Don't over-engineer. We build functional, beautiful MVPs with the core features necessary to win your first customers and secure funding.
Engagements typically start from $5,000 USD. Final scope priced after discovery call.
Hangzhou-based, ex-Alibaba senior engineering team. Project rate $14k–$85k over 4–10 weeks. Three engineering commitments written into every contract before any code is shipped.
200+ reference cases with expected outputs and a CI-gated scoring rubric land in the first sprint — before any production code merges. Accuracy is measured from day one.
Six-month warranty on production fixes. Customer owns source code, deployment docs, and runbook from day one of handover — no vendor lock-in.
Token routing, caching, and model selection re-evaluated every 90 days against the eval set so unit economics stay predictable as traffic grows.
A fixed-price feasibility engagement. About one in four scopings recommends not building. Fee credits 100% toward a build engagement if you proceed.
Our MVP development cycle is optimized for speed without sacrificing technical debt control. By using pre-verified modules for authentication, billing, and data management, we focus 100% of our energy on your unique value proposition. This approach allows startups to enter the market with a production-ready application within 6-8 weeks, significantly reducing time-to-market and R&D costs. Last updated: 2026-05-19.
A SaaS MVP is not a smaller version of the final product. It is a sharp, end-to-end vertical slice through the riskiest assumption in the business plan, built fast enough that the answer arrives before the runway runs out. The patterns below are the ones where a 6-to-10-week MVP engagement actually moves the needle.
Investors fund traction or insight. If you do not yet have traction, the MVP is the artifact that proves the insight: a working product they can click through, with one or two real users on it, and a clear story about what the next 12 months unlocks. We build to that bar — not a polished product, not a Figma deck, but a demo that survives a 30-minute partner meeting.
After seed, the question changes: do real users in the target ICP get value from one specific workflow, repeatedly? We build a wedge MVP — one workflow, one user role, one integration if any — and instrument it so usage tells the truth. This is the fastest path to the data that decides whether to scale, pivot, or kill.
Successful operators often launch a second business that solves a problem the first business surfaced. We build that side-bet MVP without disturbing the parent business: separate codebase, separate billing, separate brand if needed, and a clean architectural fence so a future spin-off or acquisition is technically simple.
Bootstrappers do not have the luxury of building for a hypothetical large market and figuring out monetization later. We build the MVP with billing wired from the first day, the pricing page real, and the conversion path measurable from week one — because the success metric for a bootstrapped MVP is paid users, not signups.
Corporate venture studios fight a structural problem: corporate IT timelines do not match startup speeds. We build the MVP outside the corporate stack on purpose — modern infra, clean security posture, no shared dependencies — so the venture can move at startup speed and integrate with the parent later if it earns the right to integrate.
Established SaaS companies often want a second product targeted at their existing customer base. We build the companion MVP with shared identity and billing where it helps, isolated everything else where it does not, and a clear architectural seam so the second product can survive on its own merits rather than being a feature that pretends to be a product.
A SaaS MVP engagement is six to ten weeks. The phases are tight on purpose; an MVP that takes 16 weeks is not an MVP, it is a small product. We protect the timeline by saying no to scope creep early and often, and by reusing battle-tested platform pieces (auth, billing, email, storage) rather than building them from scratch.
We name the single riskiest assumption in the business plan that the MVP must validate, then cut scope ruthlessly to that assumption. Everything that does not move the needle on the riskiest assumption is dropped to v2. This is uncomfortable but it is the difference between an MVP that ships in eight weeks and one that drags into month four.
We stand up the platform layer using pre-verified modules: Auth0 / Clerk for identity, Stripe for billing, Postmark / Resend for email, S3-compatible storage. The design system is set up from a starter kit and customized to the brand rather than designed from a blank canvas. Time we spend here pays back through the rest of the engagement.
We build the riskiest workflow end-to-end first, instrumented from day one. The user can go from sign-up to the moment of value in one continuous path. We resist the temptation to build sideways breadth before the vertical slice is real.
Performance profile, basic security review, billing wired up, pricing page real, terms and privacy pages live. The MVP is now something a paying user can actually buy, not just a demo someone can click through.
Phased launch: friends and family first, then a curated waitlist, then public. Every step is measured (activation, time-to-first-value, conversion to paid, churn signals) so the next decision is data-driven rather than vibes-driven.
On a typical 8-week SaaS MVP engagement, here is what you actually receive at each milestone.
A one-page canvas naming the single assumption the MVP must validate, the success metric, the kill metric, and the explicit list of features dropped to v2. Posted somewhere visible so scope creep meets it head-on.
Auth, billing, email, and storage running in staging. Design system customized to brand. Marketing landing page deployed at the production domain so the launch is not blocked on DNS or copy.
A real user can sign up, complete the riskiest workflow, and trigger the moment of value, with usage instrumented for every step. This is the earliest point where the MVP can be demoed to investors or pilot users.
Stripe integrated, plans configured, pricing page deployed, terms and privacy live. A real customer can buy from this point onward.
Friends-and-family launch with measurement dashboards live. Activation funnel, conversion to paid, and churn signals tracked from day one.
Two weeks of real usage data analyzed against the riskiest-assumption canvas. Decision: scale, pivot, or kill. v2 scope written up against what the data showed, not against what we hoped to find.
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