mvp development company
MVP development for startups & new products — ruthless scoping, 10–14 week builds, billing included at launch. Validate with paying customers, not promises.
Building a SaaS product is two problems wearing one budget: build the right thing (product risk) and build it right enough (engineering risk). Overspend on the second before validating the first and you run out of runway; ignore the second entirely and your first enterprise customer's security review kills the deal. The process below is designed around that tension. Shortcut: book a scoping call and we'll tell you which risk you're currently carrying.
[Trust bar: SaaS products shipped · combined ARR of client products (if real) · reviews]
These four choices are cheap on day one and brutally expensive to reverse at 200 customers:
**Product scoping (1–2 weeks).** We compress your vision to the smallest sellable slice — feature map, user flows, pricing hypothesis, fixed quote. The most valuable sentence in this phase is usually "cut that."
**Design sprint.** Clickable prototype; test it on 5 target users before code. Cheapest pivot you'll ever make.
**Build (8–12 weeks).** Two-week sprints, staging URL from week two, billing and onboarding built alongside features — because "we'll add payments later" means later never has revenue.
**Launch.** Production hardening, monitoring, status page, and the analytics dashboard that tells you what users actually do.
**Iterate to PMF.** Post-launch, we run 2-week improvement cycles against activation and retention data — the roadmap argues with evidence, not opinions.
For products past PMF: performance engineering (the query that was fine at 50 tenants and is timing out at 500), reliability (SLOs, on-call, incident process), enterprise features (SSO, audit logs, data residency), SOC 2 readiness, and team augmentation that works inside your existing codebase and rituals rather than around them.
**We scope against runway.** Your quote comes with a "what ships by which date for which dollars" table — and we'll tell you when your scope exceeds your runway *before* you sign.
**You own the product.** Code, infra, data, docs — in your accounts from day one. If you raise a round and hire in-house, the handover package is already written.
**Enterprise-grade by default.** OWASP-aligned builds, tenant isolation testing, and the security documentation your first big customer's procurement team will demand.
**AI margin math.** For AI-native products we model per-tenant token cost against your pricing before you commit to a feature — [AI cost engineering →](/resources/ai-development/ai-cost-optimization/).
** 2–3 real SaaS case studies: product, timeline to first revenue, current scale]**
- Product/client]** — [category]. MVP in [X] weeks; real traction metric]** → case study
Full driver breakdown: SaaS development cost guide.
A sellable MVP: $50K–$120K. Growth build-out: $100K–$300K. The honest variable is scope discipline — every "just one more feature" before launch costs money and delays the learning that tells you if the feature mattered.
| Decision | Our default | Why it matters |
|---|---|---|
Tenancy model | Shared database, tenant-scoped rows (pooled) — with an isolation path for enterprise tiers | Wrong tenancy choice is the #1 cause of SaaS rewrites; full analysis → |
Billing | Stripe Billing integrated day one — trials, upgrades, dunning, tax | Retrofitting billing into a "free beta" product is weeks of pain; subscription billing guide → |
Auth & roles | Standards-based auth with org/workspace model and RBAC from the start | "Add teams later" is a schema migration nightmare |
Instrumentation | Product analytics + activation/retention events wired before launch | You can't iterate toward PMF on data you didn't collect |
| Stage | Range | Includes |
|---|---|---|
| SaaS MVP | $50K – $120K | Core product, billing, onboarding, admin, analytics — sellable v1 |
| Growth-stage build-out | $100K – $300K | Integrations, API, enterprise auth, performance, mobile |
| Ongoing product team | $25K – $80K/mo | Dedicated squad (eng + design + QA) you direct |
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