Skylance LLC · AI-native studio

Production software, shipped in weeks — not quarters.

Skylance is a one-person, AI-native software studio. I take founder ideas, stalled roadmaps, and rescue jobs — and put them in production. Fixed price. Weekly demos. Yours to own.

Solo · production
Ship real systems, not slide decks
US LLC · USD invoicing
Registered in the United States
Weeks, not quarters
AI-native delivery velocity
What I do

Three ways to work — all fixed price.

No hourly rates. No junior/senior tiers. You pay for outcomes and calendar time.

01 · MVP Sprint

0 → live product

Take a founder idea to a real, paying-ready SaaS. Auth, billing, core workflow, deployed on production infra. You launch, not prototype.

4–6 weeks · from $25k
02 · Rescue & Ship

Un-stall a codebase

Inherited a mess from an agency or ex-team? I audit, stabilize, and ship the next release. Tests, CI, and a clean handoff — not a rewrite.

2–4 weeks · from $15k
03 · Fractional PE

Embedded engineer

Act as your part-time product engineer. Weekly output, roadmap ownership, direct Slack channel. Senior throughput without a full-time hire.

Monthly · from $12k/mo
Productized services

Fixed scope. Fixed price. Ship next Friday.

Standardized modules I can drop into any codebase — the moat that separates studio work from generic contracting.

Auth & user system
Email + OAuth, roles, RLS, audit log
1 wk
$6k
Workflow engine
Multi-step form, state machine, notifications
1–2 wk
$10k
Admin dashboard
Data table, filters, exports, permissioning
1 wk
$6k
AI feature drop-in
LLM chat, RAG, structured output, evals
2 wk
$12k
Deploy & harden
CI/CD, observability, security review, SLOs
3–5 d
$5k
Why AI-native

The premium is the workflow.

01

AI-native throughput

I use agents, codegen, and evals as a core part of my toolchain. That's why one person can ship what used to take a squad — and why the timelines above are real, not aspirational.

02

Transparent about it

I don't hide the workflow. You'll see the prompts, the diffs, the tests. Publicly running an AI-native studio isn't a liability — priced correctly, it's the premium.

03

Real engineering, not vibes

Types, tests, migrations, observability, threat modeling. AI accelerates the work — it doesn't replace the discipline. That's the line between shipping and shipping-then-paging.

Selected work

Three products I've shipped to production.

Enterprise workflow, security infrastructure, and AI agents — each built solo, end to end. Click any card for the full breakdown.

Enterprise platform · client project

Field-safety compliance platform

A full production compliance system for a construction / field-safety operation — auth and permissions, multi-step approvals, training and exams, live in production.

Auth + RBACApprovalsAudit trail
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Security SaaS · Skylance product

EASM — attack-surface management

A security-grade, multi-tenant SaaS that continuously discovers internet-facing assets, scans them, and turns findings into client-ready reports — on a real microservice backend.

FastAPICeleryPostgreSQL
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AI product · self-built

AI-native research workstation

A dozen-module workspace driven by AI agents: a conversational analyst with persistent memory, a deep-research agent, real-time data fusion, and multi-provider model routing.

LLM agentsPersistent memoryMCP tools
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Who you're working with

One person. Direct line.

No account managers, no offshore team you never meet. You talk to the person designing and writing your product.

Steve Xu
Steve Xu
Senior Product Engineer
LinkedIn

I'm a product engineer, not just a coder — I work end to end, from requirements and product design through to build and delivery. That means you don't need to hand me a finished spec: bring the problem, and I help shape what to build, then ship it. One person owning the whole loop is why the timelines are weeks, not quarters — and why nothing gets lost in translation between "design" and "dev."

Milestone payments

50% to start, 50% on delivery. You never float the whole project — and every week ships something that raises the cost of walking away.

Working demo every week

No dark-room agency months. You see a running deploy each week, so progress is something you can click, not a status slide.

You own everything

Code, docs, CI, and infrastructure are handed off clean and are yours outright. No lock-in, no per-seat license, no hostage codebase.

How it works

Four steps from email to launch.

01

Email what you need

Send a short note about the problem, timeline, and outcome. No forms, no call to schedule.

02

Written quote in 48 hours

Fixed price, fixed scope, honest tradeoffs. Reply if it fits.

03

Ship weekly, demo weekly

You get a working deploy every week. No dark-room agency months.

04

Launch & hand off

Docs, CI, monitoring, and a clean codebase you actually own.

Let's ship something

You have a deadline. I have a workflow.

One email starts it. Written quote back within 48 hours — or a straight "not the right fit."