Investor-ready MVP in 8 weeks for a seed-stage marketplace startup
Seed-stage B2B marketplace startup, San Francisco
- Challenge
- The founders had a validated idea and a Series A conversation booked in nine weeks, but no engineering team yet and a static prototype built in a design tool. Investors wanted to see real supply and demand matching working end to end, not mockups.
- Solution
- AGS embedded a small team to scope the smallest version that proved the core matching loop, built it on a stack the founders' eventual hires could take over without a rewrite, and instrumented it so the founders had real usage data to show, not just a working demo.
- Results
- Working MVP shipped in 8 weeks, ahead of the Series A meeting
- First 40 supply-side users onboarded before the raise closed
- Codebase handed off to the founders' first engineering hire with zero rewrite