Flutter Expert & Consulting Services
Sometimes you don't need an app built — you need a Flutter specialist to tell you why the one you have is slow, expensive, or stuck. That's a different job, and it's this one.
The short version
- You get a written assessment ordered by severity, yours to act on with or without me.
- I will tell you when the existing code is fine and the problem is somewhere else.
- Billed hourly or as a fixed-scope audit. No minimum commitment, no retainer required.
- Useful before you hire: an independent read on a codebase or a quote you've been given.
What a Flutter consultant actually does for you
Codebase review
A read of your Flutter project against how it will need to change: architecture, state management, where the logic has leaked into widgets.
App rescue triage
A stalled or inherited project assessed honestly — what's salvageable, what needs refactoring, and whether a rewrite is genuinely cheaper.
Performance audit
Jank, slow startup, memory growth and oversized builds traced to specific causes, with the fixes ordered by how much they actually buy you.
Firebase cost and security audit
Why your Firestore bill is growing faster than your user count, and whether your security rules actually stop a determined client.
Architecture consulting
Before you commit: state management choice, folder structure, offline strategy and how to keep several developers out of each other's way.
Second opinion on a quote
An independent read on a proposal or timeline you've been given, from someone who isn't bidding for the work.
What you actually receive
A written document, not a conversation you have to remember. Findings ordered by severity, each with the fix and the cost of ignoring it.
Specific, not generic
"Your feed screen issues 101 Firestore reads per open because authors are fetched per-post" — not "consider optimising your queries".
Ordered by what it buys you
The three changes worth making this week sit at the top. The nice-to-haves are clearly marked as nice-to-haves.
Actionable by your own team
Written so your developers can execute it without me. If you want me to do the work instead, that's a separate quote.
Including the uncomfortable findings
If the architecture is sound and the real problem is scope churn or an unrealistic deadline, the document says so.
The most valuable audit I can deliver is the one that tells you not to spend the money you were about to spend.
When consulting beats hiring a builder
Four situations where a few hours of review saves far more than it costs.
You inherited a codebase
A developer left, or you acquired the app. Before planning a roadmap you need to know what you're standing on.
The app works but feels wrong
Slow screens, battery complaints, crashes you can't reproduce. These usually trace to a handful of specific causes.
Your Firebase bill is climbing
Almost always the data model rather than traffic. Two apps with identical user counts can differ by an order of magnitude.
You're about to commit budget
An hour spent on the architecture decision is cheaper than a year spent working around the wrong one.
Honest limits
What I will not do, so you don't pay to find out.
I won't manufacture findings
If your project is in good shape you get a short document saying so, and a smaller invoice. An audit that always finds disasters isn't an audit.
Not a general code auditor
Flutter, Dart, FlutterFlow and Firebase. For a React Native or native codebase you want someone who lives in those.
No firmware or embedded review
On IoT projects I can review the app and dashboard layer and the MQTT integration, not the device firmware.
Projects behind the judgement.
Consulting advice is only worth what the experience behind it is worth. These are two of the harder builds it comes from.
The tools I build this with.
Review focus
- Flutter
- Dart
- FlutterFlow
- Firebase
Architecture
- GetX
- MVC
- MVVM
- State management
Performance
- Build profiling
- Jank tracing
- Memory
- Bundle size
Backend
- Firestore read cost
- Security rules
- Indexes
- Cloud Functions
Three ways to work together.
Audits and reviews are billed hourly or as a fixed-scope piece with an agreed deliverable. No retainer, no minimum, and no obligation to hire me for the fixes.
Fixed price
One agreed price for an agreed scope, split into milestones. You know the total before work starts, and I absorb the risk of my own estimate being wrong.
Best for: Well-defined builds where the feature list is already settled
Hourly
Billed for time actually worked, with a log of what was done. No minimum commitment, and you can stop at the end of any week.
Best for: Fixes, audits, custom code and open-ended work
Dedicated developer
A reserved block of my capacity each month, working to your priorities as they change. Scope can shift between sprints without renegotiating a contract.
Best for: Ongoing product work and longer engagements
From first call to launch and beyond.
Consulting compresses the six stages: discovery and assessment are most of the work, and 'launch' means handing over a document rather than an app.
- Step 01
Discovery
A call to understand the product, the users, the constraints and the deadline, followed by a written scope you can push back on.
- Step 02
Design
Screen flow, data model and architecture agreed before code. If you have Figma designs I work from them; if not, we settle structure first.
- Step 03
Development
Built in milestones you can see, pushed to your repository as it happens, with a working build to try at the end of each stage.
- Step 04
Testing
Real devices across both platforms, slow networks, edge cases and the states people forget: empty, loading, offline and error.
- Step 05
Launch
Signed release builds, store listings, review feedback handled, and deployment of any web or Firebase side of the project.
- Step 06
Support
A bug-fix period after release, then ongoing availability for feature work, SDK upgrades and store compliance changes.
Frequently asked questions
What does a Flutter code review cover?
Project structure and architecture, how state is managed and whether it is consistent across screens, whether business logic has leaked into widget build methods, how network responses are parsed and typed, error and empty-state handling, dependency health and Flutter SDK currency, and the specific performance characteristics of your heaviest screens. You get the findings in writing, ordered by severity, with a recommended fix for each.
How long does an audit take?
A focused review of a small-to-medium Flutter project is typically a couple of days including the write-up. A large codebase, or one where I also need to audit the Firebase schema and security rules, takes longer. I scope it against your repository before quoting, so you know the cost and the deliverable before anything starts.
Do I have to hire you to do the fixes?
No, and the document is deliberately written so you do not have to. It is addressed to a developer, with enough specificity that your own team can execute it. If you would rather I did the work, that is a separate quote you are free to decline. An audit that only pays off if you buy the follow-on work is a sales pitch, not an audit.
Can you review a FlutterFlow project rather than hand-written Flutter?
Yes, and FlutterFlow projects have their own failure patterns: queries re-running on every rebuild, deeply nested page state, logic scattered across page actions, and a Firestore schema shaped around the first screen someone designed. I review the FlutterFlow project and the Firebase side together, because in practice the problems are usually in the second one.
What access do you need?
Read access to the repository, and read access to the Firebase console if the backend is in scope. I will sign your NDA before any of that. I do not need production credentials or customer data — if an audit genuinely requires looking at real data, we agree that explicitly and narrowly first.
Can you give a second opinion on a quote from another developer?
Yes, and it is one of the more useful things I do. I will tell you whether the timeline is realistic, whether the proposed stack suits the product, what the quote appears to leave out, and which questions to put back to them. I am not bidding for the build, so there is no incentive for me to talk the number down or up.
What is the difference between a Flutter expert, consultant and specialist?
In practice people use all three for the same thing, and I answer to any of them. What actually varies is the engagement: a consultant is usually brought in to advise on a decision, a specialist to solve one narrow problem, and an expert review to assess work already done. All three are this page — the deliverable is a written assessment rather than a shipped app. If what you need is the app built instead, that is my Flutter app development service.
What does consulting cost?
Hourly for open-ended review work, or a fixed price once the scope and the deliverable are agreed — most clients prefer the second, because the number is known up front. I quote after looking at the repository rather than from a rate card. Audits are usually a small fraction of what the problems they find would cost to discover the slow way.
Need an expert read rather than a build?
Tell me what the app is, what's going wrong, and what decision you're trying to make. I'll tell you whether an audit will actually help.