Why teams trust
the studio.
We don't ask you to take our word for it. Here's the evidence.
Trust in a software engagement comes from verifiable evidence, not assertions. Every claim on this page is backed by something you can check: a public GitHub repo, a certification verification link, a methodology document, a test suite count.
What we promise, in numbers.
Operational facts that should be true before you send a deposit. Each one is something you can verify today.
Well-matched inquiries get a response within two business days. No “I’ll get back to you” ghosting.
Mutual NDA available before scope discussion. Template at /legal/nda — sign electronically, no lawyer required.
Same stack we ship for clients. Daily encrypted backups, IAM-scoped access, OIDC-only deploys.
This site’s source is open. Every commit is auditable history of how the studio actually operates.
Receipts from real shipped infrastructure.
These are not stock images. Every tile below maps to a real artifact in the public repo — CI logs, test reports, scans, and infra configs. Click into the source to verify.
9 active certifications across testing, cloud, and networking.
All certifications are active. Verification links available on request — just ask during a discovery call.
Certified Tester Foundation Level (CTFL)
Active
Test Automation Engineer (TAE)
Active
Certified Tester AI Testing (CT-AI)
Active
Certified Cloud Practitioner
Active
Certified Solutions Architect — Associate
Active
Certified Developer — Associate
Active
Certified SysOps Administrator — Associate
Active
Certified DevOps Engineer — Professional
Active
CCNA (Routing & Switching)
Active
Every project ships with these standards enforced.
13 testing frameworks. Every layer covered.
See the Quality Telemetry case study for the full architecture.
Unit
Jest, Vitest
Component
Testing Library
API
Supertest
Contract
Pact
E2E
Playwright, Cypress
Performance
k6, Lighthouse CI
Security
OWASP ZAP
Accessibility
Axe
Visual regression
Percy / Chromatic
BDD
Cucumber
No code ships without passing CI gates.
Terraform-managed. Security-scanned. Auditable.
All infrastructure provisioned via Terraform.
106 public repositories. 1,438 commits in the last year.
All open-source projects are publicly available and maintained. The commit history is not curated for appearances — it's the actual development record.
106
Public repositories
1,438
Commits (last 12 months)
57
Pull requests (last 12 months)
27
GitHub followers
Where your data lives, who can read it, and how long.
The facts. No SOC-2 certificate yet — the studio is too young to have one. Here’s the operational equivalent: a plain-English description of how the studio handles client data, sub-processors, and incidents.
Customer data lives in Supabase (Postgres, US-East-2) and Stripe. No analytics platform stores PII beyond hashed identifiers — Vercel Analytics is privacy-first by design.
Inquiry records: kept for two years from last contact, then auto-purged. Engagement artifacts: kept for the duration of the engagement plus 12 months unless an MSA specifies longer.
Service-role keys are server-side only. Row-level security on every customer-facing table. No third-party support seat has read access to customer data — the studio is one operator.
Vercel (hosting/CDN), Supabase (database & auth), Stripe (payments), Resend (transactional email), AWS (infrastructure for client work). Full list maintained on /legal/privacy.
Security incidents are disclosed to affected clients within 72 hours. Post-incident report includes root cause, blast radius, and remediation steps — no PR-spin.
Email sage@sageideas.dev with a deletion request and your records are purged within five business days, including downstream caches and backups in the next rotation.
What we put in writing.
Every engagement signs an MSA + SOW. These five guarantees show up in every one of them — not as marketing copy, as contractual terms.
Fixed price means fixed price
Quoted scope is what you pay. Scope changes require a written amendment and explicit approval before any additional work begins. No surprise invoices, ever.
Refund before work begins
If we haven’t started, we issue a full refund. No questions, no friction. Once work begins, one-time engagements are non-refundable but always negotiable on outcome.
Cancel monthly anytime
Site Care, Brand Care, Content Care, Scale, Operate, Content Engine — all cancel through Stripe in two clicks. Billed through end-of-cycle. No 12-month lock-ins.
Handoff that survives
Every engagement ships with documentation, runbooks, and a knowledge-transfer call. The system survives without me on the next call — that’s the bar.
No bait-and-switch staffing
The person who scopes the work is the person who builds it. There’s no “we’ll assign a team” — it’s one operator on every line of code.
Here’s when we are the wrong fit.
The fastest way to lose your time and ours is pretending we’re right for every situation. We aren’t. These are the most common mismatches — if you see yourself here, save us both a discovery call.
Sage Ideas is one operator. We can do extraordinary depth on one or two parallel workstreams — not breadth across ten. If you need a staffing agency, we are the wrong fit and we will say so on the first call.
Studio Engagement is up to 30 hours per week with defined response windows. It is not 24/7 on-call. If you need a fulltime engineering lead embedded in your team, hire one — we’ll help you scope the role.
Productized engagements start at $1,500 because that’s the floor at which the work is actually high-quality. There is no $500 audit. Cheap consulting is expensive when it’s wrong.
For pre-revenue startups in specific circumstances, we’ll consider partial equity (cash + equity, not equity-only). Pure speculation arrangements are declined politely.
We scope before we build. Discovery and architecture come first — always. If you want a contractor who builds whatever you ask without pushback, we are the wrong choice.
Talk to past collaborators directly.
Sage Ideas is a young studio. Rather than ship cherry-picked testimonials, every prospective client gets the option to talk directly to people I've built things with — fintech engineers, founders, ops leads. Real phone numbers, real conversations, no scripts.
Most engagements run under NDA. Names withheld until written permission lands.
Most engagements operate under NDA. Real names + logos appear here only with written permission, replacing the monogram tile in place.
Engineering lead
Worked alongside on production trading systems for 5+ years. Available for technical reference calls — code quality, on-call discipline, incident behavior.
Founder
Engaged Sage Ideas for a Ship + Operate combination. Willing to talk about scope discipline, timeline accuracy, and what handoff actually looked like.
Open-source collaborator
Co-shipped a developer-tooling project. Available to discuss code review depth, communication cadence, and how disagreements got resolved.
Operations lead
Worked with Sage Ideas on internal tooling and integration plumbing. Reference call covers: scope creep, change requests, billing transparency.
Platform architect
Reviewed several Sage Ideas architecture artifacts before client handoff. Available for a third-party perspective on technical depth and trade-off reasoning.
Reference contact details are shared with prospective clients during discovery, with both parties' consent. As the client roster grows, quoted testimonials will replace this honest stub — not before.