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MVP Development · Production-grade

Ship a real product in 1–2 months. Built to handle actual users.

A production-grade minimum viable product — auth, payments, deploy, CI/CD, monitoring, tests, documentation. The thing you can charge for. Not a polished demo.

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Common situations

"PoC worked. Now we need real users on it — and we cannot find a way to get there for under $50,000."

An MVP is for the moment after "can we build it?" is answered, and "will it sell?" becomes the only open question. The point is to test the market, not to finish the product.

Situation 01

You have an idea but no way to make it real. Hiring an engineer is $5–10K/month for three months minimum.

Hiring solves a long-term problem. You have a "will it sell?" problem.
Situation 02

Vendor estimates come in at $50K–$100K and six months. Spending half a year before the first user touches it is the actual risk.

By the time the product is live, the market has moved.
Situation 03

You shipped a no-code MVP. It works at five users; it breaks at fifty. Now you need the real version.

The product-market-fit signal is real. The infrastructure needs to catch up before you can act on it.

Before → After

What changes in two months.

The output is not a deck or a demo. It is a product on a real domain that handles real users, real payments, and real failures — and a one-week post-launch window during which we fix what breaks.

Day 0 · Before
  • Idea or PoC exists; nothing the public can actually use.
  • Hiring path is $15–30K minimum, three months before code starts.
  • Vendor route is $50–100K, six months, with no early feedback loop.
  • No way to test "will users pay?" until very late.
Launch · After
  • Production app, on your domain, with auth, payments, and monitoring.
  • CI/CD running. Another engineer can take it over with the included documentation.
  • User-reaction data informs the "pivot vs expand vs stop" call.
  • Code in your GitHub. No vendor lock-in. No re-platforming bill later.

PoC vs MVP — different jobs

A PoC answers "can we build it?". An MVP answers "will it sell?".

The two products look adjacent and cost an order of magnitude apart. The difference is what you can do with the deliverable.

01 · Quality

Production-grade, not demo-grade

Auth, payments, deploy, CI/CD, monitoring, and tests are in scope. The product is built to take a payment from a real customer on day one of launch — not "after a few more weeks of polish."

02 · Scope

Minimum, on purpose

The job is to test "will it sell?" with the smallest credible product that can answer that question. Every feature is challenged against that test. Nothing extra ships in v1.

03 · Handover

Handover

You leave with code, infrastructure, tests, and documentation that another engineer can take over without us — or with monthly support that you can cancel any time.

What's included

Nine categories. All in scope. Not "optional".

If you have seen a "$10,000 MVP" priced without these, this is the gap. We do not unbundle.

Foundation

The base — non-negotiable scope.

01

Backend

REST or GraphQL API. Typically Node.js or Python. Versioned, documented.

02

Database

Schema, migrations, seed data. Postgres recommended. Backups configured.

03

Authentication

Sign-up, login, password reset. Auth0 or Supabase. Role support if needed.

Production

What it takes to put real users on it.

04

Payments

Stripe Checkout, subscriptions or one-time, webhook handling, billing portal — when applicable.

05

Deploy

Production environment on your domain, SSL, environment separation (Vercel + Railway / AWS).

06

CI / CD

GitHub Actions. Tests on every PR. Auto-deploy from main. Rollback path documented.

Quality & handover

So another engineer can take over without us.

07

Monitoring

Sentry for errors. Uptime monitor. Performance budget on critical paths.

08

Documentation

Technical overview, API spec, operating manual, deployment runbook.

09

Testing

Unit tests + key end-to-end. 50%+ coverage on the parts that matter. Tests run in CI.

How it works · sprint-based

2 sprints for $10K. 4 sprints for $20K.

Per-sprint demo, written change notes, deploy at the end of each sprint. No "wait until the end" delivery.

Scoping

$500 — 3 days

Detailed requirements, feature priority, scope confirmation, final quote. Optional, but recommended. The $500 is credited toward the build if you continue.

NDA / DPA signed first

Sprint 1

Foundation + core feature

Environment, auth, deploy pipeline, plus the three to five most important screens and the core API. Demo on Day 10.

