MVP development

MVP Development Built Around Your Deadline

The smallest version of your product real users can actually use. Most go live in 8 to 12 weeks, yours from day one.

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MVP development is the smallest version of a product that real users can actually use, built against a date that is already fixed rather than against a wish list. Scope and the delivery plan are locked in days 1 to 5, the first version runs in your own cloud accounts and repositories around week 3.5 on average, and most MVPs are live for real users between week 8 and week 12. Every line is your IP. If you need a clickable version to test the idea before anything is built, that is prototyping; if you are building a subscription product on top of a launched MVP, that is SaaS product development.

You have already paid once for a build that turned out to be a demo, not a product, and the deadline did not move.

How we know

It is why our build principles put a working product in your hands, not a pile of status reports.

the build principles this comes from

Industry data, not ours

What the category actually loses to

70%ran out of capital, the most-cited reason of all

CB Insights, Top Reasons Startups Fail: 431 VC-backed shutdowns since 2023; industry research, not an Atyantik result.

43%never found product-market fit, which is what runs the capital down

CB Insights, same study; the root cause behind most of the 70%, not a separate group.

29%were building the right thing at the wrong time

CB Insights, same study; timing and macro conditions, counted separately from fit.

Industry data, not ours

Why the average overrun is the wrong number to plan against

Show data table

Cost overrun on IT projects: the average, and the one-in-six tail behind it
Item	Cost overrun
Average across all 1,471 projects	27%
The one project in six that goes wrong	200%

One project in six overran its cost by 200%. Planning against the 27% average is planning against the case that does not hurt you, which is the argument for proving the smallest thing first.

Figure Cost overrun on IT projects: the average, and the one-in-six tail behind it Flyvbjerg and Budzier, Why Your IT Project May Be Riskier Than You Think, Harvard Business Review, 2011 (1,471 projects)

Bent Flyvbjerg and Alexander Budzier, Why Your IT Project May Be Riskier Than You Think, Harvard Business Review, September 2011. A sample of 1,471 IT projects. Industry research, not an Atyantik result.

A ladder you can check

Each rung names what exists when it closes, so you can hold this against your own deadline before you talk to anyone.

Scope locked
Days 1 to 5: your MVP scope and delivery plan are locked, so building starts in days rather than weeks of planning.
First deploy
Around week 3.5 on average once scoping is locked: the first version runs in production, in your cloud accounts and repositories.
Built in the open
Through week 9: backend and frontend built in parallel, with a weekly demo and scope review, so nothing is built unseen.
Live
Week 8 to week 12: most MVPs are live for real users, and every line is your IP.

Get this ladder for your scope

Send your date and what you need to prove. We reply within one business day.

What ships in the first release

Every MVP argues about scope. This is the line we draw, and what you keep whichever way the argument goes.

What the first MVP release includes, defers, and what you keep
Dimension	In the first release	Deferred on purpose	Yours either way
Product scope	In the first releaseThe one path a user takes to prove the idea works.	Deferred on purposeEvery secondary flow that does not test that idea.	Yours either wayA written scope you signed before anything was built.
Infrastructure	In the first releaseYour own cloud accounts and repositories, from day one.	Deferred on purposeMulti-region and scale tuning, until real traffic exists.	Yours either wayFull admin on every account the work touches.
Code and IP	In the first releaseProduction code, its tests and its deploy pipeline.	Deferred on purposeRefactors that only pay off after product-market fit.	Yours either wayEvery line, as your IP, in your repositories.

What this feels like from your side

Days 1 to 5
Scoping
Busy
Answering hard questions about what actually has to be proved.
How it feels
Faster than you expected, and a little more exposing.
What we do about it
We put the scope in writing, and you sign off on it before anything is built.
Weeks 2 to 4
First deploy
Encouraging
Clicking through the first version running in your own cloud account.
How it feels
Real, and smaller than the thing you had in your head.
What we do about it
We show it early on purpose, because a small real product beats a large described one.
Weeks 5 to 9
The middle
Uncomfortable
Cutting features you asked for, so that the date survives.
How it feels
Like the product is losing things rather than gaining them.
What we do about it
We bring the cut list to the weekly demo and you decide in the open what goes.
Weeks 8 to 12
Launch
Exposed
Watching real users meet the product for the first time.
How it feels
Nervous while the first users arrive, then oddly quiet.
What we do about it
We stay on the deploy and watch the first full day of real traffic with you.

