Production-ready product for pre-seed founders
Investors fund conviction in the room. We deploy The Starter Engine: auth, payments, hosting, and one core user flow in your AWS account so your live pitch runs on real product discipline. Upgrade to Full SaaS or Scale on The Core Engine when you close your round.
Why pre-seed founders need more than Figma
Slide decks and static prototypes fail under live investor scrutiny. The Starter Engine is a fixed-scope production stack in your AWS account, built for fundraising meetings and your first paying customer. You own the source code and infrastructure. After you raise, the same codebase upgrades to Full SaaS on The Core Engine.
Which product fits your stage
| Stage | Product | Outcome |
|---|---|---|
| Fundraising / pre-revenue | The Starter Engine | Minimum production system on your AWS account |
| First customers / revenue | The Core Engine | Serverless SaaS with auth, payments, and admin in your AWS account |
| Owned enterprise AI | The AI Cortex | Bedrock RAG pipelines and guardrails in your AWS account |
Typical pre-seed milestones we see
Teams arrive with a deck, a letter of intent, or ten customer interviews and a fixed date for an angel or pre-seed meeting. They need software that survives live clicks, not another week polishing slides.
The Starter Engine scopes around one core user journey that answers the questions investors repeat: who pays, what changes for them, and why your team can ship after the round closes.
What to prepare before a demo call
Bring your pitch narrative, any Figma flows, and the integrations you want to show live. We map that to a published tier and return a fixed EUR quote without an RFP process.
If you already raised and need revenue infrastructure, see our post-seed SaaS page. The product ladder below shows how Starter Engine connects to Core Engine after your round.