● FIXED-PRICE PRODUCTION READINESS AUDIT
MagmaLabs is a nearshore software development company, building since 2011 from Colima, Mexico, with offices in Las Vegas and Atlanta. We audit what you built, then fix what’s broken and stay to scale it. Senior Rails, React, Node and AI engineers, one fixed price, and a number you can take to your board.
Since 2011
15 years, same team end to end
200+
Projects shipped, as of Sept 2026
3 offices
Las Vegas · Atlanta · Colima
10 days
Audit to written report
readiness-report.log · sample
● SLA GREEN
31 findings · 9 blockers · 10 days
THREE WAYS IN · ONE LADDER
Transparent scopes, fixed prices, and a written path from audit to production.
START HERE
step 01 · 10 days
A full diagnostic of your prototype: architecture, security, data model, test coverage and cost-to-scale, scored and ranked.
$4,900
fixed
Architecture & data model
Reviewed
Security & tenancy
Threat-modelled
Load & cost at 10x
Benchmarked
Business rules
Reviewed
Remediation plan
Priced
#1 finding
Fixed in-window
Turnaround
10 business days
Your #1 finding gets fixed inside the audit window: you leave with a merged diff, not just a report.
Start with an audit
STEP 02 · 4–8 WEEKS
after the audit
We ship the remediation plan we just wrote: production hardening of blockers, tests written, pipeline hardened, and clean handover.
Scoped to your audit
Fixed-fee per workstream, priced straight from the audit’s blocker list.
Blockers closed first
week 1–2
Tests + pipeline hardened
week 2–5
Handover & runbooks
final week
Audit credit applied on signature: you start the fix phase already paid for step one.
Talk about your fix
ONGOING
step 03 · monthly
An engineer from our team embedded in your squad, reviewing code and shipping features in your timezone.
From
$8,500
/ engineer / month
Model
Staff augmentation
Overlap
Your timezone
Commitment
Monthly
Code review
Included
Notice period
30 days
No lock-in after the first month: 30 days notice, any month.
Scope your team
Powering digital flagships, enterprise scaleups & venture-backed teams
Minimal Audio
Spin
Genoa
Rivur
The Flex Company
Hyundai
Optum
Zipline
GoPro
MUD\WTR
Superpedestrian
Zoobean
Violet Grey
Tireget
Wildstock
LittleBits
SmartPay
Tamex
THE MAGMA PARTNERSHIP LADDER
The audit isn’t a cost. It’s a deposit.
100% of the $4,900 is credited toward the fix phase if you continue within 30 days.
01
FIXED FEE · 10 DAYS
We find what is broken and what it costs to leave broken. You get the number, ranked and priced.
02
SCOPED · 4–8 WEEKS
We close the blockers from our own report. No rediscovery, no new learning curve, no re-scoping call.
03
MONTHLY · NO LOCK-IN
We stay as part of your squad, shipping features and raising the floor of the codebase we already know.
Come in at any step. Most clients start with the audit because it’s the cheapest way to find out if the rest is even needed.
Tangible deliverables · no slideware
01
Every finding ranked by blast radius and effort, with a fixed price next to it, so you can fund the top three and defer the rest deliberately.
02
The audit is not a PDF and a goodbye. Anything we can safely fix inside the audit window, we fix, and we show you the diff.
03
No scanner output dressed up as insight. Senior engineers read your architecture, your business rules and your incident history.
SHIPPING TRACK RECORD
200+ projects shipped.
HEALTHTECH · FINTECH · ECOMMERCE
HEALTHTECH
HIPAA COMPLIANCE
A telepsychiatry intermediary focused on patient and provider experience. We built and support their customer-facing and backend platforms, including business integrations and legacy systems.
HIPAA compliance achieved
Read the case
FINTECH
WEB PLATFORM
Web-based systems for managing very large construction projects (resorts and convention centers) with tools for budgeting, contracting, invoicing and forecasting.
Financial management platform
Read the case
ECOMMERCE
DESIGN + BUILD
An SFX and VST plugin e-commerce brand. We designed and built their platform, moving the product from concept to production using Design Thinking and modern web tools.
Concept to production
Read the case
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CLIENT ENGINEERING LEADERS
“Magma pushed us to understand our customers, business model, and long term vision. The commitment from the team is exceptional!”
JP
Jacob Penn
CEO & CO-FOUNDER · MINIMAL AUDIO
“MagmaLabs’ engineers are the main developers of our digital platforms. The best thing about working with them is that they are a very dedicated team!”
NC
Natalia Contreras
HEAD OF PRODUCT STRATEGY · THE FLEX COMPANY
“My Magma engineer is awesome! Trustworthy and communicative. I love working with him.”
ME
Max Ellerhorst
COO · RIVUR
HOW TEAMS START WITH US
Four ways this usually starts. If you are not sure which one you are, say so on the first call and we will tell you straight.
You shipped fast with AI in the loop and now paying users are on it. You need an honest read on what it takes to run it, before it breaks in front of them.
Start with the Production Readiness Audit
Your roadmap is bigger than your team. You want experienced Rails, Java, Next.js, Python or QA engineers who work inside your process, not a vendor you have to manage.
Talk to us about Team Embed
You already have a product in production, often in fintech, health-adjacent or regulated space, and you need a partner who will own reliability and compliance with you.
See how we work with Genoa and Rivur
Design and build from zero, with a scope and a price you can defend to a board.
