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Small SaaS

Small on purpose. We build the version that answers whether anyone wants this, on boring infrastructure you can afford to run before it earns anything — and we tell you which parts are deliberately unfinished.

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01What you get

What you actually receive

  • A working product with real authentication, real billing and real error handling.
  • A deployment pipeline, so shipping is not an event.
  • The repository, the infrastructure definition and the accounts, all in your name.
  • A written list of the shortcuts we took and what each one will cost to undo.

02The decision

Small on purpose

The failure mode for a first version is not that it is too simple. It is that it took nine months and answered nothing.

Weeks one to two
Discovery. What is the smallest thing that tells you whether this is worth building, and what does it cost to run?
The build
Boring infrastructure, one deployment path, real auth and real billing from the start — the three things retrofitting punishes.
At launch
A written list of every shortcut and what undoing it will cost, so scaling decisions are informed rather than discovered.
After
A support window. Somebody has to be there the week people first use it.

03Limits

What this is not

  • We do not build a platform before you have a product.
  • We do not put a machine-learning feature in because it is fashionable.
  • We do not disappear at launch. Somebody has to be there the week after.
Typical duration
6 to 14 weeks for a first version
Engagement
Staged, with a decision point after discovery
Best fit
A tool for a market you already understand

04How it runs

Four stages, start to handover

  1. 01

    A brief, then a conversation

    You send four short answers. We read them and reply within one working day, either with questions or with a straight answer about whether we are the right studio for it.

  2. 02

    Scope written down

    What is being built, what is not, what it costs and when. If we cannot describe it clearly enough to price it, that is a sign the scope is not ready — and we will say so.

  3. 03

    Build, in the open

    Work lands in your repository from the first week. You see progress as commits and working previews, not as a status meeting.

  4. 04

    Handover that survives us

    Documentation for the next developer, the accounts in your name, and a walkthrough with whoever has to run it. Then a support window while you settle in.