# MVP Launch

> A scoped AI Pod that ships a first version customers can actually use, at a price agreed before work begins. 200 to 400 story points.

Source: https://www.koombea.com/ai-pods/catalog/mvp-launch/

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A first release that runs a complete loop in production: a user arrives, does the thing the product exists for, and the business sees it happen. Priced before work starts.


## The problem

The standard first phase delivers infrastructure. A login screen, a database, a deployment pipeline, an admin panel. All of it necessary. None of it usable by a customer. Every penny of it spent before anyone learns whether the product works.

That sequencing serves the build, not the business. It also makes the second funding conversation much harder, because you are asking for more money against a demo of a login screen.

We sequence the other way. Phase 1 is a narrow slice of the product cut end to end, in production, doing the one thing that matters most. The infrastructure gets built because that slice needs it, not before.

- A real user can complete the core journey on the day it launches
- The narrow slice proves the product before the budget grows
- Later phases widen it rather than finally connecting it

## What this Pod ships

- **Specs and prototype**: Each item a contract of inputs, outputs and edge cases, with the core flows validated as clickable screens first.
- **The product, web or mobile**: The end-to-end journey built and running, on the platforms your users are actually on.
- **Tests written from the spec**: Scenarios authored before the build, enforced as merge gates, so quality is a gate rather than a phase.
- **Production and handover**: Automated deployment, monitoring, a runbook, an architecture overview, and access transferred to whoever you name.

## How the price holds

Software projects overrun routinely. Committing to a fixed price means volunteering to absorb that. So the question worth asking is what changed, not how confident we feel.

Two things changed. Scoping runs through ScopeGen AI, which turns a client conversation into an estimated work breakdown, calibrated against what past projects took. And delivery is AI-First across the lifecycle, which compresses specification, implementation and test authoring. If our estimate is wrong on the scope you signed, we absorb it. That is what a fixed bid means.


## What it costs

200 to 400 story points for most products, settling to a committed figure once the scope is decomposed. A product with one primary journey and a light integration surface sits near the bottom. Several user types, payments, and three external systems sits near the top.

If you cannot yet describe the product well enough to price it, start with a Product Definition Sprint. It costs 25 to 40 points and credits in full against this.

- Points: 200 to 400, committed before work begins
- Change orders priced before they start, with no penalty for changing your mind
- 30 day warranty from your written acceptance of the production launch
- Source code, designs and documentation become yours on full payment