The Kernel programme.

Load. Build. Ship. Hand off. Every engagement moves through these four phases, at fixed prices and honest durations.

01

Load — find the kernel.

Two weeks. On-site or remote discovery workshop, product surface map, technical shape doc, prioritised scope for the build. If you walk away here, you leave with a written plan any Android team can pick up.

◆ 2 weeks · £6k · Refunded against the build if you continue
02

Build — grow the app outward.

Four to twelve weeks of engineering. Kotlin native, Jetpack Compose, MVVM. Weekly demo Fridays with a working APK. Private Slack channel monitored during working hours.

◆ 4–12 weeks · Weekly demos · Fixed price per SoW
03

Ship — onto the Play Store.

Two weeks of launch: store listing, screenshots, feature graphic, staged rollout schedule, review-response process, monitoring dashboard shared with your product owner.

◆ 2 weeks · Play Store submission included
04

Hand off — leave it clean.

Written handbook, architecture diagrams, live walkthrough with your team, 30-day post-ship support. After that: retainer if you want us in reach, quiet exit if you don't.

◆ 1 week · 30-day post-ship support included
Rhythm

A week in a Kernel build.

Same shape every week during the Build phase. Predictable is the point.

◆ Mon

Plan.

30-minute standup with your product owner. What we're building this week. What we're leaving. What we need from you.

◆ Tue – Thu

Build.

Heads-down engineering. Slack channel monitored. PRs merged as they land. No status meetings, no calls without cause.

◆ Fri

Demo.

45-minute demo. Working APK on your device. Written weekly note in the shared Notion. Next week previewed.

Guardrails

What we won't do.

Every studio should have a list. Here is ours in writing.

◆ 01

iOS builds.

We are Android specialists. If you need parity iOS, we happily recommend three studios we trust.

◆ 02

Cross-platform frameworks.

No Flutter, no React Native, no Kotlin Multiplatform beyond shared logic. Kernel writes native Android.

◆ 03

Fixed price without a Load.

We will not quote a fixed price for a build we haven't scoped. The Load exists so both sides know what they are agreeing to.

◆ 04

Ghost engineers.

You meet the engineers building your app in the first week and they stay on it through Hand off. No swap-outs, no offshore relay.

◆ 05

Weekend crunch.

We plan honest schedules. If a deadline slips, we tell you the Wednesday before, not the Friday of.

◆ 06

Vendor lock-in.

Your code lives in your GitHub org from day one. Your Play Console. Your Firebase. If we part ways, you own everything.

Start with a Load.

Two weeks. £6k. You leave with a written plan whether we continue together or not.