Consulting
Senior consultants for production-readiness reviews, vendor lock-in and migration assessments, and investor due diligence. Engagements ship a written report inside one business day. Same engineers who fix and build base44 apps in production — so the recommendations are technical, specific, and actionable.
Why us
Most no-code consultants pitched themselves as Bubble experts in 2023 and added base44 to the deck six months ago. Our consultants ship base44 in production every week. Recommendations come from real reps, not slide decks.
Every engagement closes with a PDF report: scope, findings, prioritised actions, cost-of-inaction estimates. You can hand it to a board, an investor, or your future engineering hire — and it will still make sense in six months.
We are not a base44 reseller. We are not paid by base44. If the right answer for your business is "migrate to Next.js + Supabase," that is what the report will say. If the right answer is "stay on base44 and fix three things," that is what we will say.
The $497 audit covers most production-readiness and vendor lock-in questions. Hourly consulting at $300/hour is reserved for legal and due-diligence work where the scope is genuinely open-ended.
What you get
TIER · RECOMMENDED
$497
USD · Fixed-price · One engagement
One-day production-readiness review. Architecture, security, performance, SEO. Written report with a remediation plan.
Scope
TIER
$497
USD · Fixed-price · One engagement
Stay-or-leave audit. Cost of remaining on base44 vs cost of migrating to Next.js + Supabase or alternative stack. Written go/no-go.
Scope
TIER
$300/h
USD · Fixed-price · One engagement
Hourly expert consulting for legal, due-diligence, and acquisition contexts. Four-hour minimum, written engagement letter.
Scope
How it works
Step 01
Confirm question, scope, and which engagement fits.
Step 02
Read-only collaborator access or screen-share for sensitive workspaces.
Step 03
Findings, prioritised actions, cost models. PDF + Markdown.
Step 04
30-minute Q&A on the report. Optional, included.
Engagement examples
Names redacted at client request. Pattern, scope, and outcome shared with permission.
Case 01
Founders had built an MVP on base44 and were closing a $4M Series A. Investor due diligence asked "is this production-ready?". We ran a $497 audit, identified seven critical issues (auth, payments, SEO, credit-burn), and delivered a written remediation plan. They closed the round and engaged us for a $3,000 multi-bug rescue afterwards.
Case 02
Founders had hit base44 platform limits at 50,000 active users. Question: stay and harden, or migrate? We modelled both — credit-burn projection vs migration cost — and recommended a phased migration to Next.js + Supabase. They engaged us for a $12,000 medium migration over the following quarter.
Case 03
A strategic acquirer was buying a base44-built business and needed an independent technical review. Eight hours at $300/hour. We delivered a written technical-risk register covering platform lock-in, code maintainability, security posture, and a 36-month total-cost-of-ownership projection.
QUERIES
Three core engagements. First, production-readiness reviews — is your base44 app safe to launch? Second, vendor-lock-in and migration-feasibility assessments — what does it cost to leave? Third, due-diligence work for investors and acquirers evaluating a base44-built business. All deliver a written report and a one-hour walkthrough.
A developer ships code; a consultant ships a written recommendation. Most teams need both. We typically start with a $497 audit (consulting deliverable) and follow with a $1,500-$3,000 sprint (developer deliverable) if the audit identifies fixable issues. The same engineer often does both.
Yes — for legal, due-diligence, and acquisition contexts we offer hourly expert consulting at $300/hour with a four-hour minimum. For everything else, fixed-price scopes are clearer and cheaper.
That is one of our most-requested engagements. We audit your app, model the cost of staying (credit burn, platform-bug exposure, vendor risk) versus the cost of migrating (engineering hours, downtime risk, infrastructure spend), and deliver a written go/no-go recommendation. Tier: $497 audit plus a free 30-minute review call.
Yes. Mutual NDAs are standard. Engagement letters specify the scope, deliverable, timeline, and price up front. For investor due-diligence engagements we also sign confidentiality side letters as required.
Audits start within one business day of payment. Hourly consulting can typically begin inside 48 hours. Time-sensitive due-diligence work (e.g. an acquisition closing) can be expedited — flag urgency in the contact form.
Deliverable detail
Every consulting engagement closes with a written report that survives the engagement. The structure below is the same template we use across audits, migration assessments, and due-diligence reviews — adjusted for scope but not for content quality.
One page, no jargon, with a clear go/no-go recommendation. Written so a non-technical board member or investor can act on it without translation.
Every issue identified, scored on severity (critical/high/medium/low) and effort (hours/days/weeks). Reproduction steps where the issue is a bug. Cited to specific files, functions, or platform behaviours.
Sequenced action list with effort and dependency mapping. Critical items first, low-effort wins next, longer-tail items last. Each item references the underlying finding for traceability.
Cost-of-inaction estimate (downtime risk, security exposure, credit-burn projection). For migration assessments, full migrate-vs-stay TCO model over 36 months. For due diligence, technical-risk register with probability and impact scoring.
Reproduction artefacts, screen captures, code excerpts, configuration dumps. Everything an internal team needs to act on the report without further consultation.
30-minute optional Q&A on the report, recorded with consent. Useful for handing the engagement off to an internal engineering hire.
Common questions
Before scoping, three questions surface across most engagements. The honest answers shape the engagement letter and inform pricing.
Question 01
Yes. The honest recommendation comes through in the written report regardless of which way it goes. We have ended audits with "migrate to Next.js + Supabase" and we have ended audits with "stay and fix three things." Both are valid outcomes; the report says whichever the data supports.
Question 02
Yes — investor due-diligence engagements are a sub-category we ship regularly. Reports include named author, credentials, methodology, and citations to specific files or platform behaviours. Investors typically want a 30-minute walkthrough call afterwards; that is included.
Question 03
Yes — most consulting engagements lead to a follow-on implementation. The audit fee is credited toward any subsequent fix or migration engagement booked within 30 days, so functionally the audit is no-cost when you proceed.
NEXT STEP
Order a $497 audit or request hourly consulting. We respond inside one business day.