MVP
We build SaaS MVPs that can both ship to early customers and carry continued development for many months after. No prototype spaghetti, no heavy frameworks you'll never use.
At a glance
How we think about MVPs
An MVP isn't a half-finished product — it's the smallest product that solves a real problem for one clear customer type. We've built quite a few now, and we've learned that the best MVPs are focused, fast, and built on a stack that doesn't have to be thrown out when 200 customers show up. That's not the same as "quick and dirty" — it's quick and focused.
We work in 8–14 weeks from idea discovery to a running, paid-for SaaS in production. We build on Next.js (App Router), Postgres (Supabase or Neon), TypeScript, Tailwind and a handful of documented patterns we know hold up. We bring multi-tenancy, billing (Stripe), auth (with organisations and roles) and email (Resend) in from day one — because it's far more expensive to bolt those on later than to build them right from the start.
We understand that a startup MVP and an internal proof-of-concept are different beasts. A startup MVP needs to stand up to customers who don't know you, pay with a credit card, and are impatient. We build it with proper onboarding, a realistic feature roadmap and a plan for what happens when your first big customer asks about SOC 2 documentation.
The process
We work in short iterations with deploys from day one, so you can continuously see and use what we build. The end date is locked in discovery — scope is what we adjust if priorities shift along the way.
We lock MVP scope, design the core flows in Figma, choose the stack and lay out a realistic plan with weekly demos. You walk away with a clear budget and a risk register — before we touch a codebase.
We build the foundation: auth, multi-tenant data isolation, billing and the internal tooling your team will use. Preview deploys on every pull request from day three — so you can click through continuously.
Now we build what your product is actually about. 2–4 main features built in close dialogue with you and — if possible — early pilot customers. Daily deploys to staging, weekly demo.
Performance tuning, security review, documentation and go-live. The first customers are onboarded with us at hand, and we continue with operations and ongoing development by agreement.
What's in the box
We choose differently when it makes sense — but rarely. This stack lets us move fast without building technical debt we'll have to pay back later.
Next.js
Frontend, SSR and API routes
TypeScript
End-to-end type safety
PostgreSQL
Primary database (Supabase or Neon)
Tailwind CSS
Design system and UI
Vercel
Edge hosting and preview deploys
Cloudflare
DNS, WAF and edge cache
Node.js
Backend runtime and workers
Python
ML and data pipelines where relevant
What we deliver
Done in 8–14 weeks. Not a checklist — this is what a typical MVP delivery looks like in practice.
1–2 weeks to lock MVP scope, design core flows, choose the stack and lay out a realistic plan with weekly demos. You get a clear budget and a risk register, not an estimation magic show.
Organisations, users, invitations, roles and data isolation from day one. Built on proven Postgres patterns (Row-Level Security or schema isolation) so it scales from 1 to 1000 tenants without redesign.
Email/password, magic links, Google and Microsoft SSO. Invite flow, password reset, MFA where it makes sense. Built on Auth.js, Clerk or WorkOS depending on where you're heading.
Subscriptions, trials, per-seat or per-usage, invoices and self-service via Stripe Customer Portal. Webhook handling with idempotency — so you never charge twice or lose a payment.
Welcome, invitations, invoices, alerts and notifications delivered reliably via Resend or Postmark. With templates that look like your product and open/click tracking where you want it.
Vercel or AWS hosting, Postgres with backups, Sentry for error reporting and a small on-call rotation where we take the page when something breaks outside business hours.
Scope
We always talk scope and price in discovery — never on a website. These are the ranges we typically work within so you can see where your MVP roughly lands before we meet.
8–10 weeks
Focused MVP to validate the idea with the first paying customers. Gets you to market fast.
10–12 weeks
Complete MVP for most startup cases. Our recommendation for the vast majority.
12–14 weeks
Larger scope with integrations, compliance and advanced architecture. For B2B and regulated industries.
Each level covers discovery, build, ops setup and 4–6 weeks of stabilisation after go-live. Operations and ongoing development are agreed separately after go-live.
Before we start
We default to Next.js + Postgres + TypeScript because that stack is fast to build in, fast to hire on and fast to operate. If you have a good reason for a different stack (existing team, integration with a .NET backend, particular performance requirements), we'll use it. But we choose the stack only after we've talked about what's being built — not the other way around.
8–14 weeks is the normal range for an MVP that includes auth, multi-tenancy, billing and 2–4 main features. If scope is smaller (internal PoC), we can do it in 4–6 weeks. If scope is bigger (you have a 30-item feature list), we need to talk about what comes in v1 and what waits — because a 30-item MVP isn't an MVP.
We're not your CFO, but we've seen many pricing models. We set Stripe up so you can experiment — monthly vs. annual, per-seat vs. per-usage, free trial vs. pilot — without code changes every time. It's more important to be able to change the pricing model after a month than to nail it from the start.
You own the code. It lives in your GitHub organisation from day one, your team gets access, and you can take it elsewhere if we're no longer the right partner. We believe good agreements aren't built on lock-in.
FAQ
In two short weeks we lock the MVP scope, design the core flows in Figma, choose the stack, and build a realistic plan with weekly demos. You leave with a clear scope, a risk register, and an open budget — before we touch a codebase. Price and scope are always discussed privately in the conversation, not on a website.
8–14 weeks from first conversation to paying customers is normal for a focused MVP. We run weekly demos from week 2, have preview deploys on every pull request, and let you (or your first pilot customers) try the product continuously. "Live" isn't a magic date — it's a gradual rollout from internal testers to pilot customers to public launch.
You do. The repository sits in your GitHub organisation from day one, your team can have commit access whenever you want, and the entire codebase is yours. We don't believe in lock-in. If at some point you want to take development in-house or use a different agency, that's your call — we'll do a proper handover and bow out gracefully.
It depends on what you want. Many customers choose a monthly operations and development agreement where we handle new features, support, security updates and operations on a fixed price. Others take development in-house and have us only operate. Or a middle ground where we're backup when your team is stretched. We talk about it well before go-live — it shouldn't come as a surprise.
We work with a stack and a set of patterns we've used across multiple SaaS builds and know hold up. We do weekly demos so you can see progress, we have preview deploys on every PR so you can test continuously, and we do code review internally so no code goes to production without being seen by two pairs of eyes. And when something does go wrong — because it will — we fix it and learn from it. That's the difference between a team that's built this kind of thing before and a team building it for the first time.
Ready to get started?
We'll get back within one business day with concrete input — not a stock proposal.
