# MVP Development in Stafford > Need MVP development in Stafford? Cube Systems implements and supports MVP development across Stafford, Stoke-on-Trent, Lichfield and Burton upon Trent and the wider Staffordshire area. **URL:** https://cubesystems.co.uk/product/mvp-development/staffordshire/stafford Being comfortably within a morning’s drive of our Olney office, Stafford is somewhere we get to regularly. Discovery, training and go-live are all better done in the room, and at 75 miles that is entirely practical. ## Details - **Service:** MVP Development - **Type:** Product development - https://cubesystems.co.uk/product - **Engineering by:** Crushed Ice (https://crushedice.uk) - **Location:** Stafford, Staffordshire - **Distance from our Olney office:** 75 miles - comfortably within a morning’s drive of our Olney office - **Postcode districts:** ST16, ST17, ST18 - **Also known as:** Minimum viable product development, Prototype to product, Startup software development, Proof of concept development, First version development, Product discovery and build ## Coverage We cover Stafford and the surrounding area, including Town Centre, Stafford Technology Park, Prime Point 14, Beaconside and Doxey, across the ST16, ST17 and ST18 postcode districts. We also work with businesses in Stoke-on-Trent, Lichfield, Burton upon Trent and Tamworth and elsewhere in Staffordshire. ## What is included - **Scope decided by what it proves:** Every candidate feature is judged against one question: does leaving it out stop a customer getting value? Most of them do not, and the ones that do become the first release. - **Built to keep, not to demo:** A throwaway prototype is fine for a pitch and a disaster as a foundation. The first version is built on the same architecture the real product will use, just with far less of it. - **Charging from the first release:** Signup, plans and payment included from day one. An idea that people will pay for behaves very differently from one they will merely sign up to for free. - **Instrumented to learn from:** Activation, drop-off and feature usage tracked from launch, so the second version is designed from evidence rather than from the loudest customer conversation. - **An interface people can use unaided:** A first version that needs a walkthrough is a first version that will not convert. Onboarding is treated as part of the product rather than as documentation. - **A path to version two:** Where the product is likely to grow is designed for even when it is not built. The parts that are deliberately simple are the parts that are cheap to replace. ## Real-world use cases ### An idea from inside an industry **Scenario:** Someone who had worked in an industry for twenty years knew exactly which administrative problem everybody in it had. They had a very clear idea, no software background, and a list of forty features. **Outcome:** The list was cut to four. The first version launched in under four months, converted its first paying customers from the founder’s own network, and the roadmap was rebuilt from what those customers actually did with it. ### A prototype that had run out of road **Scenario:** A team had validated demand with a no-code prototype, but it could not handle their data volumes, could not be secured properly and could not take payments the way they needed. **Outcome:** The validated workflow was rebuilt as a real application with the same behaviour, then extended with the two things the prototype could never do. No user had to relearn anything. ### A new line inside an existing business **Scenario:** An established company wanted to launch a subscription product adjacent to their main business, but could not justify a full internal team before knowing whether it would sell. **Outcome:** A first version was built and launched by our team while the business tested the market. Once retention proved the model, the platform and the knowledge were transferred to an internal team. ## Figures - **4 months** A realistic target for a focused first release - **Priced by stage** Agreed before each stage starts, never open-ended - **Built to keep** Small on purpose, not unfinished ## Frequently asked questions **How much does an MVP cost?** It depends entirely on scope, which is exactly why the first conversation is about cutting scope rather than pricing a feature list. We price each stage before it starts, so you are never committing to an open-ended project. **Will we have to rebuild it later?** Not if it is built properly. A first version should be small, not shoddy. We deliberately leave things out; we do not deliberately build them badly, because the rebuild tax lands exactly when you can least afford it. **What if the idea does not work?** Then you found out in four months for a known cost, which is the point. A staged approach means you can stop at the end of any stage, and you own everything built so far. **Do we need funding first?** No, though it obviously helps. Plenty of good products are funded from an existing business or from the first customers. What matters more is that somebody has confirmed they will pay for it. ## Related services - **SaaS Development** - Take a software product from idea to a live, multi-tenant, subscription platform - designed, built and run by one team. https://cubesystems.co.uk/product/saas-development/staffordshire/stafford - **SaaS Rebuild** - Replatform an ageing SaaS product that has become expensive to change, slow to run or impossible to hire for. https://cubesystems.co.uk/product/saas-rebuild/staffordshire/stafford - **White Label SaaS** - A resellable subscription platform built under your brand, ready to sell to your own customers as your own product. https://cubesystems.co.uk/product/white-label-saas/staffordshire/stafford - **SaaS Migration** - Turn an existing on-premise, desktop or single-client system into a multi-tenant product that anybody can subscribe to. https://cubesystems.co.uk/product/saas-migration/staffordshire/stafford ## Elsewhere in Staffordshire See https://cubesystems.co.uk/product/mvp-development/staffordshire for MVP development across Staffordshire. ## Contact - **Company:** Cube Systems Limited (company number 17220899, ICO registration number ZC216972) - **Email:** hello@cubesystems.co.uk - **Sales:** sales@cubesystems.co.uk - **Support:** support@cubesystems.co.uk - **Telephone:** 01234 672 617 (+441234672617) - **Address:** Unit 11, Olney Business Park, Osier Way, Olney, Buckinghamshire, MK46 5FP - **Opening hours:** Monday to Friday, 09:00 to 17:30 - **Part of:** Crushed Ice Group (https://crushedicegroup.co.uk)