Question 1

What do you actually do?

Accepted Answer

We design, build, and launch software products. You come with an idea or a problem; about 30 days later you have a live product, real users, and the code in your own repository.

Question 2

How is this different from a traditional dev agency?

Accepted Answer

Agencies bill hourly, quote six months, and hand you a surprise invoice in month four. We fix the scope and the price before we start, ship working software every week, and give you full code ownership. Same senior craftsmanship, a fraction of the time and cost.

Question 3

Who is Ikonic MVP, and how does it relate to Ikonic?

Accepted Answer

Ikonic is a team of agile developers providing bespoke software development services — 100+ projects completed, with 200+ developers on staff. Ikonic MVP is the fixed-price studio arm built for founders who need a first product fast. Same company, same engineers, a package shaped for launch instead of long-term staffing.

Question 4

Who do you work with?

Accepted Answer

Founders building their first product and operators building internal tools. Some are pre-seed with a deadline and a deck; some are funded teams who need to move faster than hiring allows. If the problem is clear, we can build for it.

Question 5

How much have you built?

Accepted Answer

100+ projects completed and 200+ tasks delivered, across logistics, e-commerce, managed IT, AI tooling, and internal enterprise software — with a 96% client retention rate.

Question 6

What does the process actually look like?

Accepted Answer

Week one is scoping and design — we agree exactly what ships. Weeks two to four are build, with a clickable demo every Friday. Then we launch. One call a week, Slack for everything else.

Question 7

Who actually builds it?

Accepted Answer

A dedicated four-person pod: a project manager, a designer, and two engineers. They're assigned to your build, not shared across a queue, and you meet them before you sign.

Question 8

What if I'm not technical?

Accepted Answer

Most of our clients aren't. You bring the vision and the customer knowledge. We handle architecture, stack decisions, and infrastructure, and we explain every trade-off in plain language so you can make the calls that matter without writing code.

Question 9

Can you help me validate the idea first?

Accepted Answer

Yes — and we'll often talk you out of building half of it. The fastest validation is the smallest version that proves the point. Cutting scope intelligently is a core part of what you're paying for.

Question 10

We've already started building. Can you take it over?

Accepted Answer

Regularly. We'll audit what exists and tell you honestly whether extending it is faster than rebuilding — including when the honest answer costs us the bigger project.

Question 11

How much does it cost?

Accepted Answer

Builds start at $16,500. Final pricing depends on scope, and you'll have a fixed quote within 48 hours of our first call. That number doesn't change once we start.

Question 12

What makes the price go up?

Accepted Answer

Complexity — multiple user roles, custom integrations, real-time features, native mobile, heavier AI infrastructure. We'll show you exactly what's driving the number and what can safely wait for phase two.

Question 13

How long does it really take?

Accepted Answer

Focused builds ship in about 30 days. Products with heavy integrations or several user types take longer, and we'll tell you that on the first call rather than promise a date we can't hit.

Question 14

What happens if you run late?

Accepted Answer

Scope and price are locked before we start, so a miss on our estimate is a cost we absorb, not one we pass on. If you add scope mid-build, we quote it separately — you stay in control of the number either way.

Question 15

What happens after launch?

Accepted Answer

Most clients continue with a dedicated team through Ikonic's developer subscription, from $4,000 per month per developer. Others take the code in-house. Both are normal, and nothing in a contract pushes you toward either.

Question 16

What happens on day 31?

Accepted Answer

Whatever you want. The same engineers stay available if you keep going, the code is already yours if you don't, and there's no notice period or exit fee either way. The point is that you're never stuck.

Question 17

Do I own the code?

Accepted Answer

Entirely, from the first commit. Full repository access, standard modern stack, no proprietary platform holding your product hostage.

Question 18

What if I want to move to my own team later?

Accepted Answer

We build for that outcome from day one — clean, documented, conventional code any competent developer can pick up. We'll run the handover call too. No exit fee, no friction.

Question 19

"AI-built" makes me nervous. Is this real software?

Accepted Answer

Fair concern, and the honest answer is that AI writes code faster than humans but doesn't decide what to build or catch what breaks. Senior engineers own the architecture and review every commit. What ships is production software, held to the same standard as any funded engineering team's.

Question 20

Do you build on no-code platforms?

Accepted Answer

No. We build in production code — a standard modern stack you or any other developer can pick up. Prototyping platforms are faster to demo and far more expensive to escape; when your product works, you shouldn't have to rebuild it to grow.

Question 21

Will it scale?

Accepted Answer

Yes. We build on production infrastructure, not prototyping platforms — the same stack a funded engineering team would choose. Your first version is the foundation you grow on, not something you throw away at Series A.

Question 22

What AI features can you build?

Accepted Answer

Chat and agent interfaces, document processing, semantic search, recommendations, automated reporting, and custom workflows on the major model providers. If AI is central to your product, it's central to how we scope it.

Question 23

Do you build mobile apps?

Accepted Answer

Web, mobile, or both — decided by where your users actually are. We'll recommend the narrower option when it gets you to market faster.

Question 24

Is my idea kept confidential?

Accepted Answer

Yes. We'll sign an NDA before any detailed conversation, and nothing goes public without your written permission.

Have an idea? We’ll turn it into a launch-ready product in 30 days.

How we work. From idea to working product through fast, focused sprints that ship real progress every week.

A working product in 30 days

Your roadmap, mapped

Production code, not a prototype

One call a week

The code is yours

Explore work

Four weeks, mapped.

Scope and design

Build

Harden and launch

Why founders choose us

AI native, senior-led

Clear, async collaboration

A track record, not ten months

Operate with freedom

Fixed scope, fixed price, no contract term.

MVP Build

Scale Team

The price doesn't move.

You see proof every Friday.

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