What do you need?
Three different things live here. Pick the one that sounds like you and I will show you only that.
I want a website or an app built.
You describe the business, I design and build the real thing — brand sites, inquiry flows, members areas, full applications. Free scoping call, flat quote before any work starts.
See how builds work ↓Teach meI want to get better at this myself.
Claude coaching for engineers and non-engineers, coding-interview prep, and a resume read by someone who has been on the other side of the pile. Priced per session.
See the coaching ↓For my engineering teamI am buying for a team.
Fixed-scope engagements for engineering orgs of roughly 20 to 500 engineers: find where the AI-coding spend leaks, install the fix, prove the delta on one team.
See the team engagements →Ex-Amazon · Ex-The New York Times · No retainers
I design and build it for you.
The way Mostly Mellow was built: one person doing the design and the engineering, a live link from the first week, and a flat quote agreed before any work starts.
Websites & applications
You describe the business; I design and build the site or the application. Brand sites, story and experience pages, inquiry flows, members-only areas, full web applications — hand-built, no template, live link the whole way through.
How it’s priced
Every build is different, so there is no list price. A focused brand site and a members-area application are different amounts of work, and I would rather scope honestly than publish a number that is wrong in both directions. We start with a free 30-minute call about what you need; I come back with a flat quote, so you always know the number before any work starts.
Work with me, one on one.
Priced by the session, no retainers. If the first session is not useful, I refund it.
Claude coaching
One-on-one coaching from the engineer who taught 500+ engineers at The New York Times how to get more out of Claude. Works for engineers building with Claude Code, and equally for non-technical teams (sales, finance, operations, marketing, execs) trying to actually use Claude in their day-to-day work.
Interview prep
One-on-one coaching for coding interviews at Amazon, The New York Times, and companies that hire like them. Real problems, real feedback, real patterns you take into the room.
Resume review
A written review of your engineering resume from someone who has been on the other side of the pile at Amazon and The New York Times. Line-level edits, not vibes.
If your Claude Code rollout is not showing a return.
Three fixed-scope engagements led by an AI Coding ROI Readout, for engineering orgs of roughly 20 to 500 engineers: find where the AI-coding spend is leaking, install the operating-model fix, and prove the delta on one team. Published pricing, honest measurement anchored to independent research, artifacts you keep.
Smaller than that, or the thing you actually want is one repetitive workflow taken off your team’s plate? Workflow builds is scoped per build and works the same whether you are one person or twelve.
Questions people ask.
What does a build cost, and how does the process work?
There is no list price, because a focused brand site and a members-area application are different amounts of work. We start with a free 30-minute call about what you need; I come back with a flat quote, so you always know the number before any work starts. From the first week you get a live link you can click and share — you watch the site become the real thing instead of approving mockups. At handover you own everything: domain, hosting, code.
What does the first session actually look like?
You email me, I reply with a short intake (what you are prepping for or want to get better at), we book a 60-minute slot over video. Sessions are worked against your real material: your repository, your resume, your interview loop, your recurring workflow. Recorded on request. I send targeted homework at the end so the next session picks up mid-stride, not from zero.
Refund policy on coaching?
If you are not getting value out of the first session, I refund it. For 5-hour packages, unused sessions are refunded on request. The point is that you leave every session with something you can use tomorrow; if that is not landing, we do not spend more of your money on it.
Interview prep: do you cover system design and behaviorals, or just coding?
Coding rounds first (data structures, algorithms, communication under pressure), which is what most engineers actually need at Amazon-tier loops. System design is available on request but not the default; I stay out of Staff-and-up system-design coaching because that is not the depth I ship at day-to-day. Behaviorals I coach as part of a package (STAR framing, tricky-question rehearsal) but do not sell as their own service.
I am not an engineer. Can you really coach me on Claude?
Yes, this is a big part of who I take on. If you work in sales, finance, operations, marketing, or as an executive and want to actually use Claude on real work (not toy prompts), sessions are shaped around the recurring work you already do: research, memos, analysis, decks, email, workflows. We use Projects and prompt patterns, not code. No prior Claude experience required.
Tell me what you are working on.
A site or an application you want built, an interview loop, a resume, a Claude workflow, an automation you want to stop doing by hand. The discovery call is 30 minutes and free. You leave with a read on the shape, whether or not we end up working together.
alextongme@gmail.com→I reply within one business day