Limited capacity · Founding cohort 2026 · Australia

We turn your idea into a product that succeeds.

AI will build you the wrong thing fast. What it does build is insecure, throwaway slop. The Cercury factory builds what people actually use, secure and built to last, as easily as vibe coding. You're closest to your users, so you drive; our engineers assist where it counts.

Book the call → Read the Zagg case study

Speed

In front of users in days, not quarters.

Cost

Built without the cost of a full team.

Validated

Built on what users do, not what they say.

Yours

Secure, tested, and yours to keep.

A founder and one Cercury engineer built a production marketplace this way. Four months, something new in front of users every week. Case study: Zagg

01 / What we do

Find it, build it, run it. Then again.

There's no point doing the thinking well if the build then crawls, and no point building fast if you're building the wrong thing. The value is in the parts being joined up.

01 Work out what's worth building

02 Build it

03 Run it

Work out what's worth building

You decide, we bring the method.

Most software that gets built never really gets used, so we start where the risk is highest: what your customers actually want and will pay for. You make the call on what to build. We bring the method to find out cheaply first, with the people you're building for.

Build it

You build with us, we bring the factory.

You build it with us on the Cercury factory: the spec, the code, the tests, the checks, the deploy, with our engineers on the rails. Built to last, in front of users in days.

Run it

You decide what's next, we bring the evidence.

We run it, keep it monitored and secure, and track what your users actually do. That's the evidence behind your next call: keep the idea, reshape it, or drop it. And round again.

Did you know

43% of failed startups built something the market didn't want. We start where that risk lives.

Source: CB Insights, "The top 9 reasons startups fail" (2026)

02 / The factory

The building part, on rails.

The factory builds in the disciplines raw AI skips: quality, security, operations, architecture, and design. Our engineers steer every stage from spec to deploy, you stay in control, and what ships is secure and built to last, code you can keep building on where the next change doesn't break the last. Design is built in too: a consistent interface in your brand and voice, not the same generic screens every AI tool ships. One feature, idea to live, below. It's what makes days, not quarters, real.

factory · idea to live elapsed —:—

Orchestrated agents

Prompt library

60+ QA gates

Deterministic + LLM

Backlog12

FEAT-251 prefs sync
FEAT-253 SSO logout
FEAT-256 audit log export
+ 9 more

Analysis2

Spec ready1

In Progress1

In Review1

Released19

FEAT-247 saved filters

human · drag factory · drafts human · drag human · approve factory · ships

The factory does not ship a half-passing change.

See the full walkthrough: inputs, spec, build, deploy, live

03 / Once it's live

We run it. You make the calls.

We run it in the cloud, keep it secure and patched, and watch how it performs, so operating it never lands on you, and a breach never lands you on the front page. You get a clear view of what your users actually do, and the product decisions stay yours: keep an idea, reshape it, or drop it.

Monitoring

the factory and its output

Continuous improvement

quality, speed, cost, over time

On hand

for the engineering judgement calls

The people who built it are still here when it breaks.

04 / Two ways in

Two ways in. Either way, we carry it through.

Most people come to us in one of two places. You don't have to take all three legs of the loop, so start where you need us.

You're not sure what to make next

End to end

You have customers, or an idea, and a call that's expensive to get wrong. We find what's actually worth building, put the smallest real version in front of users, and carry it the whole way: work it out, build it, run it.

You know what to make, you just can't ship it fast enough

Just the build, or code and tests

A backlog, a roadmap, an idea you can't get to. We build it secure, tested, and built to last on the factory, in days. Take just the build, or take the code and tests with the pipeline that ships it and run it on your own cloud.

What we build New products · New product surfaces · Ground-up rewrites

We build new things, not changes to code we didn't write: we can't stand behind code we can't run end to end. We work with founders, funded startups, and product teams inside bigger companies, and keep our numbers small on purpose, so every product gets our best people.

05 / What you keep

Your code. Your product. Yours to keep.

Everything we make is yours to keep: the product, what you learn about your users, the code itself, and the docs behind it. No platform that can lock you out, jack up the price, or leave you unable to touch your own product. Hand it to another team, run it anywhere, or carry on without us.

What you keep · in detail

Ownership, security, exit terms, plus the full deliverables list, the test pyramid, and how the factory plugs in.

Spec
Production code
Tests
CI/CD
Architecture
UX + UI docs
Runbooks

06 / How we compare

Cercury, AI tools, in-house, or offshore.

Who should build your idea? Get it wrong and it follows you: a breach, a vendor you can't leave, a feature that breaks two others. What sets the options below apart is who helps you build the right thing, and whether what they ship is solid or a mess you inherit.

	Cercury	AI tools	In-house	Offshore
What you actually get	A working product, and the thinking behind what to build	Code	Capacity you manage	Hours of output
What the build is like	Secure, tested, built to last, yours to run	Whatever the model emits, yours to fix	As good as the team you hire	Varies by vendor, rework common
Design and UX	On-brand, consistent, in your voice, on your design system	Generic screens, clunky flows, inconsistent throughout	As good as your designers	Varies by the team you get
Will they tell you not to build it	Yes. If it should not be built, we say so before you spend	No, it builds whatever you prompt	Unlikely, a standing team needs work to do	No, they build the brief
Who decides what to build	You do. We bring the method to find what is worth building, then put it in front of users	You guess	You and your team	You, in a brief written up front
Idea to real feedback	Days	Hours to generate, weeks to ship, learning is on you	Months	Weeks per cycle
What you pay for	The work, not a standing team. Stop any time, no lock-in	A subscription, plus your time	Salaries, in busy months and quiet ones	Hours billed, plus the rework
What is yours at the end	Everything, from day one. Code, evidence, and the decisions behind it	The code, edited in place	Yours, once you have built the team	The code, on handover

Tell us what you're building.

Tell us what you are trying to build, or what you are not sure you should. A 45-minute call, no pitch and no obligation. We agree scope, timing, and price up front. Founding-cohort intake for 2026, limited capacity. If we are not the right team for it, we say so.

hello@cercury.ai What you keep

We earn the next month on the work, not on the lock-in.