Product engineering · San Diego
Our product engineering services give you a complete team that owns a product outcome, not a list of tasks. Orcatec, a San Diego company that builds and runs its own SaaS, puts product management, design, engineering and QA in one team that decides what to build with you and measures whether it worked.
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A typical development vendor takes a specification and delivers it. A product engineering team starts one step earlier. It asks which problem matters most to your users and your business, tests ideas cheaply, and then builds the version that moves the number you care about.
This works best for companies that have a live product or a clear market, but not enough product and design capacity in-house to decide what to build next and ship it at a steady pace.
The mix depends on your product and stage. A typical team has four to seven people, and every role is accountable for the same goal.
Owns the roadmap with you, talks to users, turns goals into priorities and keeps the team focused on outcomes.
Researches user needs, designs flows and screens, and tests them with users before and after release.
Frontend, backend and mobile engineers who take part in discovery, not only in delivery, and flag cheaper ways to reach the goal.
Builds automated and manual checks into every release, so the team can ship often without breaking what works.
We agree on one or two measurable goals for the next quarter, such as more trial users converting or less time spent on a task.
User interviews, data review and quick prototypes to find which changes are most likely to move that goal.
Small, frequent releases behind feature flags, with analytics on every change.
We review the results with you, keep what works, drop what does not and plan the next cycle.
Each goal comes with a metric we agree on at the start, so everyone can see whether the work paid off.
More new users reaching the first useful result, through better onboarding, defaults and guidance.
Fewer accounts leaving, by fixing the friction points that show up in usage data and support tickets.
Pricing pages, upgrade paths and features that customers are willing to pay more for.
Less manual work for your users or your own staff, measured in time saved per task.
Orcatec is a field service platform with a web app and iOS and Android apps. The same cross-functional approach decides what we build for our own customers.
We designed, built and still run Orcatec, a field service management platform used by home services companies to sell, schedule, dispatch, invoice and get paid, in the office and in the field.
Read the case study →Tell us about your product, your users and the goal you want to reach. We will reply within one business day with a proposed team.
Product engineering teams work on a monthly basis. The cost depends on team size and composition.
$50–70 per hour
A complete cross-functional team that owns one product or product area end to end.
A product manager and designer who join your existing engineering team to bring discovery and outcome tracking.
You get a written proposal after a free consultation.
We make product decisions every week for our own SaaS: what to build, what to cut and how to know if a release helped. Our clients get people who have had to live with those decisions.
We are based in San Diego County and work in Pacific time. Your product lead can join planning and review sessions in person.
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A full-time team of developers, designers and QA that works only on your product, managed with you, billed monthly.
Learn more →Multi-tenant SaaS products with subscriptions, roles, integrations and mobile apps, built by a team that runs its own SaaS.
Learn more →A focused first version of your product, built to test with real users and grow into production software.
Learn more →Product design for apps and web software: research, user flows, clickable prototypes and design systems developers can build.
Learn more →Manual and automated testing for web and mobile apps: real devices, regression suites, performance checks and safer releases.
Learn more →Tell us what you want to build. We’ll reply within one business day with questions and next steps.