SaaS MVPs
A subscription-ready web product with accounts, billing and the one workflow your customers pay for.
- · Email and social sign-in
- · Subscription billing with Stripe
- · Team accounts and roles
- · Usage dashboard
- · Admin panel
Independent software studio · US
See your idea working before you pay for it.
We flipped how software gets built. $150 gets your product built. You decide afterwards whether to keep it.
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Fill the brief
Answer our technical questionnaire. It takes 20 minutes.
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Pay $150
That's the blueprint. It's the only thing you pay before you see anything.
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We build it in 10 working days
You review it on day 5 and tell us what to change.
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You decide
Love it? Pay $2,340 and it's entirely yours. Don't? You pay nothing more.
No equity. No hidden fees. No monthly lock-in. $2,490 all in, and you know it on day one.
Free fit check first. You only pay the $150 blueprint once we confirm your idea fits.
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Pricing
Three ways to work with us.
Starting from scratch, scaling something that already works, or rescuing an app AI left broken — one fixed price, quoted before any code is written.
Build — from scratch
Most popular$2,490
You have an idea and nothing built yet. We take it from zero to a real, production-ready product in 10 working days, ready for your first users.
Includes the $150 blueprint
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Rocket — scale & launch
$2,990
You already have something that works
Your product — working, or half-built with AI — taken production-grade and launched like a rocket: security, data isolation, tests, load-tested.
Includes the $150 blueprint
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Rescue — fix your AI app
Special offer$490
Built on Lovable, Bolt, v0 or Cursor?
It looks great in the demo and breaks on real users. We audit it, fix the critical issues — security, broken auth, exposed data — and hand it back market-ready.
One-time, all in · launch offer
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Every price is fixed and final. We quote it once and it doesn't move. Returning-client sprints and maintenance →
- $2,490
- fixed price
- 10 working days
- to launch
- 100%
- code ownership
- No equity
- ever taken
- No retainer
- no hourly billing
Is this for you?
We are a fit for some founders, and honest with the rest.
A 10-day sprint works when there is one core workflow worth proving with real users. When there is not, we say so at the fit check instead of taking the money.
Best for
- Non-technical founders with a clear idea and no engineering team
- Founders validating one core workflow with real users, not a slide deck
- SaaS founders who need a first paid-ready version
- AI product founders wrapping a model in a usable product
- Founders with an app built on Lovable, Bolt, v0 or Cursor that needs to be made production-ready
- Businesses replacing spreadsheets with a custom internal tool
- Teams that want to launch without hiring in-house engineers first
Not ideal for
- Large enterprise systems with heavy compliance programmes
- Highly complex multi-sided marketplaces with payments at scale
- Very large legacy codebases that need a months-long migration
- Products that genuinely need months of engineering before launch
- Anyone looking for an ongoing outsourced dev team on retainer
What we build
Six kinds of product we ship in 10 working days.
AI Applications
A real product around a model: chat, document analysis, generation or agentic workflows with usage controls.
- · Chat and streaming responses
- · Document upload and retrieval
- · Prompt and model configuration
- · Usage limits and cost controls
- · Human review steps
Web Applications
A production web app with authentication, a database and the screens your users actually need.
- · Authentication and permissions
- · CRUD workflows
- · Search and filtering
- · File uploads
- · Notifications and email
Internal Business Tools
Replace the spreadsheet and the manual handover with one tool your team logs into every day.
- · Role-based access
- · Data import and export
- · Approval workflows
- · Audit history
- · Reporting views
Customer Portals
A logged-in space where your clients see their data, documents and status without emailing you.
- · Client accounts
- · Document sharing
- · Status tracking
- · Messaging
- · Invoices and statements
Automation & Integrations
Connect the systems you already pay for so data moves without anyone copying and pasting it.
- · Third-party API integrations
- · Webhooks and scheduled jobs
- · Payment and CRM syncs
- · Data transformation
- · Failure alerting
Why Shiftmind Build
Senior engineering, automated where it counts.
We combine modern build tooling with senior developers who own the architecture, security model and every line that ships. That is why the timeline is 10 working days instead of 14 weeks, and why the price is fixed before we start.
An MVP is not your entire startup. It is the smallest version of the product that proves the core idea with real users. Scoping that correctly is most of the work, and it is what the blueprint exists to do.
You talk directly to the people building your product. Every line of code is yours, deployed on your own infrastructure, from day one.
How it works
Five stages from idea to a live product.
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Fit check
Free · 1 minute
You tell us what you want to build. We tell you honestly whether it fits a 10-day sprint, and what we would cut if it does not. No payment, no obligation.
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Blueprint
$150 · 7 days
A written technical plan: architecture, data model, screen-by-screen scope, integrations and a locked build price. Yours to keep even if you build elsewhere. Credited toward the $2,490 total.
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Build
$2,340 · days 1–14
Core functionality built against the blueprint. You get a working prototype at working day 5 to review and request changes within the agreed scope.
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Launch
Included · working day 10
The finished product deployed to production on your own infrastructure, with authentication, database access rules and encrypted traffic in place.
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Handoff
Included
Repository, cloud accounts, domain, documentation and a plain-English operating guide transferred into your name, plus 30 days of support.
Selected work
Real products, built with this exact process.
Clients are confidential, the work is not. Each case study sets out the problem, what was built, the scope, the timeline and the stack.
