We design and build owned community platforms for founders and organizations that have outgrown Circle-style tools. Fixed fee, weekly working builds, source code yours.
Built The Raising Club — a vetted caregiver marketplace, training academy, events engine, memberships and a 23-screen admin console, live in the US. First commit 29 May 2026 · five modules in production 2 July 2026. See the case study
You are replacing Circle or Mighty Networks with a product you own — your data, your billing, your workflows, your roadmap.
Associations and member bodies running events, directories, dues and training, currently across four subscriptions that do not talk to each other.
Where members buy from each other — caregivers, tutors, coaches, creators — so the directory has to carry booking and payouts, not just profiles.
A care marketplace carries obligations a hobby community does not. We have built one, in production, for families in the US — and the verification work is most of what makes it usable.
Six modules, one schema and one payment path. Most builds start with three of them; the rest are there when the community is ready for them.
Role-based member profiles — member, provider, organization, admin — each with its own fields, permissions and visibility. Verification and reference checks sit on the profile record, so a directory listing carries proof rather than a claim.
Listings with structured search, availability and booking, and Stripe Connect payouts to providers. The money path is built once and reused by every module, which is why a marketplace and a course checkout do not end up as two half-finished billing systems.
Lessons, quizzes and certificates, with credentials that appear on the member profile. For a marketplace community this is the loop that matters: training raises the quality of the supply side, and the badge is what a buyer scans for.
Online and offline events with registration, capacity, attendance and calendar sync. Paid events use the same checkout as memberships and bookings, so revenue reporting is one number rather than three exports.
Tiers, subscriptions, trials and coupons, with entitlements that other modules read — a tier can unlock a course, a discount on a booking, or an event. Dunning and failed-payment handling are part of the build, not a later surprise.
Moderation, approval queues, refunds, member support and a CMS for the pages your team changes weekly. Built for the person who actually runs the community, which usually means fewer clicks than the member-facing side.
Not sure which modules you need? That is what the call is for.
Book a free 30-min scope callFive modules, one platform, in production.
The Raising Club needed a vetted caregiver marketplace, a training academy, an events engine, paid memberships and a full admin console — for parents, caregivers and organisations, in English and Spanish.
Each of those is a project on its own. They shipped together because they share one schema, one permission model and one payment path — so a member, a purchase and a permission mean the same thing everywhere, and the admin console operates all five from one place. First commit 29 May 2026; live 2 July 2026, and running today.
Read the full case study“They delivered on time and were very proactive in recommending new capabilities for the marketplace.”
SigmaticAI delivered a complete MVP with five feature areas, including a vetted caregiver marketplace, membership plans, courses, and events. The team was proactive, talented, and knowledgeable, recommending new capabilities and using the latest technology.
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I have purchased clinic software from them.. it has improved efficiency and treatment quality for my patients.. Also it’s very useful for accurate accounting..
Good experience with development and automating process. Great management and quick handover.
Thirty minutes, free. You leave with a recommended stack, a timeline and a firm price range.
Roles, permissions and the money path, agreed before anyone writes a feature.
A running build on staging every week — not a status report. You use it as it grows.
Production deploy, documentation, your repo and cloud accounts, and thirty days of support.
The three questions every buyer outside India asks before the second call.
Next.js, Supabase (Postgres) and Stripe by default. Bubble when speed to market matters more than scale — and we will tell you which one your build is.
Your repository, your cloud accounts, your Stripe. IP assigned in the contract. Nothing about the handover depends on us still being in the picture.
We work 9:00–13:00 US Eastern and 9:00–17:00 UK from Nagpur, India. Weekly call, Slack through the day, Loom for anything that needs showing.
Ranges, not a quote — the number firms up on the scope call, once we know which modules you actually need.
from $8,000
4–6 weeks
$15,000 – $45,000
8–14 weeks
Monthly retainer
Scoped on the call
Fixed fee against a scoped brief. Changes are logged and costed, never silently absorbed.
An honest comparison, including when you should not call us.
| Community SaaS | Custom build | |
|---|---|---|
| Monthly fee | Grows with members | Hosting only |
| Transaction fee | Often 2–10% on top of Stripe | Stripe alone |
| Data ownership | Theirs, exportable | Yours, in your Postgres |
| Custom workflows | Within what the plan allows | Whatever your community does |
| Marketplace + courses together | Usually two products | One platform, one checkout |
If you have under 200 members and no marketplace, stay on SaaS — it is cheaper and it works. Call us when you have hit its limits.
A focused MVP with members, one core module, payments and an admin console is typically four to six weeks. A full platform of three to five modules runs eight to fourteen. The Raising Club — five modules, two languages, three audiences — went from first commit to production in eight weeks, which is the fast end and depended on decisions being made quickly.
Yes. Members, profiles, posts and subscription state can be exported from most community SaaS and imported into the new platform. Subscriptions usually need care: existing billing relationships either move to your Stripe account or run to the end of their term on the old system while new signups start on the new one. We map this on the scope call, because it changes the launch plan.
Yes — your repository, your cloud accounts, your Stripe account, and IP assigned in the contract. You can take the codebase to another developer the day after launch. Nothing about the handover is designed to keep you here.
We work 9:00–13:00 US Eastern and 9:00–17:00 UK from Nagpur, India — a real overlap, not a promise to be available at 3 a.m. A weekly call, Slack through the day, and a Loom walkthrough with each weekly build, so progress is visible without a meeting.
That is the usual reason people call. It is also the thing stitched-together SaaS does worst: two products, two checkouts, two member lists. Built as one platform they share a schema and a payment path, so a course badge can appear on a marketplace profile and one report covers all the revenue.
Most community platforms should start as a fast mobile web app — it installs to the home screen, updates without app-store review, and costs a fraction of native. When a native app is genuinely needed (push-heavy engagement, offline use), we build it on the same backend rather than rebuilding the platform.
Stripe by default, including Stripe Connect where members pay each other and you take a platform fee. Subscriptions, one-off bookings, event tickets and coupons all run through the same path, which is what makes revenue reporting one number.
Thirty days of support are included, along with documentation and a handover session. After that you can keep us on monthly for features and support, or run it yourself — plenty of clients do, which is the point of giving you the code.
Leave the call with a recommended stack, a timeline and a firm price range. Thirty minutes, no deck.
Thirty minutes, free. You leave with a recommended stack, a timeline and a firm price range — whether or not you build it with us.
Book a free 30-min scope call