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Change · UK & Ireland

Idea, then product.
Weeks, not months.

Customer-facing SaaS, internal tools, AI apps. Production-grade from day one - tested, deployed, documented. Not a prototype, not a Figma walkthrough. The engineer in your scoping call is the engineer who ships the work.

WHAT A BUILD ACTUALLY LOOKS LIKE
6–10 wks
idea to in production
From £15k
scoped per build
100%
your repo, your IP
Day 1
deployed to staging
Two build slots open · Q3See shipped builds →
What a build looks like

Nine deploys. Forty-three days.

The cadence of a recent recruitment platform build, anonymised. Twice-weekly demos. Staging deploys on day one. Production on day forty-three.

BUILD LOG · client-XYZ-platformmain · 14 commits/day avg
Week 1 · MonSHIPscope locked · 47 user storiesv0.1
Week 1 · WedDEPLOYauth + RBAC live in stagingv0.1
Week 2 · TueDEPLOYcore schema + write APIv0.2
Week 2 · FriDEMOdemo · client sign-off on shapev0.2
Week 3 · MonDEPLOYtwo-way Bullhorn integrationv0.3
Week 4 · TueDEMOfirst AI eval suite · 87% passv0.4
Week 5 · WedDEPLOYaudit log, exports, MI dashv0.5
Week 6 · TueDEMOUAT with 4 client usersv0.9
Week 6 · FriSHIPproduction · users inv1.0
43 days · 9 deploys · 4 demosv1.0 in production →
app.client-xyz.co.uk/triage
Triage
Pipelines
Briefs
Candidates
MI
Audit
Settings
TRIAGE QUEUE
Inbox · 47 to review
updated 1m ago
97%
auto-classified
6h
avg to placement
£0
manual rework
DataOps Engineer · Manchester98%Senior · perm
Compliance Analyst · Remote92%Mid · contract
Quant Researcher · London76%Senior · perm
DevOps Lead · Edinburgh89%Senior · perm
v1.0, live in production. Auth · roles · audit log · two-way CRM sync · AI triage · MI · CSV exports. Code in their repo.
What we mean

"MVP" doesn't mean flimsy.

The "M" stands for minimum, not malformed. Our MVPs go straight into production - authenticated, audited, deployed, monitored. Smaller than v3 will be. As solid as v3 needs to be from day one. Designed for the next ten features, not just the first three.

WHAT WE BUILD
  • Customer-facing SaaS for a niche your team owns
  • Internal tools that replace 4 spreadsheets and an Access DB
  • AI applications - RAG, agents, copilots - with eval suites
  • Re-platformings of legacy line-of-business apps
  • Co-built products with founder-led startups
WHAT WE WON'T
  • Ship a Figma prototype, a no-code mock or a sandbox URL
  • Build on our preferred platform with a licence attached
  • Take a 'design sprint' that ends at 80 sticky notes
  • Quote on something we know we can't ship in 10 weeks
  • Take equity in lieu of a proper engagement fee
Recent builds

Three products,
live in production.

RecruitmentSeries A

AI-powered triage SaaS

BRIEF

Founder's idea: AI triage as a product, not a feature. Needed a sellable v1 in time for their seed round close.

BUILT

Multi-tenant SaaS with Clerk auth, Bullhorn / Vincere connectors, RAG over JD + CV, eval suite, MI dashboards.

Next.jsPostgresOpenAIVercel
43 days
to v1.0
5
design partners live
£280k
follow-on ARR
Accountancy180-partner firm

Audit-prep internal tool

BRIEF

Five Excel files, three SharePoint folders and a shared inbox per audit. 9 hrs/wk per manager just chasing PBCs.

BUILT

Internal web app with role-based auth, client portal, AI-assisted PBC status, automated chase emails.

.NET 8Azure SQLM365 SSOPower BI
8 hrs/wk
saved per manager
7 wks
to live
280
audits on it · year 1
LegalFCA-regulated

Contract triage application

BRIEF

Two-partner firm in a regulated niche. Wanted to productise their playbook into a tool clients buy.

BUILT

Web app with secure on-prem AI, NetDocuments integration, white-labelled per-client portal, audit-ready evidence.

TypeScriptPostgresAzure VPCiManage
9 wks
to v1.0
12×
faster triage
100%
on-prem
The default stack

Boring, by design.

We pick tools your next engineer can hire for, your CISO will sign off, and your finance director can read the bill of. We change them to fit your stack - not the other way around.

FRONTEND
  • Next.jsApp router, server components
  • ReactWhen SPA fits better
  • TypeScriptEverywhere, default
  • Tailwind / shadcnDesign system, fast
BACKEND
  • .NET 8M365 shops, regulated firms
  • Node / TypeScriptStartups, AI apps
  • Python · FastAPIWhen AI is the spine
  • Postgres / Azure SQLDefault data store
AI & DATA
  • OpenAI / AnthropicDefault LLMs
  • Azure OpenAIRegulated workloads
  • pgvector / PineconeRetrieval
  • Promptfoo / BraintrustEvals
OPS
  • Vercel · Azure · AWSWherever you live
  • GitHub ActionsCI/CD from day one
  • Sentry · DatadogErrors + traces
  • CE+ baselineControls auditors expect
The deal

Fixed scope. Fixed fee.
Per build.

