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No fluff, no agency-speak. Real answers about how custom apps are built, what they cost, how long they take, and whether one is right for your business.
Sprint Build: $3,500–$8,500 — a focused, single-workflow app delivered in 72 hours to 1 week. Best for coaches, solo operators, and businesses with one well-defined problem to solve.
Complete Solution: $10,000–$25,000 — a full platform with multiple modules, user roles, integrations, and an admin dashboard. Delivered in 2–4 weeks.
Managed Stack: $1,497/month retainer — ongoing development, hosting, updates, and improvements. Month-to-month, no long-term contract required.
All pricing is flat-rate. You see the full price before committing. No hourly billing, no scope creep, no surprise invoices.
Traditional agencies carry enormous overhead: project managers, account managers, 4-person design teams, QA engineers, and long documentation phases. A typical $50,000 agency project is 80% overhead and 20% actual build time.
Vantage Digital's AI-accelerated pipeline eliminates most of that overhead. An AI-assisted developer working on a productized stack can produce in 72 hours what a traditional team produces in 6 weeks. That efficiency is passed to you in the form of dramatically lower prices — typically 70–85% less than a traditional agency for comparable quality.
50% deposit at project kick-off, paid securely via Stripe. Build begins immediately upon receipt.
50% balance due at launch, before the codebase is handed off. You receive everything at handoff — complete source code, deployment setup, and documentation.
For Managed Stack retainers, billing is monthly with no minimum term. Cancel anytime.
No mandatory ongoing fees. You own the app outright. If you choose to host independently, your costs are minimal — typically $20–50/month for a Netlify or Vercel plan and a database.
Optional monthly management retainer ($1,497/month) covers ongoing hosting, updates, new feature development, and support. This is available but never required. You can take the codebase and run it yourself entirely.
Sprint Build: 72 hours to 1 week from deposit to live production app — full domain, SSL, deployed and accessible by real users.
Complete Solution: 2–4 weeks from deposit to launch, depending on complexity and revision cycles.
These are real delivery timelines, not sales timelines. The clock starts when your deposit clears.
The intake form we collect before every build gives us everything we need to start immediately — your business context, the specific problem you need solved, features required, and brand guidelines. Within 1 hour of intake, you receive a complete project scope. Within 72 hours of your deposit clearing, you have a working, deployed application to review.
See the full methodology: How We Build a Full App in 72 Hours →
Revisions are included in the flat-rate price until the app matches the agreed scope. We iterate until it's right. What's not included is scope expansion — adding features beyond the original specification. Those additions are scoped and priced separately.
In practice, most clients need 1–2 rounds of feedback before the app is approved for launch.
You own 100% of the code, design, and intellectual property. Upon final payment, you receive the complete codebase, all assets, deployment configurations, and documentation. No strings attached.
Vantage Digital retains no license, claim, or ongoing right to the work product delivered to you. You can modify it, resell it, white-label it, or have another developer maintain it — entirely your call.
No problem. Because you own the code, you can hand it to any developer. All Vantage Digital builds use standard, widely-understood technology stacks (HTML/CSS/JS, React, Node.js, Supabase/PostgreSQL) — not proprietary frameworks that require specific vendor knowledge to maintain.
Yes. Once you own the IP, you can white-label it, resell it, license it to other businesses, or build a SaaS product around it. There is no restriction on commercial use of the delivered work product. This is explicitly addressed in the client agreement.
No. Most clients have zero technical background. The intake form asks business questions — what you do, who your clients are, what problem you need solved — not technical specifications. You describe the outcome you want; we figure out how to build it.
Where technical decisions need to be made (hosting, domain, integrations), we guide you through them step by step.
The intake form captures everything we need: a description of your business and workflow, the problem you want the app to solve, any specific features required, your brand colors and logo (if you have them), and your timeline and budget range. The form takes about 5 minutes. No brief, no RFP, no discovery calls required before you receive a scope.
Frontend: HTML5, CSS3, vanilla JavaScript, or React depending on project complexity.
Backend: Netlify Functions (serverless Node.js) or Express.js for custom APIs.
Database: Supabase (PostgreSQL) — open source, scalable, self-hostable.
Payments: Stripe — PCI DSS compliant, industry standard.
Deployment: Netlify — global CDN, instant deploys, 99.99% uptime SLA.
AI features: Anthropic Claude API for intelligent app functionality.
No proprietary frameworks, no vendor lock-in at the technology level. Every tool is industry-standard and replaceable.
Progressive Web Apps (PWAs): All Sprint Build and Complete Solution projects include a mobile-optimized PWA — users can install it to their phone's home screen and use it like a native app, with offline capability and push notifications. No App Store submission required.
Native iOS/Android: Available at the Complete Solution tier using React Native. Includes App Store and Google Play submission. Timeline extends to 3–6 weeks and pricing starts at $15,000.
Yes. All Vantage Digital applications are built with security-first defaults: HTTPS/SSL on all endpoints, secure HTTP headers (HSTS, CSP, X-Frame-Options), Supabase Row Level Security for database access control, and Stripe-handled payment processing (PCI DSS compliant — card data never touches your server). User authentication uses industry-standard JWT tokens with appropriate expiration.
Custom makes sense when you check most of these boxes:
SaaS is the right choice when you're spending under $400/month total, when your workflow is completely generic, when you need to be live tomorrow, or when you have no one to manage a custom system long-term. Not every business needs custom software — and we'll tell you honestly if SaaS is a better fit for your situation.
All products can be white-labeled and customized for your brand. See full case studies →
Yes. Every productized app (Cadence, WedPath, FamLoop, WealthDesk) can be white-labeled — your logo, your colors, your domain, your brand. The underlying platform is the same proven codebase; the presentation layer is fully customized to match your identity.
Custom features beyond the standard platform can be added at Sprint Build or Complete Solution pricing.
Vantage Digital LLC is a Texas-registered limited liability company serving clients across the United States. Contact us at hello@vantagedigital.dev.
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