About Xivos
We started Xivos because handoffs were killing good work.
Most businesses end up managing a designer, a dev shop, a marketing consultancy and now an AI vendor, each with their own timeline and their own excuses. Xivos replaces that chain with one team that owns design, development, marketing and AI end to end.
Who we work with
A dedicated practice for ambitious SMBs, start-ups and scale-ups
Xivos is purpose-built for founders and leadership teams navigating the space between scrappy beginnings and enterprise scale. We understand the particular discipline this stage demands: capital efficiency, velocity without recklessness and infrastructure engineered to outgrow itself. It's a craft we've refined by living inside it, not observing it from an enterprise consultancy's remove.
How an engagement works
The path from first email to shipped work, with the cost known before anything starts.
- Step 01
It starts with a call
A 30-minute intro call. You explain the problem, we ask questions, and if we're not the right fit we say so on the call and point you somewhere better.
- Step 02
A scoped, priced proposal
A short written scope with a fixed price and timeline: project-based for defined builds, a monthly retainer for ongoing work. No discovery-phase invoices before you know the cost.
- Step 03
Build in weekly loops
One point of contact, working software over status decks, and progress you can click every week, in your Slack or ours.
- Step 04
Launch, handover, stay close
We ship it, document it, and stay through the first month after launch. Then it runs without us, which was the point of building it properly.
The rules underneath it
One team, one outcome
Design, development, marketing and AI report to the same plan. Nobody hands off work and walks away.
Direct, not diplomatic
If a tradeoff is real, we say so. You get straight answers instead of a deck full of options.
Built to last
Fast is good. Fast and fragile isn't. We build things that still work a year after launch.
Who you'll work with
Xivos is deliberately small. Whoever you talk to on the first call stays accountable for the work. Nothing gets handed to a team you never meet.
Patrick Jennings
Founder
Two decades leading marketing and digital strategy, now spent building rather than advising. Patrick designed, built and runs every product on our projects page. The person planning your work also ships it.