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New Product Development
Focused SaaS and mobile MVPs built for launch — architecture, auth, billing, and the core product spine that gets you to real users.
Solo, senior-led product engineering
Senior SaaS & Mobile
Product Engineering, on subscription.
Work directly with a senior product engineer to launch new products or continuously ship features, integrations, fixes, and improvements — without hiring another full-time engineer.
MVP Launch from $14,995/mo · Continuous Development from $5,995/mo
// Services
Senior product engineering, on tap.
A solo, senior-led studio — not a traditional agency. Continuous engineering capacity for the work that actually moves your product forward.
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Continuous Product Development
Features, improvements, integrations, and roadmap execution on a continuous senior engineering lane.
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Product Rescue
Stabilize inherited applications, reduce technical debt, fix performance issues, and get your codebase healthy again.
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AI Features & Automation
Agents, AI workflows, LLM integrations, and internal automation shipped into real products — not demos.
// Use cases
Built for the stage you're in.
Whether you're launching a first product or scaling an existing one, the engagement is scoped to your real situation.
Non-technical Founders
Launch your first product.
You have a clear vision and early signal but no technical co-founder. Work directly with a senior engineer to turn your idea into a real, launched product.
SaaS Teams
Ship roadmap items faster.
Your team is busy keeping the lights on while the roadmap piles up. Reserve a continuous senior engineering lane focused on shipping the next thing.
Growing Software Companies
Extend your engineering capacity without another hire.
Adding a full-time senior engineer is slow and expensive. Get senior product engineering capacity on a monthly subscription — no recruiting, no ramp.
// Stack
Sharp tools.
Boring choices.
Battle-tested defaults so your product doesn't become a science project. Every choice optimizes for shipping and staying easy to hire around later.
Languages
TypeScriptNode.jsPythonRubySQL
Frameworks & AI
ReactNext.jsDjangoFastAPIRuby on RailsOpenAI Agents SDKLangChain
Infra & Cloud
PostgresSupabaseAWSGoogle CloudDigitalOceanCloudflareTerraformCI/CD
Design & Prototyping
UI DesignPrototyping
// Pricing
Choose the engagement that fits your stage.
Two customer journeys: launch something new with MVP Launch, or continuously grow what you already have with Continuous or Priority Development.
MVP Launch
Starting at
$14,995/month
Typical engagement: 2–4 months
Build a focused SaaS or mobile MVP from zero through production launch.
- Product architecture
- Technical planning
- Authentication
- Billing
- Database design
- Core product features
- Admin dashboard
- Responsive web or mobile application
- Deployment
- Source code ownership
- Weekly planning sessions
- Unlimited backlog during engagement
- Delivered in milestones
Focused MVPs only. Larger products are delivered over multiple phases.
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Continuous Development
$5,995/month
For existing SaaS and mobile products
Continuous senior engineering for products already in market.
- One active development milestone
- Unlimited backlog
- Typical milestone delivery in 3–5 business days
- Features, bug fixes, integrations, technical debt reduction
- AI features
- Shared Linear workspace
- Private Slack channel
- One product
- Pause or cancel monthly
Priority Development
$8,995/month
For fast-moving product teams
Everything in Continuous Development, with reserved priority capacity.
- Everything in Continuous Development
- Typical milestone delivery in 1–3 business days
- Reserved priority scheduling
- Faster revisions
- Weekly planning call
- Related repositories supported
// MVP scope
An MVP is a focused first version of your product. The goal is validating your business — not building every feature you will eventually need. Large marketplaces, enterprise systems, and highly complex platforms are delivered over multiple phases.
// Milestones
Large features are delivered incrementally.
Large requests are divided into smaller milestones that ship one after the next. Delivery times apply to milestones — not entire projects.
- REQUESTBuild analytics dashboard
- M1Dashboard layout
- M2Charts
- M3Filtering
- M4Export
- M5Permissions
- M6Deployment
// Process
Async by default. Structured on purpose.
Projects run out of a shared Linear workspace. Day-to-day happens in a dedicated Slack channel — no status meetings, no vendor portals.
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Discover
Understand your product, backlog, and where the biggest leverage sits.
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Onboard
Repository, environments, Slack, and Linear set up in week one.
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Prioritize
Select the highest-value milestone and scope it into shippable increments.
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Ship
Incremental pull requests, releases, and progress updates delivered continuously.
// About
Work directly with the engineer doing the work.
Blackhawk Software is a solo, senior-led product engineering studio run by Shane Perreault — 10+ years building software, leading engineering teams, and shipping products in production.
- — No account managers
- — No outsourced development
- — No handoffs
You're buying continuous senior engineering capacity — not a full-time employee, not hourly consulting, and not a traditional software agency.
Book Discovery Call →// FAQ
Questions, answered.
The practical stuff founders and product teams usually want to know before booking a call.
You pay a flat monthly rate for continuous senior engineering capacity. There are no hourly timesheets and no surprise invoices. Continuous and Priority Development can be paused or canceled monthly.
One active milestone is a single piece of work in flight at a time — for example, a feature, an integration, or a bug investigation. Larger features are broken into smaller incremental milestones that ship one after the next.
Continuous Development targets a 3–5 business day delivery cycle per milestone. Priority Development provides faster delivery cycles and reserved scheduling, typically 1–3 business days per milestone.
Output depends on request complexity. Smaller milestones may be completed quickly. Larger features are broken into incremental deliverables. The subscription reserves a continuous engineering lane — not a fixed number of hours.
Yes. Focused SaaS and mobile MVPs are delivered through the MVP Launch engagement. After launch, most clients transition into Continuous Development.
24/7 support, emergency response, daily standups, large undefined enterprise projects, fixed-date guarantees, and unlimited engineering are not part of the subscription.
That's normal. Part of onboarding is translating your goals into scoped milestones in Linear. You don't need to hand over a perfect PRD.
Yes. Blackhawk Software is a solo studio. You talk to Shane, the code is written by Shane, and the updates come from Shane.
You own the code, the designs, and the infrastructure. Everything is built in your repos and accounts, so you can hand it off or scale the team anytime.
Let's build something
worth shipping.
Tell me about your product, stack, timeline, and goals. If Blackhawk isn't the right fit, I'll say so.
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