Your idea, validated in 15 days.

Yes. It's 15 calendar days counted from the kickoff, Day 0, not from the day the contract is signed. Day 0 happens within 48 hours of the 40% payment being confirmed.

Before any payment, we hold a 45-minute discovery call. The technical validation starts there and is confirmed on Day 0. If the scope you want doesn't fit in 15 days, we trim it down to a version focused on validation, or tell you the project isn't a fit. We don't take on a project we know we can't deliver on time.

If Dorck fails to deliver the essential items of the scope frozen on Day 0 for reasons on our side, you don't pay the final 30% installment until we deliver. The clock only runs while the ball is in our court: every delay on your side of more than 24 hours at a checkpoint pushes the date back by the same amount. The initial 40% installment is non-refundable, because it covers the discovery and design already delivered.

100%. At the end of the project, you get the complete private repository, in your name or your company's, with all the source code, documentation and deployment instructions. Dorck keeps nothing.

The MVP stack is lean and standardized to guarantee the timeline: Node with Express on the backend, PostgreSQL for the database and Vue or React on the frontend (chosen on Day 0), with TypeScript and Tailwind CSS. It's a scalable foundation, and the code is 100% yours.

They're great for a quick prototype, and we even use AI in our process to move faster. The difference shows when the MVP has to become a real product: more complex business logic, serious integrations, multiple users and scale. That's where the builder stalls, credit costs climb with every tweak and you need to be technical to fix things when something breaks. With MVP Sprint 15, a senior team delivers production code that's 100% yours, with no platform lock-in, a deadline guaranteed by contract and a clear path to evolve. AI app builders are for playing with the idea. MVP Sprint 15 is for putting it in front of investors and users without the product falling apart.

The scope is frozen on Day 0, but there's flexibility throughout the sprint. Changes up to Day 3 are free of charge. From Day 4 to Day 9, changes we assess as feasible go in with a deadline extension. From Day 10 on, new requests go to the backlog and move to a later phase.

Payment is made in three milestones tied to the sprint: 40% when the contract is signed, which unlocks the kickoff within 48 hours (non-refundable, because it covers discovery and design); 30% on Day 8; and 30% on Day 15, at delivery. For the Double Sprint, the terms are set during negotiation.

Yes. If you ask, any project can start with a signed NDA, even before the discovery meeting. Confidentiality is already part of the standard contract.

You can carry on with your own team using the delivered code, or hire Dorck's monthly maintenance: the Evolution plan, with 20 hours a month for R$ 2,000, or Premium, with 40 hours a month for R$ 4,000. If you need ongoing technical direction, you can hire CTO as a Service.

There are two ways to go: hire a phase 2 with a new scope (quoted separately), or hire Dorck's monthly maintenance for ongoing evolution, within the monthly hours you've contracted.