10 hrs → 30 min
FinTech / AI
Tax Assistant for Solopreneurs & SMEs
How we reduced a business's tax filing time from 10 hours to 30 minutes year-round tax clarity, bank ingestion, and an AI layer for Australian sole traders and SMEs.
Done-for-you SaaS for non-technical founders. Built right. Handed over. Kept running.
We build Production-Grade SaaS for non-technical founders, taking product idea towards MVP with proven launch strategy. The multi-tenant architecture, real payments, and integrations done right in fixed timeline, with full functional handover of code.
Your front door, pages built to turn visitors into signups, with every click tracked so you see what converts and what leaks.
GA4 · Microsoft Clarity · lead funnels
Multi-tenant product with real payments, an admin system to run it, and error tracking so problems reach you before your users do.
Payments · admin dashboard · Sentry · PostHog
Built to be found, on Google, Bing, and AI answer engines, so discovery keeps working after launch.
SEO · AEO · LLM ranking · Search Console · Bing
The most expensive technical decisions you will make are the ones made in the first few weeks of development. The architecture choices, the database structure, the authentication approach, these are easy to get right at the start and very expensive to fix twelve months later. You are not looking for the cheapest developer. You are looking for the team that will not force you to rebuild.
The product worked in testing. Now real users are finding problems you did not know existed. Authentication fails for some accounts and not others. Payments go through on your end but fail at Stripe. A change made on Friday breaks something unrelated by Monday. You are spending more time managing the broken thing than building the next thing.
Every new feature is a six-week negotiation. Enterprise prospects ask for things your current architecture cannot support. The developer who built it is slow to respond and expensive for changes. The backlog is growing faster than anything is shipping.
You have an existing product with users depending on it and no reliable technical person to call. Every day without a solution is a day of risk. The product that was your asset has become your liability.
The problems non-technical founders face with software are not bad luck. They are documented patterns that happen in a predictable sequence. Here is what the data shows, and what we do about each one.
You built it with an AI tool and it worked in testing
Platforms like Lovable, Cursor, and Bolt make it possible to build a working product in days. The problem is that working in a demo is not the same as working in production. A VibeWrench study of 100 vibe-coded apps in production found 70% lacked basic CSRF protection, 41% had exposed API keys in client-side code, and 21% had no authentication on API endpoints. In January 2026 a vibe-coded social network called Moltbook had its database misconfiguration discovered, the Supabase API key was visible in client-side JavaScript, no exploit required, 1.5 million authentication tokens exposed. In May 2025 a vulnerability in Lovable's platform allowed any free-tier account to read other users' source code, database credentials, and Stripe keys across 170 production applications. The founders running these products found out when their users told them. We audit vibe-coded products before assuming they are production-ready and build the layer the AI tools leave out.
You hired a freelancer and now you cannot change anything
G2's 2025 summary of the non-technical founder experience described it directly: chances are you have been burned by flaky devs, vague timelines, or code that does not match the prototypes. The pattern is consistent: a freelancer builds version one, it works, they move on, you want to change something, they say it will take three weeks and cost more than expected, the change is made, something else breaks. The developer who was fast during the original build becomes progressively slower on each subsequent engagement. Not because they lost interest, because they know what is in the codebase and they do not want to go back into it. We build codebases that a developer who did not write them can read and understand in under a week.
The product has users but every change takes too long and breaks something
Engineers in startups with accumulated technical debt spend on average 25% of their time servicing past shortcuts rather than building new things. For a five-person team at market rates, that is approximately $125,000 per year spent on debt service instead of product development. The most dangerous moment is when traction attracts investor attention. A fintech SaaS with $50k monthly recurring revenue had a Sequoia Capital Series A in progress in 2025. Twenty-three minutes into the investor presentation, the platform could not handle 47 concurrent demo users. Four months and $30,000 in emergency rebuilding later, the investors had walked. Technical debt is far cheaper to address on your own timeline than on an investor's. We audit what exists before recommending a path and address it before it costs you the deal.
That is three of the problems. The rest, plus full scope and pricing, is in the offer document →
We build the layer that freelancers skip and no-code tools cannot reach. Here is what that looks like in practice.
Architecture designed from the start, not fixed later
The most expensive technical decisions are the ones made in the first few weeks. A data model that does not reflect how your business works becomes permanent. An authentication approach not designed for multi-user accounts cannot be patched into one later. We do not take shortcuts in week one that you will pay for in month twelve.
Multi-tenant architecture that holds under real users
Account data stays separate and the system holds when you go from 10 users to 10,000. The absence of this is what causes users to see each other's data, a documented failure mode in 170 production Lovable apps. Database queries that take milliseconds on a development dataset take seconds on a production one without the right indexes. We design for the load that matters, not just the load you have today.
