Who
Deal Baker Ltd exists so you can contract, insure, invoice, onboard and outlive the engagement. It is not there so you can imagine a floor of engineers.
I run delivery for Deal Baker Ltd. I am in the buyer meeting and I am in the client meeting, and I am the person who builds the thing afterwards. There is no account layer between the conversation and the work, because there is nobody to put there.
What the company is for
A limited company is what makes an engagement procurable. It is a counterparty I can contract through, invoice through, onboard through a supplier questionnaire, and — the part that matters most and gets said least — that outlives me. I am not any of those things on my own. Deal Baker Ltd is one engineer: me. That is the whole reason the company exists, and it is the only thing it is asking you to believe.
The facts a finance function asks for, the IP position, and what happens to your system if the person behind the company stops are all on the terms page.
What it refuses to pretend
It does not pretend accountability moves. A tool that writes code does not change who answers for it, and neither does a colleague. The person who makes the promise is the person who keeps it, and that is Term 1 — Provenance.
On AI
AI is a tool I operate, not a subcontractor I hide. One person is accountable for every line regardless of what typed it.
The accountability is the point. A tool that writes code does not change who answers for it. That name is not published here as marketing — you get it in the contract. You get it before any specialist touches anything, and that is Term 1 — Provenance.