Boutique application & billing-integrations consultancy
We're the senior engineers you bring in when the billing flow can't break, the legacy app needs a real upgrade path, or your team wants to move from "we have a repo" to "we ship on Fridays without fear."
What we do
We stay narrow on purpose. These are the engagements we take, the tools we use every week, and the problems we've been paid to solve over and over.
The money path is where "it mostly works" is not an acceptable answer. We design, build, and harden integrations between your app and the providers that actually collect the revenue.
The app that runs your business was written five, ten, fifteen years ago and everyone is afraid of it. We're not. We land you on a framework and PHP/JS/.NET version you can hire against again.
Deploys should be boring. We build the pipelines, cloud infrastructure, and release rituals that let your team ship on demand instead of on nerve.
AI-in-the-loop development is the biggest productivity shift in a decade, and most teams are using it wrong. We show your engineers how to use it well — and build the adapters and guardrails to make it safe.
How we work
A short paid engagement — usually one to two weeks — where we read the code, talk to the people, and produce a written plan with sequenced work and cost.
We embed with your team (or run solo) and deliver working software in weekly increments. Every increment merges. Every increment ships.
Documentation, runbooks, and pair-programming sessions so your team owns what we built. Optional retainer for ongoing office hours.
Ways to work together
Pick the shape that fits the problem. Most clients start with a diagnostic.
1–2 weeks · Fixed price
Codebase and infra review, written plan, sequenced backlog. Often the whole engagement.
4–16 weeks · Fixed-scope or T&M
A defined outcome — a Stripe rebuild, a Laravel upgrade, a CI pipeline stood up.
Ongoing · Weekly cadence
Embed with your team as a senior / lead. Code reviews, architecture, mentorship, and hands-on shipping.
Codebases shipped in
Eric Pearson
Founder & Principal Engineer
Who you're hiring
Eric has spent 15+ years as a senior application developer and DevOps engineer — leading teams up to 8+ engineers, modernizing legacy PHP and .NET codebases, building billing and payment integrations that move real money, and standing up CI/CD across Azure and AWS. He founded TotallyFuzzed to do that work directly with clients, without the agency markup.
Every proposal, every architecture call, every line of code you pay for is written or reviewed by the same person you were on the sales call with. That's the whole pitch of a boutique.
Straight answers
Start a project
A billing integration that keeps breaking. A legacy app nobody wants to touch. A deploy process that takes half a day. A team that wants to use AI without shipping bugs faster. Send a short note — we'll reply within one business day.
Chicago, IL · Remote across US time zones