Fixed-price MVP development with scope, timeline and cost locked before build
You have the idea or the spec and a narrow window to prove fit. We ship fixed-scope MVPs—SaaS dashboards, customer portals, RAG features and agent workflows—with milestone billing, weekly demos and code you own from day one. No CTO on your side required.
What you get in 8–12 weeks
A written scope with in/out boundaries, a staging environment with weekly demos, a production-ready repo in your GitHub org, infrastructure-as-code in your cloud account, tests on critical paths and a handoff runbook—not a Figma-only deliverable or an endless discovery phase.
Milestone payments, no surprise invoices
Three to four milestones tied to demo-ready increments: scope sign-off, core workflow live, integrations hardened, production cutover. You pay per milestone after you see working software. Change requests get a written delta with cost and timeline before we build.
Scoping without a CTO on your side
A week-zero workshop maps jobs-to-be-done, screens and integrations into a fixed deliverable list and milestone calendar you approve before kickoff. Every week you get a live demo, a plain-language changelog and next week’s plan you can forward to co-founders or investors.
Fixed scope vs hourly agencies
Hourly shops profit when timelines slip. For an MVP with a defined audience and 5–15 core workflows, fixed scope caps the downside, forces kill criteria early and beats staff augmentation when you lack an in-house tech lead to manage contractors. Milestones lock the core workflow first instead of quoting the whole wish-list.
AI and RAG MVPs, scoped differently
We line-item an eval set, retrieval quality checks, prompt/version pinning, fallbacks when the model fails and token-cost guardrails—so an AI MVP survives its first real users, not just the demo.
What you own on day one
Repository access from the first sprint, infrastructure-as-code in your account, deploy and rollback runbooks, and eval datasets for any AI feature. No proprietary framework, no hostage hosting.
Price
MVP builds start from $12k. We quote a band after a short discovery call, then lock scope before build starts.
Ready to scope this properly?
Tell us what you are building. A senior engineer replies within one business day with scope, price, and a realistic date — before any contract.