Rolling, 3-month minimum, From R28,000 / month
Ongoing Partnership
Launch is the beginning. A retainer keeps someone accountable for the product after the launch energy fades: shipping steadily, watching the numbers, and keeping dependencies from quietly rotting.
At a glance
- Timeline
- Rolling, 3-month minimum
- Investment
- From R28,000 / month
- Engagement
- Monthly, cancel with 30 days' notice
- Discipline
- Retainer
Exactly what lands in your hands.
Written into the contract, so there is never a debate at the end about what was in scope.
- 01A reserved block of hours, rolled over one month
- 02A shared roadmap reviewed monthly
- 03Dependency, security and performance maintenance
- 04Analytics review with recommendations
- 05Priority response inside one business day
- 06Quarterly written health report
Four phases, in this order, every time.
The sequence does not change. What changes is how long each phase runs and how much of it your team already has covered.
- 01
Plan the month
One call to agree priorities against the hours available, so nothing is a surprise on either side.
- 02
Ship weekly
Work lands in small, reviewable increments to a preview environment rather than in a monthly lump.
- 03
Maintain quietly
Patches, dependency upgrades and performance regressions handled inside the retainer without a separate conversation.
- 04
Report
A short monthly note on what shipped, what it cost and what I would do next.
- Products live in market that need consistent iteration
- Teams without a permanent senior engineer or designer
- Businesses that want one accountable person, not an agency queue
Not sure this is the one you need? Describe the problem instead of the solution and I will point you at the right shape, even when that is a different service.
About ongoing partnership.
Unused hours roll forward one month. Beyond that they lapse. The retainer reserves capacity, and reserved capacity has a cost whether or not it is called on.
Yes. Production incidents jump the queue automatically and are drawn from the same block of hours.
Where this service produced something real.
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Ready to talk about ongoing partnership?
Rolling, 3-month minimum typically, from r28,000 / month. Send me the details and you will have a scoped proposal (phases, hours and assumptions shown) within a few days.
- info@angelmaile.com
- Phone
- +27 (0) 71 000 0000
- Studio
- Studio 04, Bree Street, Cape Town
- Hours
- Mon – Fri, 08:30 – 17:30 · SAST (UTC+2)
Replies within one business day. Cape Town, South Africa, SAST (UTC+2).