Decisions you don't have to make alone. An experienced engineer on call for the work you need done — and off the clock the rest of the time. No headcount, no equity, no long contract.
A fractional engineer is a senior software engineer you bring in for a single question, a single plan, or a single project — and step away from when it's done. No salary. No payroll. No equity. No long contract.
Think of it the way you already think about a lawyer or a CPA. You don't have one on staff. You call when you need one. When you don't, the meter is off.
If you're growing faster than you can keep up with — automating an online business, scaling something AI helped you build, or staring at a tech decision with no one senior to call — fractional is the size of help that fits.
"Should I build this, buy it, or use AI for it?"
"How should this actually be built so it doesn't break?"
"Can someone experienced just pick this up and ship it?"
Three engagements for three sizes of stuck. You don't have to commit to one — most clients move between them as the work changes shape.
Tools, hiring, AI workflows, vendors, what to ship next, whether your developer's plan is sane. You bring the question, we bring twenty years of having made the same call. Async-first, calls when they help, written memo when a decision is on the table.
Before a line of code: how the pieces fit, what to build first, where it'll break at 10x, what to skip. You leave with a written plan you can hand to any builder — your team, a contractor, an AI tool, or us — and get the same thing back.
When the build is in front of you and you need senior hands. Automations that run without you. Integrations that hold. The migration, the rewrite, the hardening pass before launch. We ship, we document, we leave behind something you can carry without us.
The Pemigewasset cuts through the White Mountains the way good engineering cuts through a business — patient, accumulating, shaped by the rock it moves through. That's the model.
Pemi Labs is a small practice in New Hampshire — run hands-on by an experienced engineer who's done the work at every level. Fractional means you get that experience without the headcount, the equity, or the standing meeting. You call when you need it, scope it small, and the meter is off the rest of the time.
Whether you're automating an online business that's growing faster than you can keep up with, or hardening something AI helped you ship, the work is the same — read the situation, write the plan, and pick up the tools when it's time.
Read more about the studio →A 30-minute call. No deck, no NDAs, no follow-up "loop in" emails. Bring the question, the half-built thing, or the decision — we'll point you at the right engagement.
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