Software for Startups

We build the way an experienced technical co-founder would

We've shipped focused MVPs in as little as 8 weeks for founders who needed a working product in front of investors or early users fast. We've also seen the opposite: startups that spent months and a meaningful share of their runway building the wrong first product, because nobody forced the hard scoping conversation up front. The difference is almost always in the first two weeks — how well the problem is defined, how ruthlessly scope is cut, and how clearly the team distinguishes between what needs to be built and what only needs to be tested. If you're still working out what your MVP should even include, our MVP development guide for startups is a useful starting point before you talk to any vendor, including us.

What we build for startups

• MVP development — the smallest product that tests your core hypothesis with real users in 6–10 weeks
• Marketplace platforms — two-sided matching, payment escrow, review systems, trust & safety
• SaaS products — multi-tenant architecture, subscription billing (Stripe), usage metering, onboarding flows
• Consumer apps — iOS, Android, or both — product-led growth features, push notifications, analytics
• B2B platforms — team workspaces, role-based access, bulk actions, API for customer integrations
• Investor demo builds — functional prototype for fundraising, built to be extended (not thrown away)

What a fundable MVP looks like once it's built

"Fundable" is a specific, checkable property, not a compliment. It means an investor's technical advisor can read the codebase and find a documented data model, not a folder of scripts. It means a second engineer can join the project without a week of onboarding just to understand what exists. Our real-time communication platform case study is a good example of building for a startup at exactly this stage — a working product with proper room and session management, built to be extended rather than replaced once the company gained traction. The same discipline applies to backend and data-heavy products: our ML prediction API case study shows how we took a set of notebook-only models and turned them into a production service a product team could actually build features on top of.

MVP scope discipline

The most expensive startup mistake is building features users didn't ask for. Our MVP process starts with a "must/should/could/won't" workshop that produces a fixed scope, a fixed price, and a fixed timeline. No creep, no surprises, and a product your first users can actually tell you whether they'd pay for.

Architecture that scales with your rounds

We build MVPs that can grow — modular services where appropriate, a documented data model, a CI/CD pipeline that supports a future in-house team, and an API layer that mobile, web, and third-party integrations can all use. The difference between a fundable MVP and a throwaway prototype is the foundation underneath it.

CTO support for non-technical founders

Technical leadership for a non-technical founder covers more than code review — including making sure basic security hygiene, the kind our cybersecurity fundamentals for startups guide covers, is in place before an investor's diligence team asks about it rather than after.

• Investor technical Q&A — we answer architecture questions in due diligence calls
• CTO-as-a-Service — fractional technical leadership until you hire your own
• Engineering team hiring — technical interview support, team structure recommendations
• Handoff documentation — architecture docs, runbooks, and code walkthroughs for your incoming engineering hire

Common questions from startups teams