Tell us what you are building
ENGINEERING PHILOSOPHY
AI engineering for teams who need to ship.
How we use AI, and where it earns its place in the workflow versus where a human still signs off, is written down in our Agentic Playbook. It is what our engineers actually follow on client work.
AGENTIC PLAYBOOK · IN DEVELOPMENT
Publishing soon. Ask us for a walkthrough in the meantime.
Ask for a walkthrough
TEAM EMBED · STEP 03
Add senior engineers from our LATAM team to your squad: nearshore and in your timezone, reviewing code and shipping features next to your own developers. The same people who wrote the audit and closed the blockers, so nothing is relearned.
Monthly, 30 days notice, no lock-in.
From
$8,500
/ engineer / month
Model
Staff augmentation
Overlap
Your timezone
Commitment
Monthly
Code review
Included
Notice period
30 days
Scope your team
WHO YOU GET
FS
Specialized in the design, architecture and implementation of scalable web applications using Ruby on Rails.
RUBY · RAILS · POSTGRES
MB
Our React Native experts create user-centric mobile apps designed to delight stakeholders and users alike.
REACT NATIVE
FE
Attention to detail in crafting captivating and user-friendly web interfaces with React and web components.
REACT · WEB COMPONENTS
Depth over breadth
LANGUAGE
An active open-source community, and the simplicity and flexibility of a dynamic language: concise syntax, clean and readable code, well-established libraries, and frequent security patches.
Ruby on Rails development →
FRAMEWORK
Build web applications faster with convention over configuration. Scalable, maintainable apps that handle high traffic loads and complex business logic, easy to deploy and monitor.
Ruby on Rails development →
RUNTIME
High-performance, highly scalable real-time apps using Node’s event-driven, non-blocking I/O model and a rich library of modules, a fit for broadcasting live events to a global audience.
Web development →
ENTERPRISE
Long-lived enterprise services: Spring-based APIs, integration with existing systems of record, and incremental modernization of legacy Java codebases that still run the business.
Java development →
LIBRARY
Interactive, engaging web apps with an exceptional level of UI interactiveness, maintainable through reusability, performant, and consistent across tablets, phones and desktops.
Web development →
FRAMEWORK
Server-rendered React for products that need both speed and SEO: file-based routing, API routes, static and incremental rendering, and deploys that survive traffic spikes.
Next.js development →
CROSS-PLATFORM
Mobile development →
PLATFORM
Optimize landing and product pages with a top-notch e-commerce framework: find checkout dropout spots, integrate custom payment methods, and improve UX with third-party integrations.
eCommerce development →
AI
Model-backed features that hold up in production: retrieval pipelines, evaluation harnesses, background workers and cost controls around every model call.
Consulting services →
QUALITY
Coverage built alongside the product, not bolted on before a release: end-to-end suites, CI gating and regression packs your team can run on every merge.
QA as a service →
Podcast
Real conversations with founders and operators about the challenges, decisions and breakthroughs behind scaling products and companies.
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Before you buy
Six areas, in 10 business days, for a fixed $4,900: architecture and data model, security and tenancy, business rules, test coverage, load and cost at 10x traffic, and a remediation plan with a price next to every finding. Your highest-priority finding is fixed inside the audit window, so you leave with a merged diff, not only a report.
It can be, but speed hides the risks that only show up under real usage: tenancy, auth, load, missing tests, and business rules nobody wrote down. Generated code compiles and demos well long before it is safe to put in front of paying users. The audit is how you find out before your users do, in 10 business days, for a fixed price.
You keep the full report, the ranked and priced remediation plan, and any fix we merged during the audit window. There is no retainer and no obligation to continue. The only thing tied to continuing is the credit: it applies if you start the fix phase within 30 days of delivery.
If you start the fix phase within 30 days of the audit being delivered, 100% of the $4,900 is credited against that work, so the audit is effectively a deposit. After 30 days the audit stands on its own and the credit no longer applies.
We do not publish a number for it, because it is priced from the blocker list in your own audit rather than from a template. It is a fixed fee per workstream, quoted before work starts, and it usually runs 4 to 8 weeks. The audit is what makes that quote possible.
$8,500 is the published floor for one full-time senior engineer, billed monthly with 30 days notice. The final rate depends on seniority and stack, so a staff-level or specialist AI engineer sits above the floor. We quote the exact number before you commit.
A code audit usually ends in a document. Staff augmentation usually starts with seats and no diagnosis. Our audit is a fixed-price diagnosis that ends in a priced plan and one merged fix, and it is credited toward the remediation if you continue. Team Embed is the staff augmentation step, once the problem is known.
Yes. Most of our work is in healthtech, fintech and eCommerce, where “mostly working” is not a shippable state. For Genoa, a telepsychiatry provider, we built and support the patient and provider platforms, and that work included achieving HIPAA compliance. We sign an NDA on request.
MagmaLabs has been building since 2011 from Colima, Mexico, with US offices in Las Vegas and Atlanta. Engineers are nearshore, which means a full working-day overlap with US timezones rather than a handoff window, and the same people stay on the account end to end.
Something not answered here? Ask us directly and we will answer in writing.
Tell us what you built and we’ll tell you honestly whether it’s ready, before you spend a dollar with us.
Fixed-price scopes
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Nearshore, your timezone
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Audit credited to the fix
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NDA on request
