Across our advisor network, founders report spending between $20k and $90k — and 4 to 7 months — before reaching a buildable, demonstrable product. We built AI Dev Crew because that math is broken.
Production-ready MVPs, shipped in seven days.
A dedicated, AI-powered development team — not a marketplace, not an agency. Fixed price. One process. Your MVP in two weeks, or we keep building until it ships.
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Building an MVP shouldn't feel like rolling dice.
You have funding, a roadmap, and investors checking in monthly. What you don't have is a technical co-founder — and the options for getting one built are uniformly bad.
/ 01 — Marketplaces
You hire a freelancer. You hope.
Upwork, Fiverr, Toptal. The communication is async, the quality is a coin flip, and “production-ready” turns into three months of patching someone else's spaghetti.
“I burned $18k on three different freelancers before getting anything I could actually demo.”
/ 02 — Agencies
You sign with an agency. You wait.
Eight-week discovery phases. $80–250k engagements. SOWs longer than your pitch deck. By the time they ship, your runway has shrunk by a quarter — and a competitor has already launched.
“The kickoff call was scheduled for six weeks after the contract was signed.”
/ 03 — In-house
You hire a senior dev. You pray.
$180k base, three months to source, six weeks to ramp. If they leave, you're back to zero. If they stay, you've burned half your seed round before line one of customer code is written.
“We made one senior hire. Their first sprint took longer than our entire MVP should have.”
$47k
The average cost of a “wrong” MVP attempt.
A new category between freelancer and agency.
One in-house team. One process. AI woven into every step — Claude Code, Cursor, v0, Copilot, plus our own automation pipelines. The result: agency-grade quality at a price that respects your runway.
Freelancer
Agency
AI Dev Crew
Time to first commit
~1–3 weeks
×4–8 weeks
✓48 hours
MVP delivery
~2–6 months
×3–9 months
✓7 days
Pricing model
×Hourly, scope creeps
×$80–250k SOW
✓Fixed $4,999
Code quality
×Wildly inconsistent
✓Generally solid
✓Reviewed at every step
AI-native workflow
×Rare
×Often blocked
✓Built around it
Continuity post-launch
×Vanishes
~Re-scoped engagement
✓$19,999/mo retainer
Seven days, broken down to the hour.
No discovery phase that becomes the project. No “we'll get back to you next sprint.” Every sprint follows the same proven sequence — refined across every build we ship.
KickoffDay 0
First demoDay 2
Production deployDay 7
Day 01
Lock
Spec & architecture
↳ deliverable: locked PRD
We translate your idea into a build-ready spec — data model, user flows, third-party integrations, deployment topology. AI-assisted scoping cuts what used to take three weeks down to twenty-four hours.
ClaudeLinearFigma
Day 02
Frame
Scaffold & first surface
↳ deliverable: clickable build
Repo set up, CI/CD wired, auth, database, and the primary user surface go live on a staging URL. By the end of Day 2 you're clicking through your product, not a Figma file.
Cursorv0VercelSupabase
Day 03–05
Build
Core feature blast
↳ deliverable: feature complete
The crew goes deep. Daily commits, daily Loom updates, async questions answered within the hour. AI-paired development means we ship features at three times the velocity of a conventional team.
Claude CodeCopilotGitHub
Day 06
Harden
Polish, tests, telemetry
↳ deliverable: production candidate
QA pass, automated test suite, error monitoring, analytics, and performance tuning. We harden what's built rather than papering cracks — your MVP is investor-demo ready, not just demo-ready.
PlaywrightSentryPostHog
Day 07
Ship
Production deploy & handover
↳ deliverable: live MVP
Custom domain live, full repo access, runbooks, architecture diagram, recorded walkthrough. You own everything. From here, you go solo, hire in, or roll into a monthly retainer with the same crew.
Repo handoverDocsLoom
Everything an MVP needs. Nothing it doesn't.
Each sprint includes the full stack — frontend, backend, auth, payments, deploy, monitoring. No surprise add-ons, no “that's out of scope” emails on Day 6.
No. 01
Frontend that ships
React + Next.js with Tailwind. Server components where they matter, client components where they need to be. Designed by humans, scaffolded by v0, refined by the crew.
No. 02
Backend you can extend
TypeScript or .NET on the API tier, Postgres for data, Redis where speed matters. Conventional architecture. No clever shortcuts. The next dev who reads it understands it in twenty minutes.
No. 03
Auth, payments, the rails
User auth, subscription billing, role-based access, transactional email. The plumbing every product needs — wired up correctly the first time, secured by default.
No. 04
Deploy + observability
Custom domain on Vercel, Railway, Azure, or AWS — your call. Sentry for errors, PostHog for product analytics, log aggregation. You see what your users see from day one of launch.
No. 05
Tested, not just built
Automated test suite covering critical paths. Playwright for end-to-end, Vitest for units. The handover repo is something you can keep developing — not a tower of cards.
No. 06
Docs your next dev will love
Architecture diagram, README that actually says what to run, decision log, deployment runbook, recorded video walkthrough. A handover that respects whoever picks it up next.
Built for founders who'd rather ship than scope.
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We had a closed seed round and a board meeting in three weeks. Two agencies told us we'd need ninety days. AI Dev Crew shipped a demo-ready MVP in seven days — and the code was cleaner than what our last contractor delivered in three months.
