Agencies sell process. We sell output. If you need a brand campaign with a 40-slide deck, call an agency. If you need software that works, keep reading.
Individual products from €149 to €5,000. Most projects land under €2,000
Retainers from €5,000/mo or project fees starting at €15,000-50,000+
1-3 weeks for most products. No discovery phase, no kickoff meetings, no alignment workshops
6-16 weeks typical. Discovery, wireframes, revisions, QA — each phase adds weeks
One senior developer who owns the project end to end. You talk to the person building it
Account manager, project manager, designer, developer, QA. You talk to the person managing the person building it
Minimal. Brief, build, deliver. Status updates when there's actual progress to report
Heavy. Weekly standups, Gantt charts, change request forms, approval workflows
You own 100% of the code from delivery. No licensing, no lock-in, no exit fees
Often murky. Some agencies retain IP rights or charge for code handover
Optional maintenance plans. No pressure, no lock-in contracts
Usually bundled into expensive retainer agreements you can't easily exit
Pick individual products from the catalog. Scale up or down project by project
Committed retainers or SOWs. Changing scope means change orders and renegotiation
Focused on functional software that performs. No filler deliverables
Multi-discipline output (design, copy, strategy) but development quality varies by team
Agencies make sense for large brand-building projects where you need strategy, design, and copy alongside development. Refitted makes sense when you need functional software shipped without the overhead — at a fraction of the cost and a fraction of the timeline.
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