Idea to first paying users, one engineer.
You have the idea and the domain knowledge. I bring the entire build: architecture, frontend, backend, billing, and the AI layer — shipped in 6–12 weeks by the same person who scoped it. No agency telephone game, no coordination tax, no hand-offs where the vision leaks out. Just a product your first customers can pay for.
- A launchable SaaS product — web app, API, database, auth, onboarding, and admin tools — built end to end
- Billing that works from day one: subscriptions, trials, and usage or credit metering (Stripe, Paystack, Flutterwave)
- An AI layer designed into the architecture, not bolted on — with the cost controls to keep unit economics sane
- Multi-tenant architecture with real data isolation, so landing your first big customer doesn't mean a rewrite
- A ranked post-launch backlog: everything we consciously cut, ordered by what your first users prove they need
- Full code ownership in your repo, handoff documentation, and 30 days of post-launch support included
Discovery & ruthless scoping (week 1)
A free 30-minute call, then a working session to cut your feature list to the smallest product that can win a paying user. You get a technical SoW: architecture, milestones, dates, and a fixed price.
Architecture & foundation (weeks 1–3)
Data model, auth, tenancy, billing rails, and CI — the decisions that are expensive to change later get made carefully and documented.
Build in public, to you (weeks 3–10)
Daily async updates and a weekly demo of working software. No status meetings — you watch the product grow and course-correct while course-correcting is cheap.
Launch + 30 days (weeks 10–12+)
We ship to real users. I stay for 30 days fixing what production reveals and tuning onboarding, then we plan what's next from the ranked backlog.
Intavue — an AI interview-prep SaaS with voice interviews, a code sandbox, billing, and desktop apps. Architected and shipped solo: the exact engagement, productized.
Multi-tenant data isolation: why your ORM won't save you — how I architect the tenancy layer your future enterprise deal will audit.
Credit-based billing for AI features — the metering and margin patterns I wire into AI-native MVPs.
Fixed scope, milestone-based, price agreed before anyone writes code. If your idea can be validated with something smaller — a landing page, a concierge test, a single-feature spike — I'll tell you that on the free call instead of quoting an MVP.
Why hire one engineer instead of an agency?
Speed and accountability. An agency routes your MVP through a PM, a designer, two developers, and a QA rotation — you pay for the coordination. I architect, build, and ship the whole thing myself, bringing in a trusted designer only when the product needs one. One person owns every decision, and you always know exactly who that is.
What's actually included in an MVP build?
Everything between the idea and a product someone can pay for: architecture, the web app, the API and database, auth, onboarding, billing (Stripe, Paystack, or Flutterwave), an admin panel, and the AI layer if your product has one. Plus the unglamorous parts founders forget to scope — emails, error handling, and deployment.
How fast can we launch?
Typically 6–12 weeks from signed SoW to a launchable product. The biggest variable is scope discipline: my job in week one is helping you cut the feature list to the smallest product that can win a paying user. Everything cut goes on a ranked backlog, not in the first release.
Can you build AI-native products, not just bolt AI on?
That's my specialty. I've shipped 12 production AI systems, and I built Intavue — a full AI interview-prep platform with real-time voice, multi-agent coaching, and code grading — solo, end to end, including its billing and credit metering. If AI is your product's core, I've already made the mistakes you're about to pay someone to make.
Who owns the code, and what happens after launch?
You own everything from day one — the repo lives in your organization. After launch I stay for 30 days to fix what real users reveal, then we decide together what's next: a retainer, a second milestone, or a clean handoff with documentation your next hire can build on.
What does it cost?
End-to-end builds start at $18k, fixed scope. Before anything is signed you get a technical SoW with milestones, dates, and the price — and the 30-minute discovery call is free. If your idea can be validated with something smaller than an MVP, I'll say so and quote that instead.