Startups
Ship an MVP fast without cutting the engineering corners that come back to bite you at your next raise.
Most startup engagements start the same way: a validated idea, a deadline, and not enough in-house engineering bandwidth to hit it safely. We slot in as your build team — moving fast without skipping the schema decisions, auth model or test coverage that a technical co-founder or an investor's diligence call will actually check.
Pricing is runway-aware: fixed-price for a well-scoped MVP, or a monthly retainer if you need an ongoing build partner through your first few releases. Either way, you get a single senior owner, not a rotating pool of contractors learning your codebase on your dime.
We're deliberately not the studio that quotes you a number and disappears until the deadline. Expect short, regular check-ins, staging access from early on, and a straight answer any time something turns out to be harder — or easier — than it looked at the start. If a piece of this isn't the right fit for your team, we'll say so directly rather than stretching the engagement to fill a quarter.
How we build it
Discovery sprint
One focused week to turn the idea into a scoped, build-ready MVP definition — what ships in v1, what waits.
Build in public increments
Weekly demo builds on a staging URL, so you're watching progress in real time, not waiting for a big reveal.
Launch-ready hardening
Auth, error handling and basic monitoring added before the public launch — not left as 'fix it later'.
First-users iteration window
2–4 weeks of fast follow-up fixes once real users start touching the product, included as standard.
Frequently asked
It's a starting model, not a rigid package — we scope the exact mix of work to your specific stage and constraints on a short discovery call before anything is signed.
Capabilities are the individual engineering skillsets (full-stack, AI, backend, etc). Solutions describe how those capabilities come together for a specific kind of team or goal — the engagement shape, not just the technical work.
Fixed-price for a well-scoped build, or a monthly retainer for ongoing/open-ended work. You'll get a number before we start, and any scope change is flagged with its cost impact before we act on it.
Most engagements begin with a discovery call within a few days of first contact, and a scoped plan within a week after that — we don't run a lengthy sales process before you see real progress.
Yes — this is common. Our Business Analyst phase exists specifically to translate a founder's domain knowledge into a build-ready spec, without requiring in-house technical leadership.
In most cases, yes — we design around your existing stack and integrations rather than asking you to rip and replace what already works.
Ongoing support is available on the same terms as the build phase — monitoring, fixes and iteration based on real usage, not a hard stop the day it launches.
Yes, as standard practice — happy to sign yours or share ours before any detailed conversation.
Who this is for
- Founders or teams who recognise this exact shape of problem in their own work
- Teams evaluating whether an outside build partner fits better than hiring in-house right now
- Operators who've outgrown a spreadsheet, template or DIY tool that used to be enough
- Anyone who wants a concrete engagement model before committing to a longer conversation
- Teams that tried this in-house or with another studio and hit a wall on scope, quality or timeline
What you walk away with
- A discovery-call scope tailored to your actual stage, not a generic package
- A single named senior owner for the engagement, start to finish
- Weekly visibility into progress — staging builds, not status-update emails
- A clear, upfront number before any work starts, fixed-price or retainer
- A support window built into the engagement after launch, not billed as a surprise add-on
Who works on this
Business Analyst · Full-Stack Developer · QA · Testing
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