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One Team, Instead of Three Agencies and Four Hires

A designer, a freelance developer and someone for the website, with nobody technical telling you which of it is a bad idea. We replace all of that with one team, led by a CTO who will tell you when not to build something.

From £9,500 per month, excluding VAT. Minimum engagement of 3 months.

How can a solo founder build a product without a technical co-founder?

A solo or non-technical founder can engage a managed core team instead of hiring in-house or giving away equity for a technical co-founder. At Metamindz that is a fractional CTO, a technical delivery manager and a senior full-stack developer on a fixed monthly fee, with design, QA, DevOps and additional engineers available as add-ons. The fractional CTO owns architecture, AI safeguards and technical decisions, and advises on what to build now versus what to defer until after a funding round.

Why founders use a Core Team

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End to end, without the hiring

Product thinking, architecture, design, build, testing and release from one team. No recruiting a developer you cannot technically assess, and no managing three suppliers who each blame the other two.

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A CTO in your corner

A fractional CTO owns the architecture, the technical decisions and the AI safeguards, and explains the trade-offs in plain language. You get the technical judgement of a co-founder without giving away equity for it.

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Advice based on your business, not our invoice

We are opinionated about what to build first: what gets you revenue or customers soonest, what investors will actually ask about, and what should wait until after the round. If something is not worth building yet, we will tell you, even when building it would be the easier sale.

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AI used properly

AI makes small teams much faster, and it is also how most early products end up with security holes. We use it hard where it helps and put explicit guardrails around authentication, payments and personal data, with a senior engineer reviewing everything that ships.

Two ways to work with us

Most founders start with the Core Team, because the technical decisions matter more than the raw hours. Individual developers make sense once you have someone technical running the work.

Core Team

A complete delivery unit on a fixed monthly fee.

From £9,500 per month

Best for

Companies that want a product built and owned properly, without hiring a full department or managing an agency.

What you get

  • A fractional CTO leading architecture, technical decisions and code review
  • A technical delivery manager running sprints, reporting and day-to-day communication
  • A senior full-stack developer building the product
  • Architecture and estimation before the build starts
  • Daily updates, weekly demos and preview links
  • Documentation and handover support, with no vendor lock-in

Add to the core team as the roadmap needs it

  • QA and test automation
  • UI design
  • UX design
  • Customer interviews
  • DevOps
  • Data engineering
  • Cyber security
  • Landing pages and e-commerce
  • Mobile app developers
  • Additional frontend, backend or full-stack engineers

Per-developer

One vetted engineer, on a simple hourly or daily rate.

Transparent hourly or daily rate, quoted on the intro call.

Best for

Teams that already have technical leadership and delivery management in place, and need capacity in a specific stack.

What you get

  • A single engineer allocated to your team
  • Technically vetted by our CTOs before you meet them
  • Works inside your tools, your process and your rituals
  • You meet the engineer before anything is agreed
  • Scale up, swap, or stop at the end of the term
  • Our CTOs are still available to help ad-hoc whenever needed
Talk to us about a developer

All figures exclude VAT.

From today to results

  • Step 1

    Free CTO session

    Bring the idea, the deck, the spreadsheet, or the prototype you built yourself. We work out what you are actually trying to prove and what it would take to prove it. NDA first if you would prefer.

  • Step 2

    Scope, architecture and a plan you can show investors

    A build plan with estimates and a clear split between what ships now and what waits. You meet the team before you commit to anything.

  • Step 3

    Build and launch

    Daily updates, weekly demos and preview links, so you always know what you have paid for. You own the code, the documentation and the accounts from day one.

Tech stacks we've delivered with

The languages, frameworks and platforms our delivery teams work in day to day. If your stack is on this list, we can pick it up without a learning curve on your budget.

Frameworks and languages

  • React
  • Next.js
  • Vite
  • Angular
  • TypeScript
  • JavaScript

Interface engineering

  • HTML5
  • CSS3
  • SCSS
  • Tailwind CSS
  • shadcn/ui
  • Material UI
  • MUI X
  • Razor
  • HAML
  • ERB

State, forms and tooling

  • Redux
  • Zustand
  • React Hook Form

Our Partners Include

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We believe in "Show, Don't Tell"

See what our clients have to say.

