I build the software your business runs on.

It depends on what has to be built, and I will not pretend otherwise - but the ranges are not a secret. A focused site or internal tool usually lands between €1,000 and €15,000. A platform a business actually runs on is typically €5,000 – €40,000. Beyond that, the latter is a system with several products inside it.

What I will not do is give you a number before I understand the problem. That number would be wrong, and we would both spend month three renegotiating it. A short paid discovery produces a real figure and a written scope, and the document is yours whether or not we continue together.

Discovery takes 1-2 weeks. The build, usually between 2 and 16, depending on how much there is to do.

Throughout the project you see working software on a staging environment from the first stage, not a demo at the end. That matters more than the total: it means you are looking at the platform itself while it is being built, and can judge in real time whether something needs to change, while there is still time.

Yes, alone. For one company's core system, the coordination cost of a team usually exceeds what the extra hands buy, and the quality comes from one person holding the whole model in their head.

The honest risk is exactly the one you are asking about, so I answer it structurally rather than with reassurance: everything is documented, tested and deployable by somebody else, and every account and repository is in your name from day one. If I disappeared tomorrow you would hand another engineer a working system and a written architecture, not a mystery.

Yours, from the first commit. Repositories, servers, domains, DNS and third-party accounts are created in your name from the start; they are not transferred at the end.

There is no moment at which the work is held hostage, because there is no moment at which I hold it. I have taken over too many systems locked up by whoever built them to ever do that myself.

Often, yes. I read the code first and tell you honestly what is salvageable.

Sometimes the answer is that it is fundamentally sound and needs a week of work rather than the rewrite you were bracing for. Sometimes it is that a rewrite really is cheaper than continuing. You get whichever of those is true, including when it costs me the larger project.

Bucharest. Most of my clients are somewhere else.

I work across the EU routinely and have worked on US time zones. Hosting is in the EU by default, or wherever you want it; data is handled under GDPR and US standards such as DNC and HIPAA; and the contracts and invoicing are the ones your finance and legal departments want to see.

Maintenance with a response time agreed in the contract, if you want it, and absolutely nothing, if you do not.

The second option is deliberate. A system you cannot leave is not a system you should be buying, so the handover is designed to work whether or not I stay involved: documentation, tests, a deploy your team can run, and monitoring that reaches a person before a customer notices.

If you want it, I can handle maintenance, and - depending on the platform I build for you - introduce you to people who specialise in marketing and lead generation to take on the promotion side.

My platforms are built to help marketing departments, and over the years I have worked with some brilliant marketing people who proved their worth and from whom I learned a great deal about digital marketing and how it interconnects with IT.

Where AI earns its place, I build it properly: retrieval grounded in your own documents, with citations; scoring trained on your own data; a provider abstraction so a price change is a config edit; and an evaluation harness that shows how it behaves before it reaches a customer. An AI feature nobody has measured is not a feature, it is an unpriced risk that demos beautifully. Where a simple rule or a well-designed form does the same job at a hundredth of the cost, I tell you straight away.