The problem
Most "MVPs" are demos with a database. They look like products, but the moment you onboard a fifth user, things get awkward — billing is a CSV, support is your inbox, and nobody can answer "where did that data come from?"
We build MVPs the way teams build v3 — with the boring infrastructure already in place. Auth, billing, audit logs, error tracking, on-call. So when traction shows up, it doesn’t break the thing.
The boring systems, done well.
These are the things every product needs and almost no MVP has.
Type-safe APIs end-to-end
tRPC, GraphQL or OpenAPI — your client and server share the same types, so a contract change is a build error, not a 2 a.m. page.
Auth that scales past you
SSO, MFA, role-based access, audit trails. Auth0 / Clerk / WorkOS or self-hosted Lucia — sized to the buyer.
Billing that handles edge cases
Stripe billing portal, dunning, proration, tax via Stripe Tax. Webhooks reconciled, invoices archived.
Real-time where it matters
WebSockets, server-sent events, presence, optimistic UI. Built on Postgres LISTEN/NOTIFY or Liveblocks.
Observability from day one
Sentry for errors, OpenTelemetry traces, structured logs to Loki/Datadog. You’ll know things broke before users tell you.
Background jobs & queues
Inngest, Trigger.dev or BullMQ. Retries, dead letters, idempotency — the unsexy work that makes products feel solid.
What you get, shipped.
Concrete artifacts, not slide decks. Every engagement ends with these in your repo, your cloud, your hands.
Production-ready repo
Monorepo (Turbo / Nx), TypeScript-strict, env-validated, deployable on day one.
Auth + billing wired
Sign-up, paywall, plans, customer portal, webhook reconciliation, invoice email.
Postgres schema + migrations
Drizzle / Prisma, RLS where needed, seed data, migration discipline from commit one.
Observability stack
Sentry + OTel + dashboards. Synthetic checks for the critical paths.
CI/CD pipeline
PR previews, type checks, tests, smoke runs against staging. Green-to-merge means green-to-deploy.
Runbook & on-call
A README that says what wakes you up at 3 a.m. and what to do about it.
Eight weeks, from sketch to paying users.
Discover
Domain modeling, schema design, auth model, billing model. Architecture decision records.
Spine
Auth, billing, schema, deploys, observability — the boring layer. Done before any feature.
Build
The actual product. Weekly drops, Friday demos, staging always-on.
Ship
Pen test, load test, billing dry-run, launch playbook. Go live with on-call coverage.
Tools we reach for, by default.
Not religious about any of these — we'll use what your team can maintain after we leave.
Other things we build.
Most engagements blend two or three of these. If you're not sure where your project fits, send us a brief and we'll suggest the right slice.
Web platforms
Marketing sites, dashboards, portals, content systems. Built for speed, accessibility, and edit-ability by your team.
Design systems
Tokens, components, Figma kits — versioned, themable, generated from one source of truth.
AI integration
Search, drafting, agents, evals — practical LLM features that earn their place in the product.
Ship the v3 first.
Tell us about the product. We’ll write you a fixed-scope, fixed-price offer in 3 working days.