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A clearer path from the problem in front of you to a system that works.

How we start & what it costs ↓

Every engagement is a transformation.

We look at your operation end-to-end — not one tool at a time — and design a system around it, incorporating AI, RPA, and automation only where they genuinely make sense. One platform, built to fit how you actually work.

Three ways in

Where you start decides the shape of the work. The terms below are the same for all three.

01

Modernization

Something's already in production, and it's straining.

What it is

The build worked until it didn't. We take what's there, keep what still earns its place, and rebuild the rest as a system that holds under real load.

Who it's for
  • Citizen-developed apps past what their builder can carry
  • No-code and low-code platforms at their ceiling
  • Performance degrading as volume climbs
  • Manual workarounds holding the process together
02

Build

There's no system yet — just the work.

What it is

End to end: discovery, architecture, and something running in production. Nothing to migrate, so the design starts from how the operation actually needs to run.

Who it's for
  • Greenfield — no existing implementation
  • Process living in spreadsheets, inboxes and memory
  • A new line of business to stand up
  • Architecture, build and rollout in one engagement
03

Advise

You have the team. You need the technical leadership.

What it is

Embedded fractional leadership — inside your organization rather than beside it. We make the calls that are expensive to get wrong and set the standards your team builds against.

Who it's for
  • A capable team with no one setting technical direction
  • No in-house architect or CTO to make the call
  • Decisions stacking up that are expensive to get wrong
  • Builders who need standards to build against

What we actually do

The hardest part of development is still knowing what to build, when, and why.

  1. Spec & Requirements Translation
  2. Workflow Modeling & Re-design
  3. Architecture & Systems Design
  4. Integrations & Data Pipelines
  5. Delivery Governance & Guardrails
  6. Capacity & Roadmap Scoping

Typical outcomes

The same four, whichever way you start — and what we report against.

  • Technical debt reduction

    through schema standardization · payload alignment · architecture cleanup

  • Margin expansion & cost control

    through contract restructuring · tool consolidation · infrastructure efficiency

  • Reduced administrative burden

    through automated rule engines · AI data pipelines · policy triggers

  • Quantifiable delivery ROI

    measured by gross margin expansion · faster cycle times · reduced rework

Getting started

Where you start decides nothing except how quickly we find out if this is worth doing.

01 · Free

Fit Call

15 minutes

A short call to hear what's going on and say plainly whether it's something we should keep talking about.

Book an intro call
02 · Paid

Working Session

$450

An hour together, along with our initial recommendations, and a scope/plan of how we'd apply our frameworks to your unique case.

  • One hour, focused on your actual situation
  • Written synthesis delivered after
  • An initial set of recommendations and a plan
03 · Paid

Discovery

$7,500

Where the plan becomes something real — working products and artifacts you can put in front of your team.

  • Working prototypes, not slides
  • Architecture and scope for the build ahead
  • The artifacts a build decision needs
04 · Ongoing

Partnership

From $15,550/mo

A dedicated, ongoing cadence: executive technical steering paired with fixed delivery capacity each month you can plan around.

  • Biweekly strategic sessions to align and prioritize the roadmap
  • Fixed monthly delivery capacity, scheduled in advance
  • Weekly progress updates and live working demos
  • Faster feature deployment using our internal library of pre-built components and patterns
  • Ongoing system architecture, vendor evaluation, and technical strategy
  • Technical guidance and enablement for your existing team
  • Backlog governance and priority management
Recent results

One engagement, end to end — the system, and the number it moved.

Managed platformFiscal-Sponsorship PlatformOne integration layer between Airtable, Ramp, and QuickBooks — and nearly twice the clients served each month, with no added headcount.Fractional Technical Leadership · Solutions ArchitectureRead the case 1.9×Clients served / month

What we bring.

Architecture, workflow design, and integration — brought together with the technology and operating systems that make the work run.

How we build
HybridiIn a hybrid build, Airtable serves as a database and/or interface, working alongside a custom-code stack — with portals and advanced logic sitting in the custom layer. Low-code speed where it helps, real engineering where it counts.
Airtable
arc-theory / stack
Front-end
Next.jsReact
Data & backend
SupabasePostgres
AI & LLMs
Anthropic / ClaudeGemini API
APIs & integrations
GraphQLREST APIs
Cloud & deployment
VercelGoogle CloudCloud Run
Languages
PythonTypeScriptJavaScriptSQL

Airtable as a database and/or interface, alongside a custom layer for portals and advanced logic.

Questions about delivery, capacity, or the details?

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Book an intro call.

Tell me about the problem you're staring at — the shape of it, the constraints, and how you'd know it's solved. I read everything and reply within one business day with times.

or email directlydanielle@arctheory.io