Own SearchQ.

What you'd own.

Every artifact below transfers to your accounts on day one. The whole engine.

• ●SearchQ brand identity and public positioning
• ●Landing page, docs site, and SEO infrastructure
• ●Customer list with usage and revenue baseline
• ●API architecture design and deployment specifications
• ●Stripe billing configuration for three pricing tiers
• ●Sales playbook and developer outreach playbook
• ●Financial model with unit economics and projections

What Roll Digital builds for you.

Custom scope to take SearchQ from MVP shell to operating business.

• ▸Production FastAPI backend with rate limiting and monitoring in place
• ▸Production-ready Postgres database with multi-tenant schema and migrations
• ▸Complete Stripe billing integration for all three pricing tiers
• ▸Email and Google OAuth authentication system with session management
• ▸API key management and usage analytics dashboard for customers
• ▸Bing alternative data source integration with cost controls
• ▸Documentation site with integration examples and tutorial content
• ▸Customer support runbook and structured 30-day onboarding process

Why this could work.

This taps a real pain point: 200k developers actively building agents need reliable external search. Your GTM is optimized for this audience (HN, Product Hunt, SEO docs), and the freemium model compounds adoption. If you reach 500 paid users by month 12 at $150 ARR average, you hit $75k. The technical moat is thin, but distribution and user experience differences can drive differentiation.

What you'd risk.

The market has entrenched players (Tavily, Exa, Serper) and OpenAI and Anthropic now offer native search in LLMs, eroding third-party demand. Data source cost squeeze is critical: Bing or Google ToS changes or pricing hikes instantly collapse margins. Developer churn is structural, each integration is one API swap away. At 13% success probability and negative year-one take-home, this needs exceptional execution.

Who this fits.

You're a solo founder or early-stage team with B2B SaaS developer-tools experience. You've shipped to technical audiences and understand API integration workflows. You're comfortable with thin margins, structural churn, and out-executing larger competitors through distribution focus. This requires obsessive attention to developer experience, rapid iteration on usage signals, and resilience through iteration cycles.

Timeline.

From contract signing to operating business.

1. Day 1
   Receive codebase, customer list, financial model, brand assets
2. Week 1
   Deploy backend to production, configure Stripe, set up monitoring
3. Week 3
   Launch SEO docs site, establish developer outreach calendar
4. Week 6
   Onboard first 10 paying customers, validate LTV metrics
5. Day 90
   Stabilize to 50-100 active free users, 15-25 paid MRR

Pricing.

Three ways in, depending on how much you want to build yourself.