Software built by people who track their own estimating
Iron Pixel Works builds web applications and business systems for organizations across coastal North Carolina. Every estimate we give is recorded against the actual outcome, and the whole history is available to anyone considering working with us.
Web Application Development
Customer portals, booking systems and internal tools, estimated against a written scope with exclusions stated and the estimate recorded for later comparison.
- Written scope with exclusions
- Estimate recorded against actual
- Your repository from day one
- Maintenance cost quoted upfront
Business Systems
Line-of-business software built in a stack your team can maintain, with the estimating history for comparable past projects shown before you commit.
- Comparable projects disclosed
- Stack chosen for maintainability
- Phased with usable increments
- Documentation for a successor
API and Integration Work
Connecting systems that were never designed to talk to each other, which is where estimates go wrong most often and where our published record is most useful.
- Third-party risk flagged
- Discovery before estimating
- Unknowns priced as ranges
- Integration documented fully
Technical Discovery
A paid discovery engagement producing a scope and a defensible estimate, sold standalone so you can take it to any developer.
- Fixed fee, sold standalone
- Yours to take elsewhere
- Estimate with stated confidence
- Risks listed individually
Maintenance and Support
Ongoing work on systems we built and systems we did not, at the same rates, on rolling thirty day terms.
- Same rates for inherited code
- Thirty day rolling terms
- Monthly written report
- Recurring issues traced to cause
Code and Estimate Review
An independent read of a codebase or of a quote you have received elsewhere, including an honest assessment of whether the estimate is realistic.
- Estimate realism assessed
- Maintainability reviewed
- Key person risk identified
- Report goes to you only
Ask to see our estimating record
We will send estimated against actual for every project we have delivered, including the overruns, before you decide anything.
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