What is a 5-Day Prototype?

A 5-Day Prototype is a focused, one-week sprint that takes a product idea from post-it to clickable prototype. Monday to Friday, SmplCo runs workshops with your team, iterates live in Figma, and delivers a pitch-ready clickable demo by the end of the week. It replaces months of discovery and is typically used by founders raising capital or enterprise teams aligning stakeholders.

How long does a prototype take at SmplCo?

Five working days — Monday to Friday. The 5-Day Prototype is a fixed-scope, fixed-time engagement. Longer projects (ongoing product design or custom software builds) run on separate timelines.

What services does SmplCo offer?

SmplCo offers six packaged services: the 5-Day Prototype, Product Design as a Service, Branding, Websites, Investor Pitch & Sales Decks, and Video & Animation. Packages are designed to cover the essentials a founder or scale-up needs to go from idea to growth without assembling a dozen separate vendors.

Founders, scale-ups, and enterprise innovation teams. SmplCo has helped build over 150 digital products for companies raising from pre-seed to Series C, as well as established enterprises including Barclays Eagle Labs.

Where is SmplCo based?

SmplCo has five offices: Stavanger (HQ), London, San Francisco, Szeged, and St. Gallen. Most engagements run remotely or hybrid with on-site workshops where useful.

How do I get started?

Book a free 30-minute discovery call at smpl.as/book, or email andreas@smpl.as. SmplCo will map your goal to the right service and share a fixed-price proposal within 48 hours.

Bring your Big Idea to life

World-beating, AI-assisted product design

Conceive, design, develop and launch a product users will love. Our unique process validates ideas, wins buy-in, raises investment, lands partnerships, and wins customers. And we do all that more efficiently and effectively than anyone else. Anywhere.

01 — Product

Bring your product to life

Nail your idea, build something users will love, and prove it works. From five-day prototypes to ongoing product design, we help you go 'from Post-It to product'.

Tailored to you

Whoever and wherever you are, we can help you take on the world. Clients from Costa Rica to Kazakhstan have brought ideas to life using our unique process.

Leap forward

Our famous 5-Day Sprints

Define key UI/UX, test viability, & align stakeholders/investors, using Silicon Valley-quality assets

*Start-up discounts available*

Clickable prototype or proof of concept
3 live Figma workshops
Designers, strategists & AI experts
Pitch-ready brand assets

Let's Talk About Your Vision

Build & launch fast

AI-assisted MVP

Create a working product in as little as a week, with our ultra-lean MVP process

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A polished, working product
AI-accelerated build process
Expert strategy & tech leadership
Clean code, tested & shipped to GitHub

Let's Build Your Working Product

Raise funding

Get investment-ready

Define your story and create the assets needed to stand out from the crowd

Millions raised by clients
Real investor experience & networks
Pitchdecks, websites & content
Readiness audits (incl. SEIS) & strategy

Let's Talk About Raising

Trusted by founders and teams at

5-Day Sprints

Nail your vision. Align stakeholders. Land funding.

Product Design as a Service

Ongoing, flexible access to a full product team.

02 — Business

Bring your business to life

Everything you need to look credible, get in front of the right people, and pitch ideas with confidence. From branding, websites, decks, and video, to crucial internal systems. This is the go-to-market support you need to create an efficient, credible business.

Branding

From first logo to full identity systems.

Websites

Designed and built in-house. No external developer needed.

Investor Pitch & Sales Decks

Designed in Figma. Delivered as editable files + PDF.

Video & Animation

Bring your story to life on screen.

Custom Business Tools

Stop paying for software that does 10% of what you need.

Optional Add-ons

These can be added to any package and are scoped separately.

Copywriting & content strategy

Custom photography / image sourcing

Email template design

Blog setup & content migration

Analytics & tracking setup

Ongoing maintenance retainer

Marketing strategy & launch plan

Animation & motion direction

Google Slides / PowerPoint conversion

Our work

From idea to shipped

A few of the 150+ products and services we've brought to life, for everyone from pre-seed founders to global innovation teams.

