AI MVP Development
Concept to production in 4–8 weeks. From a Notion doc to a deployed app your users can pay for.
Booking projects for Q3 — 2 slots left
Ship your MVP in weeks, not quarters.
We're an AI-native dev studio in Lahore, building fast for founders who can't wait. Fixed scope. Fixed price. Senior engineers only.
- 30+ MVPs shipped
- Building since 2023
- Lahore → Global
~/northstack/projects/your-mvp
# week 1 — discovery + scope locked $ npx create-northstack-mvp ./your-app → stack: next.js · postgres · openai · vercel → team: 2 senior engineers + design # week 4 — beta in your users' hands $ git push origin main ✓ deployed to production · 99.98% uptime
The whole stack — built for leverage.
Six things we do, every one chosen for how much faster it makes founders. No half-served menus, no padding the slate.
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Custom AI Integrations
LLMs, RAG, agents, embeddings — wired into your stack. Not a Frankenstein bolted around it.
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Full-Stack Web Apps
Next.js, Postgres, Vercel. Built to scale, ship, and survive your first traffic spike.
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AI Automation & Workflows
Replace manual ops with intelligent pipelines. Less Zapier glue, more leverage.
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Technical Discovery & Consulting
Architecture reviews, scoping sessions, AI readiness audits. Honest, fast, written down.
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Rapid Prototyping
Validate with a working product, not a pitch deck. Two-week sprints, real users, real signal.
Not sure which one fits? We'll tell you on the call.
Talk to usFour steps. Zero surprises.
We've run this loop 30+ times. Click any step to see what really happens.
Step 01 · Discover
A 30-minute call. No deck, no demo.
We listen, ask the questions you wish your last agency had, and tell you the truth.
By the end, you'll know exactly what you'd build, why, and whether we're the right team. If we're not, we'll point you to who is.
- One-page summary in your inbox within 24 hours.
- NDA on request — sign before the call if you'd like.
Step 02 · Define
A fixed-price proposal. Within a week.
Scope, timeline, price — all locked. We don't bill hourly, and we don't change pricing mid-build.
If we underestimate, that's our risk to absorb. You sign once, then we ship. No "+30% scope creep" surprises three weeks in.
- One PDF. Scope, deliverables, milestones, price.
- Payment schedule split into 3 milestones. Never all upfront.
Step 03 · Build
Weekly demos. Live Slack. Zero black box.
Every Friday you see what changed. Every commit lands in a repo you own.
Read the code anytime, watch the deploys, redirect priorities mid-sprint. We're building together, not waiting for the big-reveal handover.
- Senior engineers only. No juniors learning on your dime.
- Staging deploy from week one. You can show investors.
Step 04 · Ship
We launch, hand off, then step back.
Production deploy on the agreed date. Documentation, credentials, training session for your team.
Optional retainer afterward if you want us on call — but you're never locked in. The codebase, infra, and IP are yours from day one.
- Architecture doc + runbook in your repo. Future devs will thank us.
- Two weeks of free post-launch support. Bugs are on us.
Built different. Priced different. Shipped faster.
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AI-first
By default, not bolted on.
Every spec we write starts with: "where does AI add leverage here?" The answer reshapes the architecture.
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Fixed
Pricing, not hourly.
Quoted upfront. Locked. If we underestimated, that's our risk to absorb — never yours.
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4–8w
From call to live deploy.
Typical MVP delivery window. Not "12-week scoping plus 6-month build". Production code, fast.
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Senior team.
You work directly with the people writing the code. No juniors learning on training wheels.
Real products. Real outcomes.
A few of the things we've shipped recently. More on request — some clients prefer we don't broadcast.
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Loop
2024AI customer-feedback synthesis platform.
Deployed in 6 weeks. Synthesizes 12k+ user interviews into actionable themes — what was a 3-week analyst job, now a Friday afternoon.
Next.js OpenAI Postgres VercelRead case study -
Scribe
2024Voice-to-document agent for legal teams.
Cut intake time 73%. Lawyers dictate; the system extracts entities, drafts a first pass, and flags conflicts — under 30 seconds end-to-end.
Anthropic Whisper RAG SupabaseRead case study -
Pulse
2025Real-time inventory AI for retail.
Predicts stockouts 9 days in advance. Saved one client $1.2M in overstock and recovered four-figure-daily lost sales from inventory gaps.
Python FastAPI Postgres AWSRead case study
The tools we reach for first.
Next.js
TypeScript
OpenAI
LangChain
Postgres
AWS
Tailwind
React
Python
Anthropic
Supabase
Vercel
Stripe
RAG / Vectors
The people we've shipped for.
About
A small team in Lahore, shipping for founders worldwide.
We started NorthStackHQ in 2023 because we got tired of watching good ideas die in 12-week scoping cycles.
Today we're a tight crew of senior engineers, designers, and AI specialists working on a simple bet — that the gap between "I have an idea" and "users are paying for it" should be measured in weeks, not quarters.
We work from Lahore, which means we ship while half our clients sleep. We deliver to founders in San Francisco, London, Berlin, Toronto, and Sydney. We don't outsource. We don't subcontract. The people you meet on the call are the people writing your code.
Touseef Murtaza
Founder · Engineering
Abdullah Naveed
Lead Engineer
Hannan Butt
AI · ML
Common questions, plain answers.
Most MVPs ship in 4–8 weeks. The faster ones are well-scoped tools (one core workflow, one user type). The longer ones involve multiple integrations, complex AI behaviors, or auth flows we need to design carefully. We tell you a number on the discovery call — and we don't move it later.
Most projects fall between $8,000 and $45,000 USD. Discovery calls are free. Custom AI integrations and ongoing automation projects can scope smaller; full-stack MVPs with auth, payments, and AI typically scope larger. You get a fixed quote within a week of our first call.
Yes — happy to. We can sign before the discovery call if you'd like. Most founders don't bother (we're not your competition), but if it helps you sleep better, send one over.
Lahore, Pakistan (UTC+5). We overlap mornings with Europe and late evenings with North America. Most of our clients are in SF, NY, London, and Berlin. Slack is our default; calls happen on demand. Async by default; sync when it matters.
Most of our clients are. We translate. You bring the customer insight; we handle architecture, stack choices, deployment, and the words "Postgres" and "TypeScript". We won't make you read pull requests unless you want to.
Yes — optional. After launch you can keep us on a monthly retainer for bug fixes, small features, and AI tuning. Or walk away clean. We don't lock you in. Roughly half our clients keep us on; the other half hire in-house and we hand off cleanly.
You do, from day one. The repo is yours, the infrastructure is on your accounts, the third-party API keys are yours. We don't hold IP hostage. If we vanish tomorrow, your business doesn't.
Have an idea?
Let's ship it.
Free 30-minute discovery call. No deck, no demo — just questions and honest answers.
Book a Discovery CallLet's talk specifics.
Tell us what you're building. We'll reply within one business day with a fit-check and next steps.
Prefer to skip the form?
Email works. So does Calendly — pick a 30-minute slot directly.
- hello@northstackhq.com
- Lahore, Pakistan · Available globally
- Replies within 1 business day