Services

What Kleto delivers

Kleto is a product engineering agency. Technical strategy through production-ready software. Scoped engagements with clear handoff.

How I help

  • Technical strategy. Architecture reviews, build-vs-buy decisions, and roadmap planning before you spend on build.
  • Full-stack development. Production code across frontend, backend, APIs, and data.
  • Design and UX. Functional interfaces aligned to business requirements. No bloat.
  • Infrastructure and DevOps. CI/CD, serverless, static hosting, observability. Systems that run themselves.
  • Link hubs. Branded single-page link products for profiles and campaigns. See james.qa.
  • Rescue and refactor. Legacy cleanup, performance remediation, and delivery recovery for stalled products.

Who I work with

Founders and small teams that need senior engineering without a full-time hire. Operators who need software they can run after handoff.

Early-stage and bootstrapped teams welcome. Engagements are scoped to fixed deliverables.

How it works

  • 1. Discovery. A short call or written brief to confirm scope, constraints, and timeline. No fee for the initial conversation.
  • 2. Proposal. A fixed scope document: deliverables, schedule, and cost.
  • 3. Delivery. Weekly status, working software at each milestone, full visibility into progress.

What people say

"James took our vague product idea and turned it into a working prototype in two weeks. He thinks like an engineer and communicates like a founder."

Founder, early-stage SaaS

"We brought him in to fix a legacy codebase that three agencies had touched. He untangled it, documented it, and handed it back better than new."

CTO, e-commerce startup

"Clear communication, clean code, on time. Exactly what we needed."

Operations lead, small business

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