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New projects
A paragraph about the problem is enough to start. We reply within two working days, usually with questions rather than a quote.
Web2 · Service MVP development for startups
A first version built to answer one question: scoped to what proves the idea, shipped to real users, on a codebase you can keep building on afterwards.
In short
A minimum viable product (MVP) is the smallest version of a product that can answer the question you most need answered: will people use this, will they pay, does the technology work. We scope an MVP around that question, build it as a fixed-scope project, and ship it on a codebase designed to be extended rather than thrown away.
- How to engage
- Product build, Fractional CTO
- Practice
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Signs this is the right service
- You have an idea, perhaps a design, and need a working product in front of real users.
- You are raising money and investors want to see something that runs.
- A prototype built with no-code tools or generated code has reached its limit.
- The feature list keeps growing and nobody can say which parts the first version really needs.
What you get
Scope cut to one question
A workshop that separates what the first version must prove from what can wait, ending in a written scope.
Design and build
Product design, web or mobile app, API and database, built by one team.
Foundations worth keeping
Authentication, a sound data model, automated tests and deployment — the parts that are hard to add later.
Analytics for the question
Events that measure the thing the MVP exists to learn, so the result is evidence and not an impression.
A plan for what comes next
A short written roadmap and estimate for the following stage, whether we build it or your own hires do.
The process
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Define what it must prove
One or two sessions to agree the question, the user and the measure of success.
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Fix the scope and price
A written scope and a fixed quote, paid by milestone.
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Build and demo every two weeks
You see working software from the first cycle and can change priorities between cycles.
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Launch and learn
Release to real users, read the numbers together, and decide the next step on evidence.
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MVP development: common questions
How small should an MVP be?
- Small enough to ship while the question still matters, and complete enough that a real user can finish the main task without help. First versions more often fail by including too much than too little.
Will we have to rebuild it later?
- Not if it is built properly. We keep the scope small and the foundations sound — data model, tests, deployment — so the product can grow from the same codebase.
Can you help if we have no technical co-founder?
- Yes. A fractional CTO engagement gives you a senior engineer for architecture, hiring and vendor decisions alongside the build.
Who owns the code?
- You do, from the first commit, in your own repository and cloud account.
06 / Let’s build
Bring us the difficult problem.
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Careers
Engineers, designers and researchers who like systems that are hard to get right. Send something you built and what you would change about it now.
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Studio
Based in India and working remotely, with overlap hours agreed up front so your team always has a time to reach us.
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Read
Guides on AI agents, RAG, MCP, tokenization and chain abstraction, written by the engineers who build them.