technical consultancy for businesses without in-house technical leadership. We bring the judgment to decide what to build, buy, or automate — and the team to ship it.
(02) — Approach
Build vs. buy. Which systems to replace and which to leave alone. Where automation pays off and where it doesn't. You get a clear recommendation, the reasoning behind it, and a path you can act on.
Custom software, integrations, and automation — shipped to production, tested, and handed over. The recommendation and the delivery come from the same people, so nothing is lost in translation.
/ Modern AI tooling lets a small, deeply experienced team deliver what used to take a department — so considered judgment goes into every decision, at a scale that wasn't possible before.
(03) — Selected Outcomes
12 hrs/week of manual work, automated
Replaced a spreadsheet-and-email intake process with an automated pipeline that routes, schedules, and invoices.
3 disconnected tools → 1 internal system
Consolidated CRM, inventory, and fulfillment into a single source of truth, ending double-entry and reconciliation errors.
Build-vs-buy decision, settled
Evaluated six vendors against a custom build and delivered a costed recommendation, avoiding a six-figure misfit commitment.
(04) — How We Engage
We begin with a paid assessment of your situation and deliver a concrete recommendation. One flat fee, no open meter.
If you proceed, build work is scoped to a fixed quote before we start. No hourly billing, no budget creep, no surprise invoices.
The people who make the recommendation are the people who build it. You never hand a strategy to a team that wasn't in the room.
From the first conversation through delivery, you work directly with the people who design and build your system — each one deeply experienced in the work.
(05) — Who We Work With
You run a real business and keep hitting technology decisions you shouldn't have to make alone. We become the technical partner you don't have on staff.
You have people who can execute but no one to set technical direction. We provide the judgment — and step in to build when it's faster than hiring.
Established operations weighed down by manual process, aging systems, or tool sprawl. We map the path forward and ship the pieces that move the needle.
(06) — Insights
The monolith gets a bad reputation it doesn't deserve. Somewhere along the way, the industry decided that a single Rails application serving an entire busine...
Every new engagement starts the same way. Before any code gets written or any recommendations get made, the application gets audited. Not a cursory glance at...
You've fixed the N+1 queries. You've added database indexes. You've moved email delivery to background jobs. Your app runs beautifully in development, passes...
Every slow Rails app I've profiled has the same story. The team assumes the problem is deep and architectural — maybe they need to extract microservices, may...
Your Rails app still works. Requests come in, responses go out, customers pay their invoices. From a business perspective, everything looks fine. So when you...
When a client comes to us with a Rails 4.2 app that's been running in production for years, the question is never "should we upgrade?" — it's "how do we upgr...
(07) — Start Here
A fixed-fee assessment to understand your situation and deliver a concrete recommendation. If you proceed, the fee is credited toward the work.