★ Flagship Sprint · the full one

Your complete product. 10 weeks. $38K.

Fully architected, tested, and deployed. 5–8 user workflows. Honest constraints. Ready for real users and serious investors. This is what a professional MVP looks like — at 1/50th the cost of a seed-stage engineering hire for the same period.

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Timeline
10 wk
50 calendar days · fixed
Investment
$38K
50/50 split · milestone refund
Workflows
5–8
complete user journeys
Cost / day
$380
vs. $400 (Demo) / $429 (MVP)
Deliverable

A complete, investor-ready product. Multiple features. Honest limitations.

  • Product surface04
  • Quality & testing04
  • Operations04
  • Security04
  • Docs & handoff04
  • What you don't get05
01 / Workflows

5–8 core user journeys

Distinct flows tested end-to-end with real data.

02 / Auth

Role-based access control

Admin, power user, basic — audit-logged.

03 / Admin

Admin + analytics dashboard

Operations + reporting for the founder.

04 / API

API with rate limiting + auth

OpenAPI documented. Versioned. Ready for mobile.

Why 10 weeks · 50 calendar days · fixed

A real plan. Tracked weekly.

Assumes 3–4 quick clarification calls per week, scope locked end of week 1, and a rough design direction in hand. If any of that slips, we tell you the new end date the same day.

TrackW1W2W3W4W5W6W7W8W9W10DiscoverySOW signedBackendAPI · DB · AuthFrontendUI · UX · integrationsTestingUnit · int · E2EDeploy / UATShip · handoff
Case study · Flagship SprintShipped on schedule · week 10

Lima Xi — air-freight predictive intelligence.

Non-technical founder. Six weeks to a tier-1 VC conversation. No working tech. Ten weeks later: production platform, 82% test coverage, GitHub Owner transferred.

Tension Index · Live
[ Mapbox dark · 72-hour port forecast ]
14,200
Backend LOC (Python/FastAPI)
8,900
Frontend LOC (React)
6,400
Test code (82% coverage)
120ms
Median prediction latency
78%
Port-recommendation accuracy
$2.4K
/ month infra cost

What we shipped, week by week.

  • W 01Requirements call, schema design, XGBoost model selection, signed SOW.
  • W 02–04Ingest pipeline, ML model live, Postgres time-series, <500ms predictions with Redis cache.
  • W 05–07React dashboard, Mapbox routing, customer access, admin retrain panel.
  • W 08–091,000 RPS load tests, historical backtests, security audit, hot-path optimization.
  • W 10Auto-deploy tested, runbooks, known-limits doc, monitoring + alerts, 3-day UAT, GitHub Owner transferred.
"I could've spent 3 months hiring, or 10 weeks building. I chose 10 weeks."
— Lima Xi, founder

Outcomes shown are deliverables BeevR shipped per the SOW. Customer post-delivery business outcomes (funding rounds, customer counts) are not BeevR's claim to make.

What lands in your repo on day 50

Operational excellence checklist.

✓Source code repository with full Git history
✓Database schema with indexed queries
✓Automated test suite, >80% coverage
✓CI/CD pipeline (GitHub Actions or equivalent)
✓Infrastructure-as-code (Terraform / CFN)
✓Monitoring and alerting configured
✓Error tracking (Sentry / DataDog)
✓Runbooks for common ops tasks
✓Performance profiling notes
✓Security audit checklist
✓API documentation (Swagger / OpenAPI)
✓Deployment + rollback instructions
✓Known-limitations + tech-debt log
✓Suggested next features (ranked)
✓GitHub Owner access transferred
Why founders choose Flagship Sprint

Four conversations that change after week 10.

01 / Investor

"We have a working product with real usage data."

You walk into the room with a platform. They ask "how will you scale?" — not "can you actually build this?"

Code is clean, documented, and tested. Your first engineer extends it without rewriting core components.
02 / First hire

1–2 week onboarding, not 2–3 months.

ADR explains why each piece exists. Tests document the contract. Your first engineer ships a feature week one.

"Here's how we architect" — not "here's a mess to untangle."
03 / Customer

Revenue-ready from day 1.

If you're selling to customers during these 10 weeks, you'll have a product you can actually support — runbooks, monitoring, rollback.

No "demo software" disclaimer needed. It's the real thing.
04 / Capital

$38K is 1/50th the seed-stage hire cost.

Hiring takes 4–8 weeks. Onboarding takes 4 more. That's 8 weeks gone before real work happens — at $150K–200K all-in.

Use the same $38K to fund your first engineer for 2–3 months after you have a product.
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Where Flagship Sprint fits.

Pitch DemoInvestor MVPFlagship Sprint
Timeline10 days6 weeks10 weeks
Cost (fixed)$4K$18K$38K
Cost / day$400$429$380
Workflows13–55–8 complete
DatabaseSimpleNormalized relationalAdvanced + optimized
TestingManual UATUnit + integrationFull suite + load
MonitoringNoneBasic error trackingFull observability
DeploymentManualCI/CD pipelineAutomated + rollback
DocumentationSpecs onlyADR + runbooksComplete devops handbook
Investor pitch"Here's the tech.""Here's the MVP.""Here's the product with users."
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FAQ

Direct answers.

Is 10 weeks enough for a real product?
Yes — if you know what you're building. We spend Week 1 making sure we're building the right thing.
What if I want to add features in week 6?
Depends on scope. Small features might fit. Large features extend the timeline. We track every change in writing so you know what you're getting and when.
Can I hire an engineer mid-sprint to learn the codebase?
Yes — we recommend it. Your engineer can review code by week 5. By week 10 they can take over and extend it.
Is the code production-ready or do I need to rewrite it?
Production-ready. Your first hire might optimize hot paths or refactor a module. They won't rewrite core components. We build to last 12+ months, not 12 days.
What happens after week 10?
The product is yours. You own the code, infra, database. We can negotiate ongoing maintenance separately, or you and your team own operations.
What if I run out of money mid-sprint?
The SOW is binding from kickoff. We do a milestone check at end of Week 2 - if the product direction has shifted significantly, we can restructure scope together. After that, the sprint runs to completion.
"Why not just hire engineers directly?"

Good question. Run the math.

Hiring takes 4–8 weeks. Onboarding takes 4 more. Plus you're paying $150K–200K in seed-stage engineer salary and equity, all-in.

With Flagship Sprint, you get a complete product and code that shows your first engineer "here's how we architect." Cheaper. Faster. You own the IP.

Hiring cycle (recruiter → close)4–8 weeks
Onboarding to first commit4 weeks
Seed-stage all-in (10 wk salary + equity)~$50K
Risk of losing the hire / roundnon-zero
Flagship Sprint, week 10$38K · shipped
60-min discovery call

Ready to build a product founders respect?

Bring your product vision, your user workflows, and your timeline constraints. We'll walk through the architecture we'd recommend, tell you if 10 weeks is realistic, and provide a detailed SOW with locked scope, timeline, and price. No ambiguity.

Price$38,000 USD
Timeline10 weeks · 50 days · fixed
Payment50% / 50%
RefundMilestone-based, wk 2
You ownCode · infra · IP