You hired consultants to help you go faster, but now you can’t move without them. In this debut episode of ./deploy, Austin Vance, Shahed Syed, and Micah Adams expose the consulting trap too many companies fall into: land, expand… and quietly make you dependent.

They break down why most consulting models are built for retention, not empowerment, and how you can flip the script by demanding self-sufficiency from day one. 

You’ll hear how great consultants build trust without taking control, how to know when to bring dev work in-house, and why Austin says some agencies are “just one Heroku outage away from a crisis.”

The team plays devil’s advocate, tackles a real-world scenario where a dev shop is the client’s CTO, and closes out with a spicy round of Hot or Not featuring lifetime support docs, short-term contracts, and more.

If you’ve ever felt like you’re paying for progress while losing control, this episode will help you take your power back.