Case study
Field app for a SaaS launch
A cross-platform mobile app taking an early-stage SaaS to launch.
- Sector
- Startups & SaaS
- Service
- App Development
- Timeline
- 6 weeks to launch, then ongoing
- Delivered
- 2025
A seed-stage SaaS team with a working web product and no mobile presence.
Outcomes
What changed
This engagement is anonymised at the client's request, so it is described by what the build does rather than by their internal numbers.
- Both store submissions cleared, privacy manifests and data-safety declarations included.
- Field records save locally and sync when signal returns, so a lost connection never costs data.
- Built against the existing API, so their single backend engineer was never a blocker.
- Over-the-air updates ship fixes without waiting on a store review.
The problem
Their users worked on site, away from a desk, but the product only existed in a browser. A funding milestone required a shipped mobile app, and the team had one backend engineer and no mobile experience.
What we built
A cross-platform app built against their existing API, scoped hard to the three things users actually did in the field. Shipped to both stores in six weeks, with offline capture so a lost signal never costs a record.
Approach
How we got there
- 01Cut the backlog to three core flows by watching five users work for a day.
- 02Built against the existing API rather than asking their one backend engineer to change it.
- 03Added an offline queue so field records save locally and sync when signal returns.
- 04Set up over-the-air updates so fixes ship without a store review.
- 05Handled both store submissions, privacy manifests, and data-safety declarations.
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