Product Development

6–12 weeks for a genuine MVP — real users, real data, real payments if the model needs them. The schedule is driven far more by scope discipline than by engineering speed, so most of our value in the first two weeks is arguing features out of v1 rather than into it.

$30,000–$80,000 for most MVPs, depending on integrations, compliance requirements, and whether mobile is in scope. We phase the work so you have a working, deployable product at the end of each phase, which means you can stop, raise, or change direction without owning a half-built system.

Occasionally, as a partial offset for a company we have strong conviction in, but never as the full arrangement. Pure-equity builds tend to misalign incentives on both sides — we would rather be accountable to a scope and a deadline than to a cap table.

We plan for it, because it is the healthy outcome. Documentation, architecture decision records, and infrastructure-as-code are part of delivery from the beginning, and we routinely onboard a client's first in-house hires and then step back to advisory. Handoff is a milestone, not a loss.