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Launch Fast. Own What You Build.
Funded and don't have a tech co-founder or in-house team? BlastAsia gets your MVP live in as fast as 2 weeks with AI-native delivery — investor- and market-ready quality, at a fraction of the cost of building a team from scratch, with 25 years of product engineering behind it.
✓ MVP Live in 2 Weeks ✓ Version 1 From $15K ✓ 100% Code Ownership
WHY STARTUPS CHOOSE BLASTASIA
Speed, Without the Usual Startup Risk
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4X Faster
Than conventional development, with AI agents accelerating build time
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Full Code Ownership
No vendor lock-in — unlike most no-code or low-code platforms
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Monthly, Not Capex
Pay for progress month to month — no large upfront commitment
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Investor-Ready Quality
Production-grade software, built to survive due diligence
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25 Years, Global Track Record
Founded 2001 — outlasting most freelancers and dev shops
SOLUTIONS FOR EVERY STAGE
Two Paths, Depending on Where You Are
Not every startup needs the same thing. Funded early-stage founders need to get to market fast without building a team from scratch. Growth-stage teams need to extend what they've already built without pulling their core team off the roadmap.
XDD SERVICES
Early-Stage: Get Your MVP Built
Build your MVP in as fast as 2 weeks, with AI agents accelerating delivery — ideal once you've raised (angel, pre-seed, or seed) and don't have a tech co-founder or in-house team yet to execute against that funding.
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MVP live in as fast as 2 weeks, from $15K
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Fixed monthly scope & fee, not a full team to hire
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Cancel anytime after Month 6, easy iteration on v2+
Growth-Stage: Extend Your Team
Already shipped v1 and raised your round? Add dedicated developers, BAs, or QA to scale what you've built, replatform for growth, or free your core team to focus on the roadmap.
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Full-time resources dedicated to your product
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Replatform, redevelop, or scale the core app
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Build supporting/extension apps in parallel
WHY NOT JUST HIRE A FREELANCER OR USE NO-CODE
Two Very Different Experiences
FREELANCER / NO-CODE
X Single point of failure if they disappear
X No-code tools lock you into their platform
X You don't own the underlying code
X Hard to scale past a certain complexity
X No formal QA or production-grade practices
BLASTASIA
✓ A company behind the work, not one person
✓ 100% source code ownership, no lock-in
✓ Production-grade, investor-ready quality
✓ Built to scale — replatform or extend as you grow
✓ Full engineering, BA & QA coverage included
XDD SERVICE · EDTECH
Board Exam Prep Platform
An EdTech startup needed an affordable, high-quality digital review platform for board exam candidates across multiple licensure subjects — gamified tests, custom category-based quizzes, and real-time performance feedback, built and launched fast enough to matter.
"What would've been built in 16 months, BlastAsia did it in 2." — Co-Founder
80%
Faster delivery vs.
traditional estimate
~85%
Cheaper vs.
traditional estimate
8 Wks
From kickoff
to launch
5 People
Full team —
dev, BA & QA
REAL RESULTS
What an MVP Build Looks Like
DEDICATED DEV TEAM · INSURTECH
Insurance Startup — Marketplace + Back-End Automation
A millennial-focused micro-insurance startup needed a digital marketplace with automated back-end operations — built and grown with a dedicated BlastAsia team as the product scaled past MVP.
AUTOMATED WORKFLOWS
Give Your Team's Productivity an AI Boost
Automate the internal business processes eating your small team's time, without pulling anyone off the product roadmap.
✓ AI-powered workflow automation
✓ Digital forms & records
✓ Third-party integrations
POWERED BY
Agentic Workflow Automation — a lighter-weight complement to xDD and Dedicated Dev Teams for process-level problems, not product-level ones.
ALSO AVAILABLE
Automate What's Slowing Your Team Down
Not every bottleneck is your product. If it's an internal process — onboarding, approvals, back-office admin — automating it can free up your small team faster and cheaper than building a full internal tool.
INVESTMENT
Two Paths, Two Pricing Models
Both are ongoing engagements — the difference is how you pay for them.
XDD — STORY-POINT PRICING
Fixed monthly scope and fee. Features are estimated in story points and approved before work begins — MVPs typically start around $15K–$30K to reach Version 1.
✓ Fixed monthly fee, not hourly billing
✓ Pay for features delivered, not hours rendered
✓ Full engineering, BA & QA coverage included
✓ Cancel anytime after Month 6
DEDICATED DEV TEAMS — SEAT PRICING
A fixed monthly rate per dedicated seat — developer, business analyst, or QA. You decide the team's size and composition; standard staff-augmentation invoicing.
✓ Fixed monthly rate per role, per seat
✓ You set team size and composition
✓ Scale the team up or down as you grow
✓ No story-point scoping — you manage the backlog directly
Looking for a one-time, fixed-price build instead? That's our Turnkey model — available if your project is fully scoped and bounded rather than ongoing.
WHAT'S DIFFERENT FROM A FREELANCER OR NO-CODE TOOL
Why Startups Partner With BlastAsia
Transformation work is a different kind of risk than a fixed-scope project — here's what we bring to it specifically.
25 Years, Not One Person
Founded in 2001 — a company that outlasts individual freelancers, with a full engineering, BA, and QA team behind every build.
AI-Native Speed
4X faster than conventional development, with AI agents doing the heavy lifting — MVPs live in as fast as 2 weeks, not months.
You Own the Code
No vendor lock-in like no-code platforms — 100% source code ownership from day one, so your startup's IP is actually yours.
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