Location
Working with Chicago startups.
Chicago is home. Saurav is based here, which means Chicago founders get the one thing distributed agencies cannot offer: an intro call you can take over coffee, in person, in the same time zone.
A local studio with an overnight build cycle
Holdfast runs a Chicago and Bhubaneswar split. For a Chicago founder that is the best of both: a founder you can meet in person and an engineering window that runs through your night, so you wake up to merged commits.
In-person when it helps
Most of a sprint is async by design. But the day-0 brief conversation and the day-14 handoff are sometimes better in a room. For Chicago clients, that is simply available.
Work
Sprints worth reading.
A feature to ship in Chicago?
Send a one-page brief. A fixed price and a ship date back by morning, in your time zone.