Seattle
MVP development for founders
Seattle founders
Seattle has quietly become the best post-Big-Tech founder ecosystem in 2026. Half your senior engineering pool either still works at Amazon or Microsoft, or just left to start something. Hiring takes 80+ days and you are bidding against AWS comp.
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 Seattle.
The local read
Why this works for Seattle
The Seattle dev hiring story is specific. You are not just competing with Amazon and Microsoft for senior engineers, you are competing for their attention against starting their own company. The agencies in town are mostly ex-Big-Tech contractor pools billing $200/hr.
We are none of that. Flat-price, one-week MVPs, code yours day one. We work on PT so we overlap fully with your team, your Madrona partners, and your weekly standup.
Time zone
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PT
Pacific Time, same window as your team, your customers in Bellevue, and the Big-Tech mafia your investors keep mentioning.
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
Built from Seattle
Founders here shipped these
Real Seattle founders. Real shipped product. Not a stock-photo lineup of "trusted by" logos.
Campaign Refinery
Campaign Refinery is an advanced email marketing and automation platform that focuses on helping businesses send better emails, improve deliverability, and drive real engagement. It combines powerful automation, smart list management, and deep analytics to make email campaigns more effective and easier to manage.
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Why founders pick
path B in Seattle
Same shipped product. Different cost, different speed, different risk. Here is how year one plays out.
Path A · The expensive way
Hiring in Seattle
- $310K year-one cost per senior engineer
- 80+ days to fill the role at competitive comp
- 40% chance they leave to start their own company
- You compete with AWS, Azure, and stealth AI labs
- Three-month notice when it does not work out
Year-one outlay
$310K+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 Seattle?
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Ship your next thing from Seattle
Discovery call is free. Quote is flat-price. You keep the code.