We build the products
your startup actually ships.

Design, engineering, and AI — one senior team, one sprintcadence. We turn Series-A ideas into live products in 12weeks or less.

12 wk
Average time to MVP
40+
Products shipped
$180M
Raised by our clients
Screenshot of a project management dashboard for "Northwind Sprint 04". Left sidebar shows navigation with Overview, Team, Sprint board, Designs, Deploys, and Backlog. Centre panel shows the active sprint goal: "Checkout rewrite + Stripe", tagged as On Track shipping Thursday, with a goal to replace the legacy cart and wire Stripe Billing to staging. Right panel displays velocity metrics: sprint 04/06, burn 34/40 pts, deploys 18 this week, PR cycle 4h average, uptime 99.98%, next demo Friday 10:00, and a deploy preview link. Overlaid in the foreground is a terminal window showing a git commit and push for "feat: checkout v2 + stripe" with passing build, tests, and deploy steps.
Trusted by founders backed by the best
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What we do

One senior team. Zero handoffs.

We're a small, tight studio — not a body shop. Every engagement is staffed by the same three-to-five people from kickoff to launch.

MVP in 12 weeks

From Figma to production, a fixed-scope sprintplan that gets your first version live — fast. Noagency theatre.

fixed-scope · fixed-price

Full-stack engineering

TypeScript, Next.js, Postgres, and whatever edgeyour product needs. Senior engineers only — nojunior passthrough.

senior team · no outsourcing

Product design

UX, UI, and brand in the same room asengineering. Designs that ship, not decks that diein review.

design + eng, paired

AI features that work

We ship real AI — RAG, agents, evals, production-grade. Not a demo that breaks the moment auser touches it.

LLM-native from day one

Your team, trained

We hand off clean code with docs, tests, and arunbook. Optional pairing with your first hire sonothing breaks.

handoff → in-house

Founder-friendly ownership

You own the code, the IP, the accounts, thedecisions. MSA templates are on GitHub. No lock-in ever.

clean repo · your IP
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how we work

Radical transparency.
Every sprint, every commit.

Every client gets a live board with real-time progress, a shared Figma, deploy previews on every PR, and a Slack channel where your engineers can ask us anything.

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by the numbers
40
+
Products shipped

from pre-seed MVPs to Series - B scale-ups

12
wk
Average MVP

from kick off to first paying customer

$180
M
Raised by clients

across seed, Series A and Series B rounds

94
$
REPEAR RATE

of founders engage us for asecond project

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stack

The tools we bet our clients on.

Opinionated, production-tested, boring-in-the-best-way. We pick the stack that ships and scales, not what's trending on Hacker News.

Next.js
Typescript
TypeScript
Postgresql
Postgres
Tailwind
Tailwind
Supabase
Supabase
React
React
Vercel
Vercel
OpenAI
OpenAI
Anthropic
Anthropic
Stripe
Stripe
Linear
Figma
Figma
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from founders

Ten years of startups. A lot of closed rounds.

Nortwind
"Hydra Labs built our MVP in 10 weeks. We closed our Series A off their launch demo."
Marta Olsen
Founder, Northwind
"They work like a founding team.Opinionated, fast, and honest when we'reabout to make a bad call."
Devon Park
CEO, Ember Labs
"Best money we've spent pre-seed. Hired two of their engineers as our first full-time hires."
Priya Raman
Founder, Vexa
"They shipped more in one sprint than our previous agency did in three months. Radical difference."
Jonas Weber
CTO, Fjord
Basecamp
"The only studio I'd recommend to a founder without a long list of caveats."
Sam Chen
Operator & angel investor
"Clean handoff, full docs, passing tests. Our team picked it up in a week. Rare."
Ade Ogundimu
Eng lead, Relay
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let's build

Got an idea worth shipping? Let's talk.

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