FYC LABS — ADVISORY RETAINER
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An engineer in the room,
every week.

You do not need a development shop yet. You need someone senior looking at the decisions before they turn into code, and a pair of hands for the work that has to get done between calls. This is that, priced as a standing arrangement rather than a project. One hour a week with our solutions architect, plus engineering time at a rate that only exists inside this retainer.
What the Hour Is For
01 · HARDEN
The open findings

The three unauthenticated endpoints from the code review, then the reason they existed. Your middleware guards pages, not the API, so every route decides for itself who is allowed in. We work that down route by route.

02 · DECIDE
Before it gets built

The collectible layer, the shared Supabase instance, the schema split between events and mvp_events. These are one-way doors. The hour exists so you walk through them on purpose.

03 · SCOPE
What comes next

When a venue or sponsor asks for a security review, you want the answer ready, not researched. We keep a running scope of what the enterprise build actually requires, so the number is never a surprise.

What You Get Each Month
Four weekly working sessions. One hour each, with FYC's solutions architect. Screen shared, code open. Not a status call.
Engineering hours inside the retainer. Roughly three hours a month of hands on the repo at the retainer rate. Pull requests, not advice.
A written decision log. What we decided, what we deferred, and why. The document a technical diligence process asks for.
Async access between sessions. A shared channel for the question that cannot wait until Tuesday. Answers, not tickets.
Architecture and code review on request. Push a branch, get a real review from the team that read your whole repo already.
First month is committed. The engineering hours in month one go to closing the three open endpoints. That is the starting point, not a discovery phase.
Investment
LineStandard RateRetainer RateMonthly
Advisory, 4 hoursSolutions architect, weekly working session $250/hr $175/hr $700
Engineering, ~3 hoursProduct engineering against the repo $175/hr $95/hr $300
Monthly retainer$1,525 of time at standard rates. You pay 34 percent less. $1,525 $1,000
Term

Month to month. Thirty days written notice either direction. Invoiced the first of the month for the month ahead. Net 14. ACH or check.

Above the Retainer

$95/hr, up to 20 hours a month. Additional engineering runs at the same retainer rate against a written estimate you approve first. Nothing gets billed you did not agree to.

Where This Stops

The retainer rates apply to retainer work. Defined builds are quoted separately at standard rates: the full authorization layer, the schema consolidation, the collectible layer, and the enterprise platform. This arrangement is how you get to those scopes with your eyes open, not a discount on them.

Hours do not roll forward. A missed week is a missed week. Reschedule inside the month and it counts.

What we need to start. Repo access already granted under the signed NDA, a standing calendar hold, and one named person on your side who owns merges. Start date is the Monday after signature.

You built the hard parts right. The problem is that nothing sits above your routes deciding who is allowed to do what, and that gap does not close itself. FYC Labs code review · 454 files · 63 API routes · July 2026