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Build for founders

Your idea. Your product. Our build team.

For founders without a technical team, and for AI startups that need more hands. We build the product, you own every line of it.

Tell us what you're building →How we work
  • No technical team

    You know the business and the customer. You need someone to build the product and keep building it.

  • An AI startup that needs hands

    You have a model, a demo and a waiting list. The product around it is the part that is missing.

How we plug in

Three ways to use us.

Start with one and change later. Most founders do.

  • 01

    MVP build

    A first product real customers can use, in weeks rather than quarters.

    • Scope together
    • Build
    • Launch
  • 02

    Your dev team

    We work in your repo, your board, your standup, for as long as you need us.

  • 03

    White label

    We build under your name for your own clients. Nobody has to know.

How we work with you

Weekly, in the open.

  1. Step 01

    The smallest real thing

    We cut the idea down to what proves it, then build that first.

  2. Step 02

    You see it weekly

    Working software every week, not a status report.

  3. Step 03

    AI where it earns its place

    In the product when it makes it better, and in how fast we build it.

  4. Step 04

    You own all of it

    Code, data, accounts and the keys. From the first commit.

What you own

Everything.

No agency lock-in, no licence, no permission needed to hire someone else.

  • The code, in your repository
  • The database and the data in it
  • Hosting and domains, in your name
  • Designs, documents and decisions

Recent founder work

A startup or AI product we built, if we can name it

Tell us what you're building.

A short call, a straight answer on what it takes.

Start the conversation

Let’s talk.

hello@calkite.com(415) 425-9719

Custom software and systems you own. San Francisco.

49 Powell Street, San Francisco, CA 94102

What we do

  • Replace what you rent
  • Build what is missing
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