Services

MVP Development Services for US & EU Startups

Ship a real, investor-ready MVP in 12 weeks — not a clickable prototype, not a demo, a product your first customers can sign up for, pay for and use in production. YuSMP Group runs fixed-scope MVPs at 60–120k EUR with a senior product squad of one PM, one designer, two engineers and a QA lead, embedded around the founder. GDPR-aligned, SOC 2 Type II in progress, IP transfers to you on day one.

An MVP, the way we build it, is not a prototype and not a proof of concept — it is a shipped product that real users sign up for, pay for or formally commit to. Scope and timeline are fixed at the end of discovery and we hold to them. Pricing is in EUR, all-in, no recruitment markup and no tool surcharges. Intellectual property transfers to the founding entity on creation under a master services agreement that every engineer signs on day one. Engagements are GDPR-aligned by default, with SOC 2 Type II in progress at the firm level, HIPAA-capable for HealthTech and CCPA-acknowledged for US consumer products.

What’s inside our MVP engagement

12-week timeline

Weeks 1–2 discovery and architecture, weeks 3–10 design and build in two-week sprints, weeks 11–12 hardening and launch. Calendar-accurate, not aspirational.

Fixed scope, fixed budget

60–120k EUR all-in, signed off at the end of week two. No scope creep without your written approval and a transparent budget delta — the default answer to creep is the post-launch roadmap.

Senior squad, not interns

One product manager, one product designer, two senior engineers and a QA lead, embedded around the founder. Every CV is real and every seat ships from week one — no juniors hidden behind senior contracts.

Ship-ready stack

Next.js or React on the front, FastAPI or Node on the back, PostgreSQL on AWS, Stripe for billing, Auth0 or Clerk for identity. Boring, proven, investor-friendly — no resume-driven architecture.

Investor-ready handover

Architecture document, test-coverage report, security review, observability dashboard and a 90-day post-launch roadmap. Diligence-ready before your first investor email goes out.

Continue with the same team

Roughly 80% of founders continue with the same squad post-launch on time-and-materials or as a dedicated team. Product knowledge stays in the team, not in a slide deck.

MVP-ready technology stack

TypeScript Next.js React Node.js FastAPI Python PostgreSQL Supabase Prisma tRPC Tailwind Stripe Auth0 / Clerk Vercel AWS Posthog Sentry Linear

How we ship your MVP in 12 weeks

  1. 01

    Discovery

    Weeks 1–2. We lock the product narrative, the top three user flows, the integration map and a target architecture. Output: a fixed price, a fixed scope and a signed SOW before any code is written.

  2. 02

    Design

    Weeks 3–4. The product designer ships a Figma file, a lightweight design system and a click-prototype you validate with five to eight target users before we touch the codebase.

  3. 03

    Build

    Weeks 5–10. Two-week sprints, weekly demos to the founder, growing automated test coverage and CI on every commit. You see working software every Friday, not at the end.

  4. 04

    Launch

    Weeks 11–12. Hardening, security pass, observability and alerting, production cutover and the 90-day post-launch roadmap. You go live with paying users, not with a staging URL.

Engagement models

Fixed Price MVP

Default for founders. 60–120k EUR all-in for a 12-week investor-ready MVP. Fixed scope, fixed timeline, signed off before week three.

Time & Materials Continuation

Post-launch growth on monthly invoicing per named seat. Same squad, same context, no recontracting — ship weekly against a rolling backlog.

Dedicated Team

For founders scaling beyond MVP. A long-running squad you treat as your own, with hiring and retention on us and product priorities on you.

Why US & EU founders pick YuSMP for MVPs

GDPR-aligned · SOC 2 Type II in progress · HIPAA-capable · CCPA-acknowledged

Investor-ready by week 12

You ship a working product with real users, not a wireframe and a pitch deck. Architecture document, test coverage and security review are diligence-ready before your first investor email.

Founder-friendly economics

60–120k EUR fixed, all-in. IP transfers to the founding entity on creation under the MSA. You hold the GitHub org, the cloud accounts, the Stripe account and every credential.

Compliance from day one

GDPR-aligned by default, SOC 2 Type II in progress, HIPAA-capable architecture for HealthTech, CCPA-acknowledged for US consumer products. Compliance is in scope from week one, not bolted on later.

PCI DSS and HIPAA scoping are available for payments and HealthTech MVPs — we align directly with your QSA or BAA-ready vendors during discovery.

Frequently asked questions

How much does an MVP cost with YuSMP?

Fixed-scope MVPs land between 60k and 120k EUR, all-in. That covers a senior squad of one product manager, one product designer, two engineers and a QA lead for the full 12 weeks, plus all delivery overhead. The exact number depends on integrations, regulated workloads and platform count (web only vs. web plus mobile). You see the line-item budget at the end of week two and sign off before any code is written. There are no hidden fees, no recruitment markup and no tool surcharges.

What can realistically ship in 12 weeks?

A real product, not a demo. Typical 12-week MVPs include authentication and accounts, two or three core user flows, a billing or onboarding integration, an admin or operator view, and basic analytics and error reporting. That is enough to onboard your first 100 paying users, run a pilot with a design partner, or close a pre-seed or seed round. We deliberately cut anything that does not move that needle and put it on a post-launch roadmap with sized estimates.

Who owns the code and IP?

You do, from day one. The master services agreement transfers all intellectual property to the founding entity on creation, and every engineer signs an individual IP assignment and NDA before they touch the repository. You hold the GitHub or GitLab organisation, the cloud accounts, the domain registrar, the Stripe account and every credential. We work inside your environment, not ours. At handover you receive an architecture document, a runbook and full credential rotation.

What if scope changes mid-engagement?

Scope is fixed by mutual sign-off at the end of week two and we hold to it. Real life happens, though, so we run a lightweight change-request process: anything you want to add gets sized in hours and EUR within one business day and either swaps in (we drop something of equivalent size) or is added with a budget delta you approve in writing. We never silently extend timelines or invoices. The default answer to creep is the post-launch roadmap.

Can we continue with the same team after the MVP launches?

Yes, and most founders do. Roughly 80% of our MVP clients continue with the same squad on a time-and-materials or dedicated-team basis after week 12, which keeps product knowledge inside the team. Continuation requires no recontracting; we simply switch the SOW from fixed-price to T&M with monthly invoicing per named seat. If you raise a round and want to bring engineering in-house, we provide a 60-day knowledge-transfer window at no additional fee.

How do you handle GDPR, SOC 2, HIPAA compliance for an MVP?

We build GDPR-aligned by default: lawful basis, DPA, data residency, deletion paths and consent flows are in scope from week one, not bolted on later. SOC 2 Type II is in progress at the firm level, so MVPs inherit aligned controls (SSO, MFA, encrypted disks, audit logging) out of the box. For HealthTech we deliver HIPAA-capable architecture with BAA-ready vendors. PCI DSS scoping is available for payments products. CCPA notice obligations are acknowledged for US consumers.

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