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App & Website Prototyping For Baltimore Founders

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Prototype & Development Plan

Validate Before You Build

The most expensive mistake a founder can make is building the wrong product. Our project managers work with you over several weeks to design a clickable prototype of your app or website, test it with real users, and turn it into a scoped development plan. For Maryland businesses, that means solving problems while changes are still cheap.

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Award-Winning Product Design

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Designs First, Then Development

The Blueprint for Your Build

Every prototype we deliver becomes the blueprint for development: screens, flows and real functionality mapped out in Figma, scoped and ready to hand to our developers or to an AI-assisted build. You get a fixed-cost deliverable that looks like the finished product at a fraction of the cost, and a plan you can take to investors, stakeholders or any development team.

Validation Without Guesswork

Where Prototyping Goes Wrong

Prototyping only saves money when it is done with discipline. We design against the real problem, not the feature list; we test with the people who will actually use the product, not just the founder; and we scope what ships in version one so the build that follows has a budget and a finish line.

Nextrep app

NextRep

NextRep connects parents of youth lacrosse players with committed, current, and recently graduated college lacrosse players for in-person 1-on1 and small group training sessions. Whether you're a parent of a youth lacrosse player looking to improve their skills or a college lacrosse player looking to make money by training youth athletes in your community, NextRep makes it easy to connect, train, and grow.

Attuned App

Attuned

Powered by neuroscience studies by Dr. Angelica Shiels, Attuned helps you gently recondition your survival patterns, so you can return to safety, presence, and connection in your daily life & relationships.

Alpha Bets Mobile App

Alpha-Bets

Welcome to Alpha-Bets, where word-play meets high-stakes strategy. If you love games that challenge your mind and your nerve - this is the table for you.

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Do you work with startups, small businesses, or enterprises?

We work with all of them! Our flexible engagement models allow us to build everything from minimum viable products (MVPs) for startup, custom internal tools for small businesses and scalable enterprise applications.

Baltimore Product Insights

Did you know there are over 20,000 businesses in Baltimore? Maryland is full of entrepreneurs and we'd love to share knowledge with them. Look here for prototyping and product design tips & tricks.

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