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Founder, B2B SaaS — Series Seed/ from a pilot engagement, May 2025
“
The 7-day SLA is real. Day-by-day Looms, daily commits, decisions logged. After three different freelancer attempts, this felt like working with an actual team.
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Solo founder, Healthtech/ pre-launch pilot
/ Case study #001
Shipped a B2B booking platform — 7 days, in production.
Founder approached us with a Notion doc and a Stripe account. We delivered: auth, calendar sync, booking flow, payments, admin dashboard, deployed on a custom domain.
7
Days to production
$4.9k
Total cost to founder
/ Case study #002
Internal AI tool for an enterprise innovation team — shipped in 7 days.
Document Q&A platform with role-based access, audit logs, and SSO. Replaced six weeks of vendor evaluation with two weeks of building.
7
Days end-to-end
3×
Faster than incumbent quote
One price. No surprises.
Pick the engagement that fits your stage. Pay once, sprint together, ship. If you need ongoing velocity after launch, the same crew rolls forward on a flat monthly retainer.
Discovery Sprint
For founders still scoping
$499/ 3 days
— credited toward your MVP sprint —
- Locked, build-ready MVP spec
- Architecture & stack recommendation
- 7-day delivery roadmap
- Risk & cost assessment
- 1:1 working session with the crew
Landing Page & Waitlist
For founders validating before they build
$2,999/ 3 days
— live on your domain, capturing demand —
- Custom-domain landing page
- Waitlist signup with double opt-in
- Welcome email via Resend
- Privacy page + cookie banner
- Analytics & conversion tracking
- Repo handover + docs
Most chosen
MVP Sprint
For founders ready to ship
$4,999/ 7 days
— fixed price, no scope surprises —
- Production-ready MVP in 7 days
- Full-stack: frontend, API, database, auth
- Payments, transactional email, monitoring
- Custom domain, deploy, observability
- Repo handover + docs + recorded walkthrough
- Daily Loom updates, async support
Monthly Retainer
For post-launch velocity
$19,999/ month
— rolling, cancel anytime —
- Same crew, ongoing capacity
- Iterate on MVP, ship new features
- Bug fixes, infrastructure, performance
- Weekly priority planning
- Production support & monitoring
- Pause or cancel any month
7d
The 7-day promise.
If we don't deliver a production-ready MVP within 7 days of kickoff, we keep building — at no additional cost — until we do. That's not marketing copy. It's in the engagement letter.
§ 07 — FAQ
Questions, answered honestly.
Still on the fence? Take the 2-minute MVP assessment — we'll send a scoped roadmap and a straight answer about whether your idea fits a 7-day sprint.
Take the assessmentCan you really ship a production MVP in 7 days?+
Yes — and the reason is process, not magic. We sprint with a tightly-scoped, locked spec; a battle-tested stack we know cold; an AI-native workflow that compresses the parts of dev that used to be slow (boilerplate, scaffolding, tests, docs); and a single dedicated crew with no context-switching.
What we don't do: invent your business logic in 7 days, build six features when the spec calls for four, or chase a moving target. The 7-day timeline assumes a locked spec — that's why discovery exists.
Why is it only $4,999? What's the catch?+
No catch. AI-accelerated workflows let us deliver in 7 days what conventional teams take 8–12 weeks to ship. We pass that efficiency through to you. We make our margin on volume and on the retainer relationships that follow successful sprints — not on padding hourly billing.
The honest constraint: we have limited sprint slots. We typically run 2–3 sprints in parallel. When slots are full, we'll quote you a start date.
Who owns the code and IP?+
You do. Full ownership transfer on Day 7, including the repo, deployment configuration, infrastructure credentials, and all documentation. No license restrictions, no rev-share, no required ongoing relationship.
What stack do you build on?+
Default: TypeScript / Next.js / Postgres / Tailwind, deployed on Vercel, Railway, Azure, or AWS. For workloads that need it, we use .NET on the API tier (we have deep experience there). We choose proven, mainstream technology — anyone you hire after us can read it.
What we won't do: pick obscure tooling because it's clever. Your next developer needs to be productive in your codebase on day one.
What if my idea needs more than 7 days?+
Two paths. We can scope the MVP down to a 7-day-shippable core and roll the rest into a monthly retainer — this is what most founders do. Or, for genuinely complex builds, we'll quote you a Priority Rush Sprint with extended scope.
We'll be straight with you in discovery about whether your idea fits a sprint. We've turned away projects that didn't.
Are you using AI to write the code, or are humans?+
Both. AI handles the parts of development that humans do worst — boilerplate, scaffolding, test generation, repetitive refactors, documentation. Humans handle the parts AI does worst — architecture, judgment calls, code review, security, and product taste.
Every line of code is reviewed by a senior engineer before it lands in your repo. We don't ship AI-slop.
What happens if you miss the 7-day deadline?+
We keep building until your MVP is production-ready, at no additional charge. It's in the engagement letter. We'd rather take a small loss on a slipped sprint than ship you something that isn't ready.
2 sprint slots open this month
Ship the MVP your investors are waiting for.
Take the 2-minute MVP Readiness Assessment. We'll come back within 24 hours with a scoped 7-day roadmap and a straight answer about fit — whether or not we end up working together.
No payment required · No sales call required · Roadmap in 24 hours