Work
Startups · A pre-seed fintech startup · Sample
From pitch deck to paying users in four weeks
Two sprints took a deck and a spreadsheet to a working product with a brand, a launch site, and the first paying accounts.
Services: Build, Create · Two 2-week sprints
The challenge
Two founders, one of them technical, had validated demand with a spreadsheet and a waitlist. Investors wanted a live product before the next round. An agency quote came back at five months.
The approach
- Sprint one: data model, auth, the core ledger workflow, and a deployable app on a stack the technical founder could own afterwards.
- Sprint two: onboarding, payments, and the admin tools needed to support the first customers by hand.
- Brand identity and launch site built in parallel by the creative team, using the same tokens as the product.
- Handoff with runbooks, a test suite, and an agent-assisted workflow so the founder could keep shipping alone.
“We raised on a product, not a prototype. That changed the conversation.”
Results
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Results
4 wks
from kickoff to live product
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20+
paying accounts in the first month
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1
engineer needed to maintain it after handoff
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Scoped in a week, shipped in sprints, measured against your own numbers.