Shared brief
Goals, users, scope, assumptions, exclusions, and acceptance criteria live in one working document.
Rotten Farms builds sharply scoped AI MVPs for startups and founders who need real product evidence, not a swollen feature list.
An MVP should test the riskiest product assumption with enough quality that users can judge the idea instead of fighting the interface.
Reduce the idea to one user, one painful job, one end-to-end journey, and a visible success signal.
Make the core loop understandable, credible, and usable on the devices your audience already has.
Implement the selected workflow, essential data handling, AI behavior, and deployment path.
Prepare the product for a controlled first audience and turn feedback into concrete release decisions.
The engagement uses asynchronous decisions, compact live reviews, and visible build progress so time zones do not become ambiguity.
Goals, users, scope, assumptions, exclusions, and acceptance criteria live in one working document.
Working increments are reviewed against the core journey, with decisions recorded before the next build cycle.
Deployment, product behavior, known limits, and the next decision set are made explicit.
Every decision should increase the signal you get from real use while controlling cost, complexity, and technical risk.
Users enter with a real problem and leave with a result they can judge, save, share, or act on.
Quality thresholds, review steps, privacy limits, and failure states are designed into the product from the start.
The release is instrumented to reveal whether to continue, narrow, change direction, or stop.
Direct answers before we discuss a first release.
Focused web apps, mobile product experiences, internal tools, AI-assisted workflows, and functional products where the core value can be tested with real users.
The release type, AI behavior, data sensitivity, integrations, platforms, and design depth all move the range. Use the transparent 2026 AI MVP cost guide and calculator for global planning bands.
Ask each partner to define the riskiest assumption, the smallest complete user journey, what is excluded, what data is needed, and how success will be measured. Clear product reasoning matters more than the longest feature list.
No. A prototype usually tests an interaction or concept, while an MVP is a usable product release designed to test demand or behavior. Read AI MVP vs prototype for a practical comparison.
Yes. Rotten Farms is built for remote collaboration with founders, creators, and compact teams worldwide.
Send the target user, current painful process, core workflow, representative inputs, desired result, platform, target date, and any non-negotiable integration or privacy constraint.