Launch your product in 90 days with one team
Northgate is a full product team you rent by the month. We research, design, build and launch, then report on what it earned.
We look at your roadmap on the call and tell you what the first 90 days would cost.
Fintech
Healthtech
Logistics
B2B SaaS
Every build runs with a 4 person senior team
One product manager, one designer and two engineers, every one of them senior, on your account for the whole engagement. The same four people ship it end to end.
92%
Clients who renew after the first 90 days
34
Products launched since 2019
Six things we own from day one to launch
Each one has a named owner on your team and a weekly number attached to it.
Customer research
Twelve to eighteen user interviews before a single screen gets designed.
Revenue instrumentation
Every signup, trial and payment event tracked from week one, so growth is measurable.
Onboarding flows
The first run experience gets its own design sprint and its own activation target.
Product engineering
TypeScript, React and Postgres, shipped into your repository under your own licence.
Weekly reporting
A Monday report with the work shipped, the open risks and the four numbers we agreed on.
Launch analysis
Thirty days after launch we re-run the numbers and write the next quarter plan.
Three launches, three numbers we can show you
Each one ran the same thirteen week plan and reported against the same four metrics.
1,240
activated users, first 30 days
A scheduling product for clinic front desks. Live on day 91 with paid onboarding already running.
Havenline, Austin TX
38%
reduction in monthly burn
Three contractors and two tool subscriptions replaced by one team on one invoice.
Brightpath Labs, Denver CO
11 days
from first call to first release
An existing Rails app picked up mid-build, with the first shipped change in the second week.
Ordway Freight, Columbus OH
See what shipped and what it moved, weekly
Every engagement gets a live dashboard showing work shipped, activation rate, revenue and burn against plan. You see the same numbers we do, on the same day.
Activation and revenue tracked from week one
One shared dashboard, updated every Monday
Every number traced back to a shipped change
Four stages, ninety days, one fixed price
Each stage ends with something you can open, click and sign off.
1
Research
One week of user interviews and a written scope.
2
Design
Three weeks of prototypes you can click and test.
3
Build
Seven weeks of building, shipped every two weeks.
4
Launch
Two weeks of live testing, then full handover.
The six tools we build every product on
Boring, hireable and yours. Any competent engineer can pick this stack up from our handover doc.
React
TypeScript
Postgres
Vercel
Stripe
Linear
We will work in your existing stack instead if you already have one. Ask on the call.
What founders said 90 days after launch
Both engagements below ran the standard 13 week plan.
“We launched on day 91 and had 1,240 activated users inside the first month.”
“Northgate replaced three contractors and cut our monthly burn by 38 percent.”
What the same 90 days costs three ways
Numbers below assume one product manager, one designer and two engineers, which is the smallest team that can research, build and launch inside a quarter.
The arithmetic on the in house column is set out in full on the pricing table below.
Three plans, one fixed price per month
Pause or cancel at the end of any month, with your code and designs already in your repository.
Build
$4,900
per month
For a founder or a team of up to 15 taking a first product to market.
What’s included
One designer and one engineer
A shipped release every two weeks
Monday report with the agreed numbers
Start the Build plan
Launch
most chosen
$8,400
per month
For a team of up to 50 running a full launch inside one quarter.
What’s included
One product manager, one designer, two engineers
A shipped release every week
Monday report with the agreed numbers
Live activation dashboard
Launch plan and a 30 day review
Start the Launch plan
Scale
$14,900
per month
For a team of up to 100 running two product tracks at once.
What’s included
Two product managers, two designers, four engineers
Two tracks shipping in parallel
Monday report with the agreed numbers
Live activation dashboard
Quarterly roadmap and a board pack
Start the Scale plan
You own the code from the first commit
Everything we write lands in your repository, under your licence, with your name on the account. There is no Northgate wrapper you have to keep paying to run.
Your GitHub organisation, your AWS account, your Stripe
Two named engineers hold production access, and both are listed in the contract
Access is revoked within one business day of the last invoice
Customer data stays in your systems
We work against seeded staging data. If a task needs production access we ask first, one engineer gets time-boxed access, and the session is logged where you can read it.
Mutual NDA before the first call
We sign yours if you have one and send ours in twenty minutes if you do not. Nothing about your roadmap appears in our case studies without written sign-off.
Eight things founders ask before signing
If yours is not here, the 20 minute call is the fastest way to get it answered.
Two build slots open each month
The call is twenty minutes. We look at your roadmap, tell you what the first ninety days would cost, and send the plan in writing whether or not you go ahead.
Book a 20 minute call
Next start date is 14 days out.