We build production-grade web, mobile, and AI products for founders and operators. We're built for the part most studios skip: getting it live and making money. 200+ shipped in 13 years, senior-led, founder-accessible, US office in North Carolina.
Half-finished MVPs, "AI" demos that never became products, teams stuck on the last mile of integration. We optimize for the opposite: products that reach production and generate revenue. Ships, scales, sells.
We say no to a lot, so we can go deep on the few builds that ship revenue. We lead with AI where it earns its place, backed by 13 years of software that reached production.
We automate one expensive, manual workflow end-to-end (document intake, order and quote processing, back-office ops), with humans reviewing only the exceptions. You stop paying people to do what software should.
We build from MVP to scaled product (multi-tenant SaaS, marketplaces, portals, dashboards), with a senior-led team shipping a working demo every 2–4 week sprint.
An aging product or a spreadsheet-run operation, brought into production on a modern stack, with AI added where it drives real ROI.
Built it already? Once it's live, we help you sell it too, with AI-assisted GTM →
A sample of what we've shipped. Every review below is verified on Clutch.
A de-risked path. You never commit a big budget before you've seen it work.
A short, fixed-fee sprint: we map the workflow, build a working prototype on your real data, and hand you a plan, timeline, and firm quote before you commit to the build. Credited back in full if you move ahead.
A senior-led team ships your product to production in 2–4 week sprints, with a working demo each time. You see progress every sprint.
We keep it running, evolving, and improving, with the same senior-led team that built it, as an extension of your team.
Most engagements begin with a low-cost discovery sprint, so you see working proof before committing to the build.
It starts with a low-cost, fixed-fee discovery sprint that ends with a firm quote, so the planning is inexpensive and the number is clear before you commit, and the sprint fee is credited back in full if you move ahead. For the build itself, most projects start around $30,000 and run north of $100,000. Larger products start around $80,000 and run north of $250,000, milestone-based. We're built for serious products, not $2–5K quick jobs.
Real, and in production. StartupLabs has shipped AI document platforms (Formatr), AI-generated real-estate listings, and workflow-automation engines using OpenAI, Claude, and LangChain, with deterministic logic kept outside the model so the output stays reliable in production.
Yes, when the team is senior-led and accountable. StartupLabs is a senior-led product studio with a US office in North Carolina, a 100% Upwork Job Success score, and 5.0★ on Clutch across named US clients. You work directly with the senior-led team building it, founder included, with a 4–8 hour response time.
Yes. We engineer security-first, build on AWS, and sign NDAs, so your IP stays yours. We've delivered SOC 2- and HIPAA-compliant systems for US healthcare and fintech clients, and build to those standards when your project calls for it.
A focused MVP usually ships in 8–20 weeks. We work in 2–4 week sprints (discovery, design, build, ship, support), delivering a usable core first, then layering features, so you have something real in hand early.
Book a 15-minute fit call. We'll tell you honestly whether it's a fit, what it'd take, and roughly what it'd cost. No pitch, no pressure.
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