Continuous Development Contract (CDC)

One managed developer. A whole company's skillset behind them.

Hire a software developer by the month for your product, whether it's already live or still taking shape. A Project Lead plans the work, the right specialist builds each task, and you follow all of it from your phone.

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Monthly subscription. Try it for one month and decide.

Who is CDC for?

Built for businesses and founders.

Grow your digital business

  • Bugs get fixed and changes get made as they come up, not when someone becomes available.
  • Your business platform moves forward every month, in step with your business.
  • Get user tracking for market insight and a business dashboard for your decisions.
  • No freelancer who disappears mid-task.
  • No agency that moves on after delivery.
  • No hiring, no salaries, no team to manage.

Launch your new project

  • Start now, before the full specification exists.
  • Change direction whenever the market tells you to. Changes are unlimited.
  • Put a working version in front of real customers early, and build on what they tell you.
  • No fixed-scope contract to sign before you know what you need.
  • No fee for every change.
  • No long commitment. It's monthly, and you stop when you want.

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What is CDC?

One developer on your side. A whole company doing the work.

CDC stands for Continuous Development Contract. It's a monthly subscription that gives your business its own developer, without hiring one.

You pay one flat monthly fee for one developer's capacity on your platform. Behind that developer stands our whole company, so each task is done by a specialist in exactly that kind of work. It continues for as long as you need it: through the launch, the next version, or the next project.

Everyone who works on your CDC is an AppWorx employee, on our payroll. We never pass your work to freelancers. If no one on our team is free to take you on, we tell you before you subscribe.

Your Project Lead. Your Hired Engineer:
  • Task 1 · UI Designer
  • Task 2 · Mobile Engineer
  • Task 3 · Backend Engineer
  • Task 4 · Cloud Engineer
  • Task 5 · QA Engineer
Version 1 launched. 1 Subscription = 1 Engineer at a time.
How it works
  1. You say what you need.

    In your own words, with no technical language.

  2. Your Project Lead plans it.

    One person who listens, plans the work and stays with you from the first day.

  3. Your Hired Engineer builds it.

    Always the specialist the task needs, drawn from a whole company: design, web, mobile, backend, cloud, testing.

  4. You follow it in the app.

    Every task, who is on it and when it's due, from your phone.

Plans

Choose the level of work your business needs.

Every plan gives you one developer's capacity and your own Project Lead. What changes from plan to plan is the kind of work it covers.

  1. Maintenance

    Support Developer

    Best for a live business that needs a developer on hand day to day.

    Original price$1,000

    Price$750a month

    Your platform keeps running, and so does your team. A developer is on hand for the day-to-day: records that need correcting, accounts that need sorting out, questions from your staff, and the small adjustments that come up. Bugs are fixed as they appear, and your error logs are watched at all times.

    • Data Fixes: Wrong, duplicated, or missing records corrected at the source.
    • Account Issues: User accounts that are locked, duplicated, or set up wrongly, put right.
    • Staff Support: Your team’s questions about the admin panel answered, and stuck work unblocked.
    • Data Requests: One-off exports and reports pulled from your data when you need a number.
    • Minor Adjustments: Small changes to what already exists, such as a label, a field, or a setting.
    • Bug Fixing: Anything broken or behaving incorrectly, fixed as it comes up.
    • Error Monitoring: Error logs watched continuously, so problems are caught before they become incidents.
    • Upkeep: Backups, security updates, certificates and app store requirements kept in order.
    Ask about this plan
  2. Basic Development

    Junior Developer

    Best for a live platform that needs to stay current and watched.

    Original price$1,800

    Price$1,350a month

    Your product stays current, and watched. Design tweaks, content updates, settings changes and the everyday small requests all get handled, so what your customers see always reflects where your business is today. Your error logs are also monitored at all times, so if something starts going wrong, we catch it before it becomes an incident.

    Everything in Maintenance, plus:

    • Design: Layout tweaks, spacing, colours and copy on screens that already exist
    • Websites: Content updates, new sections on existing pages, settings changes
    • Mobile Apps: Small screen adjustments and content updates, shipped with each release
    • Backend: Settings, configuration and small data corrections
    • Bug Fixing: Anything broken or behaving incorrectly, fixed as it comes up
    • Error Monitoring: Error logs watched continuously, so problems are caught before they become incidents
    Ask about this plan
  3. Best Value

    Advanced Development

    Senior Developer

    Best for growing a live business, or building a new project.

    Original price$3,500

    Price$2,625a month

    Your roadmap moves forward. New features, new integrations, new screens and connections to the tools you already use get built and shipped, turning what you have planned into something your customers & team can use.