Payments that do not lose money silently
Stripe with webhooks, subscription logic, and failed-payment recovery. A payment that appears to succeed can fail at the webhook stage, the money does not move, the subscription does not activate, and nobody is alerted. We build payment infrastructure that catches what would otherwise be invisible revenue loss.
Integrations that survive what production actually throws at them
Third-party APIs have rate limits, timeout behaviours, and error responses your code needs to handle. The happy path works in testing. Production conditions, real traffic, third-party outages, unexpected error formats, are different. We build integrations that handle failure, not just success.
Deliverables, stack, and the full handover list are in the offer document →
10 hrs → 30 min
FinTech / AI
Tax Assistant for Solopreneurs & SMEs
How we reduced a business's tax filing time from 10 hours to 30 minutes year-round tax clarity, bank ingestion, and an AI layer for Australian sole traders and SMEs.
150+ properties
Prop Tech / SaaS
Prop Tech Rental Booking Platform
Holiday rental marketplace with host billing, calendar sync, and guest booking built for local hosts who need payouts and listings without a global middleman.
“Hamza has been great to work with so far. We've started building the marketplace and will continue the collaboration for further work.”
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Fixed price scoped on the discovery call. The number you approve is the number you pay. It moves only if you change the scope, and we tell you before it does. No hourly billing. No invoice creep.
Best for: Founders building from scratch, founders rescuing a broken or abandoned product, and founders whose developer disappeared.
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FAQ
Possibly, but only after a review. A VibeWrench study of 100 vibe-coded apps in production found 70% lacked basic CSRF protection and 41% had exposed API keys. A 2026 assessment of more than 200 vibe-coded apps found 91.5% had at least one vulnerability traceable to AI hallucination. These are not rare edge cases, they are the statistical baseline. We audit vibe-coded products before assuming they are production-ready and fix what the audit finds.
Both. Some of the most common projects we take on are existing products that have outgrown their current developer, codebases that are too fragile to iterate on, and MVPs built with AI tools that have hit their architectural ceiling. We audit what exists before committing to anything. If it is salvageable we tell you. If it needs to be rebuilt we tell you that too, before you pay for the work.
It almost always means one of three things: the codebase has accumulated enough technical debt that changes in one area break things in another unexpectedly, the developer does not understand the full system they are working in, or both. The developer who was fast during the initial build becoming slow and reluctant on subsequent work is a codebase signal, not a motivation one, they know what is in there. The way to find out what you actually have is an independent technical audit. We do this as the first step of any takeover engagement.
Confirm you have independent access to four things: your hosting environment, your database credentials, your code repository, and any third-party services the product depends on like Stripe or your email provider. Most crises of this kind are recoverable once you have those. We work specifically with founders in this situation and run an audit of the existing product before taking on ongoing responsibility for it.
This is one of the most common crisis situations we see. The domain, the database, the deployment pipeline, all set up under the developer's accounts. The first step is attempting to recover access through the hosting platform's account transfer process using the email the account was registered with. Vercel, Railway, Supabase, and most other platforms have owner transfer mechanisms. If that is not possible, you need a copy of the codebase to start a recovery path. We can help you through this process and take over ongoing responsibility once access is established.
No. Most founders we work with are not technical. We run a weekly demo so you see working progress without reading code. We explain architectural decisions in plain language and make recommendations rather than waiting for instructions on questions where you do not have the background to decide.
We take on rescue builds. We audit what exists, tell you honestly what is worth keeping, and rebuild the parts that are not to production standard. We have worked with codebases ranging from fragile but salvageable to architecturally broken in ways that required a full rebuild. The audit determines which category you are in before any commitment is made.
Fixed price, scoped on the discovery call. The scope determines the price. The price you approve is the price you pay. For rescue builds and takeovers, the audit informs the scope before the price is set. We do not give fixed-price quotes before we understand what we are building.
Yes. Every line of code, every integration, every design file is handed to you at delivery with documentation. No lock-in, no proprietary systems, no monthly fee for access to what we built. The retainer after delivery is for running and growing the product, not for keeping the lights on.
Usually not, but the answer depends on what the audit finds. Engineers at startups with accumulated technical debt spend roughly 25% of their time on debt service rather than building new things. Most products that feel impossible to maintain have three to five specific areas where the debt is concentrated. Addressing those through targeted refactoring can restore development velocity without starting over. We always audit before recommending a path.
You can keep us on as your technical team for a flat monthly retainer, ongoing development, maintenance, monitoring, and a roadmap. The code stays yours. Cancel any month. Most founders who build with us choose to stay on, because onboarding a new technical team after a handover is expensive and takes longer than you expect.
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