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The AI-powered product studio for founders
Senior designers and engineers, working with AI, take your idea to a live MVP in weeks and a full product in months. Fixed prices, and you own the code.
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Fintech
Fintech Platform Design and Development for PayIQ
500+people on the waitlist before launch
PayIQ is a financial platform for people and small businesses in Nigeria. We designed and built the whole product: a consumer app for payments, bills, savings, virtual cards and split bills; a business app that keeps the books, issues FIRS-compliant e-invoices, runs payroll and gives every merchant an online storefront; and Ibra, an AI assistant that categorises spending and flags problems before they happen. It runs on one backend, with admin and vendor dashboards on the web.
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The Founder’s Bottleneck.
Hiring In-House
The 6-Month Delay
Months to hire designers and engineers.
$300k+ a year for a small team.
Hard to change course if needs shift.
Still no product while you recruit.
Traditional Agency
The Black Box
Hourly billing with no end date.
Design and code split across vendors.
You pay for a Senior, but a Junior does the work.
Scope creep and change orders.
Tecton
Velocity & Outcomes
Start in 48 hours.
Fixed prices. No hourly billing.
Senior design and engineering, with AI.
A live MVP in weeks. You own the code.
Velocity is your only advantage.
Top 1%
Verified Talent.
Vetted by Contra. You work directly with senior designers and engineers, never a junior bench.
To a live MVP.
Our MVP Build puts a working product in front of real users in four to six weeks.
0%
Equity taken.
We are partners, not co-founders. You keep your cap table clean; we keep our prices public.
Our Expertise
Built for the Founder's Journey.
We design and engineer end to end, and adapt to your stage, so you get exactly what you need to raise, launch or grow.
Product Design
UX, UI and design systems.
Web Apps
SaaS, dashboards and platforms.
Mobile Apps
iOS and Android, built together.
AI Features
Assistants, search and automation.
Websites
Framer or fully coded, with a CMS.
Brand & Launch
Identity, pitch decks and motion.
How we build
From idea to live product, with AI in every step.
One senior team takes you from the first conversation to launch, and keeps shipping with you after it.
See the full process- 01Week 1
Discover
We map the problem, your users and the riskiest assumption, then lock the scope and the price.
AI summarises research and drafts user stories. You make the calls.
- 02Weeks 1–2
Design
User flows, UI and a clickable prototype you can put in front of real users.
Faster exploration and variations, judged by senior designers.
- 03Weeks 2–5
Build
Production code in the stack you choose, shipped in short cycles with a demo every week.
AI coding tools and generated tests, with every change reviewed by a senior engineer.
- 04Week 6
Launch
We deploy, set up analytics and hand over the code, documentation and accounts.
Automated QA and security checks before anything goes live.
- 05Ongoing
Grow
Keep shipping with a monthly retainer, or take it in-house with a clean handover.
Continuous improvements, measured against goals we agree each month.
Pricing
Ways to work
with us.
Fixed-scope projects, quoted after a short call, and monthly retainers to keep shipping after launch.
Launch Sprint
3 spots open
Fixed quote after a call
2 weeks
For pre-seed founders raising capital.
Investors buy what they can see. We build the "movie trailer" of your startup in a fixed two-week sprint.
What’s included
Investor pitch deck (narrative + design)
High-fidelity clickable prototype
Waitlist landing page
MVP Build
2 spots open
Fixed quote after a call
4–6 weeks
For founders who need a live product.
We design and build the first version of your product in the stack you choose, and put it in front of real users in weeks.
What’s included
Product design and full-stack build
Login, payments and admin
Analytics and deployment
You own the code, plus 30 days of fixes
Product Build
Seed stage
Fixed quote after a call
2–4 months
For seed teams going from MVP to full product.
We become your product team. Design and engineering ship together in two-week cycles, and you can pause between cycles.
What’s included
Product design and full-stack build
Demo and release every two weeks
Architecture, QA and documentation
Pause between cycles
Websites
Always open
Fixed quote after a call
2–4 weeks
For marketing teams that need growth.
Pixel-perfect, SEO-ready sites in Framer or fully coded with a CMS, built to turn traffic into signups.
What’s included
Custom design and animation
CMS for blogs and changelogs
Speed and SEO optimisation
A La Carte
Have a specific, one-off request?
Our "A La Carte" services are designed for targeted execution without the full commitment.
Design Partner
Monthly
$5kper month
Pause or cancel anytime
For teams with engineers who need senior design.
A senior designer on your team, working through one request at a time against goals we agree at the start of each month.
What’s included
One active request at a time
Product, brand and marketing design
Direct Slack access
30 days’ notice to pause or cancel
Product Partner
Monthly
$9.5kper month
Pause or cancel anytime
For live products that need to keep shipping.
Design and engineering capacity every month, with goals agreed up front, a demo every two weeks and a short report on what shipped.
What’s included
Design and engineering capacity
Monthly goals and progress report
Demo every two weeks
30 days’ notice to pause or cancel
FAQ
Frequently asked questions
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