Montana Skies is a senior-only software consultancy. We partner with companies that have outgrown their systems — designing, building, and modernizing the platforms their revenue depends on.
We work in small, senior teams that plug directly into yours. Five practice areas, one operating principle: ship something valuable inside the first thirty days, then keep shipping.
Web applications, internal platforms, and APIs built to your business rules instead of a vendor’s roadmap. Typed, tested, and documented from day one.
Infrastructure you can reason about. We build the deployment pipelines, observability, and guardrails that let your team release on a Friday without flinching.
Pipelines, warehouses, and models that produce numbers your executives actually trust — plus pragmatic AI features that solve a named problem.
Fifteen-year-old systems don’t get replaced in one heroic rewrite. We carve them into pieces and migrate incrementally, with the lights on the whole time.
Need throughput, not a handoff? We embed engineers, designers, and a delivery lead into your organization and work inside your rituals and your repositories.
An honest read on a codebase, a team, or an acquisition target — delivered as a written assessment with risks ranked and remediation costs estimated.
The consulting industry has a well-earned reputation problem: you meet the principals during the sale and get juniors on the project. We built Montana Skies to make that structurally impossible. Everyone who writes code for you has at least a decade of production experience, and the person who scoped your project is in the standups.
30 days to first production release
Four phases, clear exit criteria for each, and a written decision at every gate. You can stop the engagement at any boundary and still walk away with something useful.
Two weeks with your stakeholders, your data, and your code. We come back with an architecture, a delivery plan, and a cost range you can take to a budget meeting.
Environments, pipelines, and the first thin slice through the whole system — so that by week four something real is running where your users can see it.
Two-week iterations, demoed to your team, with scope traded openly against a shared backlog. No change orders for decisions we made together.
Documentation, runbooks, pairing sessions, and an on-call rotation your engineers own. We stay available on a support retainer, not a dependency.
We had three failed attempts at replacing our loan origination system before Montana Skies. They shipped the first working module in five weeks and the full cutover eight months later, on budget.
What sold me was the discovery document. It named two risks our internal team had been quietly worried about for a year and put a number on both. That kind of candor is rare in this business.
Our cloud bill dropped 41% in the first quarter after their platform review, and deploys went from monthly to daily. They then trained our team to keep it that way and handed it over.
Discovery is a flat $18,000 for two weeks. Build engagements are billed monthly by pod size and typically run $45,000–$120,000 per month. Most projects land between three and nine months. We will give you a range in the first conversation rather than after four meetings.
By default, yes. Our engineers are distributed across four time zones, and longer engagements include onsite weeks with your team.
Yes — roughly half our work starts that way. We begin with a one-week code and infrastructure audit, deliver a written assessment of risks and quick wins, and then agree on a plan before touching anything in production.
You get the repositories, the infrastructure definitions, the runbooks, and the architecture decision records — all of it in your accounts from day one. Many clients keep us on a light support retainer, but nothing we build requires our continued involvement.
Discovery engagements usually begin within two to three weeks. Full delivery pods are scheduled a quarter ahead; we are currently booking new build work for Q4 2026.
Every engagement starts with a free 45-minute working session. No pitch deck — we dig into your architecture, your roadmap, and your constraints, then tell you honestly whether we’re the right team for the job.