6hours rescues software projects that are failing, stalled, or abandoned — and builds new ones right the first time. Senior European engineers working six timezones ahead of Toronto, under a Canadian contract, at fixed prices published right on this page.
Toronto agencies quote $150k because Toronto engineers cost Toronto salaries. Offshore shops quote a third of that — and hand you timezone chaos and a contract you can't enforce. 6hours is built to give you the price of one and the safety of the other.
Vendor vanished? Budget burned? Deadline dead? An AI-built app that almost works? The two-week assessment tells you exactly what's salvageable — usually more than you think — with a fixed quote to finish it.
Our engineers are most of a workday ahead of you. Brief us in your morning meeting; review working software with your next coffee. Progress compounds overnight, every night.
Every engineer has shipped production software for European firms for years — in English, remotely, on deadline. You contract with a federally incorporated Canadian company under Ontario law, with a Toronto principal you can meet for coffee. Your IP is assigned in writing.
The green window (your 9 a.m.–1 p.m.) is when we meet: standups, demos, decisions — held open by running our Skopje day late on purpose. Your Toronto account lead covers the rest of your business day. The rest of their day happens while yours hasn't started — which is why you wake up to progress, not to a status update asking what you meant.
Every engagement starts with a paid, prepaid assessment — you get a real plan and a fixed quote before committing to anything bigger, and the fee is credited against your build. You're never exposed for more than the step you've already paid for. Neither are we.
All prices CAD. Builds are milestone-billed — 40% to start, 40% mid-build, 20% at delivery; rescue work runs on prepaid weekly sprints so your exposure is capped at one week, always. You never pay for software you haven't watched work.
You will never wonder what's happening with your money. The rhythm is fixed and you're inside it.
One to two weeks, fixed fee, prepaid. We read the code, map the project, and hand you a plan plus a fixed quote. The plan is yours whatever you decide.
A senior pod (2–3 engineers + tech lead) works in weekly milestones. Scope changes are written change orders — never surprise invoices.
Every week you watch working software on a staging link, in the shared 9 a.m.–1 p.m. window. Feedback lands while it's cheap to act on.
We deploy, submit to stores, hand over everything — code, docs, credentials — and stay on via the care retainer if you want us.
Engagement profiles representative of the team's decade shipping for European firms. Named case studies are being prepared with client permission — detailed references available on a call.
Multi-location retail operations unified into a single web platform — stock, ordering, and reporting that finally agree with each other.
Crews on phones, dispatch on a dashboard: jobs, photos, sign-offs and invoicing in one flow, built cross-platform for both stores.
A half-built system inherited from a departed vendor: audited, stabilized, documented, and shipped — the specialty this firm is built around.
6hours is run from Toronto by its founder — a Canadian with a computer-science degree and a decade in sales — and engineered from Skopje, North Macedonia, by a hand-picked bench of senior developers led by a CTO with ten years building iOS, Android, and web products for European companies.
Every engineer on the bench has worked remotely for EU firms, in English, for years. We staff each project with a pod of two or three plus the CTO as tech lead — never a rotating cast of strangers.
More common than you'd think, and very fixable. First: secure what you have — repository access, hosting credentials, any documentation. Then book the Rescue Assessment: in two weeks you'll know exactly what exists, what's salvageable, and what finishing costs — as a fixed number. Most inherited projects are in better shape than their owners fear; the last 20% is usually integration and deployment work that needed senior hands all along.
Yes — this is now its own service. AI-generated apps tend to demo beautifully and fail quietly: security holes, no error handling, architecture that can't grow. The AI-Build Rescue Audit has senior engineers scan the code (including for the vulnerability classes AI code is known for), then hand you a fixed-price plan to make it production-grade. Bring the prototype; keep the momentum.
Mutual protection — and if you've been burned before, you especially shouldn't want a vendor who works in arrears; that's how the last one racked up an unpayable bill. On weekly prepaid sprints your exposure is capped at one week, forever. So is ours. Nobody ever owes anybody, and every Friday you decide — with working software in front of you — whether we've earned the next week.
Geography, not juniors. Our engineers live in Skopje, where a senior developer earns a strong local salary that's still well below Toronto rates. We pass most of that difference to you and keep a healthy margin. Nothing about the quality is discounted — the same people spent the last decade building for European firms at European standards.
You do. Full IP assignment is written into every contract — from each engineer to us, from us to you — under Ontario law, including a moral-rights waiver. At final payment you hold everything: source code, designs, documentation, credentials.
Your morning through lunch (9 a.m.–1 p.m.) is our live shared window — standups and demos happen there, because we run our Skopje workday late by design. Your Toronto account lead is reachable across your whole business day. The rest of our workday runs while yours hasn't started, so feedback you give at 10 a.m. is usually built by the time you log on next morning. Clients describe it as the project moving while they sleep, because it literally does.
You're protected structurally: a Canadian contract you can actually enforce, prepaid steps so money and delivered software stay in lockstep, weekly demos so nothing drifts for more than five days, and you keep the assessment plan and all delivered work at every stage — whatever you decide.
Tell us what's stuck, broken, or missing. If custom software is the wrong answer, we'll say so on the call — it's cheaper for both of us.
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