Remote working model

How Our Remote Engineering Team Works

Curiosive is run from Ankara, Türkiye, and almost everything we do is remote. Whether you are a founder in Amsterdam, a product lead in Chicago or a team two hours away, the process is the same: scope in writing, a releasable increment every week, and the smallest number of meetings that still keeps everyone aligned.

This page is about the working model rather than a place. Remote engagements tend to fail on communication discipline long before they fail on technical ability, so it is more useful to describe how that discipline is set up than to claim we are good at working remotely.

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Async by default, decisions written down

The most expensive loss in remote work is a decision made out loud and recorded nowhere. So our default is asynchronous: every decision sits in one written place along with the reasoning behind it. Status flows as text, and meetings are reserved for things that genuinely need discussion. Response time expectations are agreed at the start, so nobody sits waiting at a screen. The payoff arrives months later, when somebody asks why a choice was made and the answer is in the record, not in a memory.

A releasable increment every week

Progress is measured in working software, not percentages on a slide. Every week produces something that can be deployed to a test environment and actually used. That removes the biggest risk in remote delivery, which is discovering at the end that what arrived is not what you pictured. You get a chance to correct direction every seven days instead of once. Release notes are short and plain, so a non-technical team member can read what changed without a translation layer.

Overlap with European and US time zones

Türkiye time gives a wide shared working window with Europe and a useful crossover with the US East Coast toward the end of our day. In practice European teams get near full-day synchronous availability, and US teams get answers to a morning question inside the same morning. We use those two windows deliberately: live calls go inside the overlap and deep development work goes outside it, which is why availability does not come at the cost of focus time.

Tools and the commercial frame

The setup stays deliberately plain. Code sits in your repository, work sits on one board, deployment is automated, and access runs through your accounts rather than ours. We adapt to the tools you already use instead of introducing new ones. Development is AI-assisted and every merged line is reviewed by a senior engineer. Commercially it is equally predictable: landing pages from $2,000, MVPs from $5,000, full applications from $10,000, and a retainer at $800 per month for 20 hours. Scope is written after discovery.

Proof

Products we shipped with exactly this.

design.computer

Zing Coach

This is HCD

MoneyCare

Appster

Reveal Software

Retainer

from$800

per month, 20 hours

Engineering that continues after launch. This is how most of our partnerships actually run.

20 hours of engineering every month
Releases, fixes and code review
Roadmap work as priorities move

Starting points, not quotes. What a project actually costs depends on scope, and we agree that in writing after discovery.

Questions

The things people ask before starting.

How do we track progress when nobody shares an office?

A releasable increment and a short set of release notes arrive every week. Tasks stay visible on a single board and decisions live in a written record. You never have to ask us how things are going, because the board and the test environment already answer it.

What hours can we reach you?

We work Türkiye business hours, which gives a broad overlap with European time zones and a crossover with the US East Coast in our afternoon. Non-urgent topics move asynchronously, and we agree expected response times in writing before the project starts.

Do you work with teams outside Türkiye?

Yes. We work from Ankara with founders and product teams in other countries. We have been shipping production software with this model for more than five years, and today have 16 live products across web, mobile, AI and browser extensions.

How many meetings will this require from us?

Usually one short weekly call, plus a decision meeting when something genuinely needs debating. We do not schedule meetings to deliver status, since that information travels better as text. It keeps focused working time intact on both sides of the engagement.

Solutions

Locations

Looking for an engineering partner for the long haul?

A short note about the product, the timeline and who it is for is enough to start. You will hear back from the engineer who would do the work, not a sales team.

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Ankara / Türkiye · Working across European and US time zones