AI MVP development for Geelong founders — senior engineers, no big-city margin
AI MVP Development in Geelong
Fixed scope · weekly demos · you own the stack
The old way
Waiting on a Melbourne agency's bench
The Cipher way
A senior team on your MVP from week one
An MVP built to survive its first users
AI where it creates value, production infrastructure from day one, and the boring parts done properly.
AI-native product features
LLM features, agents, RAG search and automation built into the product where they create real user value — with evals, guardrails and costs understood up front.
Production cloud from day one
Deployed to your own AWS account with CI/CD, monitoring and backups — an MVP you can scale, not a prototype you rebuild.
The stack that fits, not the stack we resell
Next.js, FastAPI, Expo or Flutter; Weaviate or Qdrant; OpenAI, Anthropic or open-weight models — chosen for your product, the way our published comparisons are written.
The boring parts done properly
Auth, billing, admin, analytics and security basics included in scope — the unglamorous 40% that decides whether an MVP survives first contact with users.
How it works
A fixed-scope sprint, demoed weekly
01
Scope sprint
We cut your idea down to the smallest product worth shipping, agree fixed scope and price, and pick the stack with you.
02
Build, demo weekly
A senior-led team builds in your repos and your cloud account. You see working software every week, not a status report.
03
Launch
Production deploy on your infrastructure with monitoring, analytics and the security basics in place.
04
Keep building — with or without us
Clean handover docs included. Continue with a dedicated team, or take it in-house. You own everything either way.
The offer
One sprint. One price. A product you own.
AI MVP Sprint
From AUD $40,000
Fixed scope and price agreed after a scope sprint. Most builds run six to ten weeks, with working software demoed every week.
AI products we've shipped
Production AI systems built by Cipher teams — the same engineers who would build your MVP.
AI agents · Financial services
Secure internal agent platform
SSO · RBAC · Full audit logging
Internal AI agents for a regulated firm, wired into core systems with access control and governance built in from day one — not bolted on after launch.
Workflow automation · Media
AI ad-video production pipeline
$0.40/hr GPU · 3 inputs to finished video
Automated synthetic UGC for an advertising agency. Presenter, script and voice in; social-ready video out — no studio, actors, or manual editing.
Questions Geelong founders ask about AI MVP development
Ready when you are
Ship the MVP, learn from real users
A fixed-scope sprint from idea to production — AI where it pays off, weekly demos, and a stack you own outright.
Fixed scope, fixed price
Agreed before we start — no creeping retainers
You own everything
Repos, cloud accounts and IP are yours from day one
Australian contracts & invoicing
Legal comfort for your investors and board