For funded software, SaaS & AI founders (pre‑seed to Series A)
BeemFlow is a founder‑led product studio. We plug in as your
product, engineering, and design team to take you from fuzzy thesis
to a live v1 that's ready for your first real users.
You bring the users; we make sure the product, onboarding, and
analytics are ready for them.
10+ years building together · 15+ products shipped · 1 VC‑backed company founded & exited
Milestone overrun protection included
You've raised or set aside capital. You know the problem you want to solve. But there's no senior product, engineering, or design leadership in‑house.
Every agency and freelancer gives you a different story on scope, timeline, and cost. You can't tell who's right. Meanwhile, with no product you have no traction, no real user data, and nothing new to show your board except another deck.
AI coding agents are powerful, but on their own they ship random features, not a market‑ready product. Someone has to decide what to build, in what order, and what “good” looks like.
You don't get an account manager and a room of juniors. You get two
founder‑level engineers leading your build, plus a small senior bench
of design and infrastructure specialists behind them.
We cap ourselves at 2‑3 concurrent builds so we don't dilute attention. When scope
demands it, we scale the squad with our trusted design, infra, and
security partners instead of scrambling for random contractors.
How we work
For each build, we assemble a small senior squad: both founders, a product designer we trust, and (when needed) infra / security specialists we've worked with before. You don't get handed to layers of juniors. We stay your single point of accountability.
We map your users, core jobs, and constraints into a story‑mapped v1 that is actually buildable by real engineers on a real timeline.
End state: a buildable v1 plan your board and engineers can’t easily poke holes in. You can build with us or any team.
We take the Blueprint and ship a market‑ready v1 to production: live, demoable, and ready to onboard your first real users.
End state: deployed product, on your infrastructure, with analytics wired, a coherent on‑brand UI, a polished demo script, and a short technical appendix for your next investor update.
We agree on a v1 launch milestone upfront. If we miss it by more than 2 weeks for reasons in our control and within the agreed scope, we keep working at no extra cost until we hit it.
Once you’re live, we help you grow and transition:
You keep everything: code, infra, automations, documentation.
Most teams bolt AI onto a traditional process. We rebuilt the process around AI from day one.
BeemSpec is our AI‑native planning and coordination layer:
We don't sell BeemSpec to you as a separate product (yet). We use it on every engagement so two founder‑engineers can reliably deliver like a much larger team.
What we offer
From fuzzy idea to market‑ready v1 in 6–8 weeks once scope is locked. A small senior squad that owns product strategy, UX/UI design, engineering, and security, led by the two founders and powered by our BeemSpec coordination system. We design and build the first version of your product so it’s ready for real users, investor demos, and your next round of conversations.
Security‑minded architecture and hardening by default, with deeper pentesting and cryptographic design when the product warrants it. We set up infrastructure on accounts you own, with logging, monitoring, and basic incident response so your early usage doesn’t turn into a fire drill.
Once the product works, we automate the work around it: reporting, alerts, back‑office workflows, and integrations between your tools. Often built on n8n and other open‑source tools where it makes sense, and paired with SaaS vendors when that’s the better choice for reliability or speed.
Ongoing technical strategy, architecture decisions, and engineering team building once you’re past v1 and need a real engineering org, not just a contractor. We help you hire, onboard, and transition to an internal team while keeping the roadmap and architecture coherent.
Track record
Shipped a production iOS app and Chrome extension with AI‑powered product detection, payments, and French customs integration from zero internal tech team.
A non‑technical founder had a fintech thesis around VAT export arbitrage, seed funding, and French customs to navigate, but no product and no tech team.
We acted as sole CTO and built the full iOS app and Chrome extension: AI‑powered product detection, payment processing, and customs integration (PABLO / Article 275 CGI), plus the underlying infrastructure.
Two‑engineer founding team → pre‑seed from 2048 Ventures → acquisition and integration into a platform with 100K+ users.
We co‑founded Valist, a developer‑first software distribution platform.
We built the core product, raised pre‑seed from 2048 Ventures, and led the full acquisition process: due diligence, negotiations, and integration into HyperPlay’s ecosystem.
Shipped a cross‑platform gaming client and supported a $12M Series A raise.
Post‑acquisition, HyperPlay needed to ship a desktop gaming platform and raise a Series A fast.
We led product development and security across Windows, Mac, Linux, and Steam Deck, established key partnerships, and contributed to the fundraising strategy through HyperPlay’s $12M Series A. We continue as Strategic Advisors.
Production‑quality full‑stack and distributed systems curriculum deployed at 60+ universities, including Columbia, Rice, and University of Toronto.
2U needed scalable, production‑grade curriculum in full‑stack development, distributed systems, and cryptography for their university partner network.
We authored the curriculum and built production apps used as teaching tools, which have since been deployed across 60+ universities.
Who we are
Founder‑Led Product Studio
BeemFlow is a founder‑led product studio. Every engagement is led by Alec and Zach, two founder‑engineers with an exit, plus a small bench of senior specialists we've shipped multiple products with (product design, infra, and security). You work directly with us; we build the squad around you.
We co‑founded Valist, raised from 2048 Ventures, and led the acquisition into HyperPlay. Post‑acquisition, we ran product and security through HyperPlay's Series A and 100K+ downloads. We've shipped 15+ products across fintech, infrastructure, and education, with roots in security engineering: pentesting, applied cryptography, and infrastructure hardening.
Now we run BeemFlow and build every client product using BeemSpec, our AI‑native coordination system. That's how a small, senior team consistently ships like a much larger one.
We care about building the right thing, then building it fast. And helping founders avoid the expensive mistakes we already paid for.
Questions
Funded software, SaaS, and AI‑product founders (pre‑seed to Series A) who need a real v1, not just a prototype, and don’t have senior product + engineering in‑house.
We only take a few builds at a time, we’re the ones actually doing the work, and we use BeemSpec to coordinate AI agents instead of handing tasks to layers of juniors. That lets us commit to aggressive timelines without playing games on quality.
Yes. Code, infra accounts, automations, and documentation are all yours. We set everything up in accounts you control and avoid hard vendor lock‑in wherever practical. When paid tools or cloud vendors are the better choice, we pick ones that are easy to migrate away from later.
No. You bring the users (or audience, or pipeline). We design and build the product, onboarding, and analytics so those users can actually use it and you can learn from real data.
We’re the two founders you deal with day‑to‑day, but we’re not the only people on your product. Each build uses the same pattern: both founders plus a product designer we’ve shipped with before, and (when needed) infra / security specialists from our regular bench. We cap concurrent builds and book in sprints so we don’t oversell capacity. If we’re full, we tell you and schedule the next slot. All plans, decisions, and code live in shared systems (docs, BeemSpec, repos you own), so the work is not stuck in one person’s head and can be handed off cleanly if you later grow an internal team.
Before we start, we agree on v1 scope and a launch milestone. If we miss that milestone by more than 2 weeks for reasons in our control and within the agreed scope, we keep working at no extra cost until we hit it. If you decide to expand scope mid‑sprint (it happens!), we’ll either move those items to a follow‑up sprint or revise the budget and timeline together so there are no surprises.
Book a 30-minute call. If there's a fit, we'll map your product and show you how fast we can ship it.
We take on 2–3 engagements at a time so every client gets founder-level attention.