iOS · Android · Web — prototype to full product

Most app projects die in a folder of mockups. We take yours from idea to something real people use — designed, engineered, and live in the store. We know, because we did it with our own.

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MASTER — our own app, designed, built, and in the App Store
6–10 wks
typical path from blueprint to an app real people use
iOS · Android · Web
one team, one product, every screen it lives on
100%
yours — code, store accounts, and data handed over
Two ways in

Wherever you're starting from.

Start from an idea

You know exactly what should exist

You've pictured the app for months, maybe got a quote that scared you off, maybe hired someone who disappeared. We take you from a sentence to a shipped product — strategy, design, build, store — without you needing to speak developer. You stay the expert on your users.

Rescue & scale

You have an app that's stuck

It's half-built, slow, dated, or nobody uses the feature you paid the most for. We audit what exists, keep what's worth keeping, and rebuild the rest into something people actually stay in — often faster than starting from scratch.

What we build

From a clickable prototype to a full product.

Same senior team behind every one. You only pay for the scale you need.

Prove the idea first

Prototype

From $4,000· ~1–2 weeks

A real, clickable app you can put in front of users, investors, or your own team — before spending a full build budget on a guess.

  • Interactive prototype that feels like the real thing
  • The core flows designed properly, not sketched
  • Tested with real people, not just opinions
  • A clear build plan and fixed quote for what's next
  • Yours to pitch, demo, and raise with
Perfect for

Founders with an idea, teams pitching internally, pre-funding startups

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Most popular
Into real hands

MVP

From $15,000· ~6–10 weeks

A real app in the store — the version that does the one thing brilliantly, with the accounts, data, and AI it needs to actually work.

  • Native iOS / Android, or a fast cross-platform build
  • Accounts, payments, notifications, and your data
  • AI features where they earn their place
  • We handle App Store & Google Play submission
  • Analytics from day one so you learn fast
Perfect for

Startups, product companies, businesses launching their first app

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Built to scale

Product

Custom quote· Scoped per project

When the app is the business — a full product platform with the backend, dashboards, and integrations behind it, evolving release after release.

  • App, backend, and admin platform as one product
  • Multi-user roles, permissions, and dashboards
  • Any integration: Stripe, CRM, ERP, inventory, any API
  • AI systems: scoring, agents, automation, search
  • Ongoing releases as a long-term partner
Perfect for

SaaS, marketplaces, operations at scale, funded product teams

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Not sure which fits? Tell us the idea and we'll recommend the right first step — honestly, even if it's the smaller one.

We ship our own

Not a portfolio of mockups. A real app.

MASTER is ours — a native iOS app with a live AI scoring engine behind it, designed, built, and shipped by the same team you'd be hiring. Those are its real screens, not a concept render. Studios that only design apps have never had to survive an App Store review, a launch-day bug, or a real user at 2am. We have.

Swipe to discover — the engine learns your taste

Real screens from the shipped iOS app

How it works

Four steps. No surprises.

You approve the plan and the price before we build a thing.

Step 1 · Blueprint

We cut it to what matters

One focused session on the idea, the user, and the single job version one has to do. Most app projects fail from building too much — we define the smallest thing that's genuinely worth using. You leave with a plan and a fixed quote, before a dollar changes hands.

Step 2 · Design

You use it before it exists

Real screens, real flows, clickable on your own phone. You experience the app and refine it with us while changes still cost minutes instead of weeks.

Step 3 · Build

Engineered like a product

App, backend, and infrastructure built together on a modern stack — tested on real devices, with the security, speed, and accounts a real product needs.

Step 4 · Launch

Into the store, then better

We handle submission and review, get it live, and hand over everything — code, store accounts, the keys. Then we watch how people actually use it and improve from there.

In every build

Everything included. Nothing rented.

No surprise line items, no platform you can't leave, no agency holding your store account hostage. Every project ships with the essentials done right.

Product strategy — not just execution
Design and engineering from one senior team
App Store & Google Play submission handled
Backend, accounts, and data built in
Tested on real devices, not just simulators
Analytics so you see how it's really used
You own 100% of the code and the accounts
Real humans who answer — no ticket queue
The promise

A fixed price agreed before we start — and we stay on it until your app is approved and live, not just “submitted”.

Milestones you approve as we go, and store review handled by us at no extra charge. The risk stays on our side of the table.

“Yes, but…”

I only have an idea. Is it too early?

It's the perfect time. Starting with the Prototype tier turns the idea into something real you can test in weeks — for a fraction of a full build. Half of what we do in the first session is decide what NOT to build.

What does an app really cost?

A fixed, flat quote agreed before we start — no hourly surprises, no scope games. The range is wide because apps are: a focused MVP and a multi-role platform are different animals. You approve the number in the Blueprint step, and that's the number.

Do I need iOS and Android — and a website too?

Often not on day one. We'll tell you honestly where your users actually are and build there first. When both make sense, we build so the second platform costs a fraction of the first.

What happens after launch?

You own everything outright — code, store accounts, data — so you're never trapped. Most clients keep us on for releases and growth because they want to, not because they have to.

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Let's get your app into real hands.

Tell us the idea. In one short conversation you'll have a clear first step, a fixed quote, and no obligation. Whether it's a prototype or the platform your business runs on, the same senior team builds it — start to finish.

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