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    Seed Stage

    Seed Stage

    Maximum engineering output per runway dollar for seed-funded startups watching every cent.

    2
    Week Commit Cycles
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    Slack Or Bench Time
    60%
    Cost vs FTE Hire
    100%
    Senior Engineers

    Transforming Seed Stage through Technology

    Hiring a full-time senior engineer on seed salary is a 4-month process you cannot afford. We deliver fixed-price sprints with engineers who need no hand-holding, operate async-first, and align to your fundraising timeline.

    Seed stage sprint planning board
    Phase 01

    How Seed Engineering Works With Us

    You commit to one sprint at a time. Two weeks, fixed scope, fixed price. Stop or scale up at any sprint boundary.

    Sprint planning happens on Friday. Engineers start Monday. Working software demoed the following Friday two weeks out.

    We use your tools: your GitHub, your Linear, your Slack. No vendor portal, no proprietary nonsense.

    Weekly investor-update digest summarizes what shipped, ready for your monthly memo.

    Architecture decision matrix
    Phase 02

    Decisions That Save Future Money

    Database choice: Postgres unless you have a real reason otherwise. Cheap, scalable, well-understood.

    Hosting: Vercel or AWS, never both, never serverless functions for things that should be a service.

    Auth: Clerk, Supabase, or Auth0 depending on enterprise readiness needs. Never roll your own.

    Payments: Stripe with subscription billing built right the first time. Re-implementing it during a Series A is brutal.

    Technical Capability

    Our Seed Stage Stack

    Maximum engineering output per runway dollar for seed-funded startups watching every cent.

    Key Priorities

    Two senior engineers per sprint, scalable up or down
    Two-week sprint commits with no long-term contract
    Daily written updates and weekly live sync
    Investor-update digest at month end
    Direct Slack with the engineering team
    Architecture review and decision records included

    Standard Deliverables

    The architecture artifacts you receive in every Seed Stage engagement.

    Working software shipped at every sprint boundary
    Source code with full IP ownership
    Architecture decision records
    Monthly investor-update technical summary
    Production deployment with monitoring
    Documentation for the next engineer to onboard

    We understand your unique pain points

    Hiring a senior full-time engineer takes 4-6 months you don't have.
    Every dollar of dev spend has to produce shippable progress, not 'team building'.
    Investor updates need shipped features, not engineering plans.
    Co-founders making architecture decisions they'll regret in 18 months.

    Seed money is not infinite. Fixed-price sprints and senior engineers mean maximum output per dollar.

    Maximum engineering output per runway dollar for seed-funded startups watching every cent.

    Who we help

    We partner with forward-thinking organizations ranging from agile startups to established enterprises to deliver Seed Stage solutions that drive true market leadership.

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    Pre-seed and seed-stage founders racing to Series A

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    Bootstrapped founders allocating personal capital carefully

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    Solo technical founders who need execution capacity

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    Non-technical founders without a CTO yet

    How CiroStack Empowers Seed Stage

    We apply our proven engineering disciplines to solve your most complex sector challenges.

    Web Application

    Two-week sprints building the features your roadmap needs to hit Series A milestones.

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    DevOps Setup

    AWS or Vercel setup that scales to 100K users without rework. CI/CD, monitoring, backups, and the boring stuff that matters.

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    Cloud Engineering

    We pick the stack and structure that keeps your cloud bill below $2K/mo until you have real traffic, then scales cleanly when you do.

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    AI Features

    Targeted AI use cases that move conversion or retention, not every-page LLM theater.

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    Ready to start your project?

    Let's discuss your specific challenges. Our engineering experts will work with you to architect the perfect solution.

    Frequently Asked Questions

    Specific insights into our Seed Stage engineering process.

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