Service · Post-MVP Rebuild
Replace the MVP with the product. Without burning six months.
When the MVP shipped, the team learned, and the architecture cannot carry the next stage — the Post-MVP Rebuild is a fixed-scope engagement to ship the next-stage product without losing a year to rework.
When this is the right engagement
The MVP is live. You have users. You have learned what users actually want, which is mostly different from what the original PRD assumed. The architecture that was right for the first 50 users will not carry the next 5,000.
Your team is feeling it. Performance is degrading. Every new feature touches three subsystems. The codebase has accumulated a year of "we will refactor this later." Your most senior engineer is whispering about a rewrite.
You know you are at a structural decision point. You do not know whether to refactor inside the current product or to rebuild. You do not know how to do either without losing six months of momentum.
If that describes your team, this is the engagement.
What we do differently from a full rewrite
01
Diagnose before we propose a rebuild
The Clarity Sprint runs first. We diagnose the actual structural problem. About a third of the time, the right answer is a targeted fix, not a rebuild. We tell you that and you save months. The rest of the time, rebuild is real and we scope it.
02
Strangler-fig, not big-bang
When rebuild is the right call, we move surface by surface, not all-at-once. Old product keeps running while new product takes over. Users do not notice. Cutover is incremental. No production outage from a flag day.
03
Fixed scope, fixed timeline, no creep
The rebuild has the same fixed-price, fixed-timeline structure as any Comet Studio build. We do not let scope drift, because rebuilds that drift are how teams lose a year. The plan ships on the date we said it ships.
What you receive
Phase 1 — Clarity Sprint. Two weeks. We diagnose the structural problem. We tell you whether rebuild is the right call. If not, we scope the targeted fix instead.
Phase 2 — Migration Plan. Surface-by-surface cutover plan. Each migration scoped to a fixed-quote chunk. Order chosen to minimize user-facing disruption and maximize early wins.
Phase 3 — Defined-Scope Build, per surface. Each surface migrated as its own fixed-price build. Weekly demos. Production cutover at the end of each. Old product retired in pieces, not all at once.
Outcome. A product on the architecture you actually need, shipped without the six-month silence that kills rebuilds. Source ownership yours throughout. Engagement ends when the migration ends.
Start with the diagnosis
Every rebuild engagement starts with the Clarity Sprint, because the most expensive thing in a rebuild is rebuilding when the right answer was a targeted fix. Two weeks. Fixed price. Honest answer either way.