Built 2017 → present
Work management SaaS, built from scratch with Gearheart over 7 years. Global SaaS Product of the Year 2024.
- ARR · 4w
- $1.2M
- Raised
- $38M
- Users
- 7M+
- Award
- PoY '24
About
Other AI studios — founded
2024
beyond the wow · Gearheart — founded
2012
14 years of shipping production SaaS. The AI tools are new. The engineering standard isn't.
About beyond the wow — 14 years building production SaaS, applied at MVP speed
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From the team that built SmartSuite and Globalli
14 years. 80+ products. The same engineers, design discipline, and product thinking — applied at MVP speed.
Enterprise HR · payroll
Multi-country HR & payroll platform. Compliance across 125+ countries — the hardest kind of B2B SaaS to ship correctly.
- Countries
- 125+
- Raised
- $10M+
- Focus
- B2B
- Built
- By GH
How we think
Four principles that change what you actually get
01
We tell you what NOT to build.
Most studios start at "send us the spec." We start at "should you build this at all?" If the answer is no, we save you four months. If the answer is yes, the scope is sharper before the first line of code.
02
AI tools, used as engineers.
Claude Code, Lovable, Replit. The output is faster — the quality bar is Gearheart. Every decision goes through a senior developer, not a prompt writer.
03
Production-ready means production-ready.
Real auth. Real database. Real error handling. Real infrastructure. The kind of thing you can show an enterprise buyer without flinching.
04
We move in 2-week sprints.
Compounding momentum, not 6-month waterfalls. You see real progress every day. Pause or cancel anytime.
How we differ
Not the only option. Just the one that thinks before it ships
Compared honestly against the alternatives a founder usually weighs.
vs.
Their approach
Our advantage
vs.
Other AI-native studios
Their approach
Born in 2024 when Lovable launched. Ship prototypes fast, no product opinion. No senior engineering experience.
Our advantage
14 years of production SaaS. AI used as engineers, not prompt writers. We have an opinion on whether your product should exist.
vs.
Traditional dev agencies
Their approach
$50K minimum. 100-page spec required. 3-month discovery before any code.
Our advantage
Same quality bar. 3× faster. 2× cheaper. AI-powered without sacrificing production readiness.
vs.
Freelancers & Fiverr
Their approach
No product thinking. No senior review. No one to stop you building the wrong thing.
Our advantage
We have seen what comes after Fiverr. We call it Rescue Diagnosis — and we built it because we kept being called in to fix that exact mess.
vs.
Gearheart (parent studio)
Their approach
Enterprise SaaS, large teams, $50K+ budgets, long timelines. Built for scale.
Our advantage
Built for founders at the start. When your product grows, Gearheart is the natural next step.
The process
Discovery. Build. Ship. Iterate
A typical engagement runs about 28 days from kickoff to a customer-ready product. Then bi-weekly sprints if you want the team to keep going.
- 01
~5 days
Discovery
People · Product Lead · Founder
Tools · Notion · Figma · Loom
- ICP & value-prop sharpened
- Scope locked: what we build / what we don't
- Tech stack decisions
- Day-by-day plan
- 02
~14 days
Build
People · Senior Engineer · Product Lead · QA
Tools · Claude Code · Lovable · Replit · TypeScript
- Core flow shipping every 48h
- Real auth + database + integrations
- Daily Slack updates
- Test coverage on critical paths
- 03
~5 days
Ship
People · Engineer · Founder
Tools · Vercel · Stripe · Resend · PostHog
- Production deploy + monitoring
- Landing page live
- Onboarding flow tested with 3 real users
- Handoff doc + access
- 04
Bi-weekly, ongoing
Iterate
People · Fractional team
Tools · Slack · Linear
- Sprint plan every 14 days
- PMF tracking
- Feature ships + retros
- Pause or cancel anytime
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