Fixed price. Paid on milestones.
Software, de-risked.
Know the price before we start. Pay only when milestones are met. Then keep it running on a rolling managed service — without the cost, liability or unpredictability of salaried staff.
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One price.
Scope, timeline and cost agreed in writing before a line of code is written. If it takes longer, that's on us.
Pay on proof.
Every payment is tied to a milestone and released only when it meets the acceptance criteria you set.
Run, rolling.
After launch, a managed service on a monthly agreement. Stay because it works — not because you're locked in.
The real cost of a team isn't the salary.
Salaried engineering carries fixed overhead, long-tail liability and delivery risk that all sit with you. We carry them instead.
Hiring in-house
- Recruitment fees and months of hiring before work begins
- Employer NI, pensions, benefits and equipment on top of salary
- Notice periods, redundancy and employment-law liability
- Attrition that takes knowledge out of the door
- Open-ended timelines, paid monthly whether delivered or not
- Idle capacity between projects
With Red Shift
- A no-cost proposal, and a senior team that starts within days
- One fixed price covering the full scope
- A commercial contract — no employment liability
- Documented code and clean handover; continuity is our problem
- Payments only against accepted milestones
- Managed service that scales up or down, month to month
How it works.
Three stages. Each one priced before it starts.
01
Proposal
Senior engineers scope the work and return a written plan: architecture, milestones, acceptance criteria and a single fixed price.
You pay nothing.
02
Build
We deliver against the agreed sequence with full visibility. Changes to scope are re-costed openly, never absorbed into a surprise.
You pay per accepted milestone.
03
Run
Hosting, monitoring, SLAs, support and iterative releases — one accountable team on a rolling monthly agreement.
You pay one monthly figure.
Compliance-ready
Built for your audit.
We design, build and run platforms with the controls, evidence and documentation your certification depends on — engineered in from day one, not retrofitted before the auditor arrives.
Information security
ISO/IEC 27001
Access control, encryption, logging, change management and supplier controls built into the platform — with the evidence trail your ISMS audit asks for.
AI management
ISO/IEC 42001
For ML-driven products such as credentialing: model documentation, risk and impact assessment, human oversight and explainable decisions, ready for your AI management system.
Controls, over time
SOC 2 Type II
Monitoring, incident response, access reviews and change records that run continuously — so the observation period produces evidence, not a scramble.
Certification is awarded to your organisation by an accredited auditor. We engineer and operate the platform to support it.
Predictable by design.
£0
to receive a fully costed proposal
0
day-rate invoices, ever
100%
of the price agreed before we build
Monthly
rolling managed service, no lock-in
Where we go deep.
Two domains where we bring the playbook, not just the engineers.
“They translated ambiguity into concrete Lego-block deliverables — sized, sequenced, validated and pressure-tested. For the first time, everyone had a shared understanding.”
“Red-Shift were an exceptional partner — thoughtful, fast-moving, and always open to ideas. We'd be happy to collaborate again anytime.”
“Seamless. They grasped the requirements quickly and delivered exactly what was needed. High-quality, responsive, and easy to work with.”
Know the price before you start.
Tell us what you need. We'll come back with a fixed price, a milestone plan and the team who'd deliver it — at no cost and no obligation.