FOR SOFTWARE FIRMS
Ship it. Prove it. The demo decides.
For dev shops and augmentation firms: acceptance criteria are sealed before the sprint starts, each sprint closes with a recorded demo judged against them, and the milestone releases on approval through our escrow partner.
$ northn propose --brief spec.md
✓ SOW drafted · 6 milestones
✓ client accepted · criteria sealed · M1 funded
✓ sprint 2 demo verified — 7/7 criteria
✓ milestone released — on approval
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SOUND FAMILIAR?
“Prove these hours.”
Clients dispute timesheets because timesheets prove nothing. Self-reported hours are the industry standard — and nobody trusts them.
Payment lags the work
Sprints ship, invoices age 30–90 days, and your payroll doesn't wait. Every engagement carries collection risk.
Velocity is invisible
Non-technical buyers can't see progress in a repo. You do the work twice: once in code, once in status theater.
HOW IT WORKS FOR YOU
From SOW to settled, sprint by sprint
Propose
AI drafts the statement of work from your brief — sprints, rates, acceptance criteria. Client sign-off funds the first milestone.
Build
Your team works in the tools they already use. Demo takes, test results and uploads become delivery reports a buyer can actually read.
Demo, verified
Each sprint closes with a recorded demo judged against its sealed acceptance criteria, frame by frame — approval stops being a meeting and a mood.
Settle
Approval releases the milestone through our escrow partner — with the sealed record attached to the payment.
THE DIFFERENCE
Every sprint closes with proof your client can watch
Your demos already show the work — Northn turns them into signed acceptance. Each is judged against the sprint's sealed criteria with the exact frames cited, and a criterion the demo can't settle is held as not assessed, never passed.
- Delivery reports written for non-technical buyers — grounded in the evidence on the record
- Verified demos close each sprint — no more “prove these hours”
- Mid-project asks become funded change orders, not scope arguments
- Release on approval replaces 30–90 day invoice aging
ORGANIZATIONAL INSIGHT
Know what's working. Fix what isn't.
What's working, what's not
Wins, risks and drift across every team and engagement — surfaced before they cost you.
Meetings, already prepared
Standups and weekly reviews arrive pre-written from real delivery activity. Walk in with the brief, or skip the meeting.
Your keys, your dial
Bring your own AI keys and choose how much runs — reports only, or full delivery intelligence. No markup, no lock-in.
THIS WEEK AT YOUR DEV SHOP · OPS BRIEF
AI-DRAFTEDWORKING WELL
Sprint velocity up 12% — Team Atlas ahead of plan two sprints running
NEEDS ATTENTION
Review turnaround slipping on Project Kepler — 2.1 days average, trending up
SUGGESTED IMPROVEMENT
Rebalance review load — two seniors carry 70% of reviews this month
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BUILT FOR YOUR STACK
Keep your tools. Add the proof.
Your board stays the source of truth. Northn is built to sit beside the tracker you already run — milestones mirrored in, verified results written back with your approval, never behind your back.
Tell us what you run — founding-partner integrations ship first.
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STRAIGHT ANSWERS
What dev-shop owners ask first
Will our clients actually use this?
They accept a proposal with one click, watch delivery evidence arrive like package tracking, and approve sprints with one tap. Payment protection is often the reason a hesitant client finally signs.
What happens to our code?
Nothing in your repositories is required. Evidence is what you choose to submit — demo recordings, test results, uploads — and nothing trains on your client work.
My developers won't tolerate tracking.
Evidence depth is a dial, set per engagement. And the record cuts both ways: in any dispute, it's your team's objective defense.
Is this another marketplace?
The opposite. There's no bidding, no matching, no toll on your bench. You bring your own clients and contracts — Northn is the infrastructure that runs the engagement underneath them, and the relationship stays entirely yours.
Your developers build a verified, portable delivery record — evidence that defends them in a dispute, not a camera watching them work.
Stop proving yourself in status meetings.
Let the work do it.
One funded pilot sprint is all it takes to see it.