Compliance SaaS · 2025
Took a compliance SaaS from idea to first paying customer in 11 weeks
The founders had a clear thesis and zero engineering. We built the MVP, shipped it, and were on a billing call with their first customer 11 weeks after kickoff.
11 wk
From kickoff to first revenue
$48k
First-year ARR signed at launch week
97
Lighthouse score on launch
0
Lines of code thrown away post-launch
Problem
What we walked into
Two non-technical founders, a strong wedge, and a 12-week runway to find product–market fit. The wrong technical bet would have ended the company.
Solution
What we shipped
A focused MVP — auth, multi-tenancy, billing, the core compliance workflow — built on a stack the founders' future engineering hires would actually want to inherit.
Approach
How we did it
- 01
Compressed scope to the smallest product that could close a deal
- 02
Wired Stripe billing and onboarding from day one — not retrofitted later
- 03
Shipped to TestFlight and a private beta in week 6
- 04
Launched publicly in week 11 with first paying customer signed
- 05
Set the founders up with a hiring spec and a clean codebase to grow into
"We came in without a CTO and left with a product, a roadmap, and a codebase our first engineering hire actually wanted to work in."
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