“Great working with Lev and team at MetaMindz! We were working on a project to build new features in our mobile app. Lev was brilliant with managing the project and supporting the definition of tasks to complete with his insight on the user experience. The dev team was very responsive throughout by sharing updates on both Slack and our project management board in Asana. I look forward to continuing to work with MetaMindz in the future.” source

Patrick Huang

Google review

“Worked with Metamindz for a few years now and have only had great experiences. Brilliant at helping us navigate our tricky requirements and diligently strive to give us the best possible outcome. Their insight still gives us value long after they've finished their work. Recommend.” source

Robert Watts

Google review

“We've been working with Metamindz for a year now, and it's been a great experience. The developer we're collaborating with is solid, and we've seen real progress. What I love most is their flexibility and how they take feedback seriously, adapting quickly to our needs. Highly recommend for anyone looking to boost their dev team!” source

Dor Lahav

Google review

“Working with Lev at Metamindz has been an absolute pleasure. The level of service and personal input has been outstanding since the beginning. Lev, was able to find the right people, talent and skills required. But the service does not end there, the aftersales, the advice, the attention to detail are all outstanding. If we had any concerns, they were dealt with immediately and with regular follow-ups. Metamindz are the first name that springs to mind when considering recruitment, I would totally recommend.” source

Andrew Robinson

Google review

“Working with Metamindz has been instrumental in helping us deliver development projects without needing to actively scale our internal team. The level of tech knowledge across platforms and breadth of talent has been excellent. On top of that, they are just wonderful to work with!” source

Dan Gough

Google review

“Great service and and amazing team! Metamindz build our demo platform and provided professional services. They are an organised and agreeable team and we recommend working with them.” source

Aleta Index

Google review

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Core Team versus usual outsourcing

What a founder without a technical team actually ends up dealing with.

What mattersMetamindz Core TeamUsual outsourcing
Technical judgementA fractional CTO owns architecture and explains the trade-offs in plain languageYou are asked to make technical decisions you have no way to assess
Advice on scopeWe tell you what to build now and what to defer, including when that means less work for usThe wishlist gets quoted and built, because that is the bigger invoice
Number of suppliersOne team covering product, design, build and releaseA designer, a developer and someone for the website, each blaming the others
Investor due diligenceDocumented decisions and reviewed code you can defend in a diligence processNobody thought about it until an investor asked
OwnershipCode, repositories, infrastructure accounts and documentation are yours from day oneKnowledge stays with the supplier, so once they're gone - the knowledge is gone, too.

The same team, other situations

Core Team for startups

Feature delivery with AI, analytics wired in, and no extra load on your tech lead.

Core Team for enterprises

Ownership across in-house teams and other suppliers. Outside IR35, GDPR-compliant.

Fractional CTO only

If you have developers already and just need the technical leadership.

Frequently Asked Questions

Enough to make business decisions, and no more. The fractional CTO translates the technical trade-offs into what they cost, what they risk and what they make possible later. You decide; we handle the rest and document why each decision was made.

From £9,500 per month, excluding VAT, as a fixed monthly fee covering a fractional CTO, a technical delivery manager and a senior full-stack developer. Design, QA, DevOps, data engineering, cyber security, mobile developers and additional engineers are add-ons, taken only when the build needs them.

It does not cost equity, and it does not carry the risk of hiring senior engineers you cannot technically assess. Compared with an in-house team, you get a CTO, a delivery manager and a senior developer for less than the fully loaded cost of hiring those roles individually, and you can stop at the end of the term. What it does not replace is a long-term technical co-founder if that is genuinely what your company needs, and we will say so if we think it is.

Yes. The code, the repositories, the infrastructure accounts and the documentation are yours from day one. No vendor lock-in, and we support the handover whenever you bring the work in-house.

Then we scope an MVP and say plainly what is being left out and why. Part of the job is telling you which features can wait until you have customers or funding, rather than building everything on the original wishlist.

That is one of the things we build for. Architecture decisions are documented, the code is reviewed, and the technical story is one you can defend in a diligence process. We also run technical due diligence for investors, so we know what they look for.

Tell us what you are building

Send over the idea and where you have got to. We will come back with an honest view of what it would take, and whether you need us at all yet.

All figures exclude VAT.