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Brain Hive
for startups

An expert-backed business idea validation in 4 weeks. Get enough customer feedback, a polished PoC, and all necessary materials for increased chances of securing funding and attracting new customers.

Choose your path

Brain Hive will help transform your ideas into validated concepts through technical expertise, business acumen, and design excellence. Choose all those paths or just one of them - depending on your needs.
Viability
Feasibility
Desirability
Business acumen to verify if the product can be profitable and contribute to long-term growth, which can help refine your business model and clear the path to profitability, attracting potential investors.
Technical expertise to verify if the product can be built on the strengths of your operational and technical capabilities, which allows you to mitigate potential risk and allocate resources accordingly.
Design excellence to verify if the product addresses the actual customers' needs and provide data that can fuel subsequent iterations, ensuring that the final product or service is as effective and user-friendly as possible.

What you get: 

Business model canvas
Market research
Branding
Clickable prototypes
Development consultancy
Proto-personas
High-risk module prototype
Research report on AaaS tools
Technical Architecture Design
System architecture diagram
Design consultancy
User research
Proto-personas
Success metrics
Branding
Clickable prototypes
Development consultancy

Suggested team:

The project manager oversees the scope, timeline, and resources of your project and makes a direct impact on how your product's roadmap, customer journey, and success metrics turn out.
Project Manager
The full-stack tech lead will guide the development process and make vital technical decisions when creating your product's architecture designs, high-risk module prototype, and SaaS tools report.
Full-stack
Technical Lead
The product designer will conduct market and user research in order to craft your product's clickable prototypes, proto-personas, customer journey, roadmap, and branding.
Product Designer

Benefits

Co-pitching
Our cooperation does not end after the creation of the PoC - we will also help you during the co-pitching phase. We have helped raise over $500M in capital and know how to reach investors effectively.
360 view
We have more than 90 experienced specialists in various fields on board to work on the feasibility of your product from every possible perspective: business, tech, and design.
Rapid resolution
We promise to deliver your PoC in 4 weeks, as so far, we successfully helped over 50 startups build their products using timelines based on agile methods.
Co-pitching
Our cooperation does not end after the creation of the PoC - we will also help you during the co-pitching phase. We have raised over $500M in capital and know how to reach investors effectively.
360 view
We have more than 90 experienced specialists in various fields on board to work on the feasibility of your product from every possible perspective: business, tech, and design.
Rapid resolution
We promise to deliver your PoC in 4 weeks, as so far, we successfully helped over 50 startups build their products using timelines based on agile methods.

See dozens of our case studies (and still counting) about the product discovery phase:

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Problem: Need for a defined brand strategy and a fresh look at the technical side.

Solution: Thorough market research and product workshops that resulted in a viable plan for an app revamp.

Achievements: #1 in App Store shopping apps ranking – 3 days after launch.
Waste World
Challenge: Quickly create a concept and build an educational game

Solution: A thorough product ideation process that resulted in a detailed product roadmap and a product scope.

Outcome: The game was met with enthusiastic reviews from eco-conscious parenting influencers
Teamdeck
Challenge: Create a multi-purpose resource management tool for software development companies.

Solution: gathering target audience’s feedback and utilizing the outcome to tailor the app's features and meet their unique needs.

Outcome: User feedback empowered us to stand out amidst competitors by choosing the ideal tech stack, feature set, and delivering unparalleled value.
We helped more than 50 startups build their products and raise a joint capital of 500,000,000 USD
The code and the work were good quality and really what we were looking for. They were able to bring technical design thinking to the project. Project management was tight and I always knew what was happening.
Daniel Kiyoi
CEO & Founder Magic Dust
Apptension was flexible and professional. When I needed to quickly add capacity, it took a week or two at worst - often days. The cooperation enabled me to slowly scale up my own IT team, and the company was very helpful until the last moments of the transition.
Mateusz Oleksiuk
CEO LESS_
The technical creativity delivered by the team at Apptension was invaluable in the formation of our mixed reality start-up Hyper.
Nathan Sparshott
Co-Founder & CEO of Hyper
The SaaS Boilerplate Apptension built was a huge reason we were so successful, because all these little seemingly unrelated tasks and integrations needed to happen. If we had been working with anybody else, It would have probably taken months to do the same work.
Kwame Nyanning
CEO blkbx.
We needed their help to build the backend services and capabilities needed to deliver a production level on demand. Their ability to produce high-quality work with consistency while dealing with a new type of project was impressive.
Kelly O’Conor
Product Lead, Siberia
The project’s success has resulted in a long-term partnership for design and development. Apptension is a fantastic partner, who is willing to go above and beyond in order to deliver what the client needs.
Catarina Rocha
p(r)oud solutions
Apptension fared well in our project, working with our bespoke CMS and complex requirements. The designs were implemented well and the schedule was kept tight.
Christian Marc Schmidt
Partner at Schema

We’re partnering up with like-minded founders and brands since 2012

Apptension case study: Uber
Apptension client: Netflix

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