A senior AI-powered product team for your app, on a fixed monthly fee
Whether you are starting from an idea or picking up something a previous team left half finished, you get a small team of senior people working on your product every week
Free · Just bring your product idea
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Building software without a technical co-founder is hard — keeping it running is harder
Maybe there is nothing built yet. You have written the idea down a few times, spoken to some users, and looked at hiring a developer, paying a freelancer, or trying a no-code tool. You are not sure who will own the thing once it exists, or who will keep it working.
Or maybe a freelancer built a first version and then went quiet. Sign-up fails on some phones. A payment goes through twice. A few customers are asking for the same feature. Every small change turns into a new quote and a new wait.
Both situations need the same thing. A small senior team that shows up every week, builds the first version if there isn't one, and keeps building after that.
30 minutes · Free · Just bring your idea
A small product team, on your roadmap, every week
The same people every month. They learn your product, your users, and your business. Whether you are building something for your customers, a tool for your own team, or software you sell to other businesses, the team and the way we work are the same.
A product lead who owns the outcome
Your main point of contact. Turns what you want into a plan, runs the team, and sends you a short weekly update so you always know what is happening.
A designer who ships, not decks
Real screens you can react to in days, not polished mockups that sit in a folder. Once you approve them, engineering starts building the same week.
Senior engineers writing your code
Five plus years of experience each. They write code your future hires can read. AI tools help with the repetitive parts so the engineer can focus on getting it right. Every change is reviewed before it goes live.
Someone watching the lights
Hosting, backups, security updates, the server bill. If something breaks at 3am, we get the alert, not you.
We use AI for the repetitive parts of engineering, so more of your fee goes into the work that matters
A lot of engineering is repetitive. The same patterns of code, written again and again in slightly different shapes. AI tools are genuinely good at that part now, and our engineers use them every day to move through that work faster.
What stays with the engineer is the part that actually matters: deciding what to build, how it fits together, why one approach will hold up, and whether the result is good. AI does not ship anything to your users on its own.
For you, that means you get the output of a larger team at the cost of a smaller one, without the work of hiring it. Here is what a typical month tends to look like compared with building the team yourself.
Based on our last twelve retainer engagements. Your month will vary with how much work there is, where the product is, and how much we need to clean up from a previous team.
Walk through a real plan on the call
You always know what we are working on, and why
On day one you get a private chat with the team and a shared list of what is being worked on. From there, the month follows a simple rhythm.
We agree on what matters most this month
A 60 minute call to look at your numbers, what users are saying, and where you want to be in three months. You leave with a short written plan of what we will work on this month and what we are leaving for later.
Designs in days, code right behind
Screens arrive in your chat within a few days of approval. Engineering starts building against them straight away. If a bug stops a user on Tuesday, we try to fix it Tuesday. No new contract, no extra invoice.
Features go live and you get a clear recap
We ship, write a short note explaining what changed, and send you a one page summary: what shipped, what it moved, and what we would suggest doing next. You decide what stays and what changes.
The lights stay on without you asking
Monitoring, backups, security updates, server costs. If something breaks at 2am, our engineer is the one who wakes up. You usually hear about it in the morning, already fixed.
One monthly fee, no change orders or surprise add-ons
The fee is the fee. Everything below is included. The only thing you pay on top is your own server bill, and you pay that to the hosting company directly, never to us.
- →The same small team, every month
A product lead, a designer, and senior engineers. The same people each month, building on what they already know about your users and your product.
- →Everything saved into accounts you own
Designs, code, infrastructure. All under your accounts, your domain, your company name. If you ever stop the retainer, a new team can pick up where we left off.
- →Hosting, monitoring, and out-of-hours cover
We set up and run the servers inside your own hosting account, and we get the alerts when something goes wrong.
- →A weekly demo and a monthly written recap
About fifteen minutes on Friday, and a one page recap on the last day of the month. You always know where the time went.
- →Direct chat with the people doing the work
No ticket system, no account manager translating in the middle. Message the engineer building the thing and get an answer the same day.
- →Month to month. 30 days notice to stop
No yearly contract. No lock-in. No exit fee. If the retainer is not working for you, you can stop and walk away with everything we built.
No yearly contract · 30 days notice to stop
We are not the right fit for everyone — here is who we work best with
Have a quick read of the two lists below before you book a call. If you sit firmly on the right, it is probably worth skipping. We would rather point you to someone better than start something that will not work for either of us.
- —You are starting from scratch, holding a half-built prototype, or running a live product, and the next year is mostly about building, not deciding whether to start.
- —You would rather pay a predictable monthly fee than spend six months hiring a CTO and a team.
- —You want senior people who will tell you when an idea might not work, instead of only building whatever you ask for.
- —You are building for real users (your customers, your own team, or other businesses) and the product needs to actually work, not just demo well.
- —You are happy to be in a chat with the team a few times a week. We tend to ship fastest with founders who are easy to reach.
- —You want one build, a handover, and to never speak to a developer again.
- —You are looking for the lowest hourly rate on a freelancer site and want us to match it.
- —You already have an in-house engineering team and just need extra hands for a sprint.
- —You need fifteen engineers starting Monday on a fixed price government tender.
- —You want a slide deck, a strategy document, or a demo that will sit in a drive folder.
If not, we will point you to someone better
Spend 30 minutes with us this week Leave knowing what your product needs next and whether we are the right team to build it
You tell us where the product is today and where you want it in 90 days. We tell you what we would build first and, if we are not the right team, who might be. One call. No follow-up sales sequence. Nothing to prepare.
Steinn Labs · Pune · Remote-first · Building since 2018