Startup Consulting & MVP Development
A senior technical partner for founders building with AI. Honest advice on product and architecture, and someone in the room when investors ask the hard questions.
- Fixed price
- Fixed date
- You own everything
Choosing the right route
Build the right thing. Keep it safe.
AI means a founder can now build a real product without a technical co-founder. You still need someone to tell you what not to build, check what's safe to ship and answer the hard questions when an investor's engineer looks at your code. That's the Technical Co-founder Plan: a named senior engineer, a flat annual fee and no equity required by default. If you haven't launched yet, start with the Production-Ready Audit. If you have an idea and no product, a Custom Build gets you one in 30–45 days, and we'll help you shape the scope before anything is built.
Which offer fits
Choose where to start
Annual partnership
Technical Co-founder Plan
Keep building with AI. A senior engineer makes sure what you ship is safe.
Get a technical co-founderNamed
Senior lead on your project
Flat
Fee, never per user
In the room
On due-diligence calls
Yours
Code, accounts and data
Why Dafe Software
What you get when you work with us
Founder side, not bench side
We sit on your side of the table. Honest feedback on product, pricing, team and runway, even when it is uncomfortable.
Strategy plus execution
We can advise, and we can also ship. You can move straight from strategy into a build with the same team.
Investor friendly engineering
We write the kind of code investors and acquirers expect to see in due diligence: clean repos, real tests, real architecture diagrams.
Fundraising support
We help you tell the tech story, prepare technical sections of the deck, and stand in for the CTO role on diligence calls.
Lean by design
We will tell you what NOT to build before what to build. Cutting scope is often the fastest way to launch.
Honest about what you need
We will tell you when you need a lawyer, accountant or designer alongside us.
What we deliver
What we can take on for you
Product validation sprint
Two to 3 week engagement to test your idea with real users, refine the value proposition and decide what the MVP should be.
MVP development
A focused MVP you can put in front of paying customers and investors, ready to launch in 30–45 days.
Fractional CTO
Senior technical leadership on a part time basis, covering hiring, architecture, vendor decisions and investor relations.
Fundraising readiness
Technical deck sections, architecture diagrams, code audit and rehearsed diligence answers for your next round.
Go to market support
Landing pages, onboarding flows, analytics, lifecycle messaging and the first growth experiments.
Co founder matching
When you need a long term technical co-founder, we can sometimes step in or help you define the role you need.
How we work
A process built for shipping, not stalling
Clarify the bet
We dig into what you are actually trying to prove and to whom. Most founders find this conversation surprisingly useful.
Shape the MVP
A one page MVP brief: who is it for, what they get, what we will measure and what we will deliberately leave out.
Build & validate
Focused engineering and design, with weekly customer conversations baked into the plan.
Raise & grow
Investor narrative, data room, growth experiments. We stay close while you raise your seed or Series A.
Tech stack
Tools we lean on for startup consulting & mvp development
Start the conversation
Two ways to talk to us about your startup consulting & mvp development
Send a written brief and we will reply with a real plan, or book a strategy call on our calendar. Whichever is faster for you.
- Reply within 1 business day, every time
- Senior engineer on the first call, not a sales rep
- No pressure, no hard sell, no recurring nudges
Project enquiry
Tell us about the startup you are building
Share a short brief. A senior founder advisor will reply within one business day to schedule a strategy call.
Common questions
Frequently asked
Do you take equity?+
Cash by default. We sometimes take a small equity component when we are deeply involved across multiple years, but the standard engagement keeps your cap table clean.
What if my idea is still rough?+
That is fine. The earlier you talk to us, the more we can save you from building the wrong thing.
Can you serve as our technical lead while we raise?+
Yes. We can stand in on diligence calls, write the technical part of pitch decks and answer investor questions during fundraising.
What happens after the MVP?+
Three options: keep building with us on a retainer, hand over to a new in house team we help you hire, or wind down the engagement cleanly. Your choice.
