Most founders ship with AI now, but very few of those products hold up once real users show up. We're the team you bring in for the part that's still hard. Backends that scale, iOS apps that feel native, and design that doesn't look generated. Built together with our design partner Proyect.io.
A year ago, having AI in your workflow gave you an edge. In 2026 every founder is doing it, and the result is a wave of products that leak API keys at launch, run on schemas that fall over at 5,000 users, and process Stripe webhooks that duplicate charges because nobody set up idempotency. The numbers on what's going wrong are pretty stark.
The prototype has always been the easy part. The hard part starts when you have real users and real money moving through the system. That's the part where having actual engineers on the team still matters.
Most of what got commoditized this past year was the easy stuff. The work that's left, building things that actually function in production and look like they belong in their category, is where most teams still fall apart. So we built the company around those two parts.
We do full-stack across Next.js on the web side, plus Expo for native iOS. The parts AI tools keep getting wrong are the parts we focus on. Backends that work under real load, auth flows that don't break, payments that handle the messy edge cases, and the kind of observability that pages someone before users start complaining.
The one piece AI is still legitimately bad at is making something look like it belongs in its category instead of looking like every other product spun up this week. We don't do that part in-house. Our co-founder runs Proyect.io, a senior design studio whose work has helped clients raise over $50M, and that's the team behind the design on every project we ship.
“Design that actually moves the needle.”
Real products, shipped. Funded rounds, App Store releases, paying users. Not the kind of thing that falls apart in week two.
Community + AI platform for designers
A community platform for designers to share work, get feedback, run challenges, and collaborate in real time. We built the full stack: Stream Chat for the community side, Stripe for paid tiers, Supabase auth with row-level security, and AI features wired into Google’s Gemini API.
Native iOS app for men’s mental health
A native iOS app for men working on their mental health, currently live on the App Store at v1.2.5. It includes habit tracking, breathing exercises, a panic mode for hard moments, community circles, journaling, and streak tracking. Built on Expo with Apple Sign In, Superwall handling subscriptions, and Sentry tracking issues in production.
Web3-powered Typeform alternative
A conversational form builder competing directly with Typeform. The team raised $100K through tokenization on the Believe app, which gave them the runway to put real money behind product and growth.
AI sales call analyzer
A sales coaching platform that records calls, scores how reps are doing, and surfaces patterns in how they handle objections. Currently in closed beta with 40 paying clients, all of them actively using it.
Smart event planning platform
An event logistics platform for operators who run more than one event a year. The team got accepted into Tech Stars largely on the strength of the MVP we shipped, and the demo opened doors to several investor conversations after that.
We only take on two builds per cycle so the work gets the attention it needs. If you have something off the ground but it isn't where it needs to be yet, that's the conversation we're up for.
The best builds we have worked on came from people who had spent years inside the problem they were trying to solve. They were not guessing at what their users needed. They knew. We just had to ship the version of it that actually worked.
He had been running the agency long enough to know exactly which parts of the workflow were eating his team’s time, and we built the tool that took those parts off the table.
Years of running events meant she had a long list of things the existing tools were getting wrong. The product is built around fixing every one of them.
Hi, I'm Xavier, co-founder of NexCode.
We're not really an agency, and we're not trying to be. The way we work is more like joining a founder's team for a project, doing the engineering and design work that actually matters, and getting out once the product is in a good place. Most of the founders we end up working with have already shipped something with Cursor, v0, or Lovable, and have run into the part where things start breaking.
Engineering happens in-house. Design comes through Proyect.io, the studio my co-founder runs, which has helped clients raise over $50 million between them. Same team across both, end to end.
We post the work-in-progress side of what we're shipping on X. Bugs we hit, infrastructure decisions, screen recordings of what's coming next.
We work with two founders per cycle so the work gets the attention it needs. If you have something off the ground and want a team that knows how to take it the rest of the way, we should probably talk.