Service MVPs & product builds
A real v1 in weeks, not a roadmap in quarters.
Design, build, deploy — one team, one fixed quote, no hand-offs between an agency, a freelancer and whoever ends up doing the deployment. You see clickable designs before we write product code, a staging link from week one, and a working demo every Friday. At launch, the code and the accounts are yours.
01 What we build
Six shapes this usually takes.
Founder MVPs
The first version of a product that doesn't exist yet: enough of it to put in front of real users, charge money, or show an investor something that runs rather than something that renders.
Internal tools
The spreadsheet that four people edit at once, the process held together by email. Turned into an application with roles, an audit trail, and one version of the truth.
Marketplace & SaaS v1
Two-sided flows, accounts, subscriptions and payments — the unglamorous plumbing a product needs before it can take its first paying customer.
Client portals
A branded place for your customers to see their orders, documents, jobs or data — instead of asking your team for a PDF every time they want a status.
Prototype-to-production rescues
You have something built with a no-code tool or generated wholesale by AI, and it demos well but can't take real users. We keep what works and rebuild the parts that will bite.
New product lines
An established company launching something adjacent to the main business, without pulling the core engineering team off the thing that currently pays for everything.
02 How it works
Six weeks, laid end to end.
Most builds run to a shape like this one. The dates move with the scope, but the rhythm doesn't: a fixed quote before anything starts, a design you can click before we write product code, a staging link that goes live in week one, and a working demo every Friday until launch.
Fig. — A typical six-week build: fixed quote first, design before product code, staging live from week one, a demo every Friday, and full handover at launch.
03 The build
From "we have an idea" to a product with users on it.
Cut the scope to a spine
We find the one path through the product that has to work — sign up, do the thing, get the value — and argue everything else into a later list. Most v1 briefs contain about three products; we ship the one you can learn from.
Fixed quote, in writing
Before any work starts you get a written scope and a fixed price, not an hourly estimate that drifts. If you want something added later, it gets re-quoted the same way before it enters the build.
Clickable designs before product code
You click through the real screens and disagree with them while changes are cheap. Arguments about a flow belong in a prototype, not in a pull request three weeks later.
Weekly increments, Friday demos
Your staging link goes live in week one and stays current. Every Friday there's a working build to use, so progress is something you check yourself rather than something we report.
Harden, launch, hand over
A week of QA, performance and bug burn-down with no new scope, then deployment to production. The repository, the keys, the hosting, the domain and every account are transferred to your name.
04 Fit
This is for you if…
- You have a product idea and a deadline that makes a six-month build pointless.
- You need something real in front of users or investors, not another deck.
- You've been quoted by the hour and want to know the number before you commit.
- Your company is launching a new line and can't pull the core team off the main product.
- A no-code or AI-generated prototype got you attention and now can't take real traffic.
- You want to own the code and the accounts outright, with no lock-in to whoever built it.
05 Questions
What clients ask first.
What counts as MVP scope — and what gets cut?
In: the one path that delivers the value, accounts and permissions, payments if money is part of the loop, and whatever data the product genuinely runs on. Usually out of v1: admin panels that a database view can cover for now, deep analytics, bulk import and export, multi-language, notification preferences, and settings screens nobody has asked for yet. You get the cut list in writing, so "not yet" never gets confused with "forgotten".
What happens if the scope changes mid-build?
It gets re-quoted in writing before it enters the build — a small change with a price and a timeline effect, agreed by you, then built. Nothing gets quietly absorbed and nothing gets quietly dropped to make room. The most common outcome is that we park the change for the week after launch, once you've seen real users touch the thing.
Will it scale afterwards, or is it throwaway code?
Honestly: it's built to be correct and easy to change, not to serve a million users on day one. We use boring, well-supported technology, keep the data model clean, and write tests where a bug would be expensive — because that's what makes v2 cheap. We also make deliberate trade-offs to hit the date, and we hand you the list of them at launch. An MVP is a starting point that's safe to build on, not a finished platform, and anyone who tells you otherwise is selling something.
What do you need from us?
One person who can make decisions, an hour a week for the Friday demo, and answers within a day or two when something is blocked. Content, logo and brand if you have them — we'll work with plain defaults if you don't. If the product connects to your existing systems, we'll need API access early rather than in the final week.
What happens after launch?
The code and accounts are already yours, so you can take it in-house or to any developer. If you'd rather not, we offer a Partner plan for ongoing changes, or you can come back for a defined v2 with its own fixed quote. Either way there's a two-week window after launch where we fix anything that turns out to be broken from the original scope, at no extra cost.
06 Related
Often built together with:
Tell us what you'd launch first.
Describe the product in a couple of sentences. You'll get an honest read on what fits in a first version — and a fixed quote within 48 hours if it's a build we can do well.
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