Your product, live in a week — we've done it, we'll show you
We build MVPs the way founders need them: fixed price agreed up front, production-grade code, and live in days. We shipped a complete HR payroll system in 7 days. Yours is next.
Scope your MVP → See how we buildWhat we ship in an MVP
Everything a real product needs on day one
An MVP that can't take payments or log users in isn't a product. Ours ship complete:
What founders build with us
Pick the product that sounds like yours
Every one of these is a build we know cold — scope, price, and timeline on the first call.
B2B tools & dashboards
Multi-tenant SaaS with roles, billing, and analytics. The bread and butter of 1-week builds.
AI-first apps
Chat with documents, AI generators, matching engines — with the AI actually working, not mocked.
Two-sided platforms
Buyers, sellers, listings, payments, reviews. Scoped tight for launch.
Search, compare, book
Aggregation across providers with real-time prices and booking flows.
Ops & back-office
The tool your team needs that no vendor sells. Built in days, owned by you.
The one on your napkin
If you can describe it in 30 minutes, we can scope it, price it, and date it.
Proof
The payroll system we took live in 7 days
A client needed HR payroll software — working, not prototyped — and needed it immediately. Traditional agencies quoted months.
We locked scope on day one: employees, salaries, deductions, payslips, reports. Then we built with AI-accelerated design and code generation — with senior engineers reviewing every line — and automated QA running from day two.
Day 7: live. Real payroll, real employees, real money calculated correctly. The same discipline — fixed scope, daily progress you can see, production stack — goes into every MVP we build.
MVPs from $5k. Timeline in days, not quarters.
A focused 1-week MVP starts around $5k–$10k. Bigger scopes — marketplaces, AI products, booking platforms — run $10k–$25k over 2–6 weeks. Fixed price, agreed before we start. No hourly meters.
The week, day by day
How a product goes live in 7 days
No magic. Just scope discipline, AI leverage, and senior engineers who've shipped this before.
Day 1 — Lock the scope
Must-haves only. Everything else goes on the v2 list. You sign off on exactly what ships.
Day 2 — Design
Flows and screens generated from proven patterns, tuned to your brand. Clickable by evening.
Days 3–5 — Build
Auth, core flows, payments, admin. AI writes the first draft; seniors review and harden every line.
Day 6 — Polish & QA
Automated tests, performance pass, staging deploy. You click through everything.
Day 7 — Launch
Production deploy, monitoring on, handoff docs delivered. You have a live product and its keys.
How we work & why it matters
We combine process, technology, and expertise so your product gets built right—from idea to launch.
We use proven stacks and clear delivery so you get results you can measure.
Technologies we use
We build with the stacks and tools your product needs.
React / Next.js
React Native / Flutter
Node.js
Python / Django
Firebase
AWS / CloudCommon questions
MVP development at Essen Software is a fixed-scope, fixed-price build of a minimum viable product—AI-accelerated, on a production-ready stack—live in as little as 1 week for a focused scope, so you can validate with users and investors without a full build.
A focused AI MVP can be live in 1 week—we built and shipped a complete HR payroll system in 7 days. Larger scopes typically take 2–6 weeks. Fixed must-haves and no scope creep keep it on time.
Yes. We use production-ready tech stacks and clean architecture from day one, so you avoid rewrites when you scale. We also provide investor-ready prototypes and documentation.
AI-accelerated everything: scope locked on day 1, UI generated from proven patterns, AI-assisted code with senior human review, automated QA. We cut meetings and hand-offs — not quality: the stack is the same production-grade TypeScript/Next.js we use on long builds. Proof: a complete HR payroll system, built and live in 7 days. Larger scopes take 2–6 weeks.
Yes — aggregation platforms are a common MVP for us. The build combines provider APIs (flights, hotels, trains), a price-comparison engine, and an AI layer for natural-language search (“cheapest weekend trip under $200”). An MVP with 2–3 data sources ships in 2–4 weeks as a fixed-scope build.
Why choose Essen for MVP development
Describe your product. Get a price and a date.
Thirty minutes. You explain the idea, we tell you what ships in week one, what waits for v2, and exactly what it costs. If a week isn't realistic for your scope, we'll say so and tell you what is.
Scope your MVP