Ballast
Work with Ballast

Adopt it yourself, or have it applied to your build.

Ballast is free and MIT licensed. If you want it applied to your build by the person who wrote it, there are two ways to work together.

Engagement one

Foundations sprint

● Fixed price~2 weeks

Hard rules written with you, not for you. You leave able to defend your own non-negotiables.

  • —Hard rules, written with you
  • —A technical plan
  • —A knowledge-map source profile
  • —A go/no-go read on the POC
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Engagement two

POC sprint

● Fixed price, fixed scope2 to 4 weeks

A working product built the Ballast way, plus the full artifact set: repo, decision log, build log, and fail-closed CI.

  • —A working proof of concept
  • —The full artifact set
  • —Fail-closed CI

The handoff is not an afterthought. It is part of the product.

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Case studies

TakoApp

B2B commerce integrations
cXML/OCI PunchOutAribaCoupaSAPOracle

Complex procurement integrations across four buyer platforms, reduced to one surface the founder can reason about.

OutcomeOne integration boundary, documented and reviewable.

Bearings

Regulated health domain
PHI gatesProvenance-tracked KB

A vestibular-health product where PHI handling and knowledge provenance were hard rules from day one.

OutcomeEvery knowledge entry carries a source. No source, no merge.

Is it worth it for you?

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