[EuPresence]
How EuPresence shipped a production SaaS in 90 days without giving up equity
A non-technical second-time founder needed a real product, infra, and analytics stack, and he needed it fast. Onera shipped the full system in 90 days. EuPresence closed pre-seed soon after.
The problem
Albi had validated EuPresence's wedge with design partners and a Figma prototype, but the prototype wasn't going to hold up to a real go-to-market motion. He'd been burned by an offshore agency on a previous company and didn't want to repeat the mistake. He also didn't want to give up 20% equity for a technical co-founder he'd have to spend three months recruiting.
He needed a production-grade web app his design partners could pay for, an infra setup that wouldn't fall over the first time he demoed to investors, and analytics he could point at when investors asked about traction.
What we built
- Product: a Next.js web app with multi-tenant auth, billing, and a founder dashboard surfacing real-time engagement KPIs.
- Infrastructure: Vercel and Supabase, with preview environments wired into every PR and a typed API contract between client and server.
- Analytics: an event pipeline feeding both the in-product dashboard and a board-ready metrics view, both off the same source of truth.
The first paying design partner went live on day 47. The full launch shipped on day 90.
Outcome
EuPresence closed pre-seed within 30 days of full launch. Albi kept the 20% equity he'd otherwise have given to a technical co-founder. We're still engaged on the second-quarter roadmap and will help him hire his first in-house engineer before the seed round.
Second time around, I knew I didn't want to give up 20% equity for a technical co-founder. Onera gave us the full stack in 90 days and stayed engaged through fundraising. We got the work of a CTO without the cap table cost.
