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.
Financial services · Full platform · AI assistant
Insurance broker go-to-market platform
20 pages · lead funnel · AI client support
A complete launch platform for an Australian insurance broker: marketing website, lead qualification funnel, client portal backed by a database, and a secure AI assistant for first-line client questions.
Sports & membership · Platform build · Security hardened
Sports membership platform as embedded engineering team
8 months · scaled infrastructure · security closed
Eight months embedded with an Australian sports membership app: secure member accounts, scalable video delivery, fixes after independent security testing, and monitoring the internal team can run day to day.
Advertising · Video automation · Applied AI
AI ad-video production pipeline
Low-cost compute · 3 inputs to finished video
A repeatable video production workflow for an Australian advertising agency. Add a presenter, script, and voice description; get social-ready videos back. No studio, actors, or usage fees.
Research · Document automation · Private cloud
Secure analysis environment with AI agents
Private environment · automated triage · full audit trail
A private cloud workspace for an Australian research firm. AI reads incoming documents and email, pulls out structured findings, and hands them to the internal team. All data stays in the client's own environment.
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