...vs. most dev agencies Most agencies take your spec and build it. That's it. No validation, no positioning, no help getting customers. You launch and hope it works. We do four phases: validate, position, build, launch. 70% of MVPs fail not from bad code, but from skipping the first two. We don't skip them. ...vs. expensive US agencies They charge $50-100K because of SF/NYC offices, $150K salaries, and 40-60% overhead. We're a distributed team with lower costs. Same quality, different math. ...vs. cheap offshore agencies You get what you pay for. Offshore shops often deliver spaghetti code, miss deadlines, and disappear when things get hard. We're a small team that treats every project like our reputation depends on it—because it does. ...vs. hiring a full-time dev A good developer costs $120-140K/year plus 3+ months to find, hire, and onboard. And they still won't do your validation, branding, or go-to-market. We do all of it in 10 weeks for a fraction of the cost. ...vs. building it yourself If you're technical, you can build it. The question is whether you should. Every hour you spend coding is an hour you're not selling, fundraising, or talking to customers. We've seen technical founders burn 6 months building features nobody wanted because they skipped validation.

Yes—if you're building a digital product. We've worked across SaaS, marketplaces, mobile apps, and internal tools. The specific industry matters less than you think. Our process focuses on fundamentals that work everywhere: validating demand, positioning against competitors, building what users actually need, and launching to real customers. In fact, looking only at your industry is a common mistake. You end up copying competitors instead of understanding why things work. That's where breakthroughs get missed.

That's exactly what Week 1-2 is for. Most founders think they need 20 features. After validation, they realize 4 of them actually matter. We identify what's essential to test your core hypothesis—and cut everything else. An MVP isn't a half-built product. It's the smallest thing that proves whether your idea works. If your scope is genuinely too large for 10 weeks, we'll tell you upfront and help you break it into phases.

There are three reasons for this: Reason #1: We receive more applications than we can take on Every quarter, we get 40-50+ applications for a limited number of spots. We can't say yes to everyone—and we don't want to. Most agencies scale by hiring more devs and juggling more projects. We don't. We stay small so every founder gets the same process that guarantees success: • Validate your market and roadmap before building • Position your brand against competitors • Design and develop your full MVP • Help you launch and get first customers That only happens if we stay focused. Reason #2: Your success depends on our attention Each project gets weekly check-ins, roadmap reviews, positioning feedback, and hands-on support across all four phases. That's not scalable—and we're okay with that. If we said yes to everyone, we'd become another agency that ships code and disappears. We've seen what that does to founders. We're not interested. We'd rather turn down good projects than deliver mediocre results. Reason #3: We're selective about fit Not every application moves forward. Some ideas need more validation before they're ready. Some founders aren't available to move fast. Some scopes don't fit our stack. We review every application to make sure we're the right partner—for your sake and ours. If we're not, we'll tell you honestly and point you somewhere better.

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