Boston
MVP development for founders
Boston founders
Boston is the deep-tech founder's town in 2026 — MIT and Harvard pipelines feeding biotech, robotics, and B2B SaaS. Hiring senior engineers means competing with academic spinouts and well-funded biotechs that pay $300K+ for ML talent.
Year-one cost of hiring locally
Average time to fill the role
Our starting price
Lean MVP delivery
How this works
One AI-native engineer.
The output of a team.
Senior engineers who deploy AI agents as force multipliers, shipping what traditional teams of 3 to 4 used to, at half the cost. Built specifically for pre-seed to Series A founders in Boston.
The local read
Why this works for Boston
Boston tech leans technical and academic. MIT Media Lab and Harvard Innovation Lab still feed real pre-seed deal flow. The agencies in town are either MIT-adjacent consultancies that bill by the academic year, or staffing shops feeding pharma. Neither ships product the way a venture-backed founder needs.
We do. Flat-price, one-week MVPs, ET timezone, one senior engineer end-to-end. We work with Boston founders who are too early for an in-house team and too serious for a freelancer.
Time zone
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ET
Eastern Time. Overlap with you, your investors at General Catalyst and NEA Boston, and the academic calendar that affects half your hires.
Sectors we work in here
What you actually get
A working product.
Live in weeks, not quarters.
Flat-price quote after a 30-minute discovery call. One named senior engineer owns it from spec to deploy. Source code in your GitHub from day one — no lock-in, no “our platform”, no surprise invoices.
The three builds founders in Boston ask for most
Production MVPs in 1 to 4 weeks
Next.js, Postgres, Stripe stack
AI features and LLM integrations
OpenAI, Anthropic, open models
Mobile apps with React Native, native when the use case needs it
Every build ships with
Live production URL
On your domain, day of launch
Your GitHub repo
Code yours from commit 1
Stripe + auth wired
Login, payments, webhooks done
You + me on Slack
Async, same-day replies
The math
Why founders pick
path B in Boston
Same shipped product. Different cost, different speed, different risk. Here is how year one plays out.
Path A
The expensive way
Hiring in Boston
- $290K year-one cost per senior engineer
- 65+ days to fill the role
- ML talent priced against $300K+ biotech offers
- Local agencies bill consultancy hourly rates
- Three-month notice when it does not work out
Year-one outlay
$290K+before shipping a line of code
Path B
Our way
Working with us
- Lean MVPs from $5K, flat-priced
- Discovery call this week, build starts next
- Senior engineer, named, on every call
- Code, deploys, and docs yours from day one
- Walk away at the end of the contract clean
Year-one outlay
from $5Kper shipped build, week 1 live
Not in Boston?
We ship from 11 cities.
Worldwide.
Tap any pin to read what working with us looks like from that founder ecosystem. The Boston pin is where you are now.
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Founders here usually ask
- How fast can you start a build?
- What does a typical quote look like?
- Do we own the code from day one?
- Do you have customers in Boston?
Valery Satsura
CEO · Start Matter · usually replies in minutes
Hey, I'm Valery. Ask me anything about working with us from Boston.
Ship your next thing from Boston
Discovery call is free. Quote is flat-price. You keep the code.