Speed with substance
Transaction-ready in week six
Most agencies ship a landing page and call it v1. We ship buyer + seller roles, listings, checkout, and admin — the loop that actually moves money.
12 live marketplaces · avg. 6-week ship
About Mid-Chain Technologies
We build marketplacesfounders can run — not pitch.
Two-sided SaaS for booking, logistics, real estate, and services. Fixed price. Locked scope. Milestone delivery — so the product you sell matches the product we ship.
140+Marketplace builds
6 wksFirst version ship
$2M+Client capital raised
100%On-time delivery
Since 2019Marketplace-first studio
Our story
Closing the gap between pitch deck and first transaction.
Most marketplace projects fail in the space between a polished idea and software that can take money. We exist to close that gap — for pre-seed to early-revenue founders who need a platform, not a promise.
Same engineers from discovery to go-live. Architecture, payments, admin, matching, and mobile — shipped in milestones you can see, test, and sell against.
Why founders choose us
Built different.
Measured in outcomes, not hours.
Founders don't need another dev shop — they need a partner who understands two-sided economics, payment flows, and the ops that keep a marketplace alive after launch.
No surprise invoices
Fixed price before a line of code
Scope is locked in week one. You get a number, a milestone plan, and change control — not a hourly meter that runs until the budget breaks.
Scope locked · milestone billing
Full visibility
You watch every milestone land
Weekly builds you can click. If something threatens the timeline, it surfaces early — while you can still cut, defer, or reprioritize.
Weekly demos · shared roadmap
Built to scale
Production architecture from day one
Auth, Stripe payments, escrow, admin ops, and permissions — not prototypes you'll rewrite the month you convert your first paying user.
Stripe · multi-role · admin ops
The difference in practice
What changes when you build with a marketplace specialist.
- Brochure site first, marketplace laterTwo-sided transaction in v1
- Hourly billing with scope creepFixed price, locked scope
- Big-bang demo after monthsWeekly clickable builds
- Handoff to a new team at launchSame engineers start to finish
How it works
Six stages. Zero black box.
A repeatable path from discovery to launch — with working software every week, not a surprise demo at the end.
- 01
Discovery
We map both sides of your marketplace — who supplies, who buys, and the transaction that has to work on day one.
- 02
Planning
Week one locks scope, roles, listings, and payments. Everything else is a later milestone, not a silent extra.
- 03
Product design
Flows for each role: onboarding, discovery, checkout, and the admin you’ll actually use to run the platform.
- 04
Development
Weekly builds you can click. Listings, matching, payments, and ops land in public milestones — not a big-bang demo.
- 05
Testing
We test the money path and the two-sided loop: payouts, holds, refunds, and the cases ops will hit in week one live.
- 06
Launch & support
Go-live with the same engineers. The eight-week ship is the start of the relationship, not a handoff to a new team.
Start here
Tell us what you're building.
We'll scope it in 48 hours.
Free consultation. Fixed-price quote. No obligation — just a clear picture of what ships in your first six weeks.
Book a scope callReply within one business day