A legal tech startup MVP in twelve weeks, scoped honestly

Prove one loop

Startups looking for a legal app development company usually arrive with a roadmap for three products. A twelve-week build funds one loop end to end: an attorney does a thing, the matter updates, and both come back tomorrow.

In scope

This is a first release that can carry real matters and still be extended later.

• Auth with biometric unlock and a real session policy
• The single core loop, instrumented so you can see where it breaks
• A privilege-shaped backend — boundary, audit trail, DPA-covered vendors
• An attorney-side surface, even a plain one; client-only MVPs die

Out of scope, deliberately

Billing, multi-tenant white labeling, full e-discovery, and a complete matter-management write path. Each of these is a quarter of work that adds no evidence to your thesis. Defer them with a written note about what would trigger building them.