One dedicated senior pod, a locked deliverable at every stage, and the same engineers behind both sides of this studio — our own ventures and the client builds we take end to end. You own the repository, the infrastructure, and the IP.
MVP from $25,000Typically 8 to 12 weeks. Fixed-scope sprints from $8,000.
Techdome acts as your technical co-founding team. Whether launching an internal spinout or co-founding a venture with domain leaders, we combine institutional software architecture with rapid, milestone-driven execution.
A Principal Architect, Senior Full-Stack Engineers, and QA deployed exclusively to your build from Day 0. No junior churn, no hiring lag, and no body-shop friction.
From blank repository to first paying customer in eight weeks. Weekly sprint demos against running code, locked deliverables at every stage, and zero open-ended billing.
Your repository, your cloud infrastructure (AWS/GCP), and your IP from Day 0. Day-zero compliance architecture for SOC 2, HIPAA, and PCI-DSS without expensive rewrites.
A full 0-to-1 build runs in 8 weeks; fixed-scope sprints run 2 to 4 weeks
Week 1
System Architecture, Data Schema & Risk Matrix
We audit technical feasibility, lock compliance requirements (HIPAA/SOC2), design relational database models, and create interactive UX wireframes.
Week 2–3
Working Backend API & Cloud Infrastructure
We provision cloud infrastructure, configure zero-trust authentication (OIDC/SAML), and build core business logic and third-party API adapters.
Week 4–6
Complete Feature-Complete Staging Application
We connect high-performance frontend interfaces with automated backend workflows, payment processing, and internal operational dashboards.
Week 7
Pen-Test Review, WCAG 2.2 AA Audit & Load Tests
Exhaustive automated testing, accessibility auditing, vulnerability scanning, and end-to-end user scenario validation under high concurrency.
Week 8+ — end not fixed
Live Production URL, CI/CD Pipelines & Telemetry
DNS cutover, real-time APM telemetry instrumentation, staff enablement training, and structured handover to ongoing growth pod or internal team.
Every week ends in a demo against code that runs in staging — not a slide deck. You review commits, test live features, and verify acceptance criteria weekly.
Milestone-based models and committed windows, never surprise hourly invoices or junior staffing.
We're not a resume-forwarding agency — the engineers we place are the engineers who build our own ventures.
From blank repo to first paying customer — a time-boxed sprint with defined deliverable and duration.
The same pods have shipped vision models onto a factory floor, voice agents onto live telephony, and lending workflows under RBI rules. Explore our domain capability records:
Not client work, and not slideware — run on our own capital, pods and on-call rotation.
Open-source API testing, mocking and debugging suite
AI & HR TechAI technical screening and video interviewing
AI & Voice AgentsConversational voice AI agents
Digital Loan Enablement & Intelligent Credit Advisory Platform
SEO + AI-search visibility platform
Enterprise & OperationsVenture and engineering pod operating system
AI-powered industrial intelligence platform
We are an MVP development company and a startup app development company, with product development handled by one senior pod. A minimum viable product is the smallest version of your product that real users can use and pay for. Minimum viable products exist to test market demand, not to ship every feature.
Market research comes first. If you have not yet tested whether people want the product, say so on the scoping call. We will tell you what an MVP can and cannot prove.
We start from your business goals and your product idea. Then we cut the scope down to the essential features that one group of early adopters needs on day one.
The pod ships working software to staging every week, and to production on the Blueprint timeline of about eight weeks. Real users, not a slide deck, are the test.
You gather feedback and use it to choose what to build next. This is the build, measure, learn loop. We plan the second release, and the long-term roadmap, around what you learn.
Founders look for fractional CTO services when they need senior technical decisions but cannot yet hire a full-time CTO. Every Studio build comes with that guidance. Your pod has an architect alongside senior full-stack developers and a QA lead, and from Week 1 the architect guides the data model, the technology choices, the security and compliance design, and the delivery plan. You review commits every week.
It comes with the build, not as a separate retainer. When you are ready to hire a fractional CTO or a full-time CTO, you hand them a documented architecture, a clean repository, and 100% of the IP.
The same stack runs our own ventures and client builds. Compliance standards are designed in from Week 1, not added before a security review.
Fast, accessible interfaces and the services behind them. Our React, Next.js and Node.js developers design the data model first, then the API on top of it.
Relational data for transactions, vector and graph stores for retrieval, and applied AI with a human approval step wherever output reaches a customer.
Self-hosted n8n as the main engine, with the CRMs, messaging and support tools it connects to, plus live telephony and realtime audio for voice agents.
n8n
Zapier
Make
HubSpot
WhatsAppInfrastructure as code, containers and release pipelines, deployed in your cloud account so you keep control of it.
Standards we design to from Week 1, because retrofitting tenancy and audit trails later is the expensive rewrite, and the tools we hold accessibility work to.
MVP development, week by week
Most founders asking how to build an MVP in 8 weeks want three answers: what happens each week, what it costs, and what they own at the end. The plan below is the one our studio runs.
The blueprint has five stages. Each one ends with something you can open and check, not a status report.
A Studio MVP starts from $25,000 and takes eight to twelve weeks, depending on scope. If you only need part of the work, a fixed-scope sprint of two to four weeks starts from $8,000. If the product needs a longer build, a dedicated pod works out at $25 to $45 an hour per engineer, all-in.
The price is fixed against a written scope. Changes are quoted before they are built. You own the code and the repository once a milestone is complete.
Founders without a technical co-founder still need someone to make technical decisions. During the build, the pod lead can act as your fractional CTO: choosing the stack, reviewing what is shipped, and explaining each trade-off in plain language. When the MVP is live, that role can continue on a retainer or pass to your first hire.
| Technical co-founder | Venture studio | Typical agency | |
|---|---|---|---|
| What you give up | Equity and some control of the company | A fixed fee against a written scope | A fixed or hourly fee for a project |
| Who builds | One person at first, then whoever they hire | A named senior pod with an architect and QA | A team assigned to the project |
| Speed to a first version | Depends on one person’s time | Planned in weeks with a stated end date | Depends on the agency’s queue |
| After launch | They stay, if the relationship holds | Retainer or handover to your own team | Support is often a separate contract |
Not testimonials. Shipped systems, described by industry and geography, with the delivery dates and the architecture written down.
Also on the record
Proposal to a pod on the repo in eight days — then a re-platform off a failing low-code stack without taking the clinic down.
Proposal to Kickoff
Won in two and a half weeks, and the follow-on scope was approved thirteen days after the first milestone.
Deal to Kickoff
The fixed-scope sprint run for real: a blank repo to a production GraphRAG platform, not a demo.
Delivery Time
Every engagement we won this year was signed between two and twenty days after the final proposal.
All eight records in the portfolioStraight answers on timelines, sprint pricing, compliance, and IP ownership.
A full 0-to-1 build runs on our 5-step Blueprint and typically reaches production in about eight weeks — architecture and compliance in Week 1, through to DNS cutover and telemetry at launch. A Fixed-Scope Sprint against a narrower brief is 2–4 weeks. Either way, every stage carries a locked deliverable and a stated window before work starts.
Bi-weekly engineering notes on 0-to-1 venture validation, 8-week MVP blueprints, and startup architecture.
One call is enough to tell you whether the blueprint fits what you are building, what the first eight weeks would actually contain, and where we think the risk sits. If we are the wrong team for it, you will hear that instead.
Or you may be on the wrong page
You talk to a senior architect, not an account manager. Mutual NDA and IP assignment as standard.
