Building for founding teams and greenfield projects.
Senior engineers who ship your product, build the infrastructure behind it, and hire the team that takes it forward.
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Engineers for AI-native startups.
Senior engineers who build product and infrastructure in the same sprint, then hire the team that owns it after us.
- 9 teams shipped
- $35M+ raised by our clients
Product build
Web, mobile and AI features, shipping from week one.
Foundations
CI/CD, preview environments, IaC and observability, set up before you need them.
AI-native
Coding agents, AI code review and evals wired into how your team works.
Audit
A baseline of your codebase, infra and security, with a prioritised roadmap.
Hiring
We scope the role, run interviews and trials, and onboard your first engineers.
Greenfield
Firmware to frontend, fixed scope, fixed dates.
We work differently.
Shipping fast is table stakes. Shipping on foundations that compound is what sets us apart.
With Cocoon
- Audit
- Build
- Handoff
In-house
- Hiring (run by Cocoon)
- Your team
Pricing
No guesswork on pricing. We charge $19K/mo.
The audit is included, not billed on top. Month to month, with no minimum term.
You've raised up to $5m and have 10 or fewer people. You need product shipping while you search for a founding engineer, and infrastructure that won't need rebuilding at Series A.
Audit
We map how you build today across the codebase, infra and security. You get a baseline and a roadmap we work against from week one.
- Codebase
- Infra
- Security
Weekly sync
A weekly session where we demo what shipped, review priorities and brief the next sprint. In person, if location allows.
Pairing
Slack huddles and ad-hoc calls with your team whenever a decision can't wait for the sync.
Product build
We ship features from week one, from core product flows to the AI features on your roadmap.
- Web
- Mobile
- AI features
Foundations
Series B infra, built at seed. Your velocity holds up as headcount grows, and your first hires inherit a stack they can deploy to on day one.
- CI/CD
- Preview envs
- IaC
- Observability
AI-native
Coding agents, AI code review and evals set up as part of your workflow, so a small team ships at the pace of a larger one.
Hiring
We scope the role, source candidates, run interviews and trial projects, and help you close the offer.
- Role scoping
- Interviews
- Trials
Handoff
We pair with your new hire until they own the codebase, the infra and the roadmap. Then we step back.
You have a greenfield build with a defined scope and a date it needs to ship by. A new product, an internal tool, an AI feature, or a device that pairs with an app and syncs to the cloud. One team builds every layer, in any stack.
Scoping
You'll have more ideas than budget. We turn them into a prioritised plan for the first release, then agree milestones and a ship date before the build starts.
Weekly sync
A weekly demo against milestones, so you see progress and can adjust scope early.
Build
Senior engineers ship to production on your stack, with tests and documentation your team can maintain.
- Web
- Mobile
- Backend
- Embedded
- Cloud
Foundations
CI/CD, preview environments, IaC and observability come as standard, so the project keeps running after we leave.
Handoff
We walk your team through the codebase and infra, and stay on call through the first release cycle.
FAQ
A dev shop builds to a spec and moves on. We set priorities with you, build the foundations your team will work on, and hire the engineers who take over. Every engagement is designed to end with your team owning the product.
If you've raised and know the problem you're solving, it's a good time to start. We'll take you from zero to one with foundations in place, so the MVP doesn't need a rewrite before Series A. If you're still validating the idea, book a call and we'll tell you whether we're the right fit yet.
Yes. The audit shows what's worth keeping, where the tech debt sits, and what needs hardening before real users hit it. From there we refactor where it matters and keep shipping features.
We work alongside them, picking up infra and features they don't have bandwidth for, and helping hire the people who'll join their team.
That depends mostly on how quickly the first hire lands. Handoff starts once they're onboard and ends when they own the codebase, infra and roadmap. You'll get a timeline after the audit.
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