Get the Software Built, From First Idea to Scale

A software development partner designs, builds and maintains software for your business, such as a SaaS product, a website platform or a mobile app, using their own engineers working alongside yours. A good one starts with what the software has to do, picks an architecture that can grow, ships in stages you can see, and leaves the code in your hands. We build SaaS products, live video and streaming platforms, headless CMS and e-commerce, with named senior engineers from the first call to the handover and the code in your repository from the first commit.

A 0-to-1 product build takes you from an idea to a first production release, so there’s no existing product to protect. Rebuilding an existing product means replacing or moving a system that people already rely on, which adds the work of keeping it running and moving the data across. The first is mostly about deciding what to build. The second is mostly about protecting what already works. Our 0-to-1 Product Build (12 to 24 weeks, from $60K) delivers a small first release in milestones, each ending in a demo and a go or no-go decision. For an existing product, we rebuild or move you without stopping the business, scoped on a call.

A headless CMS is a content system that stores and edits your content separately from the website that shows it, and delivers that content through an API. You’d move to one when the same content has to appear in more than one place, such as a website and a mobile app, or when your current system slows down every release. We build new headless content systems and migrate existing ones, scoped on a call.

Video has to arrive in real time, to a lot of people at once, on connections of very different quality. Ordinary web software can wait a second and retry. A live stream can’t, and a sudden spike of viewers can overwhelm it. That’s why live video needs its own infrastructure and monitoring, and engineers who’ve built it before. We built WebRTC and HLS infrastructure and SDKs on Mediasoup, WebSocket and Redis, with Grafana watching performance, for a media streaming and live engagement platform. We also built the stream-and-shop platform and mobile SDKs for a live shopping company.

The usual safeguards are reviewed by an engineer who understands the change, scanning for licence and provenance problems, and a record of what the AI wrote and who approved it. Our engineers use AI coding tools every day, and on client work, any code an AI tool contributes is reviewed twice: first by a named BigStep engineer before the pull request opens, then by your own engineers through your normal process. The audit trail stays with you.

If you have a team with room in its plan, a clear product and a way of shipping that works, you may not. An outside team earns its place when you can’t hire fast enough, when you need a skill your team doesn’t have, such as live video, or when you want a first version out quickly without growing headcount. A free 90-minute session with a senior engineer will tell you which side you’re on, whether or not you work with us.

It depends on the scope of the first release, but a first production version usually takes 3 to 6 months. Costs rise with the number of user types, integrations, platforms and how much traffic it has to handle on day one. Our 0-to-1 Product Build runs 12 to 24 weeks from $60K, in milestones where you approve each step before the next budget is spent. Rebuilds, headless CMS, e-commerce and live video work are scoped on a call.