Build the minimum product that proves its place in market
We bring your first version to market with the product, analytics, feedback systems, and operating processes needed to learn what works before scaling further.
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Duration
3–5 months
Team
Strategy + Product + Research
Price
Starting from $20k
Why It Exists
02/08
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You validated the problem. Now you want a viable market product that can support a real business.
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The challenge is thatneither the product nor the business model are fully known yet—they need to be refined through real market feedback.
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You need a focused first version shaped around your real constraints, built to go live, deliver core user value, and test whether the solution, pricing, channels, onboarding, and retention can work together.
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We bring your product to market with the analytics, feedback loops, and operating processes needed to keep improving it towardstronger adoption and product-market fit.
Our Approach
03/08
Real market feedback only matters if the product can respond to it
These are the principles we use to keep change fast, affordable, and operationally realistic.
Lean build
We build only the one or two flows that carry the core value, and nothing around them yet. A smaller product ships faster and costs far less to change when the market points somewhere you didn't expect.
Operational processes
The product runs on the time, budget, and team you already have — not on a team you'd need to hire first. That keeps it live and keeps you learning, without the operation breaking under you.
Customer conversion
Conversion is built around one or two core flows that are easy to alter. When you learn what actually moves customers, you reshape the path in days instead of rebuilding it from scratch.
Room to iterate
We plan and budget for the version after launch from day one. Updating isn't a surprise cost or a second project — it's the reserved part of the plan that turns first signals into your next release.
Feedback loops
Analytics and direct customer feedback are wired in before you go live, so every release teaches you something specific. The product doesn't just run — it tells you what to change next.
“Zade had a first version in front of paying users in 11 weeks — the first month of real data reshaped our roadmap more than a year of planning ever had.”
Priya Maddison
Founder & Creative Lead at FRNZY
Process
04/08
Our delivery process combines product strategy, engineering, and continuous learning into a single workflow.
Outcomes
05/08
The key outputs delivered during the Solution Validation Sprint
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Market-Ready MVP
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Product Learning System
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Operating Model
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Product Evolution Roadmap
Deliverables
When to use it
Our Pricing
06/08
Starting from $20,000
Solution Validation helps you launch a real product and build the systems required to improve it continuously—without committing to the cost of building a full in-house product organization first.
Solution Validation
In-house Team
Development Agency
No-code / DIY
Cost
From $20k
$150–300k / year
$60–120k
Lower upfront
Time to first release
3–5 months
6–12 months
3–6 months
Varies
Built around your real constraints
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Analytics integrated before launch
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Customer feedback system included
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Designed for affordable iteration
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Operates within your existing team
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Roadmap shaped by real market evidence
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Strategy, product and research included
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Strategy Call
07/08
Ivan
Founder · Zade Space
Curious to learn more?
Let's spend 30 minutes connecting where you are now to where you need to go.
Your current stage and biggest product uncertainty
What evidence you already have from customers or the market
Which assumptions should be validated before building more
Whether Problem Validation or Solution Validation fits better
Clear next step based on your stage, risk, and budget
FAQ · the awkward questions
08/08
Asked, answered, no hedging.
What do we actually walk away with?
A working MVP live with real users — plus the analytics, feedback loops, and operating processes needed to keep improving it. Not a deck, not a prototype. A product you can point customers to.
Can we do this fully remote / in our timezone?
Yes. We've delivered MVPs for teams across the US, EU, and SE Asia. Most of the build is async, with a standing weekly sync so you always know exactly where things stand.
Will you sign an NDA?
Yes. Send yours or use ours — it's mutual, covers the full build, and there's no IP transfer in either direction.
What if we don't have an engineering team yet?
That's exactly who this is for. We bring the product, engineering, and research roles ourselves — you don't need to hire before you have evidence the build is worth scaling.
What if the scope needs to change mid-build?
It usually does — that's the point of building in the open. We re-scope around what real usage tells us instead of defending the original plan, without restarting the engagement from zero.
What happens after the sprint ends?
You keep the product, the codebase, and every system we set up — regardless of what you decide next. Most founders keep us on for the next release cycle, but you're never locked in.
Why not just hire a developer or use a no-code tool?
You can — plenty do. The difference is what ships with the product: analytics wired in before launch, a feedback loop that's actually used, and a build shaped around your real constraints instead of whatever the tool defaults to.
neither the product nor the business model are fully known yet—they need to be refined through real market feedback.
stronger adoption and product-market fit.
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