London
MVP development for founders
London founders
London is the #3 startup ecosystem globally and the gateway to European pre-seed. Hiring senior engineers in London means £100K+ packages and a 90-day cycle in a market still recovering from the post-Brexit talent shuffle. We are a one-engineer shop that ships MVPs in a week, flat-priced.
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 London.
The local read
Why this works for London
London's pre-seed market is still strong despite the post-2022 cooldown. Seedcamp and Entrepreneur First continue to be top-of-funnel for European technical founders. But hiring senior engineers locally means competing with established fintechs (Revolut, Monzo, Wise) and well-funded AI labs.
We work asynchronously with London founders. Four to five hours of overlap with our working hours is enough for daily standups and decisions. Flat-price MVPs billed in USD. One senior engineer ships your build in a week.
Time zone
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GMT/BST. We overlap with your morning, you ship by your evening. Async workflow built for the gap.
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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 London 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 London
Founders here shipped these
Real London founders. Real shipped product. Not a stock-photo lineup of "trusted by" logos.
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Why founders pick
path B in London
Same shipped product. Different cost, different speed, different risk. Here is how year one plays out.
Path A
The expensive way
Hiring in London
- £100K+ base salary per senior engineer, plus NI and equity
- 90+ days to fill the role in a tight market
- 40% chance they leave for Revolut, Monzo, or an AI lab
- Local agencies bill consultancy day rates
- Three-month notice when it does not work out
Year-one outlay
$200K+before shipping a line of code
Path B
Our way
Working with us
- Lean MVPs from $5K, flat-priced (USD)
- Discovery call this week, build starts next
- Senior engineer, named, on every call
- Code, deploys, and docs yours from day one
- Async-friendly workflow built for the time gap
Year-one outlay
from $5Kper shipped build, week 1 live
Not in London?
We ship from 11 cities.
Worldwide.
Tap any pin to read what working with us looks like from that founder ecosystem. The London 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 London?
Valery Satsura
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Discovery call is free. Quote is flat-price. You keep the code.