MVP Development for
Accelerator Startups
Accelerator founders have one demo day, one batch, one calendar window to convert. We deliver investor ready MVPs in 14 days on a fixed price, calibrated for YC, Techstars, Antler, and Entrepreneur First cohort schedules. When mid-batch feedback forces a pivot, returning teams get a discounted rebuild sprint so a pivot does not torpedo the demo.
What the Cohort Calendar Actually Demands
Accelerator timelines compress what most founders would spread across 6 months into 10 weeks. Here is what that pressure looks like in practice.
Demo Day Is a Fixed, Public Deadline
Cohorts end on a date set months in advance. A working product on stage is not optional. Investors and program partners see who shipped and who is still in Figma. Reputation, fundraise, and next batch invitations all hinge on what runs in the demo browser.
Pre-Seed Check Has to Last 18 Months
Your YC or Techstars check feels like a lot until you start subtracting living expenses, infrastructure, and the next dev hire. Every dollar spent on development must produce something real and demoable, not a Notion doc and a half-finished React app.
Investors Want to Click, Not Read
Pre-seed and seed investors meet 30 founders a day. The ones who close are the ones whose product they can use during the meeting. A landing page and a deck close way fewer rounds than a working flow they can break in real time.
Pivots Happen in Week 4 of a 10 Week Batch
Office hours feedback, customer discovery insights, or a competing batch company can completely reshape your target user mid-cohort. Your build partner has to absorb the pivot without restarting the budget conversation from zero.
No CTO Yet, and Hiring Takes a Quarter
You are a founder, not a fractional engineering leader. Senior CTO candidates need 90 day notice periods and competing offers from FAANG. Freelancers ghost when your batch demo gets closer to theirs. You need a delivery partner who is already loaded and shooting.
Cohort Visibility Cuts Both Ways
Top accelerators track weekly progress and surface high-performing teams to investors before demo day. Showing up with a broken prototype signals execution risk and quietly removes you from those warm intro lists.
How We Fit the Cohort Rhythm
Every part of our delivery model is calibrated for the pace, optics, and pivot frequency of an accelerator batch.
14 Day Builds Scoped Backwards From Demo Day
We work backwards from your batch demo date. Standard 14 day delivery gives you a 2 to 4 week rehearsal and polish window before stage time. We can compress to 10 days when the cohort calendar demands it.
Investor Demo Grade UI From Day One
Clean visual design system, production grade components, mobile responsive, accessible. The product looks like it was built by a Series A team, not a hackathon weekend. Demo day investors form opinions in the first 8 seconds of seeing the screen.
Post-Pivot Sprint at Returning Client Rate
If batch feedback sends you in a new direction, we rebuild the affected surface area at a discounted sprint rate. Most accelerator teams use this once between weeks 4 and 7. The pivot itself is normal, the financial penalty does not have to be.
Fixed Price Locks Your Burn Forecast
$7,499 for the standard MVP, written into the SOW, no hourly billing surprises during the cohort. Your burn forecast in the next office hours stays accurate, which keeps your batch program manager off your back about runway math.
Source Code Hands Off Cleanly to Your First Hire
Next.js plus Hono plus PostgreSQL plus TypeScript across the stack. No proprietary framework, no licensing dependencies. Your post-batch CTO hire opens the repo, runs pnpm install, and ships their first feature the same day.
We Have Shipped For YC and Techstars Alumni
Our 50+ shipped products include MVPs for founders inside YC, Techstars, Antler, and Entrepreneur First cohorts. We know what the demo browser needs to do, what the investor meeting flows look like, and what the next-round technical due diligence checks.
How Our 14 Days Map to a 10 Week Batch
Most cohorts run 10 to 12 weeks. Here is the cleanest place to fit a 14 day build for maximum demo day leverage.
Onboarding and Customer Discovery
Run interviews, refine the wedge, finalize the audience. Do not start building yet. We are on standby for scoping calls.
Scope Lock and Kickoff
Book the 30 minute scoping call with us. Lock the feature list. Wire 50 percent. Build starts the same week so you ship by week 6.
14 Day Build Sprint
Sprint one (auth and payments), sprint two (core product), sprint three (polish and deploy). You receive the live URL by end of week 6.
Pivot Window or Polish
If batch feedback prompts a pivot, this is the cleanest time. Run a discounted rebuild sprint. Otherwise, polish the demo flow and start gathering user proof points.
Demo Rehearsal and Investor Prep
Practice the demo on the real product. Brief investors with a live URL in your follow-up. Several alumni close pre-seed inside this window before stage time even arrives.
Services Calibrated for Cohort Pace
Every option is fixed price and demo day oriented. No retainer minimums, no procurement, no hourly billing.
MVP Development
Full stack production MVP in 14 days. Auth, database, billing, dashboard, deployment. Investor demo ready by handoff.
AI MVP Development
AI native product for the YC AI-themed batches. LLM integration, RAG, agent workflows. Cost optimized for pre-seed budget.
POC Development
7 day proof of concept for $3,999 to validate the wedge before committing the full MVP build. Credits 100 percent to MVP.
AI Agent Development
Multi-step agent workflows, tool use, and orchestration. Useful if your core differentiator is autonomy, not just an LLM API call.
AI Integration Services
Add Claude or GPT to a product you already have. Useful for teams pivoting toward AI mid-batch.
14 Days
Standard Cohort Build
10 Days
Rush Option Before Demo
$10M+
Raised by Alumni Founders
YC, TS, Antler
Cohort Experience
Walk on Stage With a Product, Not a Slide
Book a 30 minute scoping call. We work backwards from your demo day, agree on the build plan, and lock the price in writing. You walk into the next office hours with a delivery date.
Plan Your Demo Day BuildProven Results
Real projects. Real numbers. See what we delivered.
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