You have a product design and you need two things at once: the best available evidence that real buyers will commit before it exists, and a working MVP you can demo and deliver. This is a 90-day engagement with a defined end, not a standing arrangement.
A working MVP, a product requirements document you own, a founding-member offer you can use to close the first paying customers, and outreach support toward three signed letters of intent by day 90. The three letters are the target the engagement is aimed at, not a guarantee.
Who it's for
This engagement fits a specific situation. Here is the shape of a firm it serves well.
- Firms with a product design ready to build, ideally from an Architect Workshop
- Teams with warm existing customer relationships to approach for pre-selling
- Founders who want validation and a buildable MVP to run in parallel, not in sequence
What you walk away with
The deliverable, itemized. Every line is a concrete artifact you keep.
- A founding-member offer design and a letter-of-intent template
- An outreach script for your warmest existing customers
- Letter-of-intent review and a risk read on what comes back
- A full product requirements document, written to be buildable
- A working MVP built on a stack matched to the product type
- A day-90 checkpoint that reports the letters of intent signed to date
Commercial terms
The target is three signed letters of intent by the day-90 checkpoint. That is a target, not a guarantee. The client's own warm accounts are the source, and HARBOR does not control whether those buyers commit. The fee is non-refundable: it pays for the 90 days of work, and it is retained whether or not three letters are signed. 75% is due at kickoff and the remaining 25% at the day-90 checkpoint.
If the principal is unavailable, you hear it within two business days and the schedule is re-based in writing. Nobody you have not met touches the work, and unearned work is not billed. That commitment is part of the engagement, not a policy on another page.
How it works
The engagement runs on a fixed scope and a fixed timeline. There is a defined start, a defined end, and a single deliverable. You answer questions and review output; HARBOR does the work. The timeline is 90 days, and the scope is locked before the engagement begins, so there is no open-ended billing and no scope drift.
What's not included
A fixed scope means a clear boundary. This engagement does not cover the following.
- Cold pre-selling: the engagement assumes you have warm relationships to start from
- Software development beyond a no-code or low-code build
- Post-launch operations and scale, which is Operate plus Replicate
A scenario
A firm has a finished product spec and wants to avoid the gap where a spec exists but no product and no customers do. The Pilot designs a founding-member offer, supports the firm's outreach to five warm accounts, and builds a working MVP in parallel. At the day-90 checkpoint the firm has the MVP, a PRD it owns outright, and the letters of intent its outreach produced, with the target set at three.
This is a floor, not a quote. Final scope depends on firm size, how many contract vehicles you hold, and how much of the work is already productized. We confirm the figure in writing before anything starts.
What happens next
- 1You send a short inquiry through the contact form. It takes a couple of minutes.
- 2Within two business days you get back a scoped figure and a draft statement of work, so you know exactly what the engagement costs before any commitment.
- 3If it is a fit, we confirm the scope and start. If it is not, we say so and point you somewhere useful.