The questions people actually ask
Including the awkward ones. If yours isn't here, ask our AI or book a call.
Who owns the code?
You do. Complete IP transfer on final payment, in writing — including models, prompts, infrastructure config and documentation. There's no proprietary runtime you have to keep licensing from us.
Does our data leave our systems?
Your choice, and we'll walk you through the trade-offs. We can run everything on your own hardware, inside your cloud tenant, or on the frontier APIs. Most projects are fine on the APIs and we'll say so. See "Your data. Your choice." on the AI page.
Will you sign an NDA or a DPA?
Yes, before the first technical call if you'd like. We work as your processor under a standard DPA. We don't train on your data and we don't reuse your code on other projects.
You're one engineer. What if you're unavailable?
Fair question, and it's the right one to ask. Every project ships with documentation, runbooks and a reproducible local setup, and the code lives in your repository from day one — not ours. For business-critical systems we agree a named backup engineer in the contract before work starts. You are never holding a black box.
Can you work with our existing team?
Yes, and a good share of the work is exactly that — joining an in-house team as the senior engineer on a specific problem, and leaving the team able to maintain it.
What if we don't know exactly what we want?
That's normal, and it's what the discovery sprint is for. Five working days, €2,500, and you leave with a working prototype and a spec you own, whether or not we build it together.
Why do you charge for discovery when others do it free?
Because free discovery isn't free: it's paid for somewhere in the project, and it filters for people who want a proposal rather than a solution. Paying for five days means you get five real days of engineering, and the output is yours to take anywhere. If we go on to build it, the fee is credited in full.
How fast can you start?
Usually within one to two weeks. Small web packages sometimes the same week.
Do you work in Greek?
Natively — and so do our systems. Greek-language search and generation is genuinely harder than English and most tools handle it badly. We've spent real time on exactly that problem, and every site we build can be bilingual from day one.
What happens after launch?
Ongoing care from €800/month, covering maintenance and real changes, or a simple editor so you can update your own text and photos without paying anyone. AI systems in particular need someone watching the evaluations, not just the uptime: model behaviour drifts, and quality degrades quietly if nobody's measuring.
Fixed price or time-and-materials?
Fixed price on defined scope. It's better for you and it forces us to scope honestly. If the scope changes, we quote the change and you decide.
What if we're too small for you?
Below about €1,500 a custom build genuinely isn't the right answer, and we'll point you at Shopify, Wix or Squarespace and mean it. Above that, size isn't the question — whether we're the right team for the problem is.
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