AI Product & MVP Development in Berlin
The best AI Product & MVP Development in Berlin, at the best available price.
A real, production-grade build you can put in front of users or investors. Frontend, backend, mobile, the agentic AI underneath, and the cloud or private infrastructure it runs on, as one engagement rather than four vendors.
Berlin is Germany's startup capital: venture-backed companies in fintech, e-commerce, mobility and consumer apps work in English, hire internationally and move faster than the rest of the German market. It is also the seat of the federal government, so a second, slower market of ministries, agencies and their contractors sits alongside the startups. Startups here buy on speed and founder trust, while public-sector buyers buy through formal tenders.
Berlin founders often raise on a deck and a prototype, then need a real product with German-grade data handling from the first release. The build covers consent, deletion and EU hosting from day one, so the first Mittelstand pilot does not force a rewrite.
What you get
- Full-stack build on Next.js, Node or Python, with a database and API design that survives past the MVP
- AI where it earns its place: LLM features, retrieval over your own documents, agent flows that call real tools, voice
- Auth, payments, analytics and an admin surface, not a demo that breaks on the second user
- Deployment across AWS, GCP or Azure, or private and on-premise hosting where the data demands it
- Clean, documented code on your own infrastructure, written to make us replaceable on purpose
Final pricing depends on scope, features and complexity, so we settle it on a call before any work starts.
Invoiced in USD or EUR, payable by Wise or bank transfer.
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You speak to the engineer who does the work. No sales rep, no deck.
Who builds here
AI Product & MVP Development
The typical Berlin buyer is a funded founder with a small English-speaking team who needs a working product before the next round, and who can decide in a week rather than run a tender.
What Berlin companies build with us
Get it built at $0.
That is not a discount. It is when you pay. The work is split into checkpoints with acceptance criteria written down before anything starts, and each checkpoint is invoiced only after you have seen it and accepted it. No deposit.
- $0 to start
- You hold every dollar until a checkpoint is delivered and you accept it. No approval, no invoice.
- Fixed cost, unlimited features
- Or hire the team outright: one fixed monthly cost, unlimited feature development, any stack.
- The engineer takes your call
- The person on your first call is the one who architects and writes it. No account managers, no bench time.
A US agency quotes $50,000 to $150,000 for the same build and asks for 40 to 50% of it before a line is written. Account managers, project managers, sales commission and bench time. None of it appears in your product.
Three stages, nothing hidden.
Twenty-minute call
You talk to the engineer who will build it, not a sales rep. We scope the problem and you get told plainly if this is the wrong fit.
Fixed proposal in 48 hours
Fixed price, fixed timeline, defined deliverables, in writing. No hourly billing surprises and no open-ended scope.
Weekly demos until it ships
Working software every week, direct access over Slack or WhatsApp, and documentation handed over at the end.
What actually applies here.
Regulation and data
GDPR applies alongside Germany's Federal Data Protection Act (BDSG), and private companies in Berlin are supervised by the Berlin Commissioner for Data Protection and Freedom of Information. Where a company has a works council, any tool capable of monitoring employees' behaviour or performance needs its agreement under Section 87(1) no. 6 of the Works Constitution Act, which often includes AI assistants that log usage. Digital health apps seeking reimbursement go through the BfArM's DiGA process. Germany's NIS2 implementation act has applied since December 2025, and the federal AI market surveillance law of July 2026 makes the Bundesnetzagentur the main AI Act authority. The EU AI Act has been in force since August 2024: general-purpose model rules applied from August 2025 and transparency duties from August 2026, while the 2026 Digital Omnibus moved the main high-risk obligations to December 2027 for stand-alone systems such as hiring or credit scoring, and August 2028 for AI built into regulated products.
Contracting and payment
You contract with an individual consultant based in India. Invoices in EUR or USD, paid by Wise or bank transfer. Your accountant handles an overseas supplier in the usual way, and any documentation they need is provided before access is granted.
Working hours
Four or more hours of daily overlap across your morning, Central European time, with same-day replies on working days.
Can you work with a Berlin startup that operates in English?
Yes. All work, documentation and calls are in English, which suits most Berlin startup teams. If a German public body or corporate customer needs material for their procurement, the technical documentation is written so your team can translate or adapt it.
Will our data stay in the EU?
Yes. Deployments go into an EU region of your own cloud account, such as Frankfurt, or onto your own hardware. The model, serving layer and logs stay inside that boundary, and access is named, limited and removed at handover.
How do working hours line up with Berlin?
Four or more hours of daily overlap across your morning, Central European time, with same-day replies on working days. The work is remote from India, so there are no in-person meetings, but reviews and demos happen on calls in your morning.
Is three days realistic?
For a working, demoable version of a core idea, yes, and that is what the three-day build is. A full production system with billing, admin and hardening takes weeks, not days. We will tell you which one your situation actually needs.
Do we own the code?
Entirely. It ships into your repository on your own cloud accounts, documented so your team or your next hire can pick it up without us.
Can you also host the AI model privately?
Yes, and as part of the same engagement. If compliance means inference cannot leave your network, the serving layer and the application are built together rather than handed between vendors.
MVP Development
A working MVP in as little as 3 days, from $1,000. Production-grade, not a throwaway prototype.