Lead & Advise
Senior direction and assessment for how you build.
Fractional Tech Lead · AI & Spec-Driven Development · Engineering Maturity Assessment · Codebase Health Review · Developer Experience & CI/CD
Explore Lead & Advise →Hitch your systems to someone who's run them.
We make web products faster and cheaper to run, and we keep them up. You work with the engineer doing the work.
What we do
We cover the whole stack,
from fast pages to reliable platforms
We measure before we change anything, and we show you the numbers.
Build & Perform
Build it right, and make it fast, findable, and usable.
- Web Performance
- SEO
- Web Design & Accessibility
- Quality Engineering
- Full-Stack Development
Run & Operate
Keep it running, keep an eye on it, and keep it secure.
- Reliability & SRE
- Observability & Monitoring
- IT & Networking
- Security & Deliverability
Scale & Optimize
Grow without surprises in load or cost.
- Cloud & Infrastructure
- Cost Optimization
- Data & Databases
Also offered
Media & Creative
Production and design beyond the codebase.
Streaming & Video Consulting · Visual & Brand Design
Explore Media & Creative →For small businesses & nonprofits
Or you might just need a good website
Not every problem is a platform problem. If you need a site that loads fast, works on a phone, and shows up on Google, that's a shorter conversation and a fixed price.
From $299
Priced by what the site needs to do, not by how many pages it has. You get the number in writing before anything starts, so tell us what you need and what you have to spend.
Hosting is free at that size. You pay for a domain, about $15 a year, and there's no monthly bill from us at all.
Running a nonprofit? There's a grant angle worth knowing about →
- Design included Layout, type, and color chosen for your business.
- Accessibility included Built in as we go, which is the only time it's cheap.
- SEO groundwork included The technical setup search engines and AI assistants read. No retainer.
- Yours entirely Domain, files, and accounts in your name from day one.
Why Hitchpost
Outcomes we can put numbers on.
Four results from Jesse's past roles.
- $1.9Mcloud spend, removed
- 93%incident-response compliance, up from 48%
- 99.95%uptime, held 18 months
- 85%of traffic moved to the edge
Engagements led by Jesse Heady in senior and leadership roles at the companies behind them.
Who you're working with
Fifteen years making the web fast and dependable
Hitchpost is Jesse Heady's practice. The work is the engineering users never see but always notice: whether a page loads fast and whether it stays up.
Before Hitchpost, Jesse held engineering and leadership roles at Runwise, 37signals, Realtor.com, and Cox Media Group.
You work with Jesse directly, from the first call to the day something breaks. Problems get caught before your customers see them, and the code is left in a state the next engineer can pick up.
How it works
You'll know the price before the work starts
Nothing to sit through before the work starts, and no hourly meter running while we figure out what you meant.
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Tell us what's wrong
A call or an email. You don't need a requirements document, and you don't need to know the cause.
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We scope it and quote it
A fixed price or a not-to-exceed cap, in writing, before anything begins. If the work grows, you hear about it before it does, not on the invoice.
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We do it, and hand it over
Documented as we go, so your team can run and extend it without us.
Get in touch
Let's talk about your systems
Tell us what's going wrong, in your own words. We read every message and reply personally.
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