For funded startups: 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; surviving success without a rewrite is the constraint.
Startups die of two opposite diseases: shipping too slowly, and shipping something that can't survive its own traction. Scope discipline plus boring architecture cures both - innovate in the product, keep the plumbing dull.
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, then phase, then 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.