Denver / Boulder
MVP development for founders
Denver founders
Denver has the lowest founder burn rate among major US tech metros. Your money goes further, your team stays longer, and senior engineers do not quit every 14 months to start their own thing. But local agency options are thin and most senior devs already work at Stripe Boulder or Twilio.
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 Denver.
The local read
Why this works for Denver
Denver and Boulder have quietly become one of the best places to be a venture-backed founder. Carta data has it as a meaningful pre-seed pool, comp is 20-30% below the Bay, and the climate-tech and outdoor-tech communities are real. But finding a senior engineer in town who is not already at Stripe Boulder, Twilio, or Cloudflare is hard.
We are remote-first and ship MVPs in a week, flat-price quoted after a discovery call. MT timezone overlaps fully with your team, your Foundry Group meetings, and your customers in Boulder.
Time zone
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MT
Mountain Time. We overlap with you, your team in LoDo, and your investors at Foundry and Techstars.
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 Denver 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
Built from Denver
Founders here shipped these
Real Denver founders. Real shipped product. Not a stock-photo lineup of "trusted by" logos.
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Why founders pick
path B in Denver
Same shipped product. Different cost, different speed, different risk. Here is how year one plays out.
Path A
The expensive way
Hiring in Denver
- $260K year-one cost per senior engineer
- 55+ days to fill the role
- Senior devs already at Stripe Boulder, Twilio, Cloudflare
- Local agency pool is thin and outdoor-tech focused
- Three-month notice when it does not work out
Year-one outlay
$260K+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 Denver?
We ship from 11 cities.
Worldwide.
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- 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 Denver?
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Discovery call is free. Quote is flat-price. You keep the code.