Locate.
Light.
Lead.
We don't sell software. We sell the path. A small senior pod embeds in your workflow, ships a production system you own, and charges for the outcome, not the seat count.
One pod,
three phases
- pod size4 people
- Locate2 weeks
- Light6–10 weeks
- Leadongoing
- code ownershipyour team
- priced byoutcome
Three phases, one promise: you own what we build.
A Brightpath team is a small, senior pod, one architect, two engineers, one operator, working inside your repo, your CI, and your incident channel. Each phase ends with something you keep.
Map the real operating model
Two weeks of embedded discovery. We trace how work actually moves, not the slide-deck version, and hand back a written diagnostic whether or not we continue. That document is yours either way.
Ship the first production system
Six to ten weeks to a real system in production, owned by your team from day one. We work in your repo and your CI, so there's never a handoff cliff, only a steadily shorter list of things we still touch.
Hand off, then stay on call
We step back as your team steps up, but stay reachable when it matters. Brightpath alumni run platform teams at three of our former clients today, that's the outcome we're actually selling.
We charge for the result, not the hours.
Seat licenses reward vendors for sprawl; hourly billing rewards them for slowness. We tie our fee to a metric you'd celebrate hitting, so our incentive is the same as yours: get there, then get out of the way.
Agree on the metric
During Locate we name one or two outcomes that matter, triage time, exception catch rate, time-to-close, with a baseline both sides sign off on before any code is written.
Price the path, not the people
A fixed engagement fee covers Locate and Light. A portion is tied to reaching the agreed outcome, so we're paid more for working ourselves out of a job sooner, not for staying longer.
Settle on the result
We measure against the baseline together. If we miss, the outcome-linked portion isn't owed. No seat creep, no surprise renewals, just a number we both agreed was worth hitting.