The middle is the phase that decides the date. If you are not willing to cut anything in weeks 5 to 9, an MVP is the wrong shape for the work you are buying.

What we have measured

9.5weeks
Delivered against a 10-week commitment, with scope locked in week one and held. A startup with a rough prototype and a fixed funding date.
Check itHow a build and launch runs
3.5weeks
The average across MVP engagements, from intake to the first production deploy running in the client's own cloud.
Check itSee anonymized engagements

After launch the client reported no user churn in the first month. We have not published the user count behind that, and it is their measurement rather than ours. The next funding round closed on time.

If it goes wrong

The date slips, and you find out in week ten.
A weekly review is the only mechanism that surfaces a slip early enough to trade scope for the date.
What we commit to
Scope is reviewed at a demo every week, so a slip is visible the week it starts rather than the month it lands.
You pay for a build and end up holding a demo again.
A demo lives on somebody else's laptop. Production access in your own account is what makes the difference checkable.
What we commit to
The first version runs in your own cloud accounts and repositories, and every line of it is your IP.
We are the wrong firm and you are locked in.
The cheapest place to leave is right after scoping, so the whole plan is put there.
What we commit to
Scope and delivery plan are locked in days 1 to 5, and everything written before build starts is yours to take elsewhere.

Whether to call us

Where we fit

You have a funding or launch date that will not move.
You need real users on a real product, not a clickable prototype.
You can name the one thing the first release has to prove.

Where we are the wrong call

You already have a live product and need it faster or cheaper to run.
Scale and optimize
You want a clickable prototype to test the idea before building anything.
Prototyping
You are past launch and building a subscription product on top of it.
SaaS development
You need a long-lived platform handed over with its reasoning written down.
Software engineering
You are not yet sure which of these capabilities you are buying.
Every service we offer

Questions that come up before a scoping conversation

The answers we give in the first call, written down so you can read them first.

Who owns the code and the intellectual property?

You do, from day one. Every line of code is your IP, in your repositories, with deployments running in your own cloud accounts. If you already have Git hosting and cloud accounts, we work inside them. If you do not, we provision them and hand you the keys.

How do you stop planning from eating the schedule?

Planning is bounded, not open-ended. We write the BRD, the business requirements document, and the SRS, the software requirements specification, to the depth the foundation needs. Whatever can start while deeper planning resolves starts in parallel. Complex requirements take longer to plan, never longer to start.

What happens when the scope changes halfway through the build?

Every change goes through a documented change note, with time, effort and cost laid out before approval. Nothing in the build moves on a re-scope you have not explicitly accepted. That holds during the build and after launch on an AMC, an annual maintenance contract, or a lean-mode arrangement.

Who reviews the code before it reaches production?

Every change is reviewed by a senior software engineer, under GitFlow, a branching convention for how work joins the main line. Unit tests, integration tests and CI/CD, the automated build and test pipeline, gate every merge. Architecture decisions go into the TRS, the technical requirements specification, so the reasoning outlives whoever made it.

Can we run an MVP build without a technical team of our own?

Yes. We translate before we build. Every requirement document is reviewed in plain English with you before any code is written. Our business analysis team turns a vision into a buildable specification. You do not need to know the difference between a database and a backend.

How much contact is there while the build runs?

A weekly demo and scope review you attend, plus daily standups. Microsoft Teams is our internal default, and we onboard to whatever your team already works in instead. When a timeline moves you hear about it in the week the risk emerges, not the week before delivery.

What happens after the MVP is live?

Most engagements continue past launch as ongoing maintenance and growth work. Our longest active partnership has run more than a decade. Continuing is a decision you make after the launch, because the product already runs in your own accounts.

What if we want to move the work in-house or to another partner?

Every project starts with documentation: architecture, deployment, the build and deploy pipeline, the requirement documents and the change notes. So the handoff is a process, not a hostage situation. That freedom is yours from day one, and so far no client has needed to use it.

Get the smallest version live before your date

Send what you need to prove and the date it has to be live by. A software engineer, not a salesperson, replies within one business day.

You have seen the failure rates, the ladder, the scope grid and the risks we will put in writing. The next step is that shape applied to your idea rather than to a generic engagement.

Tell us what you are trying to prove and the date it has to be proved by, and a software engineer reads it and replies.

how a build and launch runs every service we offer the anonymized case work

Tirth Bodawala, Chief Technology Officer of Atyantik Technologies

Tirth BodawalaChief Technology Officer, Atyantik Technologies

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