Timespade's tech co-founder team designs, builds and runs software products for non-technical founders and business owners: web and mobile apps, generative and predictive AI features, data pipelines and cloud infrastructure. A first working version usually goes live in about 4 weeks, and the same team keeps shipping updates every month after launch.
Tech co-founder
Builds your product, engineered to scale. Live in weeks.
Planning, design, code, testing and infrastructure, with AI built into every step. With you from the first plan to long after launch.
What you get
Six things off
your plate
Designs, builds and runs the product. Your app goes live in weeks and keeps improving every month after.
Product design
Screens people understand without a manual, built as a working front end.
Web and mobile apps
One codebase that holds up at ten times the users you have today.
AI features
Generative and predictive AI designed into the product from week one.
Data and cloud
Pipelines, analytics and hosting that stay cheap as you grow.
Testing before release
AI test suites plus human QA, so your users never find the bugs first.
Monthly releases
The people who built it keep shipping after launch.
Everything begins with research
Most products don't fail because they're built badly. They fail because nobody checked if they should exist, in the first place.
Before we build, we look at three things:
Demand
We ascertain it using data, comparable products, and sometimes just talking to real people.
Positioning
We look at what's already out there and whether the gap is real. If yes, how big is it.
Journey
We wireframe our user path to check if our planned solution is truly the fastest route to value.
How we plan the build
A few weeks is not a lot of time. To make it work, we lock a few things down early and stay disciplined about the rest.
Wat+Agi Model
The plan and vision stay fixed, but the path to get there does not. So we pair the discipline of Waterfall planning with the flexibility of Agile delivery. We call it WatAgi.
See everything, live
Task boards are shared from Day 1. Every ticket has an owner, a status, and a due date. Standups happen daily. If something is stuck, you know the same day we do. Transparency is non-negotiable.
8 days
Timespade
vs
4–8 weeks
Industry average
AI drafts. Designers craft.
You approve in 8 days.
Designers set the direction
Senior designers study your brand, map the UX, and define the design system. These become the guardrails for everything that follows.
AI explores within guardrails
Using that system as input, AI generates dozens of layout and component variations. Designers pick the strongest directions and refine from there.
Designers build, you control
No static mockups. Designers build the actual front end and hand you a live link. You can request any change, even swapping a into a
We set up the stack
Repos, cloud infra, CI/CD, model endpoints and vector stores, if the project calls for them. All configured before development starts.
We have seen teams skip this and then trying to build it mid-sprint.
It is one hellish sprint.
We build the engine. You see it work.
Design gave you a working frontend. Now we build the server-side systems that power it.
The API contract comes first
Endpoints, payloads, and auth flows all get defined before a single route is written. Whether it is a payment ledger or a marketplace, the API contract keeps frontend and backend from colliding.
We find the bugs
before your users do
Most teams rush to launch and patch later. We go through screens, APIs, AI outputs, and infrastructure before the first user ever touches it.
Our QA team hunts for anything that can break
- Cross-device QA
- AI model validation
- Load testing
- Security audit
Ship to a small group, fix fast, then launch
- Beta deployment
- Performance tuning
- Drift monitoring
- Final polish
Your product launched.
We stay on it.
Most agencies disappear after v1. We keep a team on your product for as long as you need one. Your first weeks live with real users tell us what to rebuild, and something new ships every month.
Dedicated team
The engineers who built it don't disappear. Same team, no ramp-up.
Feature releases
We ship updates based on real user data and your roadmap, not guesswork.
Performance watch
We track latency, error rates, and uptime. If something breaks, it gets fixed that day.
Scale on demand
Your infrastructure and AI models scale as you grow. No midnight scrambles.
Proof
Built fast, built to last
3-4 weeks
To a live first version
From kickoff to a working product people can use
90+
Avg. Lighthouse score
Google's test of speed, accessibility and SEO
Elite
DORA benchmark
The top tier for release speed and stability
A
SonarQube rating
Top grade for bugs, security and clean code
$0.05
Infra cost per user
Average monthly cloud bill for each active user
3×
More affordable
Than US agency rates for the same scope
The rest of the team
Your other two co-founders
FAQs
Questions about the tech co-founder
Revisions within the current phase are built in. If you want to revisit an earlier phase, like reworking a design after development has started, we scope the impact and adjust the timeline honestly. Each checkpoint is there to catch that early, so it is rare, but it is never a problem.
Up to you. Most founders do short check-ins a few times a week and review a demo at the end of each phase. You don't need to be technical or manage the build. We send plain-language updates so you always know where things stand.
You get access to the live staging environment from the first day of Design. Features land there as they are finished, so you can see real progress at any point, and short written updates cover what shipped and what comes next.
In Discovery, AI handles market benchmarking and blueprint drafts. During Design it generates component options and runs accessibility checks. Every commit goes through AI code review before a human sees it, and in Validation it writes thousands of test scenarios a manual team would never get through.
The team that built it stays. We keep shipping features, tuning performance and joining your strategy calls, and most of these relationships run for years.
The code that launches is the code you keep building on. It is tested, documented and clean enough for any engineer to pick up, and the architecture handles ten times the users without a rewrite.
We scope it during Discovery. In healthcare, finance or another regulated space, compliance shapes the architecture from day one. We have built HIPAA-compliant and SOC 2-aligned systems before. The timeline may stretch, and you'll know before we start.
Yes. The repository, cloud accounts and deployment pipelines are in your company's name, so you could run the product without us if you ever wanted to.
Revisions within the current phase are built in. If you want to revisit an earlier phase, like reworking a design after development has started, we scope the impact and adjust the timeline honestly. Each checkpoint is there to catch that early, so it is rare, but it is never a problem.
Up to you. Most founders do short check-ins a few times a week and review a demo at the end of each phase. You don't need to be technical or manage the build. We send plain-language updates so you always know where things stand.
You get access to the live staging environment from the first day of Design. Features land there as they are finished, so you can see real progress at any point, and short written updates cover what shipped and what comes next.
In Discovery, AI handles market benchmarking and blueprint drafts. During Design it generates component options and runs accessibility checks. Every commit goes through AI code review before a human sees it, and in Validation it writes thousands of test scenarios a manual team would never get through.
The team that built it stays. We keep shipping features, tuning performance and joining your strategy calls, and most of these relationships run for years.
The code that launches is the code you keep building on. It is tested, documented and clean enough for any engineer to pick up, and the architecture handles ten times the users without a rewrite.
We scope it during Discovery. In healthcare, finance or another regulated space, compliance shapes the architecture from day one. We have built HIPAA-compliant and SOC 2-aligned systems before. The timeline may stretch, and you'll know before we start.
Yes. The repository, cloud accounts and deployment pipelines are in your company's name, so you could run the product without us if you ever wanted to.
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