White-label development. Your brand, your client, our hands.
You've sold work your team can't staff this quarter, or the piece nobody there wants to own. We take it on as white-label development — quietly, under your name, in your repo — and your client never learns we exist unless you decide to tell them.
The work that's hard to staff for one project
Design-led shops in particular tend to be deep on front-end and thin on everything behind it.
Backend behind your design
You've won a beautiful build and need the APIs, data model, auth, and admin behind it to actually hold up.
Integrations
ERP, CRM, payments, EDI, logistics, or whatever unglamorous system the client's business actually runs on.
Legacy & migrations
The data migration, the old Java service, or the C++ component that would tie up your best developer for six weeks. This is our day job.
DevOps & deployment
Hosting, pipelines, environments, certificates, and monitoring — set up once, properly, and documented for your team.
Stalled project rescue
A build that's late and losing the client's confidence. You'll get a blunt diagnosis before a proposal.
Maintenance you'd rather not hold
Support retainers on old client projects that clog your roadmap. We can carry them behind your brand.
How we stay invisible
- No contact with your client unless you ask for it in writing
- Your repository, your branching model, your review process
- Your ticket tracker and your definition of done
- Commits and documentation written for your team to inherit
- We can join calls as your team, or stay entirely off them
- Mutual NDA before anything sensitive changes hands
- No case studies, logos, or portfolio use without your written sign-off
Commercials that let you quote
You need a number you can mark up and defend. We scope to a fixed price with enough detail that you can build your quote on top of it, and we absorb our own estimation misses instead of renegotiating with you halfway through.
Senior, no bench
You're not getting a junior assigned to your account. Small shop, senior hands, no resource-shuffling mid-project.
Straight status
If we're going to miss, you hear it early enough to manage your client. Surprises are the one thing you can't resell.
Domain depth you can borrow
Legacy systems, logistics, EDI, and process work — sell it as your capability, because for the client it is.
We don't compete with you
We won't pitch your client for the work you brought us in on. Referrals go back to you, not around you.
From your scope to your client's release
Four steps, and you stay the only voice your client hears at every one of them.
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Scope call
Thirty minutes with whoever on your side actually understands the commitment. We ask the awkward questions there rather than in front of your client.
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Fixed number
A written scope and a fixed price, split into pieces you can line-item in your own proposal. Quote your client on your terms; ours don't need to show.
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Build in your world
Your repo, your board, your review process, your release cadence. Status goes to your project manager in whatever form they already read.
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Hand back and stand down
Merged, documented, and walked through with your team. Then we're gone — unless you want us on the maintenance retainer behind your brand.
Where white-label work actually goes wrong
Almost never the code. It's the seams between three organizations, and they fail in the same five ways every time.
The spec is a mood board
Beautiful screens, no rules. What happens when the payment fails, the upload is 40MB, or two people edit the same record? We'll write those rules down and send them back for your sign-off before we quote — that document is usually worth more to you than our estimate.
Access never arrives
The client's ERP credentials, the sandbox key, the VPN. Weeks vanish here. We ask for the full access list on day one, in writing, with a named person on the client's side, so the delay is visible early instead of showing up as our slip.
Review latency eats the schedule
We can ship daily; a two-week approval cycle means the calendar, not the work, sets your delivery date. Tell us your real review cadence and we'll size the batches to it rather than pretending it doesn't exist.
Scope arrives through the client
Your client mentions "one small thing" on a call, your account manager says yes, and nobody tells engineering. Every change comes to us through you, in writing, priced — which also gives you a clean record of what to bill for.
Nobody owns the boring half
Domains, certificates, DNS, backups, and who gets paged at 2am. Split that in the contract before launch. We'll happily hold it behind your brand, but the worst outcome is both of us assuming the other one did.
The handover that never happens
Work that ships but never transfers leaves you dependent on us, which is bad for both of us. Setup docs, an architecture walkthrough, and a working local environment for your team are part of the scope, not an upsell.
Straight answers
Will you ever contact our client?
Not unless you ask us to, in writing. We work under your brand, in your channels, and your client never needs to know we exist. White-label is the default.
Can you work inside our repo and project tooling?
Yes. Your repository, your branching model, your ticket tracker, your code review, your definition of done — and your language: Python, TypeScript and JavaScript, Go, Java, C#, Rust, C++, SQL, or the Scala, Clojure, or Elixir service the original contractor left behind. We adapt to your conventions rather than importing ours.
We need a fixed number to quote our client. Can you do that?
That is the usual arrangement. We scope and give you a fixed price with enough margin room for you to mark up, and we absorb our own estimation misses rather than surprising you mid-project.
Can you rescue a project that is already late?
Often, and we will be blunt about the diagnosis. Sometimes the fix is capacity; sometimes it is scope; sometimes the honest answer is that the foundation needs replacing. You will get the real assessment, not the one that maximizes our invoice.
What work do agencies send you most?
Backend and integration work behind a design-led build, legacy or data migrations, EDI and logistics connections, and the unglamorous DevOps and maintenance pieces that are hard to staff for a single project.
Who signs the contract — you and us, or you and our client?
You and us. Our agreement is with your agency, we invoice you, and we have no contractual relationship with your client at all. That is what makes the white-label arrangement work: your client's contract, warranties, and support commitments stay entirely between the two of you, and we are simply a cost line inside your delivery.
What happens if our client tries to hire us out from under you?
We decline and tell you it happened. It has come up, and the answer does not change: the relationship belongs to the agency that brought us in. Going around you would win us one project and cost us every future one, which is a bad trade in a business that runs on repeat subcontracting. We will put a non-solicitation clause in the agreement if you want it in writing.
Who owns the code you write for us?
You do, on payment, so that you can assign it onward to your client under your own contract without asking us for anything. We keep no license back over the deliverable and reuse nothing client-specific. The only things we carry between engagements are general skills and our own pre-existing tooling, which is called out in the agreement rather than left ambiguous.
How do we reach you mid-project, and what are your hours?
US Central time, and we join whatever channel you already run — your Slack or Teams as a guest, your ticket tracker, or plain email if that is how your project managers work. You get a named person rather than a shared queue. For releases and cutovers we will work your client's window, including evenings and weekends, as long as it is scheduled rather than discovered.
Got something you can't staff?
Send the scope. You'll get a fixed number and an honest read on whether we're the right hands for it.
Prefer to talk?
Call 832-598-8234 or email msco@stoneagesoftware.com. Houston, Texas — serving Houston, The Woodlands, Conroe, Sugar Land, Katy, Pearland, and the Greater Houston metro.
What happens next
We read your message, an engineer replies with questions or a straight answer, and if it's worth a call we book one. No drip campaign, no handoff to sales.