About
I built this because every other option for a first build is wrong in a different way.
Agencies are expensive and slow. Freelancers need a brief most founders can't write. No-code can't carry a real workflow. AI tools are powerful but unsafe in untrained hands. Co-founders take months to find and cost equity you can't get back. The Sprint exists because none of those is the right shape for the first useful version of a software idea.
What it is
One senior technical operator, packaged into a fixed-price sprint.
The work a competent technical co-founder would do in the first weeks of a startup, productised so a solo founder can buy it without giving away equity. One person making the build decisions. Builds run on a small library of reusable architectures and patterns assembled over years of doing this work, deployed on AWS. A tightly-supervised AI coding stack as a multiplier, never as the substitute. Boring technology choices. Clean handovers. The discipline of saying no to most ideas, so the ones I say yes to get done properly.
- Senior technical and product judgement, not junior staff.
- Reusable AWS architectures so the speed isn't magic and the v1 isn't fragile.
- Fixed price, fixed scope, no estimates that grow on you.
- Code you own, deployed on AWS, with a handover any developer can pick up.
What it isn't
The Sprint sits in the gap, not as a cheaper version of any of them.
An agency sells a process and bills it slowly. A freelancer sells hours and needs you to bring the brief. A no-code studio sells speed but caps the ceiling. The Sprint sells the missing piece in all three: technical co-founder style judgement, applied to a deliberately small scope, finished in days.
- I turn down ideas that don't fit. Most providers can't afford to.
- I don't run multi-month engagements. The format breaks if I do.
- I don't take equity. Equity is the wrong currency for a first build.
- I don't ship and disappear. The handover is structured so you can keep going.
The principle behind the price.
A first product is not a company. It's the smallest piece of evidence that the company might be worth building. Most money wasted at this stage is spent trying to skip that step, building the company before there's any evidence that anyone wants it.
The price is set so that a serious founder can afford to be wrong. £950 to find out whether the idea is worth building at all. £9,950 to build the first version if it is. £3,950 for the first iteration after real users touch it. The numbers are deliberately not round; they are sized to be survivable when the answer is “not yet”.
The Sprint won't make a bad idea good. It will make a buildable idea real, faster than any other route, and tell you honestly when an idea isn't buildable yet. That's the whole offer.
A word about me
One person. UK-based. The same person you talk to is the one writing the code.
I'm a senior technical operator who has spent a long career building software products from scratch and turning rough founder ideas into things real users could touch. I've made most of the mistakes a first-time founder will make, on someone else's behalf, and learned what's worth doing in week one and what isn't. ibuildmvps is what I do now: one Sprint at a time, for one founder at a time.
You don't have to take any of that on faith. Order the Blueprint and judge me on it. £950 buys a written document that shows whether I understand your problem before any build money is on the table. If the document doesn't earn the rest of your trust, you keep it and walk. The whole offer is built around that being a fair test.
You can reach me directly at [email protected].
Start with the Fit Check.
Five minutes. Honest written answer back within two working days. No call before there's something to talk about.
Check if your idea fits