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Gus Skarlis
00 · Twenty-five years in

Twenty-five years building the systems that power the internet.

Big ideas need machinery underneath them. I have spent a quarter of a century building that machinery — the platforms, data engines and automation running quietly under other people’s businesses. If you arrived here from a proposal, this is the long version: I wrote it, and I am the one who does the work.

01 · CONSULTING02 · DEVELOPMENT03 · BUILDLIVE
Fig. 01 — Consulting, development, build. One operator across all three.
01 · Rates

Three ways to buy the time.

A single call, a block of hours you can spend on development or consulting, or a standing monthly arrangement. Fixed prices, paid up front, and every one starts with the question written down.

30-Minute Call

$250one call

Bring the question. Leave with an answer.

A working session, not a sales call. One decision, talked through.

  • Thirty minutes, on video or phone
  • Vendor, architecture or build-or-buy question
  • Written summary of the recommendation afterwards
  • Credited toward a block or a month if you continue

Most start here

10 Hours

$2,500block of hours

Development and consulting, on the clock.

Budget in hand, a defined piece of work, no long commitment.

  • Use across development and consulting as needed
  • $250 per hour, paid up front
  • Hours tracked and reported as they are used
  • Scope agreed in writing before the clock starts

Monthly Fractional

$5,000per month

A standing technical lead, without the hire.

Operations with decisions in flight every week and no one to own them.

  • Standing weekly slot plus a direct line
  • Vendor evaluations, architecture and roadmap owned
  • Development hours included as the month needs
  • I brief your team and read what they ship

Month to month

The call is credited toward a block or a month if you continue. Bigger than ten hours? PushButton Build quotes whole platforms at a fixed price and hands over the source at pushbuttonbuild.com. To see how an engagement runs first, read Consulting.

On Upwork or Freelancer these are contracted as fixed-price milestones at the same rates, through the platform.

02 · From a proposal?

The person who wrote the proposal is the person who does the work.

Most bids come from an agency with a sales layer in front of the people who build. Here there is no layer: I read your brief, I write the scope, I do the work, and I answer when something breaks.

Check it yourself

  • Compare the portrait and name with the Upwork profile
  • Open any platform under Built by me — every one is live
  • Ask for the scope in writing; nothing is paid before it exists

The conversation stays where it started: reply to the proposal and I will walk you through how I would approach it.

Gus Skarlis, the person behind the proposal

Gus Skarlis

Vero Beach, Florida

Same person as the Upwork profile.

Who does the workMe, directly
Based inVero Beach, Florida
ExperienceTwenty-five years
ScopeIn writing before any money moves
DeliveryHosted or source-licensed
OwnershipCode and accounts are yours
Lock-inNone by design
04 · Range

Twenty-five years of shipping, across the whole stack.

The systems below are running today under real businesses. Most of them I sell with the source, so what you buy is actually yours.

CRM & business ops

Multi-tenant CRMs with pipelines, billing and client portals. Two lineages: PHP on MySQL, and Next.js on Postgres.

Data & enrichment

Business discovery, enrichment waterfalls, dedupe and governance backends feeding a family of products.

Outreach & telephony

Cold email at scale with deliverability built in, plus calling engines on Twilio.

AI content & social

Article, image and social pipelines on Claude and OpenAI, publishing on a schedule to real pages.

Vertical SaaS

Industry-specific platforms for trades, automotive and consumer legal, each with its own intake and reporting.

Storefronts & payments

Stripe checkout, Connect onboarding, subscriptions and payment links, wired to real fulfilment.

Provisioning & infrastructure

Vercel, Neon Postgres, Cloudflare DNS. Per-client deploys and white-label forks from one source tree.

Marketing sites

Landing pages and sites like this one, built on a single design system so they ship in days.

Stack

  • Next.js
  • React
  • TypeScript
  • PostgreSQL
  • PHP / MySQL
  • Stripe
  • Twilio
  • Resend
  • Claude
  • OpenAI
  • Vercel
05 · Next step

Pick a package.

Every engagement starts with one of the three rates above: a call, a block of hours, or a month. Choose the one that fits and check out; the scope goes in writing before the clock starts. Bigger than ten hours, it is a PushButton Build.