Miami
MVP development for founders
Miami founders
Miami is the surprise pre-seed leader of Q1 2026 — passed LA and Boston by deal count. Crypto rebounded, LatAm founders bridge here, and the engineering talent pool is shallow but growing fast. Hiring locally takes 90+ days and you are bidding against KuCoin, OpenSea, and a dozen Web3 startups.
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 Miami.
The local read
Why this works for Miami
Miami's pre-seed deal volume jumped 28% YoY in early 2026 — the Crypto/Web3 founder migration that started in 2022 stuck. The agencies in town are split between Web3-specialty shops billing crypto-bull-market rates and general consultancies feeding logistics companies. None of them ship venture-grade product on your timeline.
We do. Flat-price, one-week MVPs in any stack, ET timezone, code yours from day one. Whether you are building Web3 infra or a LatAm fintech, we ship it the same way.
Time zone
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ET
Eastern Time. We overlap with your team in Wynwood, your VCs at Founders Fund Miami, and the LatAm customers your bilingual founder needs.
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 Miami
Same shipped product. Different cost, different speed, different risk. Here is how year one plays out.
Path A · The expensive way
Hiring in Miami
- $270K year-one cost per senior engineer
- 90+ days to fill the role in a shallow talent pool
- 40% chance they leave for a Web3 startup
- Local agencies bill crypto-bull-market rates
- Three-month notice when it does not work out
Year-one outlay
$270K+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 Miami?
We work with founders in other cities too
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Ship your next thing from Miami
Discovery call is free. Quote is flat-price. You keep the code.