AI and MVP Development for
Funded Startups
Funded startups have the budget but not the team yet. We embed as an extended engineering function with two-week sprint cadence and weekly board-ready stakeholder reports. We ship the roadmap while you finish hiring, then hand off a documented codebase your first CTO can pick up in a week.
The Pressure That Hits at Seed and Series A
Funding closes the gap between idea and execution but amplifies the pressure to show traction every single week. These are the friction points every funded founder runs into.
Board Expects Traction in 90 Days
Post-funding pressure is immediate. Investors expect user growth, retention, and product velocity within the first quarter. A board meeting that goes by with no shipped features is the start of a hard conversation about pace and competence.
Senior Engineer Hiring Is a 90 Day Loop
Great senior engineers have three month notice periods, competing offers from FAANG, and equity expectations you have to negotiate. Even with full-time recruiting, you are looking at one solid hire per quarter. The roadmap does not wait for the pipeline.
Architecture at Seed Becomes Series A Tech Debt
A poorly chosen database, a tangled monolith, an auth system that does not support SSO, an event pipeline without idempotency. Each decision at seed compounds into expensive migrations between Series A and Series B. Build it right the first time or pay 10x to fix it.
Board Communication Eats Founder Time
Weekly investor updates, monthly board memos, quarterly review decks. Stakeholder communication scales with funding amount. Every hour spent translating engineering progress into board-ready slides is an hour not spent on product or customers.
Roadmap Grows Faster Than Engineering Capacity
Every board meeting adds priorities. Every customer call surfaces new features. Every competitive update suggests a new market expansion. The gap between roadmap and engineering capacity widens every sprint until something breaks (usually the founder).
Burn Rate Cannot Justify Slow Delivery
With real salaries, real equity, real overhead, slow delivery is expensive in a way it was not at the pre-seed stage. Every week without shipped product is meaningful runway burned. The expectation for shipping velocity rises with the cap table.
How We Function as Your Extended Team
We operate as a high-trust engineering partner that moves at startup velocity without sacrificing the production quality your funded stage demands.
Production Grade Architecture From Day One
Proper auth (Better Auth, NextAuth, or Clerk based on your needs), rate limiting, observability (Sentry plus structured logging), CI/CD with preview deployments, database migrations, async job queues. The foundation that survives 10x growth without a rewrite.
Scale Ready System Design
PostgreSQL with proper indexing strategy, BullMQ or similar for async work, Redis for caching and rate limiting, microservice boundaries planned before they hurt. We build what your future principal engineer will read and approve, not what they will rewrite.
Extended Engineering Team Model
We attend your standups, use your project management tools, work inside your roadmap priorities. Not a separate vendor track to manage, an extension of your team that fills capacity gaps while you complete your hiring pipeline.
Board-Ready Weekly Stakeholder Reports
Every Friday we deliver a structured written report: features shipped, metrics moved, blockers resolved, next sprint priorities. Formatted for non-technical board members so you forward it directly. Saves the founder 2 to 3 hours per week of translation work.
Two Week Sprint Cadence
Tangible deliverables every two weeks. Demoable progress at every sprint review. Your board sees consistent velocity in the monthly update without you scrambling to assemble proof points the night before the meeting.
Clean Handoff to Your First Engineering Hire
When you close your first CTO or senior engineer, they inherit a documented codebase with architecture decisions explained, README that gets them running in 30 minutes, and a walkthrough call. Ramp time from days, not months.
The Stakeholder Reporting Cadence
Funded founders spend hours each week translating engineering progress into board-readable language. We do that translation for you on a fixed cadence so you can spend the time on customers and fundraising.
Async Standup in Slack
Two-line update per developer: what shipped yesterday, what is in flight today, any blockers. Posted in a shared channel by 10am.
Friday Stakeholder Report
Structured written report: shipped features, metrics moved, blockers resolved, next sprint priorities. Formatted for board forwarding. Sent every Friday at noon.
Sprint Review with Demo
30 minute call to demo shipped work, walk through next sprint plan, and align on priority changes. Optional for non-technical founders.
Board Memo Section
We provide the engineering section of your monthly board memo: paragraph summary, key metrics, milestones hit and missed, technical risks. Drop-in ready.
Roadmap and Architecture Review
Strategic review of the architecture and roadmap. Useful before fundraising milestones or quarterly board reviews. Includes technical risk assessment for due diligence prep.
Services Sized for Funded Roadmaps
Every engagement type is production grade and integrates cleanly with whatever in-house engineering function you have or are building.
MVP Development
Full stack production MVP in 14 days for $7,499 fixed. Architecture sized for Series A scale, not just demo-day pretty.
AI Agent Development
Multi-step AI workflows with proper observability, eval harness, and cost monitoring. For teams adding AI to a funded product.
AI MVP Development
AI native MVP with production grade architecture from day one. Useful for AI-themed Series A pitches.
AI Integration Services
Add LLM features to an existing funded-stage product without a rebuild. Layer AI on top of what is already shipping revenue.
Internal Tools Development
Ops tools, admin dashboards, and internal automation that compound team productivity. Common ask post-seed as headcount grows.
2 weeks
Sprint Cadence
Friday
Board-Ready Report
$10M+
Client Funding Raised
Same Week
Start, No Notice Period
Ship the Roadmap While You Finish Hiring
Book a 30 minute scoping call. We walk through your roadmap, your existing team, your reporting cadence, and what we can absorb. You walk away with a sprint plan and a fixed quote in writing.
Plan Your Roadmap SprintProven Results
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