You’ll see it working in two weeks.
A product and engineering consultancy in Minneapolis. Most projects start with a document and a quote. This one starts with software you can open — the real thing, small, running, in front of the people deciding whether to build it. Then we build the rest.
01 — The offer
Four ways to work together
Fixed scope, fixed price, agreed before anything starts. Most people start at the top.
Two weeks. Working software.
$20kTwo weeks, fixed price. At the end of it there is a real, running slice of the thing — small, but the actual software, open on a screen in front of the people deciding whether to fund it. You also get the estimate to finish it. Whether I build the rest is your call afterwards, not a condition of starting.
Rescue and rebuild
$20k, then from $8k / moSoftware that was meant to be finished and isn’t. Two weeks with the code, the people building it and whoever has been waiting, and you get a straight account: what is actually wrong, what it costs to finish, and what to abandon. Then I stay and do it — from $8,000 a month, depending on what finishing takes — until it ships.
Idea to shipped
$75k–$150kThe rest of it, in production, priced from what the two weeks taught us both rather than from a guess. I build it and I run whoever else is needed — a pod I have worked with for years, not strangers off a bench.
Fractional engineering leadership
From $5k / monthYou have developers and nobody senior running them. I own the roadmap, set up how the work moves, and make the technical calls. A day or two a week, month to month — from $5,000 for the day, more for the two.
02 — The proof
Nobody there had built anything like it. It was running in under a week.
After General Mills acquired Blue Buffalo, a small team was put together to work out whether the Buddies app was worth building. There was no internal precedent to point at, so I built it instead of describing it — the real interaction, on a phone, in under a week. That is what went into the room with the CMO and the CTO. They didn’t have to imagine it. They picked it up.
Read the General Mills build03 — The record
Sixteen years, in order.
Where I’ve been accountable, from the first bus stop in 2010 to running a product department and co-founding a company. Roles and ventures are marked as such — they are not client work.
- Table Two Seven2010–2016
SouthWest Transit
Dispatch knew where every bus was. Getting that number out to the sidewalk was the entire project.
Read more - Role2012–2021
General Mills
After General Mills acquired Blue Buffalo, a small team was put together to prototype the Buddies app — nothing like it had been done there before. I had it running in under a week, and that prototype is what went to the CMO and the CTO.
Read more - Table Two Seven2014–2016
Plymouth Metrolink
Rider-facing transit tools for a municipal transit service, built as Table Two Seven alongside the SouthWest Transit work.
Read more - Role2021–2026
WAND Digital
Owned development and product for the digital menu platform behind forty national restaurant brands. A team of three.
Read more - Venture2025–2026
Omber
Co-founded an async video and assessment platform. Designed and built it with a two-person engineering pod I recruited and ran in Ukraine. One customer was a Fortune 500 software company.
Read more - Next2026 —
The next one.
Every row above started as a conversation with someone who wasn’t sure yet. Two weeks is usually enough to stop being unsure.
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“Stan didn't pitch us an idea, he showed up with a working prototype. He built us a real-time bus tracker and schedule app with the backend to run it. Stan's vision and execution led to what ended up being the first transit agency schedule app in the entire Twin Cities region. He is truly one of the most talented individuals I've had the pleasure to work with.”
Stan Grin
Product, design and the build · Minneapolis
Table Two Seven is a software product and engineering consultancy in Minneapolis, Minnesota, building working software fast for companies that need it in front of the people deciding whether to fund it.
Sixteen years building software — nine at General Mills, four of them also running TAAKT Watches, a brand I designed, sourced and sold through a storefront I built; five as Director of Development and Product at WAND Digital, who are a client now that I’ve left; and co-founder of Omber, where I recruited and ran the engineering pod in Ukraine that built it with me. I’m the one on your engagement, and I stand up a pod when it needs more hands.
Start with two weeks.
Tell me what you’re trying to build and who has to say yes to it. If it’s a fit I’ll say so within a day, and if it isn’t I’ll tell you who to call instead.
$20k, fixed price, agreed before anything starts.
Book thirty minutesOr write to me — stan.grin@tabletwoseven.com
Work with me
Two weeks, fixed price, and you have something running. Thirty minutes is enough to know whether it fits.
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Transit and public sectorRestaurant and signage platformsConsumer packaged goodsHiring and assessment