One-Time Deployment
$3,500
flat fee
Compile a production Rust binary and deploy it to your local or edge hardware. Includes 14-day warranty. You own the binary, the server, and the code.
Services & Pricing
Fractional CTO and zero-cloud architecture. I replace your $5K/month AWS bill with a $10/month laptop. Transparent pricing because technical founders hate hidden costs.
What I Replace
Your current stack → my stack
$5,000/month AWS bill → $10/month laptop + Cloudflare tunnel
Kubernetes + 5 managed services → single Rust binary
DevOps team → cargo build + one deploy command
Microservices sprawl → all routes embedded, one process
Cloud vendor lock-in → Unlicensed code, runs anywhere
cochranblock.org is the live proof. You're looking at it right now.
Pricing
Long-Term Project
$3,500
per milestone
Pre-agreed architectural phases or microservices. Scope defined before work starts. Each milestone is a deployable deliverable — no half-built features.
Monthly Retainer
$3,500
per month · 15 hours
Fractional CTO strategy, architecture design, code review, and infrastructure consulting. Your on-call senior engineer without the full-time salary.
need something outside the scope?
A La Carte — $225/hr
Hands-on-keyboard coding, additional hours beyond retainer cap, feature additions, or anything outside the defined scope. Minimum 30-minute increments. Written estimate + your approval before work begins.No surprises. You approve every hour before I bill it.
Emergency — $337.50/hr (1.5x)
After-hours or drop-everything priority. Weekends, nights, production-down situations. Same approval workflow — you say go, I go.For when the server is on fire and you need someone who's done this before.
What You Get
Zero lock-in
All custom code delivered under the Unlicense — public domain. You own everything. No recurring license fees, no dependency on me, no vendor trap. I earn repeat business by being good, not by holding your code hostage.Every other consultant locks you in. I give you the keys.
11 years defense & enterprise
USCYBERCOM J38 dev lead for a Congressional NDAA-directed offensive cyber operations study. Two Six Technologies. Enterprise security. Active clearance. I've shipped production systems for organizations that can't afford downtime.Not my first build. Not my first deployment. Not my first fire.
9 open source repos as proof
Every repo at github.com/cochranblock ships with Proof of Artifacts and a Timeline of Invention. Wire diagrams, screenshots, build output, commit-level history. You can verify my work before we ever talk.Talk is cheap. Code ships.