00Services
An MVP build takes your product from plan to production on a fixed, written scope.
Aptixx designs and builds first product versions for founders and funded teams: the core workflow, accounts and roles, the data model underneath, and a deployment you own outright. Scoped in a paid sprint, priced before the build starts, and delivered in your repository from the first commit.
01Who this is for
Time to revenue is the constraint, and the runway is finite.
Five situations that bring founders to a build partner instead of a first engineering hire:
- 01The product exists as a deck, a Figma file, or a founder demo — and the next conversation needs working software.
- 02There is no technical co-founder, and hiring a full team before revenue is not the plan.
- 03Early customers are ready to pay, and the operation behind the promise is a spreadsheet.
- 04A round closed on a roadmap the current tooling cannot deliver.
- 05The prototype that won the pilot cannot survive real users, real roles, or real data.
02What an Aptixx MVP is
The smallest product that can take real users and real money.
An MVP here is a production system, not a demo. It is small in scope and finished in quality — because the version that wins your first customer is also the version your next investor will inspect.
The core loop, complete
The one workflow your users pay for, built end to end — intake to output — rather than a thin slice of every feature on the roadmap.
→ A product someone can pay for at launch
Accounts, roles & access
Signup, permissions, and data isolation designed in from the first migration and enforced at the database. In Trazo OS, a live audit verified row-level security enabled on 117 of 117 tables.
→ Security your first enterprise customer can ask about
A data model that survives growth
Versioned migrations from day one, so the schema evolves by numbered, reviewable steps instead of a rewrite at your hundredth customer.
→ Version two builds on version one
A deployment you own
The code lands in your repository from the first commit, runs in accounts you control, and the data stays yours. No license back to you for your own product, and no clause that makes leaving expensive.
→ The company owns its product outright
03Proof
Evidence: a contract build that became a production platform.
The pattern you are buying — a first version built to survive its own success — is running in production today.
Trazo OS was built by Aptixx under contract for Trazo Global Inc., a company bringing a new operating platform to a regulated market. It runs in production as a multi-tenant platform with 210 versioned migrations, more than 200 application routes, and a compliance module configured for 26 US jurisdictions — all of it grown from the same discipline this page describes: core loop first, access designed in, schema versioned from the start.
04How it prices
Burn control is built into how the work is bought.
Four bounded steps: a free 20-minute fit call, a fixed-fee MVP definition sprint, the build priced against the sprint’s scope with the sprint fee credited, then an optional month-to-month retainer as the product grows.
The sprint turns the product into a scope boundary, a data model, an integration list, and a budget band — before the build is committed. You keep every artifact whether or not Aptixx builds it, and the build definition is written so any competent team could pick it up. Code ownership, data ownership, and what happens if you walk away are answered in plain terms on the sprints page.
See the MVP definition sprint →
The fit call costs nothing and ends with a straight read on fit. The sprint fee is fixed in writing before it starts.
Next step
Bring the product. Leave with the scope and the number.
Twenty minutes on what you are building: the smallest version worth shipping, what defining it costs, and a straight read on fit either way.