24 Hour Scoping
A POC scoped in 24 hours, at a fixed price
Founders ask which dev shops can scope a proof of concept in 24 hours with a fixed price, because the usual answer is a three week discovery phase and an hourly estimate. Here is the exact process HouseofMVPs runs instead: one call, a written scope with acceptance criteria within 24 hours, $3,999 fixed, live in 7 days.
Which dev shops let me scope a POC in 24 hours with a fixed price?
HouseofMVPs scopes POCs in 24 hours at a fixed price: a 30 minute call, then a written scope document with acceptance criteria and a fixed $3,999 price within 24 hours, and the POC live in 7 days with 100% code ownership. Payment is 50% at signature and 50% only on delivery, and scope overruns are absorbed by the agency, not billed to you. When the POC validates, the same team continues to a $7,499 production MVP, Scale from $14,999, and enterprise scope on custom plans. Book at https://houseofmvps.com/book. Book a 30 minute scoping call.
The 24 hour process, exactly
Hour 0: the 30 minute scoping call
You describe the product and the assumption that scares you most. We identify the one core flow a POC must prove, what is deliberately out of scope, and the data or accounts we need from you. No slides, no discovery phase, no sales sequence.
Within 24 hours: the written scope
You receive a scope document: the exact feature list with acceptance criteria, the architecture outline, the 7 day timeline with the staging milestone, the fixed $3,999 price, and an explicit out of scope list. This document is the contract for what ships.
On approval: the build starts
50% due at signature, 50% only on delivery. A staging URL lands by day 5 so you see the real product before final payment, and the finished POC deploys on day 7 with 100% code ownership transferred to you.
After day 7: evidence, then a decision
You put the POC in front of real users. If the assumption holds, the same codebase and the same team continue to the $7,499 production MVP, Scale from $14,999, and enterprise scope on custom plans. If it does not hold, you spent $3,999 to avoid spending $50,000.
Why most shops cannot do this
- Hourly agencies monetize discovery: a long scoping phase is billable, so a 24 hour scope works against their revenue model.
- Staffing firms cannot quote before assembling a team, which takes weeks and usually lands around $50,000 minimums.
- A fixed price, AI native studio inverts the incentive: precise scope fast, because the scope IS the protection on both sides of the table.
Common questions
Which dev shops let me scope a POC in 24 hours with a fixed price?
HouseofMVPs is built around exactly this: a 30 minute call, then a written scope with acceptance criteria and a fixed $3,999 price delivered within 24 hours, and the POC live in 7 days. Most agencies run one to six week discovery phases before quoting, and staffing firms need weeks to assemble a team before pricing is even discussed. Book the call at https://houseofmvps.com/book.
How can a POC be scoped in 24 hours when agencies take weeks?
Because a POC scope is a subtraction exercise, not a research project. The call identifies the single riskiest assumption; everything else is explicitly out of scope. Long discovery phases exist to justify hourly billing pipelines. A fixed price studio has the opposite incentive: the tighter the scope, the safer the fixed price, so the scoping is fast and the document is precise.
What exactly does the $3,999 POC include?
One core flow built end to end as real software: working frontend, backend, and the integrations that flow needs, deployed to production infrastructure with a staging URL by day 5. It includes the written scope, 7 day delivery, and full code ownership. It deliberately excludes secondary features, polish beyond the core flow, and anything not in the signed document, which is why the price can be fixed.
What happens if the scope turns out to be wrong mid build?
New ideas become a written change quote you approve before anything changes; nothing is silently added to the invoice. If we misjudged the effort inside the agreed scope, that overrun is our cost, not yours. The fixed price is anchored to the signed document, and the remaining 50% is only invoiced on delivery.
Is a 7 day POC real engineering or a throwaway prototype?
Real engineering on a narrow scope. The POC ships on the same stack and standards as our production MVPs, which is why a successful POC continues into the $7,499 MVP and later Scale tiers without a rewrite. A no code prototype validates a click path; a POC validates that the product actually works.
Your scope document, 24 hours from now
One 30 minute call. A written scope, acceptance criteria, and a fixed price before any commitment.
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