Mentoring · For individuals
Building it yourself? Bring an engineer with you.
A senior engineer alongside you while you build, whatever you are building it with. Someone to think with, to review your work, and to answer the question that has had you stuck all afternoon. Monthly, cancel any time.
Who it's for
Building the MVP yourself
You are building it in Lovable, Cursor, Glide, or by hand, and there is no engineer to ask. You get straight answers, reviews of what you have built, and someone to think through the next step with, every week, for as long as you are building.
First product, not first code
You can code, but you have not shipped and run a product before. Architecture, hosting, security, what to test and what to leave for later. Experience on tap so you spend your time building, not second-guessing, and you level up as you go.
Shipping, and want to get properly good
You have taught yourself enough to make things work. Now you want to know why they work, what will break at scale, and how experienced engineers would have done it. A senior engineer looking at your actual code, not a course.
What you get
Someone in your corner
A named senior engineer who knows your product and your goals, week after week. Not a helpdesk.
A regular call
Think out loud, brainstorm, work through the hard problem. Leave with a decision and a next step.
Questions between calls
Async access to your engineer, with a response inside one working day. Stuck for minutes, not days.
Reviews as you go
We read what you are building and tell you what is fine, what is fragile, and what to fix first. Security and data handling included whenever it matters, not just before launch.
Decisions, faster and cheaper
Which tool, which host, what it will cost, when a shortcut is fine and when it will bite. Twenty years of mistakes you do not have to make.
You get better at this
Every session leaves you more capable and more confident. The aim is that you need us less, not more.
Who you'll work with
Available now.
Mayker is a small, senior team plus a network of specialists we have worked with for years. Every engagement is led by one of us and stays with them. This is who has capacity right now.
Robin Hayward
Twenty years building software: iOS since the App Store opened, now AI systems and the products around them. Startups, scale-ups and multinationals across sport, fintech and commerce.
A few places this quarter
Need a specialism you do not see here? Security, data, design, mobile, a particular platform. We bring in the right person from our network and stay accountable for the work: same price, same terms, one point of contact.
How it works
Intro call
A short conversation about what you are building and where you are stuck.
Pick a cadence
Fortnightly or weekly, on a monthly subscription. Pay by card, cancel any time.
Start next week
Your first session is booked and you have a direct line to a senior engineer.
Just need an hour?
Book a single session.
Not ready for a subscription, or just stuck on one thing? An unblock session is an hour with a senior engineer, paid once, no commitment. Most people book one and then subscribe. See the session.
Inside a company?
If you are building something for your employer, or you lead a team that is, engineering cover is the same idea bought as a service your company can approve.