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Dedicated Team
A full product team that ships sprint-to-sprint. Product managers, designers, engineers, and QA - all working on your product while you focus on customers and fundraising.
Product Stage · Seed
Your Dedicated Product Team from MVP to PMF
You've shipped your first product and people are using it. Now comes the hard part: iterating until the market tells you it's working. We build while you sell - adding features, optimizing performance, and evolving your product until it resonates.
Trusted by 100+ founders
Works Best For
Seed-stage startups with $0.5M+ raised and 10-1,000 active users.
You've validated the idea. You have early traction. Now you need a team to help you iterate toward product-market fit without the 3-to-6-month hiring cycle.
Typical fit: seed-stage startups iterating on a live product with paying users or active pilots, but not yet at PMF.
What We Deliver
Product-Market Fit
PMF means high adoption, great NPS, and a product that works as advertised. Getting there takes relentless iteration, technical excellence, and the right team in your corner.
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Consistent Design System
A scalable design system that evolves with your product. Every feature ships with the same visual language, interaction patterns, and user experience quality.
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Engineering That Scales
An engineering structure built to handle growth and complexity. Clean architecture, optimized performance, and systems designed to scale as you add users and features.
How We Get You to PMF
The mechanism behind the outcome.
Finding product-market fit isn't luck. It's a specific way of working. Here is what makes ours faster than a typical dev shop's.
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Ship every sprint
We don't disappear into a 6-month build. Real features in users' hands every two weeks. That's how PMF signals surface fast enough to act on.
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One team, whole stack
PM, design, engineering, and AI under one engagement. No handoff lag between disciplines, no specialty bottlenecks when priorities shift mid-sprint.
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Iterate on data, not opinions
Analytics, session replays, and feedback loops set up from day one. We measure what users actually do, not what they say in interviews.
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Senior team only
No juniors learning on your dime. Every architecture, design, and product call is made by someone who has shipped to PMF before.
Case Studies
Startups we've taken from MVP toward PMF.
Client name withheld
Automating Patient Outreach at Scale with AI SMS + Voice
End-to-end design and engineering for a US healthcare outreach platform - multi-tenant, multi-language (90+), with AI auto-response, redetermination workflows, and full traceability through Langfuse for every AI decision.
100,000+ AI-generated SMS sent through the platform
MonkSpaces
AI Real Estate Agent for MonkSpaces Commercial Leasing
Deployed an autonomous AI agent that qualifies leads, answers queries, and schedules tours — reducing sales team workload by 60%.
60% reduction in sales team workload
TerraRex
Powering India's Peer-to-Peer Energy Trading Revolution with TerraRex
Tequity owns design, engineering, and QA for TerraRex's consumer P2P energy app - including voice-to-UI, cross-discom trade flows on the Beck protocol, and one of the first production references for Beck-ledger writes.
25,000+ users by the 4th month post-launch
Riverwalk Holdings
Powering AI-Driven Investment Intelligence at Riverwalk
Built an AI-driven monitoring platform that ingests data from Tracxn, K-Scan, LinkedIn, Medium and ~21,000 company links - then summarises, scores, and surfaces what the Riverwalk investment team needs to act on each day.
3 hours per day saved by Associates and Partners
Process
How It Works
Four phases. One product team. Sprint after sprint, working toward product-market fit.
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Alignment Call
We hear your product goals, understand your roadmap, and recommend a team structure that can help you achieve it.
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Team Onboarding
Knowledge transfer, product overview, Git repo access, Jira boards, Slack channels - your team gets embedded into your systems and workflows.
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Sprint Planning & Execution
We work in 2-week sprints. Every sprint starts with planning, ends with a demo, and ships real features that move your product forward.
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Regular Cadence
Daily standups, weekly reviews, monthly retrospectives. You stay in the loop without micromanaging. We stay aligned without endless meetings.
Engagement Details
A full product team on a monthly retainer.
Timeline
3 months - 3+ years (avg 2.5 yrs)
Investment
From $10K/month retainer
Team
PM, Designer, Full Stack Eng, AI Eng, QA
Testimonials
Founders on Working With Tequity
Pre-Seed to Series B
“We hired Tequity shortly after closing our pre-seed, and since then they've completely taken over our frontend and DevOps work. Typical turnaround is 1 day for critical bug fixes, 7 days for new features, and 6 weeks for entire MVPs. The software we built together is now used by multiple leading American biopharma companies. I recommend Tequity for any startup from angel round through Series B and beyond.”
Founder & CTO, TerraFlow
“The best outsourced engineering help you can get. Genuinely talented engineers who deliver on time, take full ownership of the product, and push back on your ideas until they understand why you're building each thing.”
Founder, Bantor
4.9/5
Average rating across 100+ customers over 4 years
“They helped us audit our product, identify key UX/UI improvement opportunities, and prioritize quick wins that delivered immediate value. The team has been responsive, collaborative, and consistently delivers high-quality work.”
Founder & CEO, Boxsy
The work behind the words.
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Co-Founder, QuantWheel
“We came in expecting a redesign and got something more useful. Design Labs built us a design system our AI could actually build against, so what we ship stays consistent without us having to think about it. We'd give feedback and see it reflected in the next round, often the same day.”
From the Blog
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