Bluesphere Digital — SaaS studio for founders. Your Idea, Built and Live in 12 Weeks.
Bluesphere Digital is the technical co-founder you hire instead of hunting for. You bring the idea and the industry knowledge. We check it is worth building, build it, launch it, and stay on to grow it.
One fixed price per step and a working demo at every milestone. We work remotely from Australia with founders worldwide.
See How It Works
Why first products fail, what each of our three steps gives you, and the live product that proves it. Every point is on screen, so it works with the sound off.
Most First Products Fail Before Launch
Not because the idea was bad. Because of three mistakes that burn through a founder’s money before anyone has used the product. We are set up to stop each one.
Nobody Wrote Down What “Done” Means
A vague brief is the most expensive thing you can start with.
What you get from us: a one-week Discovery Sprint that ends with a written list of exactly what the first version includes and leaves out, so the build has a fixed target and a fixed price.
Too Much Gets Built Before Anyone Uses It
Most first products are not too small. They are too big.
What you get from us: the smallest product that answers that question honestly, in front of real users in 8 to 12 weeks. Every feature we leave out is a week of runway back in your pocket.
The Cheapest Quote Costs the Most
Software that breaks, gets rebuilt, and breaks again is the most common way early money disappears.
What you get from us: the same senior people from the first conversation to long after launch, building it once, properly.
Three Steps From Idea to Growing Product
Each step has a fixed price and ends with something you can hold, use and keep. You decide at the end of each one whether to continue.
Find Out If It Is Worth Building
One week, and you know whether to invest in a build, what it will cost, and what the first version will be.
- A written list of what the first version includes and leaves out.
- A clickable prototype you can show to customers and investors.
- A fixed price and timeline for the build.
Get a Real Product in Front of Real Users
Your first version, live and taking users, typically 8 to 12 weeks after kickoff.
- A working demo you can try at every milestone.
- You pay for work you have accepted, not hours logged.
- Built to last, and the code is yours from day one.
Keep Growing Without Hiring a Full-Time CTO
After launch, someone senior to make the technical calls, and AI features that actually work for your users.
- A senior technical lead on call, for a fraction of a full-time salary.
- New features and AI capabilities, shipped and tested with real data.
- Help hiring your first engineers and answering investors.
See What We Build
ProfileIQ is our own product. You can use it right now and judge the quality yourself. Client work is confidential, so instead we publish notes on how we build the kinds of systems founders ask us about most.
ProfileIQ
An AI tool that reads resumes and tells job seekers and recruiters what works and what does not. Live at profileiq.ai.
We took it from idea to launch and we run it every day. That means we live with the same costs, outages and hard decisions we ask our clients to make.
If you want to see how Bluesphere Digital builds, use the product.
How we built and run it ->AI That Reviews Legal Contracts
How we build AI that reads incoming contracts and flags anything that breaks your rules, in minutes instead of days.
Turning Messy Finance Data into Trusted Documents
How we build platforms that take inconsistent deal data and produce investor documents that always agree with each other.
Who This Is For
We take on a small number of founders at a time and work with them for years, not weeks. That only works when the fit is right. See the full fit criteria.
Questions Founders Ask Us
Straight answers to the questions we hear on almost every first call. For a technical advisor, our stack and how we build is on the About page.
Can I see examples of your work?
Yes. ProfileIQ, our own AI product, is live at profileiq.ai and you can use it today. It is the build we can show end to end: idea, design, launch, and day-to-day running. Client work is confidential and is not described on this site, with no names, no screenshots and no engagement details.
What we publish instead are notes on how we build the kinds of system founders ask about most. We are happy to go deeper on a call, under your own confidentiality agreement if you prefer.
What is a Discovery Sprint?
A Discovery Sprint is a fixed-price, one-week engagement that answers whether an idea is worth building before anyone commits to an 8-12 week build. It ends with four things you can hold rather than a proposal: a clear statement of who has the problem and how they cope today, a written list of what the first version includes and leaves out, a plan for how it will be built, and a clickable prototype you can show to customers and investors.
