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 we ship
Built by one,
shipped in weeks
Same engineer owns the build from spec to deploy. Flat-priced after a discovery call. Code yours from day one.
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
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
Most chosenWorking 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 work with founders in other cities too
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Ship your next thing from Boston
Discovery call is free. Quote is flat-price. You keep the code.