FinTech · financial operations
CFO Platform for Small Consultancies
Small consultancies were running financial operations by hand across spreadsheets, an accounting package and email, with no single view of client profitability.
View case study →
Consumer AI · productivity
AI Assistant for Your Entire Digital Life
Appointments, subscriptions, inbox and tasks lived in a dozen apps, so nothing was ever in one place and small commitments were missed.
View case study →
Smart cities · real-time data
Real-Time Parking Availability
Drivers had no reliable way to know where parking existed right now, and static maps were wrong within minutes in dense downtown blocks.
View case study →
Consumer health · pet care
Vet and Health Tracker for Pets
Vet visits, vaccination records and health notes were scattered across paper, photos and separate apps, so owners arrived at appointments without history.
View case study →
B2B SaaS · complex sales
Sales and Bidding Platform for Aerospace
Bids were priced in spreadsheets by hand in an industry where a pricing error decides the deal, and pipeline status lived in individual inboxes.
View case study →Your Product, Next
Same process, same speed, same fixed price. Start with the free fit check.
Illustrative product visuals
Public evidence
Sixty specifications you can read right now, for free.
Our clients are confidential, so you cannot check them. Our thinking is not: these are complete specs — screens, tables, who can read which row, the failure modes, and what we would deliberately leave out — across thirty-two industries, written to exactly the standard a paying client gets. No email, no form, no sign-up.
Healthcare
Appointment booking for a dental clinic
5 screens · 3 tables · 3 failure modes
Manufacturing
Inventory and batch tracking for a small brewery
6 screens · 4 tables · 3 failure modes
Construction
Daily job reports for a renovation contractor
5 screens · 5 tables · 3 failure modes
Legal
Matter and deadline tracking for a small law firm
5 screens · 6 tables · 3 failure modes
Food and drink
Pre-order and pickup for a food truck
5 screens · 4 tables · 2 failure modes
Recruiting
Candidate pipeline for a recruiting agency
4 screens · 5 tables · 3 failure modes
The alternatives
Why founders choose this instead of an agency or a freelancer.
Shiftmind Build
- $2,490 fixed, quoted before work starts
- 10 working days to a live product
- 100% code ownership at handoff
- No equity
- No hourly billing, no retainer
- Production-ready, deployed and secured
- You talk directly to the people building it
Traditional agency
- Typically five figures and up
- Weeks to months before launch
- Ownership varies by contract
- Equity sometimes requested
- Retainers and change orders
- Often a prototype first, product later
- Account manager between you and the team
Freelancer
- Variable pricing, often hourly
- Variable timelines
- Ownership usually fine, rarely documented
- No equity
- Hourly billing common
- Quality and security vary widely
- Single point of failure if they move on
Comparisons describe common market models, not any specific company.
Risk, ownership and handoff
Before you pay for a full build, we tell you whether your idea fits.
What if my idea is bigger than one sprint?
We tell you at the free fit check, before you pay anything, and we come back with a version that ships in ten working days plus the rest mapped out as later sprints. Same idea, sequenced so it launches.
What exactly am I getting?
The blueprint lists every screen, workflow and integration in the build, with the price locked against that list. Nothing in the build is left to interpretation.
What if I do not like it?
You review a working prototype at working day 5 and request changes within the agreed scope before the final payment is due. Payments are staged for exactly that reason.
Will I own everything?
Yes. Code, repository, cloud accounts, domain and data are transferred into your name at handoff. No licence, no lock-in.
What happens after launch?
30 days of support are included. After that you can continue solo, hire in-house or book another fixed-price sprint. Nothing stops working and nothing renews automatically.
About the studio
Shiftmind Build is an independent software studio working with founders in the United States. We publish our process, our pricing and our work rather than a client logo wall. More about how we work.
Questions
The things founders ask us first.
What exactly counts as an MVP?
An MVP is not your whole startup. It is the smallest version of the product that proves the core idea with real users: one main workflow, done properly, live on the internet.
What can you build in 10 working days?
One core workflow with the supporting pieces around it: accounts and permissions, a database, payments, file uploads, search, dashboards, notifications, an admin view and a handful of third-party integrations.
What takes more than one 10-day sprint?
Large enterprise systems, marketplaces at scale, heavy compliance programmes and legacy migrations are built as a sequence of sprints: the first one puts the core workflow live, the next ones add the rest. We map that sequence at the fit check, before you pay anything.
Do I need to be technical?
No. The service is built for non-technical founders. The blueprint is written in plain English and the handoff includes an operating guide for someone with no engineering background.
Do I need to pay everything upfront?
No. $150 for the blueprint, then $2,340 only once you have seen the product working and decided to keep it.
Who owns the code?
You do, outright. The repository is transferred into your name at handoff. There is no licence to renew and no platform you are tied to.
Do you use AI to build software?
Yes, as a tool inside a reviewed engineering process. Senior developers own the architecture, the security model and every line that ships. That combination is why the timeline is 10 working days rather than 14 weeks.
What technology stack do you use?
React and TypeScript on the front end, a Postgres database with row-level access rules, managed hosting and managed secrets. Mainstream, well-documented technology so you are never dependent on us to maintain it.
Next step
Find out if your idea fits in 10 working days.
Tell us what you want to build. We reply the same day with a straight yes, no, or here is what we would cut.
NDA available on request