MVP development that ends with paying users.
We cut the feature list to what your first customers will pay for, build it in two-week sprints, and launch it on infrastructure that will not need a rewrite. Published MVPs: $48,000 in 11 weeks, and $72,000 in 14 weeks.
How an MVP development company should spend your first $50,000.
Most MVPs fail by doing too much. In the published logistics build, a 47-item wishlist was cut to the 12 features that would make a freight broker give up the spreadsheet. The product shipped in 11 weeks for $48,000, under its $50,000 budget, against US agency quotes of $120,000 to $220,000.
An AI MVP follows the same rule. Pick the one task the model must do well, build the evaluation for it before the interface, and keep a human in the loop until the numbers say otherwise. If you already built a prototype with Lovable, Bolt, Replit or Cursor, start with the $2,500 Prototype Production Review rather than a rebuild.
What an MVP needs, and nothing more.
Six things decide whether the first version earns a second one.
Scope you can launch
A scoping week that turns the wishlist into the smallest product a customer will pay for, with the rest parked in writing.
The core workflow
The one job users come for, built end to end with auth, roles and a data model the next version can grow on.
Payments from day one
Stripe checkout or subscriptions in the first release, so a customer conversation can end with an invoice.
AI MVPs
Model choice, retrieval, prompts and an evaluation set built before the interface, so you know the AI part works before you sell it.
Launch-ready infrastructure
CI/CD, error tracking, backups and load tests for your first hundreds of users, at a low monthly bill.
Learning built in
Analytics on the events that matter, so version two is decided by usage rather than opinion.
From pitch deck to launch.
Scope
One week to lock features, architecture and a fixed price.
Build
Two-week sprints. Every Friday you and a pilot customer test the staging build.
Launch
Testing, load checks and a zero-downtime deploy, then onboarding the first customers.
Next version
Keep part of the team to build what usage says matters, or take it in-house.
Published prices, mapped to the job.
Every price here is the same one on the pricing page. Work with no published price gets a fixed price in writing before it starts.
Figures in the notes are what past clients paid, from the published case studies; they show the range, not a rate card. Work with no natural end, such as ongoing development, is priced per engineer per month with no lock-in.
When to hire us for this, and when not to.
- You have pilot customers, letters of intent or a waiting list.
- You have a budget and a date, often tied to a funding round.
- You can make scope decisions every week.
- You want to test an idea before talking to customers. A no-code prototype costs less.
- The feature list cannot be cut. That is a full product build; see SaaS development.
- You are looking for a technical co-founder who works for equity.
Three MVPs that reached real customers.
Each one went from concept to launch on a fixed budget, then raised its next round.
A $48K, 11-week logistics SaaS MVP that reached 14 paying customers and unlocked a $2.1M Series A.
A $72K, 14-week two-sided marketplace build processed $2.4M GMV in year one and powered a $3.8M seed round.
A construction payments platform built in 4 months for $118K processed $41.2M in year one with a 0.02% error rate.
These are past engagements at the prices those clients paid. For build price, monthly cost and payback side by side, see what ten client projects cost.
MVP development, answered
How much does MVP development cost?
Our two published MVPs cost $48,000 (a logistics SaaS, 11 weeks) and $72,000 (a two-sided marketplace, 14 weeks). A B2B payments MVP with heavier compliance work cost $118,000 over four months. You get a fixed price after the scoping week, before the build starts.
How long does it take to build an MVP?
Most take 8 to 16 weeks. The published builds took 11 and 14 weeks; the payments platform took four months.
What is the difference between a prototype and an MVP?
A prototype shows the idea; an MVP takes money from real users. Prototypes built with AI tools often skip authentication, data rules and security, which is what the Prototype Production Review checks before real users arrive.
Do you build AI MVPs?
Yes. We build the evaluation set for the model's one key task first, then the product around it, and keep a human approval step until accuracy is proven on real cases.
What happens after launch?
Most founders keep part of the team. After the Series A, the logistics founder retained three Gigabit engineers as a dedicated team at $14,500 a month.
Often scoped alongside.
SaaS development
From MVP to a scaling product without a rewrite.
SaaS developmentPrototype Production Review
A $2,500 senior review of an app built with Lovable, Bolt, Replit, Cursor or Claude Code.
Prototype Production ReviewCustom software development
Portals, internal tools and platforms to a fixed quote.
Custom software developmentFrom the field notes
Have the customers, need the product?
Send the feature list. We send back the version your first customers will pay for, with a fixed price and a launch date.