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Greenfield 0 → Live
From nothing to a product in market
We build new products start to finish, without discovery theater. The goal is a real thing customers can use and pay for, then iteration against actual usage — because the fastest way to learn what to build is to put something in front of people.
We have taken products from an empty repository to production traffic more than once, including a multi-tenant messaging platform that reached one to two million messages a month and an AI product now live with paid tiers in market.
You probably need this if
- You have a validated problem and need the first real version built
- An existing company is launching a new product line
- A prototype proved the idea and now needs to become a product
- Previous quotes came back with months of discovery before any code
- There is a market window and the plan cannot survive a long build
Compress planning to the irreversible decisions
Long discovery phases mostly produce documents that are wrong, because the questions they try to answer cannot be answered before people use the product. What they reliably do is burn the budget and the calendar before anything exists.
We plan only what is genuinely expensive to reverse — tenancy, core data model, integration boundaries, auth and compliance constraints — and decide everything else against working software. That is usually days of focused work rather than weeks of workshops.
- Tenancy and data model settled before feature work starts
- Integration and compliance constraints identified early, not discovered at launch
- Everything else deferred until there is working software to judge it against
- Documents kept to what someone will actually read
Working software early and continuously
You should be clicking through a real product within weeks, not watching a demo at the end of a quarter. Early working software is how you find out that the flow you were certain about does not survive contact with a user.
It also changes the relationship. When you can use the thing, your feedback is concrete rather than speculative, and we spend the engagement building the right product instead of the specified one.
- A usable slice in weeks, deployed where you can reach it
- Continuous deployment from the first week, not a release phase
- Priorities revisited against real usage rather than the original plan
- Scope cut honestly when something is not earning its place
Launch scope includes the boring essentials
Products get delayed at the end by everything nobody counted as a feature: authentication edge cases, billing, admin tooling, legal pages, email deliverability, monitoring. Treated as afterthoughts, these add a surprise month.
We count them as launch scope from the start. Launch means a product your company can actually operate and charge for, not a demo with a waiting list.
- Authentication, roles and account lifecycle handled properly
- Billing and subscription flows working before launch, not after
- Admin tooling so your team can support customers on day one
- Monitoring, error tracking and deployment pipeline in place
Marketing site when it belongs in the same push
For most launches the marketing site and the product ship together, and splitting them across two vendors creates a seam nobody owns. We have built both in the same engagement where it made sense — including for products where the site and app launched together.
How the work runs
Shape the build
A focused session on the irreversible decisions and the smallest version that is genuinely valuable. Output is a plan you can read in one sitting.
Foundation week
Repository, auth, data model, deployment pipeline. Boring, fast, and the reason later weeks stay fast.
Build to usable
The core loop first, deployed continuously, with priorities adjusted as you use it.
Launch scope and go live
Billing, admin, monitoring and the operational essentials, then into market — and typically straight into iteration.
What you get
- —Live product in market, in your repositories and infrastructure
- —Authentication, billing, admin tooling and deployment pipeline
- —Monitoring and error tracking from day one
- —Marketing site where it is part of the same engagement
- —Architecture documentation for whoever comes next
What we will not do
- —We do not run months of discovery before writing code
- —We will tell you when the scope you described is bigger than the budget
- —We build products, not pitch decks or investor prototypes meant to be thrown away
Where we have done this
Common questions
How long does a greenfield build take?
It depends on scope, but the shape is consistent: a usable slice in weeks, a launchable product in months rather than quarters. We would rather cut scope than extend timelines.
Do we need designs before you start?
Helpful but not required. We work from designs when they exist and build sensible, conventional interfaces when they do not, rather than waiting.
What happens after launch?
Most greenfield engagements roll into ongoing ownership, because launch is when the real learning begins. Some hand over to an in-house team instead, which we plan for from the start.
Need this on your product?
Tell us where delivery is stuck. We will give you an honest read on scope and shape before anyone talks contracts.
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