You also receive a fixed price and timeline for the build, so the decision to proceed is made against a real plan instead of a guess. Founders who stop after the sprint still own everything produced during it, including the prototype.
How long does it take to build an MVP?
A Bluesphere Digital MVP build typically goes live 8 to 12 weeks after kickoff. The price is fixed and the work is split into milestones. Every milestone ends in a working demo you can use yourself, not a status report, and payment is released against accepted work rather than hours logged.
Where a project lands in that range depends on how settled the plan is before the build starts, which is what the one-week Discovery Sprint resolves. Builds that begin without an agreed plan take longer, because the plan gets renegotiated mid-build.
What tech stack do you use?
Bluesphere Digital is deliberately stack-agnostic. The right tools depend on what you are building, your team, and where you want to be in three years. Our default for most SaaS products is TypeScript with React and Next.js, Node.js or Python on the backend, and PostgreSQL. That combination gets founders to market fastest and is the easiest stack to hire into later. Beyond it we work across Python, Go and .NET, React Native and Flutter for mobile, and SQL, NoSQL and vector databases.
We build event-driven and serverless architectures, deployed to AWS, GCP, Azure or Vercel. AI features run on OpenAI, Anthropic, Google or open-source models. If your product needs a different stack, or you already have one, we work in it rather than proposing a rewrite.
Who owns the code and intellectual property?
You own 100% of the code and intellectual property from day one — not at handover, and not after final payment. Source code, designs, documentation and infrastructure configuration all belong to you. You have full repository access throughout the build, so you can read every commit as it lands.
There is no proprietary framework to license from us afterwards, and nothing that makes moving to another engineering team expensive. If an engagement ends early, everything built up to that point is still yours.
How much does it cost?
A Discovery Sprint is AUD 9,500, fixed, ex-GST, for 1 week. It delivers a scope, an architecture and a working proof-of-concept, and you own all of it whether or not you build with us. An MVP build is a fixed fee, agreed before work starts and set from the scope the Discovery Sprint produces, and typically takes 8 to 12 weeks.
Fractional CTO support is a fixed monthly fee, sized to the stage of the product and agreed after a sprint or build, when the real workload is known.
How do payments work?
MVP builds are fixed price and paid in milestones. The scope and the milestones are agreed before the build starts. Each milestone ends in a working demo you can use, and payment is released against delivered and accepted work. There is no open-ended hourly billing and no bill that grows while you wait.
Ongoing retainers run at a fixed monthly fee. Because the scope is fixed up front, the number you budget at kickoff is the number you pay at launch, unless you choose to change the scope.
Do you take equity in projects?
Only where there is genuine alignment, and always alongside development fees rather than instead of them. We take a minority position when we expect to be involved with the product well beyond the initial build, and want a share in the long-term upside.
Equity is never a requirement. The standard engagements are a fixed-scope Discovery Sprint, a fixed-scope MVP build, and a monthly retainer, all paid in cash. Founders who would rather keep their cap table clean are not treated differently.
What does a fractional CTO do?
A fractional CTO provides senior technical leadership part-time. It suits founders who need the judgement of a CTO but do not yet need — or cannot yet fund — a full-time hire. In practice that covers architecture decisions and their trade-offs, technology and vendor selection, delivery planning and oversight, and technical due diligence during fundraising.
It also covers interviewing and onboarding the first engineers, and hands-on development where it unblocks the product. At Bluesphere Digital it runs as a fixed-fee monthly retainer, usually after an MVP build, so the person making architecture decisions is the person who wrote it.
Who is the ideal client for Bluesphere Digital?
Bluesphere Digital works best with three kinds of client. Non-technical founders with deep domain expertise who need a technical counterpart to turn it into software. Established businesses productising an internal tool into a SaaS product. And teams that need senior technical leadership without a full-time CTO hire.
The engagements we decline are equally specific: price-first procurement, staff augmentation where engineers are interchangeable capacity, and tactical fixes with no product strategy behind them. We work on strategic, long-term partnerships rather than quick hack builds.