Services
Custom software development services, priced before we start.
EdgeBrain Studios is a product development agency for founders and lean product teams. We’re a small senior team, a software house in Lahore working with clients across the US, UK, and the Gulf. Four services: web development, mobile apps, AI automation, and AI integration.
You’re probably weighing a $15 an hour marketplace against a $150 an hour agency. One carries delivery risk, the other carries account managers and a six-week discovery phase. We sit in the middle and get specific where both stay vague. Senior engineers write the code. The scope and the price are fixed before kickoff, and most projects ship in 4 to 8 weeks. The figures published across these pages are estimates in US dollars, not quotations; the quote that follows scoping is fixed in writing before kickoff. The long version of that comparison, in-house option included, is in in-house vs agency vs freelancer.
Mobile Apps
iOS and Android apps built with React Native and Flutter. Smooth animations, offline-first architecture, and seamless backend integration.
One codebase, two stores, 60fps on hardware people actually own. We handle review and submission.
A mobile client on an existing API from $20,000. Full MVPs from $24,000.
See how we build React Native appsWhat’s included
- Cross-platform mobile apps
- Native iOS & Android builds
- Offline-first architecture
- Push notifications & real-time sync
- App Store submission & optimisation
Tech we use
AI Integration & Consulting
We help you work out where AI actually fits, build proof-of-concepts to test it, then integrate language models into the stack you already run.
A working prototype on your real data in three weeks, with accuracy numbers and a projected monthly model spend.
Readiness sprints from $6,000. Proofs of concept from $16,000.
See how we scope and integrate AIWhat’s included
- AI readiness assessment
- Use case identification & scoping
- Proof of concept builds
- LLM integration into existing products
- Prompt engineering & optimisation
Tech we use
Technology pages
Seven of these get asked for by name
The four above are how we describe the work. These seven are how people ask for it. A specific migration, a specific CMS, a specific database, a specific payments API, a specific protocol. Each one gets its own page because answering “can you do Sanity” properly takes a page, not because a longer menu looks better.
Sits under web development
WordPress to Next.js migration
The rebuild is the easy half. Everything around it is what actually breaks a replatform, so that’s what the page covers: a redirect map generated from the live permalink structure rather than from memory, canonical and structured-data parity checked against the old site before cutover, the headless-over-WPGraphQL versus move-the-content-out decision, and what your rollback looks like if the first week goes badly.
Read the WordPress to Next.js migration pageSits under AI automation
n8n automation development
Written for teams who have already chosen the tool and then hit everything past the happy path. Self-hosted deployment in queue mode, credentials and the encryption key, custom nodes for when the integration you need doesn’t exist, error branches and retry policy, and what moving a workflow off Zapier or Make actually costs in rebuild time.
Read the n8n automation development pageSits under web development
Payload CMS development
Payload will let you model almost anything, which is exactly the failure mode. Skip the argument about schema now and your editors pay for it eighteen months later. The page covers collection shape for editors who are not developers, access control evaluated per document, localisation, and what self-hosting actually obliges you to run.
Read the Payload CMS development pageSits under web development
Sanity CMS development
For teams already on Sanity, about the two decisions everything downstream inherits. How you shape documents for editors who don’t write code, and how you project GROQ for a render layer that has to stay fast. Portable Text gets a full section, along with the serialiser you owe every surface that renders it.
Read the Sanity CMS development pageSits under web development
Supabase development
Supabase treated as Postgres, because underneath the dashboard that’s what it is. Row Level Security policies written so the planner can still use their indexes instead of scanning every row, which runtime talks to the pooler and which needs the direct port, pgvector indexes that hold up past a demo, and where the service role is allowed to appear at all.
Read the Supabase development pageSits under web development
Stripe integration development
Written around the failure modes rather than the happy path. Absorbing at-least-once webhook delivery, where idempotency keys come from and how long they live, what reconciliation compares your ledger against, and who inherits dispute liability under each Connect account type. We build with Stripe. We are not a Stripe partner.
Read the Stripe integration development pageSits under AI integration
MCP server development
The Model Context Protocol itself is a weekend. Servers fail on the three things nobody budgets for. A tool surface generated from a route table instead of designed around real tasks, a transport that was superseded in 2025, and an authorisation model that quietly hands every agent your service key. We build on Streamable HTTP and OAuth 2.1 with PKCE, and every write path gets audited.
Read the MCP server development pageWe quote all seven the same way as everything above: fixed scope, price agreed before anyone starts. If you’d rather put your own numbers in first, the MVP cost estimator breaks a build down into line items in the browser, and the AI feature cost calculator does the same for what one user of an LLM feature costs you per month. Neither has an email gate.
Engagement models
Three ways to hire us, and when each one is wrong
Choose by how settled your scope is rather than by budget. The numbers below are indicative starting points, and once your scope has been quoted we do not walk that number back.
Fixed-scope project
From $7,500
Most land between $18,000 and $45,000, with platform and multi-agent work above that
Right whenYou know roughly what needs building and want the number before you commit.
Wrong whenOpen-ended research, or scope you expect to rewrite twice before it settles.
Monthly retainer
From $2,500 a month
Typically $3,500 to $6,000 a month
Right whenThe product is live and needs steady feature work, monitoring, and fixes.
Wrong whenA single large build. That belongs in a fixed-scope project.
Embedded engineers
Quoted per engineer
Three-month minimum, full-time
Right whenYou have a roadmap and a technical lead, and you’re short one or two senior people.
Wrong whenTeams with nobody to set direction. You’d be buying hands with no head.
The bands above are estimates, shown in US dollars and drawn from comparable work already delivered, because no two projects carry the same scope. Your own quote is not an estimate: it is fixed in writing after scoping, before kickoff, and it does not move.
Our minimum for a build is $7,500. Below that a good freelancer serves you better, and we’ll tell you so rather than take the work. Below it we sell scoping and diagnostics from $3,500 to $6,000, credited in full against the build that follows. Every model bills monthly in arrears except fixed-scope projects, which run 50 percent on contract and 50 percent on delivery, split into milestones above $30,000. If the ranges are the part you’re trying to sanity-check, we pulled the number apart in what building an MVP actually costs.