    Everything in Basic Development, plus:

    • Design: Same as Basic, but full flows and new screens, not just tweaks
    • Websites: Full web features, not small edits
    • Mobile Apps: Full app features
    • Backend: Business logic, the engine behind it
    • Integrations: Payment gateways, email and SMS providers, accounting systems
    • Databases: Data modelling, migrations, reporting queries
    • Cloud Hosting: Deployment, environments and uptime on AWS, Azure or Google Cloud
    • Automation: Scheduled jobs, workflows, anything manual removed
    • Performance: Making slow things fast
    • Testing: Catching regressions before release
    Ask about this plan
  4. For Enterprises

    Architecture & Enterprise

    Staff / Principal Engineer

    Best for enterprises, and for platforms that will serve thousands of customers.

    Original price$5,200

    Price$3,900a month

    Major changes to the core of your product. Redesigning the parts everything else depends on, restructuring how the system works underneath, and the architectural planning and design that comes before any of it is built. This is where the decisions that shape your product for years get made, not features added on top of what is already there.

    Everything in Advanced Development, plus:

    • System Architecture: How the whole product is structured, decided before anything gets built
    • Technical Strategy: What to build, in what order, and what to build it on
    • Scalability: Carrying far more users and data without slowing down
    • Data Architecture: Restructuring how data is stored, moved and migrated at scale
    • Cloud Infrastructure: Multi-region setups, failover, and cloud spend under control
    • Security: Access control, hardening, protecting customer data
    • Compliance: Meeting GDPR, PCI and the standards your industry demands
    • Reliability: Backups, failover, and getting back up fast when something breaks
    • Modernization: Moving off ageing technology without stopping the business
    Ask about this plan

Change your plan whenever your needs change. Upgrade or downgrade, add capacity or reduce it, at any time.

Need it faster? Add capacity, and more tasks move at the same time.

Prices are in US dollars (USD). A downgrade or a reduction in capacity starts from the next month.

One monthly fee

One flat monthly fee. Nothing added on top.

Included

  • Your developer's capacity, on the plan you choose.
  • Your own Project Lead, on every plan.
  • The planning and scoping of every task.
  • Bug fixing and error monitoring, on every plan.
  • Hosting on AppWorx servers.*
  • Publishing your mobile app under an AppWorx developer account.
  • The AppWorx client app, to follow the work.
  • Suggestions for what to build next, based on what your platform is missing.
  • One capacity for all your projects: use it on your website this month and your app the next.
  • A direct WhatsApp line to our team.

For MVP and testing phases. A platform in production with more than 10,000 users needs a dedicated server, which we set up for you at a separate fee.

Not included

  • Your own App Store and Google Play accounts, for the apps that need them.Most apps are published under an AppWorx developer account, at no cost to you. Some apps must be published under their owner's own account, by the stores' policies and by the law in some countries. These are mainly apps that need a licence, such as stock, forex or crypto trading. For these, you open the accounts in your company's name and pay the stores' fees.

No hidden fees. No hourly billing. No long-term commitment. Try it for one month, and stop if it isn't for you.

Start your first month
The AppWorx app

You never have to ask what's done and what's left.

Your whole plan is in the AppWorx app, on your phone and on the web: what's finished, what's being worked on right now, what's waiting, and what we suggest next.

  • The work.

    Every task, who is working on it, when it's due and what is waiting next. Each start and each finish is logged with a name and a time.

  • Your priorities.

    Mark a task as critical and it moves ahead. You decide the order.

  • Your payments.

    Every invoice and every payment in one place.

  • Your files and servers.

    Design documents, specifications and deliverables to download, and the health of your servers at a glance.

How we built this app
The Development screen of the AppWorx client app, listing active tasks with their status and priority
Client App

Most agencies ask you to trust them. We give you the tools to check.

The AppWorx Client Portal app puts live project progress, CDC tasks, documents, and payments in one place.

The comparison

How CDC compares with hiring.

  • Skills

    In-house developer
    One person's skills
    Freelancer
    One person's skills
    CDC
    A whole company's skillset behind them.
  • Planning

    In-house developer
    You plan and manage
    Freelancer
    You plan and manage
    CDC
    Your Project Lead plans it
  • Before work starts

    In-house developer
    4–8 weeks of hiring
    Freelancer
    1–2 weeks of searching
    CDC
    No hiring, no searching
  • If the person leaves

    In-house developer
    You hire again
    Freelancer
    The work stops
    CDC
    The work continues
  • Knowing the progress

    In-house developer
    You ask
    Freelancer
    You ask
    CDC
    Always in the AppWorx app
  • Commitment

    In-house developer
    An employment contract
    Freelancer
    Job by job
    CDC
    Monthly, max flexibility, stop when you want
  • Costs on top

    In-house developer
    Benefits, equipment, licences, recruitment
    Freelancer
    Platform fees, rework
    CDC
    None. One flat fee, no hidden fees

One hire gives you one person. CDC gives you a company.

Common questions

What clients ask before the first month.

Tell us what you want to build or grow.

The first conversation is free. Tell us about your business and what you need, and we'll tell you which plan fits and what your first month would look like.

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We don't send marketing emails, run ad campaigns, share your details with third parties, or use what you send us for anything other than responding to your message.

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