Coral9

Engineering · Brand · Sales

Coral9.

You need people to build it, brand it and sell it. Hiring all three takes a year. We can start next week.

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Why not hire

Hiring is the expensive part.

The salary is not the problem. Everything around it is.

Hiring in-house

Three to six months to fill a senior role.

With Coral9

People assigned in days.

Hiring in-house

A recruiter takes 15–25% of the first year's salary.

With Coral9

One monthly invoice.

Hiring in-house

Salary, benefits, equipment and taxes every month, work or no work.

With Coral9

Scale up or down each month.

Hiring in-house

Two months before a new hire ships anything real.

With Coral9

Work starts in week one.

Hiring in-house

If it does not work out, you start the search again.

With Coral9

If it does not work out, you stop paying.

The short version

One bill a month.

It covers the people, the person managing them, and the tools they work in. No salaries, no recruiters, no notice periods.

50+

Projects delivered

3

Divisions: build, brand, sell

Days

To get a team assigned

Zero

Recruiters, salaries, notice periods

What we do

Three teams you can hire as one.

Most companies need all three eventually and can only afford to hire one at a time. Take whichever you need now and add the others when you are ready.

01 · Engineering

We are your dev team.

Product engineers, a lead who owns the roadmap, and QA. If there is no technical founder, we take that seat too: architecture, tooling, and the calls a CTO makes.

ReplacesA CTO, two engineers, and a QA hire.

  • Product and MVP builds
  • Web apps
  • iOS and Android
  • Internal tools
  • Systems integration and migration
  • AI and workflow automation
  • Maintenance after launch

02 · Brand

We make it look like a real company.

A logo, a colour palette, and a type hierarchy, plus the rules for using them. You get the source files and a guide, so the next designer you hire can pick it up without starting over.

ReplacesA brand studio retainer, or a designer you cannot keep busy full time.

  • Logo and wordmark
  • Colour palette
  • Type hierarchy
  • Brand guidelines
  • Pitch and investor decks
  • Launch site
  • Social and ad templates

03 · Sales

We sell it for you.

We take your product to market and bring back signed clients. Lists, outreach, calls, follow-up, and a CRM where you can see exactly where every deal stands.

ReplacesAn SDR, an account executive, and the sales manager above them.

  • Lead research
  • Cold email and LinkedIn
  • Discovery and demo calls
  • Proposals and closing
  • CRM setup and reporting
  • Inbound follow-up
Engineering engagements

You pay for how much runs at once.

Every tier is the same people and the same standard. The only difference is how many things we build for you at the same time.

01 · For one product, or a first build.

Pod.

One team, one thing at a time.

Your top priority gets built and shipped, then we move to the next one. Right for a first product or a short roadmap.

One team
  • One team
  • One priority at a time

02 · For competing priorities.

Squad.

Two things at once.

Two teams working side by side, so two priorities move together. Roughly double what a Pod gets through. Right when the backlog grows faster than one team clears it.

Two teams, side by side
  • Two teams
  • Two priorities at once

03 · For replacing a department.

✦ Top

Studio.

Your whole roadmap at once.

Three or more teams in parallel. This is the tier that replaces an in-house engineering department.

Three or more teams, side by side
  • Three or more teams
  • Your full roadmap
Brand and sales

Brand Sprint.

You get the identity and every source file. Nothing is locked in a tool only we can open.

Two to four weeks · Fixed scope · Fixed price

Sales Retainer.

We build the pipeline and work it. You approve the deals and take the calls you want to take.

Monthly · Rolling

Founders

You do not need a co-founder for this.

Most founders we meet need three hires they cannot afford yet: someone to build it, someone to make it look credible, and someone to sell it. That is the company we run for you until you can hire your own.

Step 01

Scope and brand.

We agree what the first version is and cut everything else. You get the name, logo, palette and type before the build starts, so the product looks like a company from day one.

Step 02

Build the MVP.

Your product, built on the Pod cadence. This is the technical co-founder's output without the equity.

Step 03

Launch.

A live product, a site that explains it, and the assets to announce it. Your first users can sign up the day it goes out.

Step 04

Sell and scale.

We bring the first clients in while you add engineering tracks. When you are ready to hire your own people, everything is documented and handed over.

Bring the idea. We will tell you honestly what it takes to build it.

Start your build
Selected Work

Three of the last fifty.

One from each division. Every project below is live and still running.

01

Engineering

Meridian

SaaS platform · 2024

The problem
Two senior engineering roles had been open for four months and the roadmap had not moved.
What we did
A Squad of four picked up the existing codebase and took over the roadmap.
Result
First feature live in nine days. The reqs were closed.

02

Brand

Vantage

Identity for a new company · 2025

The problem
A funded startup was pitching investors with a logo made in a slide deck.
What we did
Full identity in three weeks: wordmark, palette, type hierarchy, guidelines, and a launch site.
Result
Closed their round the following month.

03

Sales

Arca

Pipeline build · 2025

The problem
A good product with no one selling it. The founder was doing outreach between engineering calls.
What we did
We built the lead list, ran the outreach, and took the demo calls.
Result
Eleven demos booked in the first month.
How we work

Four steps, whatever we are doing for you.

A logo runs the same way a platform rebuild does. You approve the scope, you meet the team, and you can see the work from the day it starts.

Scope.

We work out what you actually need and write it down. You approve it before anything starts.

Assign.

You get a named team and a lead who is your single point of contact. No pooled resources, no rotating faces.

Ship weekly.

Work goes live in weekly increments. You can check the board any day of the week and see exactly where it stands.

Keep going.

Nothing gets handed over and abandoned. We maintain what we build for as long as you keep us on.

The client portal

You get a login on day one.

Most agencies go quiet between updates and you find out what happened when the invoice arrives. You will always know what we are doing, because you are looking at the same screens we are.

01

Task board.

Every task, its status, and who is holding it. This is the board our team works from, not a summary written for you afterwards.

02

Direct chat.

Message the people building it. No account manager relaying questions and losing the detail on the way.

03

Video updates.

A recorded walkthrough of what shipped, sent when it ships. Watch it at 2am if you want. There is no standing call to attend.

04

Book a call.

When you do want a human, book your lead from their live calendar. No thread hunting for a slot that works.

05

Invoices and payments.

Every invoice in one place with a card payment link. Nothing chased over email, nothing paid twice.

06

Secrets vault.

Your API keys and credentials, encrypted, with a log of exactly who opened what and when.

It is the same software we sell. We use it because we built it.

Client login
Testimonials

Engineering

We had two engineer reqs open for four months. We closed both and called Coral9 instead. First feature was live in nine days.

Sarah OkaforFounder, logistics SaaS

Engineering

They pushed back on two things we asked for and were right about both. That is worth more to me than a team that just says yes.

James WhitfieldVP Product, fintech

Brand

The rebrand paid for itself in one investor meeting. Nobody asked whether we were a real company again.

Priya RamanCo-founder, healthtech

Brand

We got the actual files. Our designer picked it up a year later and did not have to start over.

Tom LindqvistHead of Marketing, D2C

Sales

They booked eleven demos in the first month. I have hired SDRs who took longer to send their first email.

Danielle OkonkwoHead of Growth, B2B tooling

Sales

I stopped doing outreach between engineering calls. That alone changed how the quarter went.

Marcus ReidFounder, developer tools
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Engineering, brand and sales. Currently taking on new clients.