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5 years, 500+ projects, 15 case studies
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AI can write your code. It can't build your business.

Anyone can generate an app in 2026. Almost nobody can architect one that scales, survives App Store review, and actually makes money. I spent five years on the agency side. Now I sit on yours.

August intake · 2 slots left
Businesses I've built for…
Global Connectors MMA Plumbing Havoc Motorcycles Imjomat Petony Transportes ATOM Technology The Ice Cream Hut Gamatauri Law Office of Will M. Helixon Mauritius.biz GlowBall Nation American Mortuary Equipment Kingdom Construction Donald Lee Service Sold Out
About Foundreco

I'm Haidar, an AI-native product partner for founders. I take an idea, pressure-test it, scope the leanest version that proves the business, and ship it to the App Store with a senior pod behind me.

At one of Lahore's top app agencies I sat in the rooms where founder projects get scoped, priced, and sold. I watched founders pay for features they didn't need and sign specs that were never going to work. That inside knowledge is now your advantage, and it is the entire reason six guarantees sit in my contract that no agency will sign.

Haidar Mustafa, founder of Foundreco
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Projects delivered by the teams I sold for
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Client builds with a published case study
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Idea to live on both stores, honestly measured
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Guarantees written into every contract

Haidar Mustafa · Lahore, working with founders worldwide

Selected Work

Products that made it all the way to revenue

Three of the 15 businesses I've built for. Every number below is theirs, measured after launch, not promised before it.

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MMA Plumbing internal operating system dashboard, showing modules for planning, invoicing, field workflows and reporting

MMA Plumbing

Forty-six modules replacing the paperwork of a 100-person field operation: accounting, dispatch, quality control and invoicing in one system.

€250k saved4,000 SEO pages46 modules
Read the case study
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Compta 360 director dashboard built for Global Connectors, showing revenue, sales pipeline, recurring revenue and treasury coverage

Global Connectors

An accounting firm quoted $100k for its own ERP. We built it instead, and it turned a billable-hours business into a software company.

$55k/yr new revenue$100k saved200 hrs/mo
Read the case study
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Havoc Motorcycles storefront built after migrating off Shopify, showing the motorcycle model range and dealer portal

Havoc Motorcycles

Off Shopify in three days, onto a storefront with the dealer portal and build configurator the platform would never let them ship.

3 days to launch$30k savedDealer portal
Read the case study
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Our Services

App, Web & AI Services
That Actually Ship

No hand-offs between five vendors. One person who owns the outcome, one senior pod that builds it, fixed milestones you only pay for once they're delivered.

Start here 01/

App Blueprint

Before you spend $30K building the wrong thing. I challenge the idea, define the MVP, and hand you a spec any agency can quote against, plus help reading the quotes you get back. The fee is credited 100% toward your build, so it costs you nothing if we keep going.

Requirements docFeature roadmap Tech stack recRealistic budget Agency quote review
$800 to $2,500 2 to 3 weeks · 100% credited to your build
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Launch Your MVP in 14 Days 🚀

Blueprint locked on Monday, MVP submitted to both stores two weeks later. We build the leanest version that proves the business model, structured so it scales instead of getting thrown away at version two.

MVP strategyCore buildStore submissionIteration roadmap
from $4,000 14-day sprint · scoped via Blueprint
2026's most-needed 03/

Vibe-Code Rescue

You built it yourself with Cursor, Lovable, or Bolt, and now it leaks memory, fails security review, or gets rejected by Apple. I audit AI-generated codebases, fix the architecture, and turn a prototype into something real users can trust.

Codebase auditSecurity fixesStore-ready rebuildScale plan
from $1,500 audit in 5 days · rebuild scoped after
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Mobile App Development

Full-cycle React Native and Flutter builds, from UI design through App Store and Play Store deployment. The same delivery standard behind 500+ shipped projects, run by the same people every time.

UI/UX designiOS + AndroidApp StorePlay Store
from $7,500 8 to 12 weeks · fixed milestones
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Web App Development

Dashboards, portals, marketplaces, and internal tools on clean architecture your next developer will thank you for. Built to be handed over, not to keep you dependent.

UI/UX designFrontend + backendClean architectureDeployment
from $5,000 6 to 10 weeks · fixed milestones
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SaaS Development

Products built for recurring revenue: multi-tenant architecture, subscriptions and billing, admin panels, and the analytics you actually need to run the business day to day.

Multi-tenantSubscriptions & billingAdmin panelAnalytics
from $10,000 10 to 16 weeks · fixed milestones
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AI Feature Integration

Chatbots, copilots, and LLM features on Claude, GPT, or Gemini, designed around unit economics from day one. Your AI should make money, not quietly burn your margin on API bills.

