How long will my project take?

Every prospective client asks this within the first three minutes of the first call. It's the right question. Here's the honest version of the answer.

For most custom-software engagements we take on, a working version one ships in 4 to 8 weeks from kickoff. By "working version one" we mean: the core feature you commissioned us for is functional, deployed somewhere you can demo to your team or first customers, secure enough to handle real data, and stable enough to not embarrass you. It's not "feature-complete forever" — that's never the bar — but it's a real thing you can put in front of real people.

Things that pull a project toward the lower end of that range: clear domain understanding (you've already mapped out what you need on paper), a single decision-maker on your side (no committee), no integrations with external systems, and a willingness to defer "nice-to-haves" to a v2.

Things that push toward the upper end: integrations with payment providers, third-party APIs, or legacy systems we have to figure out as we go; multiple stakeholders who all want input on UX decisions; a domain we haven't worked in before that takes time to model correctly; or compliance requirements (HIPAA, GDPR, financial regulation) that demand specific security work.

What we promise upfront, in writing, before any code gets written: a target timeline based on what you've described, a fixed-price proposal where the scope is clear enough to bid one, and weekly demos so you see exactly where we are. If a project is going to slip, you'll hear it from us before the deadline, not after.

What we won't promise: a 200-slide future-state vision document, a 12-week "discovery phase," or that we'll match a competitor's price quote that turned out to be a too-good-to-be-true. Those are signals of agency-shaped problems we built Inxpired specifically to avoid.