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Don’t just build faster.
Our product and design focused builders:
Engineering in the AI era
Everybody knows AI writes code now. The change that matters is who builds: the advantage moved to people who understand the customer, the product and the architecture at once — and can walk into software they’ve never seen and find where AI fits.
This isn’t a position we invented —
See how Cecahn gets you the talent you need to succeed with AI.
Book a consultYour code is the spec
Every workaround is a requirement someone tested in production. Every hold rule is business logic. Burning it down was rational when reading unfamiliar code cost months — that cost just collapsed.
TEAM VELOCITY AS THE CODEBASE GROWS
Brownfield tasks run ~35% faster with AI when the code carries its context (arXiv 2506.10051) — and slower when it doesn’t (METR, 2025).
Curious what your existing code already knows? Let’s read it together.
Book a consultReplacing a teammate
The dread of a departure is the handoff: weeks of shadowing, documentation written in someone’s final sprint, and the knowledge walking out anyway. That’s a symptom of context living in a person. It doesn’t have to.
WHAT WE READ — BEFORE ANYONE TALKS TO US
Every change ever made — what, when, by whom, and the message saying why.
Every decision argued in the open: what was tried, what was rejected, what’s still owed.
The most precise record of what your business needs that will ever exist.
WHAT WE NEED FROM THE PERSON LEAVING
An afternoon.
Not a quarter of shadowing. With the record in the repo, overlap is a courtesy — not a dependency. Even zero works.
Losing someone this quarter? The overlap you have is enough.
Book a consultTeam size
Brooks wrote it down fifty years ago: adding people to software work adds coordination faster than it adds output. Everyone quotes it. Org charts ignore it — because when typing was the bottleneck, you had no choice. Typing isn’t the bottleneck anymore.
MARGINAL OUTPUT PER ADDED ENGINEER
After Brooks, The Mythical Man-Month (1975)
Ask what a small senior crew could ship for you in a month.
Book a consultHow the work runs
We set up a process your whole team can work inside — not a black box you feed requests into. Anyone can raise an issue in plain language; the pipeline turns it into crisp, buildable work. Your people learn the process by using it, and it stays behind when we do.
Anyone on your team — ops, sales, the founder
YOUR TEAM
Written in plain language, sharpened by the pipeline
YOUR TEAM
The crew ships it, the reasoning stays in the record
THE CREW
You see it land, in words you understand
THE CREW
See how your team plugs in from day one.
Book a consultLevels of support
Engagements run at the intensity the season calls for. The setting changes on notice — and, uniquely, the dial reaches all the way to zero.
New capability, at full tilt.
Steady forward motion, one weekly tether.
Upkeep, security, docs kept current.
Your team runs it. The setting that proves the others honest.
One engagement, four settings. Pricing follows the setting — a short conversation, not a rate card.
Find the setting that fits this quarter.
Book a consultContract shape
Rewards spending more time. The faster a problem is solved, the less it pays — efficiency penalized, expertise commoditized.
Removes two freedoms at once: yours to change your mind as you learn, ours to do the better thing we found on the way.
Capacity is the unit. Change the setting with 15 days’ notice; stop entirely when the work is done. Nobody is punished for learning.
No lock-in is the accountability: the work has to earn next month.
Talk through a first month — there’s no lock-in to argue about.
Book a consultThe cadence
One meeting starts the week. A full written report ends it — what shipped, what moved, what’s next, in language you can understand, not a sprint burndown. In between, the work is visible as it lands.
MONDAY
30–45 minutes. Priorities in, questions answered.
TUE — THU · no status meetings — the work lands in the open, issue by issue
FRIDAY
What shipped, what it means for the business, what’s queued.
Ask to see a sample weekly report.
Book a consultWho’s behind it
Cecahn is led by a builder who came up through product and design — the transition this page describes, made personally. The discipline underneath is Jobs to Be Done: people don’t buy products, they hire them to make progress. Get the progress right and the software follows.
That isn’t a borrowed framework — Cecahn’s principal is product lead at a company co-founded with Bob Moesta, the originator of the Jobs to Be Done method.
WHERE THE TWENTY YEARS HAPPENED
A dozen industries isn’t a résumé. It’s a different set of priors.
The war stories are better in personThe decision isn’t whether to use AI. It’s whether the way you buy software still matches what building it costs.
That’s a short conversation.
Not ready to book time? hello@cecahn.com