2 weeks · Weekly demo · GitHub real-time

Sprint 2

Payments, tests, deploy

For $10K plans, payments (if needed), tests + security pass, production deploy, monitoring, documentation, final demo. Launch happens here.

$10K plan ends here · Includes 1-week post-launch bug support

Sprint 3–4

Feature expansion + polish (optional, $20K plans)

Broader feature scope, higher test coverage, performance work, hardening. For products that need a wider v1 to be credible.

$20K plans only · Otherwise add features after launch

Why this works at this price

The numbers behind $10K.

Three reasons we can ship a production MVP for one-tenth of a six-month vendor build.

1/3×Time vs typical vendor build

Standard vendor timeline is 3–6 months. We deliver in 1–2. AI-augmented engineering (Claude / Cursor / human PR review) compresses the work, not the quality.

1/5×Cost vs $50–100K quote

Same scope, same quality, fixed price. The savings come from team productivity, not from cutting auth, tests, or monitoring out of scope.

3Production SaaS we run

Tsunagu, Dr. Unco, and L-career — live products we operate ourselves. Fortress, our next one, is in active development.

Full credit · $5,000 (from PoC)

The strongest trade-in credit across all our services.

If you came from a PoC, the full $5,000 PoC fee comes off the MVP invoice. No vouchers, no expiry. Validating the idea cheaply is the whole point — and only paying the rest if it works is how that promise is honoured.

Proof of Concept$5,000 · 2 weeks MVP Development$10,000–$20,000
See PoC details

What you can rely on

Five operational rules for every MVP we ship.

These are not promotional. They are how we work, on every MVP, every time.

  • Day-1 ownership

    Repository is created inside your GitHub organisation from the first commit. Code, infrastructure templates, datasets — yours from the start.

  • NDA before tech

    NDA and DPA are signed before any technical discussion, including the free scope proposal.

  • Per-sprint demo

    Every sprint ends with a live demo. Change is renegotiated before the next sprint moves. No "surprise at the end" delivery.

  • 1-week post-launch

    One full week of free bug support after launch. Bugs reported in this window are fixed at no charge, on a clear SLA.

  • Continue or part ways

    After launch you can take the codebase and operate independently, or continue with us. Either path is fully supported — no exit penalty.

FAQ

Five questions before you commit to an MVP.

Specific case not here? Add it to the message field on the form. Reply within one business day.

How is MVP different from PoC?
A PoC answers "can we build it?" An MVP answers "will it sell?" MVPs are production-quality — auth, payments, deploy, CI/CD, monitoring, tests — built for real users to actually use. PoCs are not. If you do not know which you need, choose Not sure yet on the form and we will recommend.
Does the $5,000 from PoC really roll in?
Yes. If you came from a PoC, the full $5,000 is deducted from the MVP invoice. No vouchers, no expiry. This is the strongest trade-in credit across all our services.
What is included for $10K vs $20K?
$10K is 2 sprints over 1 month — focused on the core 3–5 screens, auth, and one payment path. $20K is 4 sprints over 2 months — broader scope, deeper tests, polish. We propose which tier fits during the $500 scoping. Both tiers include all nine categories above; the difference is scope and depth, not whether tests exist.
What if our requirements shift mid-build?
Scope is re-agreed at every weekly demo before any work moves. Inside a sprint, change is accommodated as long as the sprint's total commitment does not exceed the agreed budget. Major changes shift to the next sprint and are captured in writing in the repository.
What happens after launch?
One week of free post-launch bug support is included. Beyond that, you can continue with custom development (monthly), upgrade to CTO-as-a-Service for ongoing oversight, or operate independently. Your code, your call.

Start an MVP

Tell us the product. Get a free scope proposal.

Reply within 1 business day with an AI-assisted scope proposal — feature priorities and budget tier — before you commit to anything.

  • NDA signed before any technical discussion — including the free scope proposal.
  • The senior who scopes the build is the senior who reviews the build.
  • If MVP is the wrong fit, we say so — and recommend the right next step.
  • $10K–$20K · 1–2 mo
  • 1-week post-launch
  • 100% IP
  • PoC fee credited

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