Prototype & MVP Development Built for Real Validation

Both. Prototype development is ideal for testing workflows and assumptions quickly. MVP development is for launching a real product to real users. In both cases, we build production-quality foundations so your work can evolve.

We don't deliver click-through mockups disguised as software. If you're paying to build, you should get real authentication, real data, real workflows, and a codebase that can grow.

Most MVPs take 2-4 months from kickoff to launch, and a focused MVP with one core workflow can launch in about 8 weeks. Scope sets the timeline: extra user roles, payments, connections to other systems, and native mobile apps each add time. We can usually start within 3-5 business days of approval, and your proposal gives a timeline for each phase before work begins. For reference, a smart-energy MVP built for national utilities in a previous role, with iOS, Android, and web apps, took four months from kickoff to a working MVP.

Yes, that's the goal. We design MVPs with a clean architecture and sensible foundations so you can add features without rewriting from scratch.

Yes. Most MVPs need sign-in and user roles, an admin dashboard, and often payments and analytics alongside the core workflow. We've built each of these for client products, including an admin console with staff roles and online payments through Stripe for a union benefits fund's member portal.

Yes. Honest guidance is part of the job. We'll push for clarity, cut distractions, and keep the build focused on validation.

Our MVP Build projects typically run $8,000 - $20,000. Where yours lands depends on how many user roles and screens the core workflow needs, whether it takes payments, which outside systems it connects to, and whether it ships as a web app, a mobile app, or both. A focused web app with one workflow sits at the lower end; payments, integrations, and real-time features push it higher. Every proposal splits the work into phases with fixed hours and a fixed price, usually paid in four 25% milestones, so you know the cost before work starts. Hosting is separate: for a web app with a database and email, the providers bill you directly, usually about $100-$250 a month.

You do. When the final payment is made, everything we built for the MVP is yours: code, designs and database structure. Your domain is registered in your name, and hosting, database, and email are billed to you directly. If a project starts on our hosting or code accounts for convenience, we move it to yours whenever you ask. We keep the right to show non-confidential parts of the work in our portfolio.

In most cases, you scale it. That's why we build the data model, sign-in, and roles properly in the first version: they're the expensive parts to redo. You get free bug fixes for at least one month after launch, longer for larger projects. After that, new features are scoped as new fixed-price phases, and ongoing support is hourly as needed or a monthly plan from $375 for 5 hours. A rebuild only makes sense when users show you the product should be something quite different, and that's a decision we make with you, with the costs laid out first. One client's regulated e-commerce store, for example, has stayed in active development since launch, including a full brand redesign.

Yes. If you have designs in Figma or another tool, we build from them and point out anything that would be slow or costly to build as drawn. If you validated the idea in a no-code tool like Bubble, Glide, or Airtable, or even a spreadsheet, we treat it as a working spec: it shows us the workflow, the data, and what users actually do. We rebuild it in code, which gives you the permissions, performance, and integrations the no-code version couldn't, and we move your existing data over where the tool can export it.