Frequently Asked Questions.

It starts with a free Discovery Call, where we listen to your idea, assess feasibility, and determine fit. From there, the next step depends on where you are. Founders starting from scratch move into TractionLab, a 90-day engagement built to take you from first build to first paying customer. Founders with a live product that needs diagnosis start with Impact Week, a one-week audit that tells you exactly what's working, what isn't, and what needs to happen next.

Yes, for complex software builds. We work in iterative two-week sprints with biweekly demos, continuous QA, and a shared roadmap that stays honest as the product evolves so you always know what's being built, why, and what's coming next.

Every commit goes through a senior engineering review before it touches your product, and testing runs continuously throughout development rather than as a last-minute check before launch. Dedicated QA specialists are added to a team when the product's complexity calls for it.

HDD is the methodology that governs what gets built and when. Every feature starts as a hypothesis, gets tested and measured against real user behavior, and only gets built out further once it's validated. This keeps your roadmap lean and purposeful: investment goes toward what's proven to move the business forward, not what merely seems like a good idea.

Yes, and it's arguably the most important step. During the free Discovery Call, we run an early feasibility review of your idea to determine the right next step, whether that's more validation, a design sprint, or moving straight into build.

A dedicated product team assigned exclusively to you. Depending on the engagement, that typically includes a Product Owner, a full-stack developer, and an engineering lead, with QA specialists joining when the product calls for it. Everyone on your team works only on your product: no shared resources and no context switching between clients.

A typical agency sells hours and delivers code. A dedicated product team owns the outcome. At Designli, the team assigned to your product works exclusively on it, carries full context of your codebase and business goals, and stays with you as the product grows, no handoffs, no knowledge loss, and no new team ramping up every few months.

Our engineers use AI tools the way the best developers in the world do: to move faster, catch problems earlier, and focus human judgment where it matters most. The difference is oversight. Every line of AI-assisted code is reviewed for security, scalability, and craft before it touches your product.

Our core engagements are built for non-technical founders: Impact Week, a one-week product diagnosis for founders with a live product that isn't performing or an idea that needs pressure-testing, and TractionLab, a 90-day engagement that takes a product from first build to first paying customer. We also offer UX/UI design, mobile app development, and custom software development as standalone or combined services (see our full services overview). For owners with manual processes like intake, scheduling, follow-up, and invoicing, we offer AI consulting and implementation, where a Designli team is assigned to your business and automates the work for you. For enterprise organizations that want their own people building, we offer a separate, as-needed engagement through the Enterprise Innovation Lab.

Both, depending on what your product needs. For most early-stage products, cross-platform development using React Native delivers the right balance of speed, cost efficiency, and performance across iOS and Android.

Yes. Third-party integrations, payment processors, CRMs, analytics platforms, communication tools, data providers, and more are a standard part of how modern products are built, and our teams handle them as a core part of every engagement.

Impact Week is a one-week intensive where Designli's senior Solutions Architect diagnoses exactly what's holding your product back. For $1,700, you walk away with a scored findings report covering your codebase, architecture, and UX, plus a customized 90-day plan tied to your most important business outcome. No contract, no ongoing obligation, just a clear picture of what needs to happen next, whether you continue with Designli or move forward on your own. Learn more about Impact Week.

TractionLab is a 90-day engagement built around one problem: getting someone to pay for your product. Unlike a standard build, the same team that builds your product owns the path to your first real user by Day 30 and your first dollar of revenue by Day 90. See how TractionLab works.

It's one of the most common situations we walk into, and we have a structured process for it. Impact Week is step one of Designli's code takeover process, a $1,700 one-week audit that tells you exactly what's salvageable, what needs rebuilding, and what's already solid. From there, we deliver a customized 90-day takeover plan targeting your biggest product roadblock by Day 30, with a clear path to your next goal by Day 90.

Yes, this is an increasingly common starting point and one we're specifically equipped to handle. If you've built a foundation with AI coding tools and hit the limits of what you can manage on your own, our team assesses what you have, hardens what's worth keeping, and builds on top of it with the security, scalability, and architectural discipline that AI-generated code rarely delivers on its own. See how we fix vibe-coded apps.

It depends on the scope, complexity, and stage of your product. Impact Week is $1,700 for a one-week senior audit with a full findings report and 90-day plan. TractionLab is a 90-day engagement priced based on your product's scope and needs. For dedicated product teams post-launch, investment scales based on team composition and your product's stage. Pricing is discussed openly during the Discovery Call, so you know exactly what you're committing to before anything starts.

It depends on scope and complexity. For founders starting from scratch, the first sprint produces a navigable product simulation and a firm development plan defining exactly what gets built and by when. From there, TractionLab delivers a live product with a first real user by Day 30 and a first paying customer by Day 90. More complex builds with advanced integrations are scoped upfront so there are no surprises once development begins.

Pricing is structured as a dedicated pod, paid monthly at a set monthly investment: no hourly billing, no scope-creep invoices. You know that number before work begins, and it does not change mid-engagement. Impact Week is $1,700 for a one-week senior audit with a full findings report and 90-day plan included. TractionLab and ongoing product team engagements are priced based on your product's scope and needs, agreed to upfront.

Through biweekly sprint demos where you see the actual product, not a status report. Your Product Owner is your dedicated point of contact, keeping the roadmap visible, decisions transparent, and communication direct, so you always know what was built, what's next, and why.

Yes. Depending on where your product and runway are, we offer three paths: a full dedicated team for active growth, a leaner version of the same team when you need to conserve capital, or a ticket-based support plan for maintenance and fixes. In every scenario, the people who already know your product stay on it.

No. Our entire model exists so you don't have to be. You bring the vision and the business goals; we handle the technical architecture decisions, engineering tradeoffs, and integrations. Most of our long-term clients have never written a line of code.

With a free 30-minute Discovery Call, where we listen to where you are, assess fit, and map out the right next step for your situation. Schedule your call here.