More award-winning work

150+

Products & MVPs built

€10M+

Raised by clients

61% ↓

Ave time & cost

Don't just take our word for it

SmplCo's prototype made it much easier to anchor the project within the organisation and test the solution with users.

Vibeke Bjaanes

Innovation Manager, Sparebank1 Sør-Norge

Working with SmplCo is a dream start for anyone who wants to innovate.

Lene Koll

CEO, Compera

Simply insane. Incredibly good. No b******t delivery.

Thomas Thorsell-Arntsen

CEO, W3Schools

Working with the Smpl team was an amazing experience. They manage to decrypt my thoughts and create something exceptional.

Dimitris Neocleous

CEO & Co-Founder, iMe

It took 2 weeks to create our MVP with SmplCo. Before it took us six months and eight times the money.

Simen Sanna

CEO & Co-Founder, Saddle

Smpl has done for us as the name implies - taken something complex and made it beautifully simple, helping us raise and helping us sell.

Kitty Harris

Head of Business Development, Enquip Energy

SmplCo is my go-to partner for everything - from product design and development to branding and collateral.

Petter Støldal

Founder, Nucase

Their ability to listen, communicate and transform complex ideas into reality meant that we came away from our project as very happy bunnies - especially as our prototype played a huge role in us securing investment.

Mark Cox

Co Founder, Orli

I can confidently say that SmplCo are the best technical team I have ever worked with. No long briefing meetings, no need to learn jargon, and no question considered silly.

Tahani Carruthers

Founder, Venture Bento

SmplCo's prototype made it much easier to anchor the project within the organisation and test the solution with users.

Vibeke Bjaanes

Innovation Manager, Sparebank1 Sør-Norge

Working with SmplCo is a dream start for anyone who wants to innovate.

Lene Koll

CEO, Compera

Simply insane. Incredibly good. No b******t delivery.

Thomas Thorsell-Arntsen

CEO, W3Schools

Working with the Smpl team was an amazing experience. They manage to decrypt my thoughts and create something exceptional.

Dimitris Neocleous

CEO & Co-Founder, iMe

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Webinars Mike, Andreas and the team have run with Barclays Eagle Labs for hundreds of founders — on AI integration, fundraising, vibe coding and prototyping. Watch any session in full.

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Mar 2026 · 62 minutes

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Frequently asked questions

What is a 5-Day Prototype?: A 5-Day Prototype is a focused, one-week sprint that takes a product idea from post-it to clickable prototype. Monday to Friday, SmplCo runs workshops with your team, iterates live in Figma, and delivers a pitch-ready clickable demo by the end of the week. It replaces months of discovery and is typically used by founders raising capital or enterprise teams aligning stakeholders.
How long does a prototype take at SmplCo?: Five working days — Monday to Friday. The 5-Day Prototype is a fixed-scope, fixed-time engagement. Longer projects (ongoing product design or custom software builds) run on separate timelines.
What services does SmplCo offer?: SmplCo offers six packaged services: the 5-Day Prototype, Product Design as a Service, Branding, Websites, Investor Pitch & Sales Decks, and Video & Animation. Packages are designed to cover the essentials a founder or scale-up needs to go from idea to growth without assembling a dozen separate vendors.
Who is SmplCo for?: Founders, scale-ups, and enterprise innovation teams. SmplCo has helped build over 150 digital products for companies raising from pre-seed to Series C, as well as established enterprises including Barclays Eagle Labs.
Where is SmplCo based?: SmplCo has five offices: Stavanger (HQ), London, San Francisco, Szeged, and St. Gallen. Most engagements run remotely or hybrid with on-site workshops where useful.
How do I get started?: Book a free 30-minute discovery call at smpl.as/book, or email andreas@smpl.as. SmplCo will map your goal to the right service and share a fixed-price proposal within 48 hours.

World-beating, AI-assisted product design

Bring your product to life