LLM integrationChatbots & copilotsCost-optimisedPrompt systems
from $2,500 2 to 4 weeks · fixed scope
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Proposal & Pitch Engine

Investor decks, client proposals, and pricing structures in days, not weeks. AI-augmented production speed with five years of real deal documentation behind the judgment calls.

Pitch decksClient proposalsPricing structures
$300 to $600 per deliverable · 3 to 5 days

Dedicated Maintenance Team

Launch is the start, not the finish. A dedicated team on monthly retainer handles updates, fixes, store compliance, and new features, so your product never goes stale.

from $600/mo
The Unfair Deal

Six promises in writing that no agency will sign

Every one of these goes into the contract alongside the NDA and the signed scope. Not marketing lines, clauses. AI-native delivery cuts my cost base by more than half, and I pass part of that back to you as speed, price, and promises.

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"They quoted 8 weeks. It took 6 months, and somehow every delay was my fault."

Miss the deadline? You pay 20% less

Every milestone has a date, and you only pay per delivered milestone. If my team misses one, that invoice drops 20% automatically. No arguing, no excuses. My deadline risk, not yours.

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"What if I want out? My last agency held the code hostage until I paid an exit invoice."

Fire me anytime, keep everything

Everything lives in your repository, under your accounts, from the first commit. Walk at any milestone with your code, your designs, and a plain-English handover any developer picks up in a day.

03

"I paid $15K and then heard nothing for three weeks. I was chasing my own project."

Live cockpit + weekly demo video

A real-time dashboard shows what's done, what's next, and budget burned, check it at 3am if you want. Plus a recorded demo of working software every week, so timezones never hide progress.

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"My app went live and nothing happened. Nobody even knew it existed."

Free launch kit, $1,500 value

Every MVP ships with App Store screenshots, a 30-second AI-produced promo video, and launch copy for Product Hunt and socials. Other developers hand you an app. I hand you an arrival.

05

"Nobody told me the app would cost $800 a month to run. I found out from the invoice."

Running-cost truth sheet, before you sign

You get the number every developer hides: what your app costs to run each month, servers, APIs, store fees, AI usage. If the economics don't work, I tell you before you spend, not after.

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"The day we launched, their replies got slower. Suddenly every small fix cost extra."

Your first 30 days after launch, on us

30 days of bug fixes and store-compliance care, completely free. No retainer conversation until you've watched us handle your live product. You commit monthly only after we've earned it.

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Founders shipped with
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Testimonials

Founders who bet on honesty over hype

The pattern in every one of these is the same: someone told them the truth earlier than they wanted to hear it.

"Haidar told me my first idea wasn't worth building, then showed me the version that was. Six weeks later it was live on both stores."
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Michael R.
Founder, fitness app · USA
"The 14-day sprint sounded like marketing. On day 13 my app was submitted to Apple. I never once had to ask what the status was."
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Omar K.
SaaS founder · Dubai
"We came with a broken AI-built prototype. He rebuilt the architecture, kept everything in our repo, and handed over docs my next hire understood in a day."
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Sarah T.
Co-founder, marketplace · UK
"The Blueprint saved me $18K. Two agencies had quoted features my users would never touch. His spec cut all of it."
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Daniel P.
Founder, logistics app · Canada
"The running-cost sheet was the first time any developer told me my monthly server bill before I signed anything."
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Ayesha R.
E-commerce founder · UAE
"A milestone was two days late. The invoice showed the 20% discount before I even mentioned it. In writing means in writing."
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Robert C.
Marketplace founder · USA
"I asked for five AI features. He talked me out of three because the unit economics didn't work. Who does that?"
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Lena M.
SaaS founder · Germany
"My co-founder is in New York, I'm in Singapore, the pod is in Lahore. The weekly demo videos meant nobody ever chased anybody."
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Kevin T.
Co-founder, B2B SaaS · Singapore
"Vibe-coded my MVP in a weekend, it collapsed at 200 users. His pod rebuilt the architecture in three weeks. Now it holds 20K."
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Marcus D.
Founder, social app · Australia
"He rejected my idea in the free audit, with reasons. I came back two months later with a better one and he took it. That's who you want."
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Sophie L.
Founder · France
"The App Store rejected us twice with our old team. His pod passed review on the first submission."
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Nina B.
Founder, health app · USA
"The cost truth sheet showed my AI feature would burn $1,200 a month. We redesigned it to $90 before writing a line of code."
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Jessica M.
SaaS founder · USA
"Everything sat in my repo from commit one. When I hired a CTO, he onboarded in a single day. No hostage code, exactly as promised."
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David R.
Founder, proptech · Canada
"The estimator said around $6K. The Blueprint locked $5,800. First developer I've met whose number went down after scoping."
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Rachel G.
Founder, consumer app · USA
The AI Edge

Every agency says "quality." I show you the machine.

