Jordan Dalton is an independent software builder who sells his full attention one day at a time. No agency, no bench, no account manager. When you book a build day, the person who scoped it is the person writing the code.
Two decades writing production software across defense, big data pipelines, pharmaceutical systems, and property technology. Long-lived codebases, real compliance constraints, and the kind of legacy code that teaches you to read before you write.
Time spent on the founder side of the table, where the job is to decide what to build as much as to build it. That is where the single-day format came from: most stalled projects are not blocked on months of work, they are blocked on one focused day nobody has scheduled.
Four years building and refining a personal system for working with AI coding agents: test-driven where it matters, every line reviewed by a human before it lands, conventions matched to the codebase it lands in. The speed comes from the system, not from skipping the parts that make software maintainable. Jordan coined the term "Agenticist" for this way of working.
All intellectual property transfers to you on completion. The work lands in your repository, under your conventions, with your commit history. NDAs are welcome — send yours or use mine.
Build days are paid up front by Stripe or bank transfer, and are non-refundable once booked, because the slot is held exclusively for you and turns other work away. Reschedule requests with reasonable notice are normally accommodated.
LLM usage is billed directly to your own Anthropic, OpenAI, and Google accounts rather than marked up. Typical spend for a full day is $400–$750, and you can watch it in real time in your provider dashboard.
If you are unsure which side you land on, the $250 fit check exists to answer exactly that, and it applies to the build day if you book one.