Take a thesis to a launched MVP with a senior team, in priced milestones you approve one at a time. Sprint 0 scopes the product first ($5,000 to $15,000, two to four weeks), then you decide go or no-go before the build starts. Web, mobile, and AI-native products, on an architecture the full product keeps.
MVP development at a glance
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Asana Rebel WHAT YOU GET
An MVP is a bet you want to settle fast and cheaply, without building something you have to throw away when the bet pays off. Everything below is written so it holds its value on either answer.
The four Sprint 0 deliverables: the design system, epics and user stories with acceptance criteria, a priced milestone plan, and the technical architecture with a scaffolded repository. Yours to keep, whether you build with us or with anyone else.
The smallest release that proves the thesis with real users, built on the architecture the full product will keep. Not a throwaway prototype: the code, the infrastructure, and the release process carry into version two.
Every milestone defined, priced, and tied to acceptance criteria before the build starts. You see the full MVP cost up front and pay as each milestone is accepted, so runway maps to shipped work.
Deployment, monitoring, documentation, and the repository in your accounts from day one. When the MVP ships you own everything, and you choose what comes next: more milestones, a dedicated team, or your own hires.
The sequence is built around one rule: no build money is spent before the scope is closed and the price is known.
A senior engineer walks through what you are building, who it is for, and what the first release has to prove. The call ends with a Sprint 0 proposal when the fit holds.
Senior engineering and product time turn the idea into a closed MVP scope: user stories with acceptance criteria, the design system, the architecture, and a milestone plan with every milestone priced.
With the plan and the full price in hand, you decide whether to build, and with whom. Either side can decline. The Sprint 0 deliverable stays yours either way.
A lean senior team ships the MVP in weekly sprints with end-of-sprint demos. Billing fires when a milestone is accepted against its criteria, not when hours are logged.
The MVP goes live in your accounts with monitoring and documentation. You choose what follows: new milestones, a dedicated team, or a handover to your own engineers.
Sprint 0 is the product discovery sprint that turns your idea into a scope you can price and build against. It is a standalone product with its own published fee, and the go-or-no-go at its close is a real decision point.
Sprint 0 is our product discovery service, run as a fixed-scope, fixed-fee sprint: $5,000 to $15,000 depending on complexity, two to four weeks. Senior engineers work alongside your team and turn your idea into a design system, user stories with acceptance criteria, a billable milestone plan, and the technical architecture. Sprint 0 is followed by Sprint 1: the same plan the build executes, or the plan you take to any other team.
PRICING
Two numbers matter. Sprint 0 is a fixed fee, $5,000 to $15,000 depending on complexity. The MVP build is priced at the close of Sprint 0, milestone by milestone, once the scope is closed. No hourly meter at either stage.
WHAT MOVES THE MVP BUILD PRICE
WHY WE DO NOT QUOTE AN MVP BEFORE SPRINT 0
An MVP app development quote without a closed scope is a guess, and the buyer pays for the miss either way: in change orders or in a product that stops short. Sprint 0 exists so the number you get is one we can hold. If the price the plan lands on does not fit your runway, you keep the plan and decide with it in hand.
MVP development runs on the same milestone-based engagement model as every product build we take on. Sprint 0 sets the plan, then each milestone is priced, built, demoed, and accepted before it bills.
Sprint 0
Fixed fee ($5,000 to $15,000), fixed scope, 2 to 4 weeks. Produces the scope and the milestone plan.
Milestone plan and go/no-go
Every milestone has acceptance criteria and a billing amount, set before the build starts. The go-or-no-go decision happens here: after Sprint 0 ends, before Sprint 1 starts.
Pay per accepted milestone
Billing fires on your sign-off, not on hours logged.
Exit at any milestone
Stop at any milestone boundary. Everything delivered so far is yours, including the code.
The full model, including the exit terms and an example milestone schedule, is on the engagement models page. The entry point is Sprint 0, a fixed-fee product discovery sprint ($5,000 to $15,000, 2 to 4 weeks).
IS THIS YOU
Most of the founders and product leads who start here are in one of these four situations.
