From zero to Series A.
We build your MVP with you.
Product engineering, global payments and logistics infrastructure, a vetted partner network, and a market-validation playbook — under one retainer. Not an agency. Not a cohort. An operator team with skin in your outcome.
Who this is for
Four founder profiles. One shared pattern: the technical execution, the go-to-market, and the global infrastructure all need to land together — or none of it matters.
You ship code, but need a commercial co-pilot
The product works. What you need: someone who owns pricing, GTM, first 10 customers, and the path to a priced round.
You have the vision, not the engineering team
We become your fractional CTO + engineering squad until you have traction worth hiring full-time against.
You’re expanding across US / EU / APAC
Every new market is a new tax, payment, logistics, and compliance fire. We’ve wired that stack before — many times.
You have the breakthrough, not the product
We translate research into a fundable, buildable, sellable product — without dumbing down the tech.
Why founders hit the wall at this stage
The code is the easy part. The moment you need revenue across multiple markets, the complexity curve goes vertical.
Tech is ready. The global commerce stack isn’t.
Payments, 3PL, tax, KYC, entity setup across 3+ markets will eat six months if you wire it yourself.
Market validation burns runway faster than engineering.
Picking the wrong first market costs 6–12 months. We de-risk market selection with hard data before you commit.
You need a partner who owns outcomes, not a contractor.
Agencies bill hours. Accelerators give cohorts. We operate as your extended team with skin in the outcome.
What you actually get on retainer
Not deliverables. Not hours. A team that operates your company alongside you until you no longer need us.
Production-grade MVP engineering
Not a prototype. A shippable MVP — typed, tested, CI-wired, cloud-native — built to survive first paying customers.
Global commerce stack, pre-wired
Stripe / Airwallex, 3PL, tax (Avalara/Stripe Tax), KYC/AML, multi-entity ops. Ship revenue in 3+ markets without the 6-month detour.
Partner network on demand
50+ vetted advisors, funds, legal (Delaware / UK / SG), accounting, talent, and distribution partners — warm-intro access from day one.
Market validation playbook
Structured experiments across up to 3 target markets in 90 days. Signal-based go/no-go — not gut feel, not cohort vibes.
Why this beats hiring in the US
You are not comparing us to a contractor. You are comparing us to one more senior engineer on your US payroll. Here is what that comparison actually looks like.
One US engineer’s loaded cost buys an entire operator team.
A senior startup engineer in SF or NYC runs $180k–$250k/year once you add equity, payroll tax, benefits, and equipment. Our annual retainer is $100,000 total — and instead of one junior hire, you get a senior operator, an engineering squad, a global commerce infra team, and warm intros to our partner network. Same burn, an order of magnitude more leverage.
If it’s in a paper, we can ship it.
RAG, agentic workflows, fine-tuning, diffusion, multimodal retrieval, structured extraction, tool-use orchestration. We read the papers, implement from scratch when the reference repo is a mess, and ship to your users — not a demo notebook. Your competitors are still reading the abstract. You are already in production solving the actual problem.
No ramp-up. No offer letters. No attrition risk.
Our team is already assembled and already shipping together. No 3-month onboarding, no recruiter fees, no key-hire flight risk halfway through your build, no severance if the experiment fails. You scale us up or down in days — not quarters.
While you sleep, we ship.
APAC timezone overlap means your Monday-morning review walks into our Monday-afternoon progress. Async done right turns every hour into two. You keep calendar time for customers, fundraising, and family. We keep the build moving around the clock.
One US senior engineer for 12 months ≈ $200k+ loaded cost, and you still need a designer, a DevOps hire, a payments integrator, and a commerce ops lead. Our annual retainer ≈ $100k — same scope, half the burn, one accountable team.
The six-month arc
This is what a typical zero-to-Series-A engagement looks like. Your arc will be different — but the shape of the journey rarely is.
Discovery + MVP v0
Lock validation hypothesis, ship MVP v0 with core loop, stand up infra baseline. You exit month 1 with something real to show.
Ship + wire infrastructure
Pilot customers live, payments and logistics wired, first market-specific experiments run. We iterate weekly on signal, not feelings.
Traction + Series A prep
Retention curves stabilising, unit economics defensible, data room ready, investor intros warming. Target: priced round conversations.
Choose your cadence
Same scope. Different commitment windows.
Longer commitments get the deepest work — and the biggest discount.
Monthly Retainer
- Dedicated weekly 1-on-1 strategy sessions
- Hands-on MVP engineering sprint support
- Access to partner network (legal, payments, 3PL)
- Cancel anytime — month-to-month
6-Month Program
Save $5,000- Everything in Monthly
- 6 months of uninterrupted momentum
- Mid-program strategic review + pivot planning
- Global commerce stack wired (payments + logistics + tax)
Annual Partnership
Save $20,000- Everything in 6-Month Program
- Full zero-to-Series-A coverage (12 months)
- Quarterly board-ready strategy review
- Direct intros to our fund, advisor & partner network
- Fundraise kit: data room, deck, investor narrative
Prices in USD. Wire transfer, credit card, or stablecoin accepted. Before we start, we sign a lightweight MSA so both sides know the scope, the deliverables, and the exit.
Frequently asked
What exactly is included — and what isn’t?
Do you take equity?
Who actually works on my company?
Can I cancel the monthly plan?
What happens after 12 months?
How is this different from an agency or accelerator?
Ready to ship something global?
Start monthly. If we’re the right fit, roll into the 6-month or annual program.
We reply to every inbound within two business days.
We only take on a handful of founders per quarter. Availability is not guaranteed.
