We build the software you can’t afford to get wrong.
Maxed Out is a senior-only consulting firm. We embed with your team, ship the hard parts, and leave. No juniors, no bench, no bullshit.
Six ways we show up. Always at full intensity.
Product Engineering
Ship the thing. Then ship the next thing.
Embedded engineering pods that work like your team but arrive with two decades of shipped product behind them. We pair with your people, write the code, and leave the codebase better than we found it.
- → Greenfield product MVPs
- → Feature development at production scale
- → Engineering team augmentation
- → Technical due diligence
Platform & Infrastructure
Boring infrastructure. Non-boring outcomes.
Rebuild the load-bearing parts of your stack without turning the business off. Migrations, consolidations, cost reductions, and the kind of reliability work that stops paging people at 3 a.m.
AI & Applied ML
From the demo to the daily habit.
Two kinds of AI work, one senior team. We ship production ML — LLM integrations, RAG, agents, cost-bounded inference with real evals — and we help your whole organization actually use AI every day. Custom playbooks by role, tool rollouts, workflow redesign, and productivity gains you can measure.
Technical Strategy
The call you make once, carefully.
Short, senior engagements where the decision matters more than the code. Build-vs-buy, technology bets, acquisition diligence, and the architecture reviews that change a roadmap.
Identity & IT Operations
One login. Every app. Zero chaos.
A modern business runs on fifteen SaaS platforms. Without central identity, every new hire takes hours to provision, every departure is a security risk, and every password reset becomes a support ticket. We set up SSO, manage users across your stack, and run it as an ongoing retainer.
Predictive Analytics
Know before they do.
Custom models that predict what your customers, fans, or operations will do next — and when. We’ve shipped predictive engines for NFL and MLB franchises, DTC brands, and direct-sales teams. Marketing attribution, churn propensity, fan engagement, demand forecasting — anywhere a better signal changes the decision.
Maxed Out did in fourteen weeks what our last vendor couldn’t do in a year. The difference was not the code — it was knowing which code not to write.
A small firm with uncommonly strong opinions.
We hire senior-only. Every engineer on a project has shipped something you’ve used. No juniors learning on your codebase, no bench time billed as delivery.
We price on outcomes, not hours. You know the number before we start. We eat the cost of our own mistakes — which is why we’re careful about the ones we make.
We treat knowledge transfer as a deliverable. When we leave, your team owns the stack. If we’re the only people who can operate what we built, we’ve failed.
Have something hard to build?
Tell us about it. We’ll tell you if we’re the right fit.