MVP studio · AI-first, human-reviewed
Articleoux builds working products AI-first, with senior engineers reviewing every line before it ships. Most builds take four to ten weeks. Price yours right now — it takes two minutes and you won't have to book a call to see the number.
Estimate № 001 · the same scope, quoted twice
A two-sided marketplace with auth, payments, chat, and an admin panel.
Built the traditional way
$24,000–$34,500
15–17 weeks
Built AI-first, engineer-reviewed
$13,000–$19,000
7–9 weeks
Same scope. $13,000 and about 8 weeks back in your pocket.
Live output from our estimator — not a mockup. Click through and this exact configuration opens pre-filled.
The approaches
The build approach moves your price more than any feature does. Here's the same SaaS MVP — auth, payments, and an admin panel — priced all three ways.
AI writes the first draft of everything. Senior engineers review, test, and harden what ships. The fastest, leanest way to a working product.
$9,000–$13,000
5–7 weeks
Choose it when
You're validating an idea, the budget is real money to you, and the product follows patterns the industry has already solved.
AI builds the standard parts. Engineers hand-build the pieces where the risk lives — payment flows, data models, tricky integrations.
$12,000–$17,500
7–9 weeks
+$3,960 · +2 weeks vs vibecoding
Choose it when
Real money moves through the product, or one piece of it is genuinely novel and everything else is standard.
Engineers write every line by hand. The slowest and most expensive option — and sometimes exactly the right one.
$16,000–$23,500
11–13 weeks
+$8,910 · +6 weeks vs vibecoding
Choose it when
You're in a regulated industry, have unusual performance needs, or an acquirer will audit this code someday.
Not sure which fits? The estimator prices all three live — switch the approach and watch the number move.
The process
Every project follows the same four steps, whatever approach you pick. The estimate you start with is the plan we execute against.
01
Run the estimator, then take one 30-minute call. You get a fixed quote in writing before any work starts — the estimate you saw is the range we quote from.
02
AI-first development starts immediately. You get a staging link in the first week and a working demo every Friday, so nothing is a surprise at the end.
03
Senior engineers review every line, write tests for the critical paths, and load-check what will actually get traffic. This step is why AI-built is safe to ship.
04
We deploy, transfer the repository and infrastructure to your accounts, and walk you through all of it. Optional support keeps us on call after that.
Quick estimate
Three choices get you a real range. The full estimator adds features, design depth, and timeline — and keeps your picks when you open it.
The work
Most MVPs take one of a few shapes — these are the three we're asked for most. Mobile apps and internal tools are in the estimator too.
Subscription products with accounts, a dashboard, and billing — the shape most software businesses start in.
Two-sided products where buyers and sellers meet — listings, matching, messaging, and payments that split correctly.
Products where an LLM does the work — assistants, copilots, and automations with real guardrails and evals.
Questions
Most MVPs we build land between $8,000 and $40,000, depending on product type, features, platform, and how fast you need it. The estimator on this site prices your exact configuration in about two minutes, and the range it shows is the range we actually quote from.
Vibecoding is AI-first development: AI models write the first draft of the code, and senior engineers review, correct, and harden it before anything ships. You get the speed and cost of machine generation with the judgment of people who have run production software for years.
Because the most expensive part of agency work — writing standard code by hand — is now largely automatable, and we pass that saving on. You are paying for scoping, review, hardening, and accountability rather than keystrokes. Traditional quotes price a process; ours prices the product.
Yes, when every line is reviewed — and here, every line is. Unreviewed AI output is a genuine risk, which is why the hardening step exists: engineers read the code, test the critical paths, and load-check what will take traffic before launch. You get the test suite too, so you can verify it yourself.
You do, fully. The repository and infrastructure transfer to your own accounts at handover, with no licensing strings and nothing that locks you into hosting or maintaining with us.
You choose: walk away with the repo, or keep us on call for one or three months. Support covers fixes, small changes, and someone to phone when something breaks at a bad time. Either way the handover is complete — support is a convenience, not a dependency.
A clear idea of who the product is for and roughly what it must do — that is genuinely enough. The estimator plus one 30-minute call gives us what we need to write a fixed quote. You do not need designs, specs, or a technical co-founder.
Then we tell you so and price it as hybrid or traditional instead. Roughly one project in five that reaches us needs hand-built pieces, and the estimator shows exactly what that changes — switch the approach and the number moves in front of you.
Two minutes in the estimator gets you a real range and a real timeline. No call, no email required to see the number.
Rather just talk? hello@articleoux.site