For funded startups, we build MVPs and v1 platforms on a deadline: product discovery cut to essentials, a stack your future team won't curse, and the boring basics (auth, billing, observability) done once. Symbiosis Startup OS sits beside the build - living cap table, runway truth, investor updates, raise CRM, data-room hygiene - so weekends go to the story, not the artifact. Speed is the feature; not needing a rewrite is the constraint.
Startups die of two opposite diseases: shipping too slowly, and shipping something that can't survive its own traction. The cure for both is scope discipline plus boring architecture - innovate in the product, not the plumbing.
We build with your equity in mind: clean repos, documented decisions, and a handover path to your own team. An agency-dependent startup is hard to fund. Startup OS keeps the cap table, runway, and investor packs coherent while you ship.
Sprint → Phase → Retainer
Assessment first, always. Scope and investment are bespoke to your estate - book a demo and we'll walk the plan together.
MVP SPRINT
Scope, architecture, and a fixed plan for the build.
- → Scoped backlog
- → Architecture note
- → Fixed build plan
MVP BUILD
The product, live, with the boring parts done right.
- → Production MVP
- → Analytics & billing wired
- → Handover pack
STARTUP OS LAUNCH
Cap table ingest, dashboard connectors, first investor update pack.
- → Cap plane live
- → Founder dashboard
- → Update template
- → Data room seed
Startup Engineering, answered
Do you work for equity?
Primarily cash with milestone structures; selective equity components are possible case-by-case, decided openly at scoping - never as a surprise term. Cap modeling in Startup OS does not imply Symbiosis takes equity.
Will you hand the codebase to our future team?
Handover is designed in from week one: your repos and infrastructure accounts, documented decisions, and a transition window where we pair with your hires.
Is Startup OS legally authoritative for the cap table?
No - it models and tracks; counsel remains legal truth. Exports are designed for lawyer review, stated plainly in-product.
Start with the sprint.
Fixed fee, few weeks, and you end up with a plan you could execute without us. Most clients don't - but the leverage is yours either way.