Frequently Asked Questions

Yes, we can work with it. Invite us to the source and we’ll tell you what’s worth keeping.

It’s the best reason to start with the audit.

Applications for the aiOS Codebase Health Report open soon. When they do, you invite us to one repository and get a private report on what’s solid, what’s fragile, and what to fix first. No sales call. You keep the report either way.

Senior people decide what gets built and are accountable for every release. In repositories where we require them, every code change also clears automated checks and an independent AI review before it merges.

It depends on where your product is now. Hire a freelancer when the work is well defined and contained, and someone on your side can direct it and review what comes back. Build an in-house team when the app is your core product, you expect years of continuous development, and you’re ready to recruit and manage engineers. Hire an agency when you need product, design and engineering working together without building a department first, or when the work can’t wait for hiring.

With an agency, you get fractional employees: each role for the share of time you need. Building a cross-functional team that performs well together over many years is difficult and expensive. You don’t always need a full-time product manager, a full-time designer, a full-time web and backend engineer, and a full-time mobile engineer. That’s where the fractional benefit of hiring an app agency like us comes into play.

The full comparison: App development agency vs freelancer vs in-house team.

It depends on what your first version has to do, and we’d rather tell you than guess. Here’s how you get the answer:

1. Talk. Book a free discovery call. Tell us what you’re building, who it’s for, and what it has to do first.

2. Plan. We send you a free written range: the plan level that fits, what we’d build first, the milestones after it, and what we need from you to start. It’s a forecast, not a bid. If you already have code, the audit comes first, and your range follows it.

3. Month one. The month starts with its goal in writing. Your backlog is ranked, you can reorder it whenever you like, and you see progress every week, not just at the end.

By design, our approach is less interested in the question, "How long will it take to ship all of the stuff we happen to have thought of so far?" and more interested in the question, "What's the most we can put into our audience's hands in the next month that helps us move towards our goal?"

In brief, our workflow goes like this:

1. Align. Establish or reaffirm business and product goals both broadly and short-term.

2. Define. Write and prioritize next-up features as discipline-specific requests.

3. Create. Deliver the next-up request per discipline (e.g. design, backend, frontend).

4. Test. Peer review, then pass to you. Keep the request open for changes, or accept.

5. Release. Deliver accepted requests to approved audiences (e.g. test or live).

6. Learn. Gather active and passive feedback from audience.

7. Repeat. Continuously repeat the workflow as requests are completed.

Camber–The App Agency is a fully remote US company. It started in Orlando, Florida, in 2014; its founder works from North Carolina, and the team works mostly Eastern business hours.

Primarily via Camber's Slack and Trello (we'll invite you to both). But we'll also have occasional Slack Huddles and scheduled Google Meets as appropriate. We generally follow these guidelines for meetings.

We maintain an asynchronous-first culture to help our team stay maximally productive on a maker's schedule.

We aren't your average asynchronous remote team. We've been refining this discipline since 2014. We show our work and write things down. A lot. Though the specific details differ, we think these folks did a pretty great job articulating how we also think about asynchronous-first communication.

aiOS is our "Agency Intelligence Operating System." It's Camber's tightly-integrated layer of AI agents and workflows that accelerate our team's work across all disciplines. Every component of aiOS is carefully tuned and operated by our subject matter experts to achieve our high standards for quality, maintainability, security, and more, all while allowing us to deliver you more of our exceptional work faster than ever before. aiOS also powers the audit we start with whenever we pick up an existing app: AI agents grade your existing codebase, designs, and infrastructure against the standards our own work has to pass, from OWASP security to WCAG accessibility. You learn what you own, what's at risk, and what it costs to fix, before committing to anything.

Generally, we only use technologies, approaches, and patterns that are well-established and well-supported, staying current on industry best-practices. This is by no means an exhaustive list of our capabilities, but here are some of our current favorites:

• iOS: Swift (with or without SwiftUI)
• Android: Kotlin (with or without Jetpack Compose)
• Frontend: React.js with Typescript
• Backend: Node.js (Express, Next.js), PHP (Laravel)
• Database: SQL (e.g. PostgreSQL), NoSQL (e.g. MongoDB)
• API: REST, GraphQL
• Cloud, Hosting, Serverless: AWS or GCP
• DevOps, IaC, CI/CD: Docker, GitHub Actions, Terraform
• Orchestration: Kubernetes, AWS ECS
• Testing: Jest, Vitest, XCTest
• Websites, CMS: Webflow, Framer, Headless CMS

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Growing up with a father who was a fighter pilot, Brice (Camber's Founder) has always drawn wonder and inspiration from the field of aviation and space exploration. In aerospace engineering, “camber” refers to the asymmetry between the top and bottom of an aerofoil (such as an airplane wing). It’s this asymmetry that creates lift for flight. We think of our team as the asymmetry that creates lift for our clients’ businesses.