it takes a village

A new way for companies to build products that better serve their customers.


As an engineer today, it's never been easier to build software products.


So why are early stage companies with solid business plans still stuck with the same options from 15 years ago?


The obvious options.

  • Raise venture capital. Likely need technical co-founding team and/or product in market with sales.

  • Find a CTO to build the product. They’ll need salary and most likely aren’t fit to build the whole product.

  • Hire a Dev shop. Bootstrapping this is expensive and they need to be able to translate your vision into technical requirements so you don’t waste money building something that doesn’t work.


    All of these options are suboptimal because they don't address one of the most important challenges: How to deliver products that create value.

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    it takes a village

  • Every startup needs software but not every startup needs a full-time engineering team.


    How is this possible?


Our platform standardizes building blocks for assembling modern apps by removing translation headaches between engineering, product UX, and founders.


At villagers, when a founder needs a feature, they can point directly to a modular block (called a villagers product component). This product component is a known entity with design rules, parameters, and code snippets. Using k'mnd, founders can access a growing library of product components.


The founder can use k'mnd to view and touch the progress of the features in their app. They can see exactly how engineering has assembled these product components without having to review code. They can communicate with product design and engineering using a common language to delegate and drive their product assembly.


Whether you’re technical or not, have already hired engineers or not -- we have solutions to fit your company's stage.


See how k'mnd is used by — View our case studies.





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the process

the process

introductions

introductions

the first step is to answer a few questions on the intake form, which gives us a chance to do some homework before we first speak with you


we'll reach out to schedule an initial call, where we'll ask more about the problem you're working on, go through the details of how villagers works, and discuss whether it's a good fit for you

the first step is to answer a few questions on the intake form, which gives us a chance to do some homework before we first speak with you


we'll reach out to schedule an initial call, where we'll ask more about the problem you're working on, go through the details of how villagers works, and discuss whether it's a good fit for you

video call
video call
video call
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the tree of life

the tree of life

if it looks like we' might be able to help, we will spend a few days with you and your team going into detail

we look to understand your core competencies as a team, what you have learned so far, and any potential roadblocks or assumptions that need to be tested

once we have all this, we can map out the potential paths forwards for your business — we call this your Tree of Life

if it looks like we' might be able to help, we will spend a few days with you and your team going into detail

we look to understand your core competencies as a team, what you have learned so far, and any potential roadblocks or assumptions that need to be tested

once we have all this, we can map out the potential paths forwards for your business — we call this your Tree of Life

gtm & projections

gtm & projections

having identified some paths forward, we'll move on to the hard question: how are you going to acquire paying customers?

we'll spend time with you to figure out growth and revenue projections, factoring in how these would be affected by different feature sets or go-to-market strategies

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decision time

decision time

at this point, we have enough information to decide whether we're in a position to cover the cost of your product development

we aim to partner with as many founders as possible, but we do need to be selective in order to survive and keep the party going

if we are not able to partner at this time, we will suggest concrete steps you can take, and goals that, if achieved, could make the difference – and we'll stay in touch regularly to see how you're getting on

ready?

ready?

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