— PRACTICE / FOUR ENGAGEMENT MODELS · SIX PRACTICES

Engineering, on your side of the desk.

Six practices, run by the same small senior team. Pick a shape: a one-off sprint, an embedded squad, or a long retainer. Pricing is plain — we scope the work first, then quote in working days. Fixed, transparent, no hidden fees.

CHAPTER01DISCIPLINES

What we actually do.

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Mobile & Web Apps

iOSAndroidWebCross-platform

Our original craft. We build apps that ship, scale, and keep working after launch. Native where it matters, cross-platform where it doesn't.

From On request 6–12 weeks · fixed price

What you get

  • Native iOS (SwiftUI) and/or Android (Kotlin) apps, App Store + Play release pipeline
  • Web/admin built in React or Next.js, deployed to your cloud or ours
  • Weekly demo, shared Slack, source code yours from day one
  • 3-month post-launch support included on every project

Stack

SwiftUIKotlinReactNext.jsFlutterSupabaseFirebase
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AI & Transformation

LLMRAGAgentsVision

We help SMEs move from "ChatGPT on the side" to AI that is wired into the workflow — measured, evaluated, and owned.

From On request 4–10 weeks · fixed price

What you get

  • An honest AI readiness assessment — including "don't bother" cases
  • A working internal copilot or RAG system trained on your documents
  • An evaluation harness so model and prompt changes can be measured
  • Hand-off documentation your in-house team can run

Stack

ClaudeGPT-4oLlama 3Postgres + pgvectorLangGraphModal
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Forward-Deployed Engineering · FLAGSHIP

On-site HKHybridSquad of 2–4

An engineer or two, in your office on a weekly cadence, writing software against the actual operation. The fastest way to convert tacit knowledge into leverage — and Accord's most differentiated engagement shape. See the full FDE page →

From Monthly retainer 6+ weeks · per engineer

Best for

  • Operations-heavy businesses (logistics, F&B, professional services)
  • Founders who know "there's a tool here" but can't scope it from a deck
  • Teams that have lived through one bad outsourced project already
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Business Re-engineering

AuditAutomationInternal tools

A two-week process audit, a written roadmap, and a small set of internal tools that pay for the engagement in the first quarter.

Audit Fixed-fee 2 weeks · credited to build

The audit produces

  • A map of where time and money currently leak
  • A ranked list of automation wins (effort vs. payback)
  • A 90-day plan, with or without us as the implementer
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Growth & Marketing

AcquisitionRetentionAnalytics

The unglamorous loops that turn a product into a business. We instrument, run experiments weekly, and only keep what moved the number.

From Monthly retainer 3-month minimum

Includes

  • Analytics setup & weekly dashboard review
  • Paid + organic acquisition (Meta, Google, LinkedIn, ASO)
  • Email / push / in-product retention loops
vi

Fractional CTO

RetainerHiringArchitecture

Senior engineering leadership for founders pre-Series A and SMEs without a head of tech. Steady cadence, real accountability, no headcount.

From Monthly retainer 6-month minimum

Rhythm

  • Weekly 1:1 with the founder, monthly board update
  • Engineering hiring (panel, scorecards, offer help)
  • Architecture reviews, vendor selection, tech due diligence
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WE C.A.R.E. — Code rescue

AuditRescueHandover2-week sprint

A consulting service we have quietly run since 2014 — named on the original site, kept here because it remains one of the most useful things we do. We read the source code your former developer left behind, and we tell you, honestly, where you stand.

From Fixed-price audit 2 weeks · written report

What C.A.R.E. stands for

  • Code read — line by line, by a senior engineer, with no judgement of the previous team
  • Audit — security, architecture, IP, third-party risk, what is salvageable and what is not
  • Roadmap — a written plan with three options: rebuild, refactor, or run-as-is, with cost & timeline for each
  • Execution — if you choose us, we start; if you don’t, you keep the report and we wish you well

When to call us

  • Your former development team is unreachable or unresponsive
  • A new vendor wants to ‘rebuild from scratch’ before you understand why
  • An app is breaking on new OS versions and you don’t know who to ask
  • An acquisition or investor is asking technical due-diligence questions
CHAPTER02ENGAGEMENT MODELS

Four shapes a relationship can take.

