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Contract engineering · senior days · Zürich
We ship systems, and keep them running.
bitbaum takes a product from idea to a running, monitored, backed-up production service — and hands over something a normal team can maintain afterwards.
The studio is at capacity. The rates below are current, and the waitlist is how you hear first when a slot opens.
Studio engagements are at capacity.
Build it yourself — with the same system.
The studio is at capacity. You can build independently with free Loki. If you need payment or collective decisions, explore OrangeCat or Solon; you choose which tools fit your work.
Build it
Loki
Describe what you want; a fleet of AI agents builds, tests and ships it, and you approve what goes live. The system that built everything on this site.
Open loki.orangecat.ch
Earn from it
OrangeCat
Sell it and get paid: pay links, services and backing, settled in Bitcoin straight to your wallet. Nobody holds your money but you.
Open orangecat.ch
Decide it together
Solon
Run it with others: proposals and one-click votes for a team, a co-op or a community, with a record everyone can see.
Open solon.orangecat.ch
Rather have the studio build it? Engagements start from CHF 2,400 per day. See the rates and join the waitlist to hear first when a slot opens.
Engagements and rates
Published rather than quoted on request, so you can qualify yourself before writing a single email. Fixed-scope work is confirmed in writing before it starts.
Senior engineering dayNo minimum
CHF 2,400per day
Book a day when a senior call is needed: an architecture decision, a review of what was built, a security pass, or the technical interviews for a hire. Days are invoiced monthly, and none commits you to the next.
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Build sprintFour to six weeks
from CHF 18,000
Fixed price, fixed scope. A defined product or module delivered running in production, with tests and a pipeline. Change requests are re-quoted rather than quietly absorbed.
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RescueTwo weeks, fixed
CHF 6,500
An inherited codebase nobody understands. You get a written assessment, a working local setup, CI that actually runs the tests, and a ranked list of what breaks first — whether or not we work together afterwards.
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How we work
Four commitments that hold whether the engagement is two weeks or two years.
One verify command per repository
Lint, typecheck, test. CI runs exactly that command, so green on your machine means green on the branch.
Everything ships through a branch and a pipeline
The deliberate step is the pipeline, not a person remembering to click something.
Self-hosted by default, on Hetzner and Caddy
Postgres, systemd, hardware you can point at. No per-seat pricing, no vendor lock-in, no surprise invoice.
Handover is designed in from day one
Standard stack, full data export, documentation written for the engineer who arrives afterwards.
Questions people actually ask
Are these the real prices?
Yes. They are published so you can decide whether to have the conversation at all, rather than sit through a discovery call to learn a number. Fixed-scope work is quoted as a fixed price in writing before anything starts; day-rate work is invoiced monthly. No work begins on a verbal estimate.
How long is the wait?
We do not know, and would rather say that than invent a date. The list is worked in the order it was joined, and the only email it produces is the one saying a slot has opened. Joining costs nothing and commits you to nothing.
What happens if you become unavailable?
Handover is in the contract from the start: a standard stack, one command that runs the whole check suite, CI any engineer can read, and complete data export. You are buying a system a normal team can pick up — not anyone's availability. Ask your last supplier for a full data export and time how long it takes.
How do we know AI-written code is any good?
You don't — and you wouldn't for hand-written code either. That is what tests and pipelines are for. Nothing reaches a hosted instance without the full suite passing, and we are accountable for the output regardless of what typed it.
We need someone on site, full time.
Then you need an employee, and we will say so rather than sell you days that will not fix it. We are happy to help write the role and sit in on the technical interviews instead.
Can you do it cheaper?
Not by lowering the rate — by reducing the scope. Tell us which part can wait, and we will quote the rest honestly.
Join the waitlist
One message, typed or spoken, is the whole request. It opens a private portal where replies, status and previews appear — no account needed. When a slot opens, the list is worked in the order it was joined.
It goes to us, nowhere else
Stored on our own server in Germany — the infrastructure that runs everything on this site. No CRM, no tracker, no analytics profile, no third party.
Leave whenever
Write the same way asking to be removed, and the record is deleted. There is no account to close, because there was never one to open.
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