You have a product design and you need two things at once: proof that real buyers will commit before it exists, and a working MVP you can demo and deliver.
A working MVP, three signed letters of intent from real buyers, a product requirements document you own, and a founding-member offer you can use to close the first paying customers.
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
- Three signed letters of intent, or the engagement does not end
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 day 90 the firm has the MVP, three signed letters of intent, and a PRD it owns outright.
Pricing is scoped per engagement and confirmed in a written statement of work. Start a conversation and we will return a scoped figure.
What happens next
- 1You send a short inquiry through the contact form. It takes a couple of minutes.
- 2Within 48 hours 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.