Why Creotech moved from outsourcing to fixed-price MVP development

For five years, Creotech built software for other companies — outsourcing and outstaffing, delivering to a client's spec or putting our engineers on their team. We were good at it. We are doing something different now: fixed-price MVP development for founders.

A few years ago, getting a first version built was the hard, expensive part. That has changed, and we use the new tools ourselves — a weekend with the right setup, AI included, gets you auth, a database, a few screens, a deploy. Producing code is cheap and getting cheaper. But producing code was never the hard part of building a product. There is a difference between something that demos and something that holds — that survives its first real users instead of being torn down and rebuilt in month nine. The tools collapsed the cost of the first. They did almost nothing for the second.

Building the product is the work that is left, and it is more than coding. It is deciding what to build and what to leave out, shaping a rough idea into something coherent, and getting the handful of decisions that are expensive to reverse right the first time. That is product judgment, not just senior engineering — and across five years of building for founders and working inside their teams, it is the part that consistently mattered most, and the part open-ended engagements handle worst. We watched scope spiral and good ideas get buried under work nobody paused to question. So we built the company around that part, with fixed scope to protect it. We still use the same AI tools as everyone else — to amplify a senior team, not to replace the judgment that decides whether the thing lasts.

What fixed-price MVP development means here

Fixed scope, fixed price, fixed date — agreed before we start, and held. Mobile and web apps, plus the backends behind them, shipped in four to ten weeks by a senior team rather than a bench of juniors. You know the scope and the price before any code exists, and we hold both. We scope in tiers, from a short discovery to a full product build; current scopes and prices live on our pricing page.

If your product leans on AI, that is squarely in scope — we build AI features into the app your users touch: chat, search, generation, the parts that make it feel smart. We do not train models from scratch; we build the product around them.

How we scope a build is laid out separately.

Who we are useful to

We are most useful to founders building their first real product — and to those who already have a first version someone else built fast, by a freelancer, an agency, or a no-code tool, that now has to be rebuilt before it can grow. You do not need to be technical, and you do not need a team of your own.

What you usually need is to stop worrying about several things at once: whether you are building the right thing, whether it will be ready when you were promised, whether the cost will hold, and whether the whole thing will buckle the first time real users arrive. Fixed scope and a fixed price take the timeline and budget off the table; a senior team that has shipped real products before takes care of the rest. You get to spend your attention on your customers instead of your codebase.

We work with founders worldwide; right now most of our conversations are in Europe and the Gulf.

What carries over from the last five years

The people, and the standard. The same senior team builds yours. Our founders were early engineers at Tide — thirty years of building between them — and the team has since shipped products across fintech, travel, health and retail. Work like that teaches you where products quietly break, and which of the early decisions are the costly ones to get wrong. We get those right from the start, so your product holds up as it grows instead of becoming the thing your next team has to rebuild. That is the part we care about most, and the part a rushed first version quietly skips.

If you are about to build, or rebuild, tell us what you are making. The first conversation is usually worth more than the code that follows it.

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