You built it. I'll help you understand it.

Ontologi works with founders, small teams, and businesses who need senior engineering judgment — whether that's a one-time audit or an ongoing technical partnership. Here's how to tell if it's a good fit.

Ontologi may be right for you if…

You built with AI and need someone to check the work. You used Cursor, Copilot, Claude Code, or another AI coding tool to build your product. It's running, maybe even making money — but no senior engineer has ever reviewed what shipped. You're not sure what you don't know, and that's keeping you up at night.

You've had a security scare, or you're worried one is coming. Something broke. Someone found a vulnerability. Or you just read a headline about AI-generated code getting exploited and realized nobody's ever looked at yours. You don't have a security team and you need an expert who can tell you exactly what's wrong and how to fix it.

Your codebase has outgrown your understanding of it. The project started small — a weekend build, a prototype, a proof of concept. Now it's thousands of lines of code that multiple AI tools touched, and you can't confidently explain what half of it does. You need someone who can untangle it, document it, and give you a path forward.

You want to use AI tools but keep getting unreliable results. You know AI-assisted development is powerful, but your experience has been inconsistent. Sometimes it works, sometimes it generates garbage, and you can't tell why. You want structured workflows that make the process deterministic and auditable — not just "prompt and pray."

You're a founder or technical leader who needs senior depth on call. You're making architecture decisions, scaling a product, or building a team, and you need a principal-level engineer who's done it before at companies like Twilio and Weights & Biases. Not a staffing agency. Not a junior contractor. Someone who can own hard problems and ship.

You need a longer-term engineering partner, not just advice. Your team has a gap — platform architecture, API design, security, observability, reliability — and you need someone who can embed, build, and lead. Weeks, months, or ongoing. Ontologi takes longer-term engagements for teams that need real depth.

Context Equity Pricing

The biggest cost in a code review is learning a new codebase. When I've already reviewed your code, I know the architecture, the conventions, and where the risks live. That familiarity saves real time — and the savings get passed to you.

After your first paid review or audit, subsequent engagements on the same repository are billed at a reduced rate. It's not a loyalty program — it's a reflection of accumulated knowledge. Like a staff engineer who's worked the same system for years, I can review changes faster when I already understand what I'm looking at.

Context Equity is earned per-repository and stays active for six months after your last engagement. If your codebase changes substantially or the window lapses, the full rate applies — because stale familiarity can be worse than none.

Probably not the right fit if…

You need a mobile app or consumer frontend built from scratch. Ontologi's expertise is backend, platform, infrastructure, and security. If you need a React Native app designed and shipped, I can recommend people who do that well.

You need a marketing website or graphic design. I'm an engineer, not a designer. If your primary need is branding, visual design, or marketing collateral, that's a different shop.

Your project requires a large dedicated team. Ontologi is a small, senior consultancy — not an outsourcing firm. If you need ten developers for six months, I'm not set up for that. If you need one or two senior engineers who are worth ten, let's talk.