Four shapes of build. Pick by ambition and surface area. Every shape ships production v1.0, with code in your repo and IP transferred at completion.

BUILD SHAPES
INTERNAL
Internal tool
Replaces 4 spreadsheets, an Access DB and a shared inbox. ~3–6 weeks, single-tenant, your SSO.
From £15k
AI APP
AI-first application
RAG / agent / copilot with eval suite and audit log. ~5–9 weeks, your tenant, your data.
From £25k
SAAS V1
Customer-facing SaaS · v1.0
Multi-tenant, billing, auth, MI. ~8–10 weeks. Sellable from day of go-live, not 'a prototype'.
From £50k
RE-PLATFORM
Legacy re-platform
An ageing line-of-business app, rebuilt cleanly. Phased cut-over, no big-bang. Sized to fit.
Let's talk
How it ships
  • Staging on day 1
    Authenticated v0.1 in your environment from the first deploy.
  • Twice-weekly demos
    Tuesday + Friday. Real code, not slides. You can run it yourself.
  • Production at v1.0
    Users in, billing live, audit log on. Not a 'pilot' that needs another £30k.
  • 30-day support tail
    Bug fixes and small adjustments included for the first month after go-live.
Code lives in your repos. We commit there, not into a "client zone". Full IP transfer at v1.0 sign-off. No platform fees, no licensing, no gated APIs.
How we work

Five steps. Six to ten weeks.

01 · Week 1
Define
Working session. User stories, success metric, the one thing v1 must do. No 'maybe phase two'.
02 · Week 1–2
Prototype
A clickable end-to-end of the riskiest user journey. Staging deploy with auth wired up.
03 · Week 2–7
Build
Engineer-led build. In your repo. Twice-weekly demos. Production-grade from day one.
04 · Week 7–9
Land
UAT with real users. Onboarding flows, docs, support runbooks. The bit other firms skip.
05 · Ongoing
Iterate
Optional. Monthly retainer for v1.1, v1.2, v1.3. Or hand-over and we keep it running under Run.
At v1.0

What ships in the box.

Every product build ships the same kit. The thing in production is the smallest of them - the runbook is what makes it survive the next year.

Code in your repo
Day one. No 'client zone', no zipped hand-off. Pull-request-reviewed, CI-tested, deployable.
Full IP transfer
You own the source, the data, the models, the integrations. Signed at v1.0. No platform fees, no gated APIs.
Auth, roles & audit log
SSO with your IdP, RBAC, immutable audit trail. Cyber Essentials Plus baseline.
CI/CD + observability
GitHub Actions, staging + production, Sentry, structured logs, alerting. Day-one ready.
UAT + onboarding
Sessions with your real users. Tutorial flows, in-app help, training videos. Day-one usable.
Runbooks & docs
API docs, architecture diagram, failure modes, recovery steps. Written for your next engineer.
MI dashboards
Adoption, performance, errors. Baseline + post-launch. So you can prove the ROI.
Optional Run handover
If you want, we operate it. If not, a clean handover with a 30-day support tail.
Receipts

Less talking. More shipping.

Accountancy240 staffUK · Manchester

From four FTEs reviewing AML files by hand - to one reviewer, 12 minutes per file.

A 240-person UK accountancy was burning four FTEs on AML onboarding, with a 78% first-pass error rate. They'd already had two prior AI initiatives die in slide decks. We scoped it in week one, shipped to staging by week three, and went live in week six.

"AssurePath had something running in our staging tenant by week three. We'd had two prior 'AI initiatives' that died in slide decks."
- Operations Director, 240-person UK accountancy
IMPACT · 6 MONTHS POST-LAUNCH
22 hrs/wk
saved across the AML team
£120k
annual cost reduction, year 1
98%
first-pass straight-through
6 wks
scope to in-production
100%
SAR-ready audit trail
+2.3
new partners hired off the savings

"They scoped what we were trying to do in 40 minutes. The previous shop took six weeks and got it wrong."

Managing Partner
90-fee-earner law firm, London

"We were quoted £450k by a Big Four practice. AssurePath delivered the same outcome in eight weeks for £62k."

Finance Director
Mid-cap recruitment group, Birmingham

"Honest, technical, on time. They told us not to do half the things we asked. That's why we trust them."

Operations Director
FCA-regulated wealth manager, Edinburgh
Where we've shipped this

Builds across four sectors.

Often paired with

Where this goes next.

FAQ

Questions we answer in week one.

Nine of the questions clients ask before commissioning a build.

A real product. Authenticated, deployed, audited, monitored. Smaller in surface area than v3 will be, but as solid as v3 needs to be. We don't ship sandboxes that need rebuilding later - the v1 we hand over is the foundation v3 lives on.

Let's scope a build

Idea, then product.
Weeks, not months.

Book a 30-minute scoping call with an engineer. We talk through what you'd build, what v1 has to do, and whether the maths works. If it doesn't, we'll say so.

01
Scope in week 1
Stories, success metric, scope locked.
02
Demo every Tue + Fri
Real code. You can run it yourself.
03
Production at v1.0
Users in. Audit on. IP transferred.