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Most of the cost is people multiplied by weeks, so the honest answer depends on scope. A single-platform MVP with a focused feature set sits at the low end. Adding a second native platform, an integration with a system outside your control, or a compliance track moves it up in steps rather than smoothly.

What we can tell you before any estimate: we quote fixed bid for MVPs, because a startup with a runway needs a number it can put in a board deck. If the scope is genuinely unclear, we run a paid discovery first and quote after, rather than inventing a figure and revising it in month three.

An MVP on one primary platform takes 10 to 15 weeks. A full product with a second platform, deeper integrations, or regulated data usually runs 4 to 8 months from the same starting point.

Those numbers assume someone on your side can make decisions within a day or two. Most delays we have seen came from waiting on approvals, not from engineering.

Yes, and about half our startup clients do. What you need is clarity about the problem and the user, not a document. Discovery exists to turn that into scope: we work through the product idea, cut it to what actually has to ship first, and produce a spec, a wireframe set, and an estimate you can take to investors. If you decide not to build with us afterwards, the discovery output is yours.

You do. Repositories sit in your organization, IP transfers to you on payment, and app store and cloud accounts are registered to your company.

That is a large share of what we do. Engineers join your sprints, your repo, and your standups under staff augmentation, and your CTO keeps technical ownership. We have also run the opposite arrangement — our team builds the first version while the founder hires, then hands over. Both work. What does not work is two teams building the same thing with no agreed architecture owner, and we will say so early if that is where a project is heading.

Development stops, and you keep everything built up to that point in a deployable state. We do not hold code, credentials, or accounts as leverage. Some clients pause for months and come back; the code is where they left it because it was always in their repository. If you see a gap coming, tell us early and we will help you decide what to cut to reach the milestone that unlocks the round.

No. We work fixed bid or time and materials.

Yes, and it is part of the timeline rather than an extra. We prepare the build, the metadata, the privacy declarations, and the screenshots, and we deal with review rejections when they happen. Rejections are routine for first submissions, usually over account deletion, data disclosure, or subscription wording. Knowing that in advance is most of the work.