Not every engagement starts with an invoice. Some clients pay us the senior rate; some bring an idea but no capital; some want a partner, not a vendor; some are not-for-profit and we work for the cost of the coffee. We have built the studio to handle all four without pretending they are the same thing.

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Professional

FOR · MOST CLIENTS

Standard fee-for-service. You bring the brief, we scope the work, we ship against a signed agreement. Built for clients with a budget and a clear ask — the bulk of what we do.

→ FIXED FEE OR T&M
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Investment

FOR · FOUNDERS WITH AN IDEA

You have the idea; the cheque is the bottleneck. We open our investor network — angels, family offices, the in-house sponsored-projects pool — and, where the project fits, help raise the capital that gets it built. Our investor page is the long version.

→ SEE INVESTOR PAGE
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Cooperation

FOR · STARTUPS · PARTNERS

A partnership shape, not a vendor shape. We can take work outsourced from other studios and treat it as our own; or sit beside a startup as a long-term partner in the business itself — sometimes at a flexed rate that respects what an early team can afford.

→ FLEXED RATE OR EQUITY
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Charity

FOR · NGOs · SMALL ORGS

For Hong Kong NGOs, charities and the smallest startups, we run a quota of low-cost or pro-bono consultations each year. It is our way of giving something back to the community we work in. There is no application form — a real email gets a real answer.

→ LIMITED QUOTA / YEAR
CHAPTER03HOW WE COMPARE

AccordHK vs. the others.

AccordHK Big agency Freelancer In-house build
Senior people on your project ●○●●
Ship in weeks, not quarters ●○●○
Stays after launch ●○○●
No fixed bench you pay for ●○●○
Bus-factor > 1 ●●○●
HK-based, HK-hours ●●○●
CHAPTER04FREQUENT QUESTIONS

Questions we get a lot.

How do you price?

Plainly. For custom work and forward-deployed engagements, we need to understand your scope before we can quote anything meaningful — so the first call is free, and the first written plan comes out of it. The price itself is built from working days, fixed once we agree on the scope, and transparent on the line items. We don’t do hourly-creep or surprise invoices. If the scope changes mid-way, we tell you, and we agree the change before we do the work.

Do you sign NDAs before the first call?

Yes — happily. Send yours, or we'll send ours. We've kept commercial details of every HK engagement private since 2014; the case studies on this site are published with explicit client permission, and many of our clients prefer to stay off-record.

What does a typical engagement look like?

A free 45-minute discovery call → a short written plan (1 page, not 30) → a fixed-price audit or a time-boxed first sprint → an ongoing shape (retainer, squad, or embedded). Most clients we still work with today started with a small audit or a short build, then grew the relationship from there.

Will my data leave Hong Kong?

Only with your explicit say-so. We default to Hong Kong / Singapore regions on AWS, GCP, and Azure, and to locally-hosted Postgres for AI projects with sensitive documents. For regulated clients (financial advisors, healthcare) we will run open-weights models on dedicated infrastructure rather than send anything to a third-party LLM.

Who owns the code?

You do, from day one. Repository under your GitHub organisation, infrastructure under your cloud account. We've never held a client's code hostage and we never will — if a relationship ends, the hand-over is what we are most proud of.

Can you work with our existing developers?

Often that's the best shape. We frequently sit alongside an in-house team — sometimes filling a senior gap, sometimes accelerating a single workstream, sometimes mentoring a junior team into the next tier. We don't do politics, and we make sure your team gets the credit.

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Not sure which shape you need?

That's what the first call is for. Tell us the problem; we'll tell you which of the six (if any) is the honest answer.

Book a discovery call → See the work
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