The round was raised on a product that does not exist yet. You need a senior team that can scope it fast, price it honestly, and ship a version real users can react to.
The product thinking is done. What is missing is a team that can take a defined scope and ship it without hand-holding, on a schedule the board can see.
Lovable, Bubble, or Cursor got you to a demo. Now you need real users, real data, and an architecture that survives the next twelve months. We rebuild what has to be rebuilt and keep what works.
You could build it yourself, given a year. A lean senior team working against your architecture decisions gets the MVP out in months while you stay in control of the calls that matter.
A clickable mock or an AI-generated demo can validate an idea in a week. What we ship as an MVP is production software on the architecture the full product keeps, because the expensive part of a prototype is rebuilding it once the bet pays off.
You never receive a timesheet. Each milestone is priced before it starts and bills when it is accepted against written criteria.
Offshore body shops and template factories will quote lower. We are a boutique team of senior engineers who scope before they price, which is why the number holds.
The build is a decision you make with the scope and the full price in hand. Sprint 0 is designed so that saying no is a normal outcome, not a failed sale.
CLIENT VOICE
Custom Software Dev for Business Development Platform
Overall, their project management is good. I'm very happy with my lead engineer.
Paul Chiappetta
CTO, Reachr
Florida, United States Clutch verified
UI/UX Design & Mobile App Development for Fitness Company
They were responsive, clear in their communication, and delivered milestones on time.
Dominique Plummeridge
Head of Engineering, Asana Rebel
Berlin, Germany Clutch verified
Mobile App MVP Dev for AI-Powered Fitness Assistant Firm
Their technical skill, creativity, and partnership made the experience feel more like working with a co-founder.
Julia Antoci
CEO, GloFlow
Toronto, Ontario Clutch verified
FREQUENTLY ASKED
The questions we hear from people comparing MVP development companies, agencies, and freelancers. The answers match how the engagement actually runs.
Two numbers. Sprint 0, the discovery sprint that closes the scope, is a fixed fee of $5,000 to $15,000 depending on complexity. The MVP build itself is priced at the close of Sprint 0 as a milestone plan, with every milestone priced before it starts. The plan tells you the exact build figure and the calendar before you commit a dollar to the build.
Sprint 0 takes two to four weeks. The build that follows depends on the scope Sprint 0 closes: a focused web MVP can ship its first milestone within weeks, while a multi-platform or AI-native product runs longer. The milestone plan gives you the calendar alongside the price.
Building the smallest release that proves the product thesis with real users, on foundations you will not have to throw away. In practice that means closing the scope first, cutting everything that does not test the thesis, and shipping production software rather than a demo.
Yes. We build web applications, native and cross-platform mobile apps, and the backend behind them. Sprint 0 settles which platforms the first release actually needs; many MVPs launch web-first and add mobile as a later milestone.
Yes. Products built around a model, and conventional products with one AI feature that matters, are a growing share of what we ship. The same team handles the model integration, evaluation, and guardrails, inside the same milestone plan. There is no separate AI practice and no specialist upcharge.
You own the code, the infrastructure, and the documentation from day one, so every path is open: continue in new milestones, retain a dedicated team for the roadmap, or hand over to engineers you hire. Many clients start with milestones and move to a retained team once the roadmap stops fitting into milestones.
Yes, at every stage. The Sprint 0 deliverable is yours whether or not you build with us, and every accepted milestone is delivered into your repositories and accounts. Exiting at a milestone means keeping everything shipped up to it.
Three ways. The scope is closed and priced before the build, so the number holds. The people who scope the build are the senior engineers who build it. And the architecture is chosen for the product you will run in two years, not for the fastest demo.
A 30-minute discovery call with a senior engineer ends with a Sprint 0 proposal when the fit holds: the fixed fee, the calendar window, and what the MVP scope will cover. If an MVP is not the right next step, we say so on the call.
Tell us what you are building and who it is for. A senior engineer will review it and come back with a Sprint 0 proposal when the fit holds: the fixed fee, the calendar window, and what the MVP scope will cover. If an MVP is not the right next step, we say so.