We'd both spent years inside agencies, consultancies, and venture-backed startups before founding Wavect in 2018. We'd seen the same pattern repeat: the engineers who diagnosed the problem on the discovery call were not the engineers writing the code six weeks later. The senior who closed the deal got reassigned to the next pitch. The juniors inherited the work, lost the context, and shipped something the client never asked for.
So we built the opposite. At least one of us is on every call, on every commit, on every deploy. We have no salespeople, no account managers, no project managers in the middle. If you book a call with Wavect, you book a call with the person who will write the code, or who will tell you honestly that we're the wrong team for it.
We used to be a bigger team. We shrank on purpose. Headcount used to be the thing you bought when you needed more output, and for most of software's history that held: more features meant more engineers. That equation broke. We ship more, faster, with fewer people than the version of Wavect that carried a bigger payroll, and we stopped pretending the old math still works.
Here is the bet we're running. The constraint in software is no longer how many engineers you can hire. It's focus, tooling, process, and the energy bill behind the models. We build AI-native: small senior teams that drive frontier models for the hard reasoning and run local models where data can't leave the building, instead of throwing bodies at the problem. A heavy team is now a liability, not a moat. It slows the feedback loop, dilutes accountability, and spends budget on coordination instead of output. Staying small is not something we apologise for. It's the whole strategy.
The pricing followed from the structure. We don't bill hours, because hours are a metric for filling timesheets, not for shipping outcomes. We invoice weekly. You cancel any week. If the last week didn't blow you away, you tell us, and we refund it. The deal is structurally aligned: every week, we have to earn the next one. Fixed prices are on the table too, but in the AI age our experience is that retainers consistently get you better results: tighter feedback cycles, higher velocity, and the freedom to redirect scope the moment the work makes the next call obvious.
What we do has also widened since then. We came up Web3-native and still ship blockchain, and today do just as much AI, fractional leadership and full-stack software. The fuller story: how Wavect evolved.
We also have one colleague who ignores every org chart: meet Ernesto, Wavect's sarcastic company mascot.
