An AI marketplace connecting enterprises with industry experts

The founding team had a compelling vision but lacked the technical execution capabilities. They desperately needed an investor-ready, highly functional prototype of an AI-driven marketplace that matched large enterprises with highly niche, vetted industry experts. Starting from an absolute blank slate, they needed a platform that not only looked the part but actually functioned well enough to prove the underlying business model during high-stakes investor meetings.

In today's highly competitive startup ecosystem, pre-seed startups need significantly more than a beautifully designed pitch deck to secure funding. Investors demand to see traction and a tangible, working product that undeniably proves the core technical matching engine actually works. The prototype needed to instill immediate confidence in potential investors that the founders could execute on their massive vision to secure the required capital.

We operated as an embedded product and engineering team, building an end-to-end working prototype in record time. Rather than building peripheral features, we focused entirely and ruthlessly on perfecting the core value loop: the complex AI matching engine, the underlying scalable data model and the frictionless enterprise onboarding experience. By ensuring the core mechanics were flawless, we created a demo that was impossible for investors to ignore.

• Delivered a working prototype that undeniably proved technical viability to deeply technical investors
• Designed a highly scalable data model engineered to support the platform's future post-funding expansion
• The delivered prototype contributed directly to the founders successfully closing a multimillion-dollar funding round

From a conceptual idea on a whiteboard → a fully working, investor-grade prototype that secured a multimillion-dollar funding raise.

10 weeks