Brightleaf ships a production-grade platform — auth, billing, deploys, observability — in two to nine weeks. You take it from there, with AI as your engineering partner.
Pick the one that matches where you are. Same production-tested foundation across all three — customized to your idea, yours to extend with AI.
A real, working product in real users' hands — one platform, yours to ship and extend, same foundation as the bigger tiers.
A real product for real customers — across two platforms, with a thinking partner through the build.
Built for traction — every platform, and a month of build sessions so you ship features yourself.
Every Brightleaf bootstrap is built on the same core. Modern stack, stable defaults, fully documented — so you can spend your time on the product, not the plumbing.
Drop the codebase into Claude Code or Cursor and ship features without engineering experience.
Clean architecture, predictable patterns, comprehensive types, and prompt-ready documentation make it real.
Pick the platforms you want — one, two, or all three. Same codebase, native apps.
Email + social login, sessions, password reset, account recovery — all wired in.
Stripe checkout, subscription management, webhooks, customer portal.
Postgres with type-safe queries, migrations, and a sane schema you can read.
Single-command deploys. Staging, production, rollbacks. CI/CD that works.
Error tracking, structured logs, performance monitoring — visible from day one.
Architecture maps, runbooks, and a CLAUDE.md so AI tools can ship features with you.
We also work hourly. Same expertise, different shape — for teams with an existing codebase or a one-off question.
Full-stack development on existing codebases. Feature work, tech debt, scaling.
Architecture reviews, technology selection, roadmapping, hiring support.
Part-time technical leadership. Strategy, team, vendors, investor support.
Brightleaf was born from a simple observation: every early-stage startup rebuilds the same foundation, and most do it badly.
We've spent a decade shipping product at startups — everything from MVPs to scale-ups, solo founders to Series A teams. We've seen what it takes to move fast without breaking things you can't afford to break, and what to skip entirely.
The bootstrap is the distillation: the technical foundation we wish every founder started with. AI-extensible, so non-technical founders can ship without learning an unfamiliar codebase. Production-grade, so when it works, it really works.
Tell us about the product you're building. We'll come back within a business day with thoughts, questions, and a suggested next step.