About DevShopVault
DevShopVault is an independent publication for the people who run AI-native software agencies. We make the operating manual we wished existed when we were quoting our first fixed-price builds: templates, calculators, and pricing playbooks you can put to work the same afternoon you read them.
What we publish
Everything here is built for owners and operators, not for a feed. Statement-of-work and rate-card templates that hold up in a real negotiation. Calculators for blended rate, project margin, and effective hourly rate. Pricing playbooks and packaging frameworks drawn from a network of studios shipping client work every week. Short editorial pieces on positioning, retainer structure, scope control, and the tooling decisions that actually move delivery margin. We publish numbers with their sources, and we update them when the market moves.
Who runs DevShopVault
DevShopVault is written and edited by Helena Marsh and Ravi Iyer. Between them they have spent more than a decade pricing, scoping, and delivering software projects inside agencies, and they write from that operator perspective rather than from the sidelines. Helena leads our pricing and packaging coverage; Ravi leads the hiring, stack, and AI-leverage work. When we cover a tool or a platform, we name the criteria first and score against them in the open, so you can tell the difference between a recommendation and a sponsorship. We do not take placement fees to rank a vendor higher.
Bylines: Helena Marsh, Ravi Iyer.
Our editorial stance
Studios pick the tool that ships the work, and so do we. We compare the builders, frameworks, and services agencies actually consider, frame each one against the criteria that matter for that decision, and say plainly when a cheaper or simpler option is the better answer. Our only loyalty is to the operator reading us. If a playbook here saves you a margin point or a bad hire, it has done its job.
Questions, corrections, or a playbook to contribute? Use the contact form.