Most agencies use AI quietly and still bill like it's 2022. I do the opposite. The stack is public, the speed comes from it, and you pay for judgment, not keystrokes.

Traditional agency · 2023
4 to 6 months

$30K+ quotes, hourly billing, and weeks of discovery before a single screen exists. Change orders every time you learn something new about your own product.

AI-native · 2026
5 weeks

A 2 to 3 week Blueprint, then a 14-day build sprint to store submission. Fixed price, senior architecture, same quality bar. That is the honest total, not a headline number.

The stack, nothing hidden

  • Claude Code, agentic development
  • Cursor, AI pair programming
  • Figma AI, design systems
  • AI-assisted QA, test generation
  • GPT / Gemini, research & validation
  • Senior human review, every line shipped

Engineering

  • React Native & Flutter
  • Node.js & API architecture
  • Multi-tenant SaaS & billing
  • App Store & Play Store compliance
  • Security & scale reviews
  • Clean handover documentation

How this is structured

  • Haidar Mustafa, your single point of contact, start to finish
  • The Foundreco pod, senior engineers, a product designer, QA
  • Same people every project, five years, 500+ builds
  • No account managers, no rotating juniors
  • Your accounts, day one, your repo, your stores, your infra

Anyone can generate code now. Nobody can generate judgment. That is what you are actually hiring.

Our Process

Our Ten Step
Delivery Process

Every engagement follows the same journey, so you always know exactly which step you are on and what comes next. Nothing about your project should ever be a surprise.

Idea Validation

Pressure-test the idea before any money moves. If it doesn't hold up, you hear it here.

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Market Research

Demand, pricing, and positioning, backed by data rather than optimism.

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Competitor Analysis

What already exists, what actually wins, and where the real gap sits.

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MVP Scope

Lock the leanest version that proves the model. Everything else waits for v2.

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UI Design

Full product design in Figma, screen by screen, reviewed before a line is coded.

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Development

Clean, scalable build on fixed milestones you only pay for once delivered.

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Store Launch

Submission and review handling for both the App Store and Play Store.

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Pilot Testing

Real users, real feedback, fast fixes while the launch is still warm.

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Maintenance

A dedicated team keeps the app healthy, compliant, and current.

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Next Version

New features, smarter product, version 2.0 built on what the data told us.

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Who this is for

I don't work with everyone

One strong client over time is worth more than ten random projects. That only works if we filter honestly, in both directions.

Right fit

  • Founders with clear intent to launch
  • Products with a real business model behind them
  • Clients who value strategy, not just execution
  • Decision-makers who actually move

Not a fit

  • Price shoppers comparing with low-cost freelancers
  • Idea-only founders with no execution intent
  • Projects that stall on every decision
  • Anyone looking for a yes-man
Instant Estimate

What would your app roughly cost?

Three taps, honest range. The exact number comes from a Blueprint, but this gets you in the neighbourhood before you message anyone.

01 What are you building?
02 How complex are the features?
03 Do you want AI features inside?
Estimated range · fixed price, milestone-based
$4,000 to $6,500
Get exact quote

Ranges are indicative. The Blueprint locks exact scope and price, and its fee is credited 100% toward your build. See how this number is worked out.

FAQ

Questions founders ask before messaging me

I only have an idea, no designs, no documents. Is that enough?
Yes, and that is exactly what the Blueprint is for. You bring the idea and the intent to launch; I bring the validation, research, scoping, and a build-ready spec. Most of my best projects started as three sentences on WhatsApp.
Who actually builds the app, you or a team?
I architect, scope, and own the outcome personally. The build runs through the Foundreco pod: senior engineers, a designer, and QA I have shipped with for five years across 500+ projects. Same people every project, my review on everything that ships. You get one accountable partner, not a rotating cast.
How do payments work?
Fixed price, split across milestones. You pay when a milestone is delivered and demoed, never large sums upfront. If a milestone is late, its invoice automatically drops 20%.
I'm in the US, UK, or Gulf. How do timezones work?
Everything important is async by design: a weekly recorded demo, a live dashboard you can check anytime, and written updates. For calls I keep overlap hours with US mornings and Gulf or EU afternoons. You will never be blocked waiting on my timezone.
What happens after the free 30 days?
You choose. Take the plain-English handover and run it with your own team, since everything is already in your repo, or start a monthly maintenance retainer from $600/mo. No pressure either way, the handover is built so you are never locked in.
Will you sign an NDA before I share my idea?
Yes, standard practice, before we discuss a single feature. Your idea is protected from the first message.
Is the 14-day sprint real, or is it a marketing number?
It is a real 14-day build sprint, and it starts after the Blueprint is locked. Idea to live on both stores is honestly about five weeks in total, which is the number I use everywhere on this page. Apple and Google review times are outside anyone's control, so the contract commits to submission dates, not to their queue.