Technical Co-Founder

You run the business. We run theproduct.

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A partner, not an agency

Architecture, product decisions, the build, the team, untangling the AI slop, the 2am outage. One team accountable for all of it, so you can sell, raise and hire.

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Tell us what you’re building or what’s broken. We’ll tell you what we’d do, even if it’s “you don’t need us yet.”

Fully remote. Working with founders in UK, EU, US, and Singapore.

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No yes-men, no sugarcoating We stay

The demo was the easy part.

Making it survive real users is where most options fall apart.

Option1

Hire an agency?

They'll say yes to everything, bill by the hour, then vanish when things get hard. You get a "finished" product that breaks under real users.

Option2

Find a technical co-founder?

Months of searching, then give up 20 to 50% of your company to someone you barely know.

Option3

Hire developers directly?

Without technical experience, you can't evaluate their work. You won't know the code is bad until it's too late.

Option4

Keep prompting the AI?

It got you to a demo. It won't tell you the database is open to anyone, or why the app falls over the week real customers arrive.

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Four of our current clients came to us after getting burned by agencies. They'd spent months and tens of thousands on products that didn't work. Others came after vibe coding their MVP and hitting a wall when it came time to scale. We've seen the pattern enough to know:

The system is broken.

We're not an agency. We're the CTO,product teamand engineers, in one.

Most founders end up stitching together a fractional CTO, an agency and a few freelancers, then spend their week managing the gaps. We're all of it in one team: product strategy, technical leadership and the engineers who build it. We work long-term, making decisions alongside you rather than executing tickets. We've spent 5+ years as the technical partner for startups that went on to raise Series A and B. We've rescued products from failed agencies. We've told founders their ideas won't work before taking their money.

01

We tell you the truth.

Is the code any good? Is the team? Is the idea worth building? Someone has to tell you what's really going on. We do, then we stay and fix it.

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02

We stay.

Our longest partnership is 5+ years. Zero clients have left due to quality issues. They leave when they outgrow us: Series A, in-house team, acquisition.

That's success
03

We act like owners.

On the right projects we take equity alongside fees, so we win when you win. You never have to give up half your company to get a technical partner.

Skin in the game
04

We're selective.

We work with 4 to 5 companies at a time, no account managers juggling 20 clients, so you get direct access to the people actually doing the work.

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5+years
Longest partnership
Zero
Quality cancellations
4
Rescued from failed agencies
66%
Came from referrals
Who We Help

Different people call us at different moments.

Sometimes there is an idea to shape. Sometimes a product is already in trouble. Sometimes a founder just needs someone independent to tell them what is really going on.

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01 / Founders

Founders

You need help deciding what to build, building it, or getting it back on track.

Bring us an idea, a growing product, or a build that is not working.

How we help founders
02 / Investors

Investors

A portfolio company needs product leadership, technical due diligence, or a team that can step in.

Give founders a trusted place to go before technical risk becomes business risk.

Support for portfolio founders
03 / Partners

Partners

Your client needs product or technical help outside your own area of expertise.

Build a useful referral relationship through introductions, events, guides, and shared expertise.

Partner with Hurricane

Products we've built
with founders.

A partner, not an agency
Healthcare / Enterprise
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Fertifa

Reproductive Health Care

Rescued from a failed agency, rebuilt from scratch, and grown to serve Monzo, Bain Capital, and others, across multiple funding rounds.

RescueLong-Term PartnershipEnterprise Clients
Retail / Loyalty
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Comoclub

COMO Group Recognition Programme

A long-running loyalty platform that outgrew its architecture. When COMO Group needed Southeast Asia expansion, we rebuilt it from the ground up to handle multi-country scale.

Long-Term PartnershipPlatform RebuiltMulti-Country Expansion
Logistics / Enterprise
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Logistics Platform

Enterprise logistics solution

Technical co-founder for 5 years, building the team, making architecture decisions, and helping raise multiple funding rounds.

5-year partnershipMultiple roundsGraduation
Fitness / Consumer
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GRNDHOUSE

Strength-based online workouts

Rescued from a stalled build, rebuilt from scratch, scaled to thousands of users, then acquired when the founders moved on.

RescueOngoing OperationPlatform Acquired
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Don't take our word for it.

Not every founder has a technical co-founder from the start, so some of the best ideas depend on a strong development partner. Vuk and Hurricane are much more than an outsourced dev resource. The team behaves like a company co-founder and brings the startup agility and pragmatism needed to develop a first prototype, MVP, or 1.0, at a level of quality that satisfies even the most discerning corporate clients and investors. I always recommend Hurricane to our founders.
Eileen Burbidge
Partner at Passion Capital
Working with Hurricane Studio has given us the best of both worlds: flexibility to manage burn and make the most of our limited runway, but best-in-class dev resources so we don't have to compromise on the quality of our platform.
Giuliano Sison
Product Lead, Fertifa
Storm Survival

Guides for non-technical founders

Building a product without a technical background? We're writing the guides we wish existed: how to evaluate agencies, spot red flags, know if your code is good, and avoid the mistakes that sink startups.

Read the guides
01 How to Know If Your Dev Agency Is Screwing You 02 Do I Really Need a Technical Co-Founder? 03 Why Your Last Agency Failed (And How to Not Repeat It) 11 Vibe Coded Your MVP. Here's What to Do Before It Gets Real.

Not sure if we're the right fit? Let's find out.

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We don't do sales calls. We do honest conversations about what you're building and whether we can help. Sometimes the answer is "you don't need us yet" or "here's what you should do instead." That's fine.

Talk It Through
66% of our clients came through referrals. Ask your network.
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