Product engineering company · taking new projects

We build SaaS & AI products that ship — ours, and yours.

A founder-led team that designs, builds, and runs four live products. Bring us an idea and we'll take it to a launched, billing, scaling product — with the same team, stack, and process.

4
live SaaS products
8+
client launches
99.98%
production uptime
15+
years shipping
What we build for clients

From a one-line idea to a live, billing, scaling SaaS.

No account managers, no layers of hand-offs. You work directly with the senior team that will design it, ship it, and keep it running.

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Custom AI product

LLM and generation pipelines with cost ceilings, queues, and observability — the same setup behind ReelAI, ComicReel & Prompt2YT.

OpenAIReplicateQueuesGuardrails
~3–8 weeksfrom $4,200
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Landing + onboarding

The exact stack behind sutracore.com — fast, on-brand marketing site, signup, billing, dashboard scaffolding.

DesignReactSEOAnalytics
~2 weeksfrom $2,800
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Cloud / edge platform

What we built for LumaPlay — GPU pods, low-latency streaming, credit billing, regions. For when "cloud" is your product.

EdgeWebRTCGPUMetering
~6–12 weeksscoped
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Fractional CTO

Architecture, hiring help, code review, on-call coverage for early-stage teams who need senior-level direction without a hire.

StrategyArchitectureCode review
monthlyfrom $3,000 / mo
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Rescue & rewrite

Inherited a stalled codebase or a bloated vendor build? We take it over, ship the next release, and document what's left.

AuditRefactorHandoff
~2–6 weeksscoped

How we work

Four steps. No status meetings.

You get a Linear link, a Loom every Friday, and prod deploys the moment something is ready. That's the process.

01

Scoping call

30 minutes. We map the smallest thing that proves the idea. If it's the wrong fit, we'll tell you on the call.

Day 0 · free
02

Fixed proposal

One page: scope, milestones, fixed price, fixed timeline. No retainers, no hourly drift, no surprise invoices.

Day 1–3
03

Build & ship

Deploys go to preview daily, prod weekly. You see exactly what we're doing in real time on Linear and Vercel.

Week 1 → launch
04

Handoff or stay

We document the stack, transfer the keys, and either hand it off — or stay on as your fractional CTO team. Your call.

Post-launch

Why a small senior team beats a big agency

Same scope, half the calendar, none of the middlemen — and the people on the kickoff call are the people writing the code.

Working with a typical agency

› 09:14 kickoff with 6 strangers
› 09:31 account manager assigned
› 10:02 PM assigned · slide deck attached
› 11:46 dev unblocked? no
› 12:08 change request: +2 weeks
› 13:21 handed to junior · senior left
› 13:22 ship date: slipped
› 14:55 invoice: 2.1× quoted
› 15:31 still no auth flow

Working with SutraCore

✓4 PRs in prod today · 0 meetings held
featStripe checkout · plans wired
#a39f12 · 12m
fixOnboarding · empty-state copy
#bd0017 · 1h
infraPostgres read replica · live
#7e2c41 · 3h
designPricing page hero · v2
#22aa90 · today

Selected work

Live products we designed, built, and run.

The same team, stack, and process we'll bring to your project — running in production, with real users, right now.

All case studies →
LumaPlay home page
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LumaPlay
CLOUD GAMING · 2025–26
in-house build

Play any game, on any screen — 4K · 120fps from edge GPU pods.

Streaming infra, credit billing, Steam / Epic / GOG library linking, and the full catalog UX.

10+games
14regions
<14mslatency
lumaplay.online ↗Case study →
ReelAI home page
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ReelAI
AI INSTAGRAM REELS · 2025–26
in-house build

Instagram reels for businesses — idea to finished reel in minutes.

AI director, Veo 3 scene prompts, brand kits, and a 9:16 reel with logo and grid cover.

Veo 3scenes
9:16native
3 minmax length
reelai.shop ↗Case study →
ComicReel home page
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ComicReel
AI COMIC SERIES · 2026
in-house build

Turn one idea into a comic series people binge.

Episode scripts, consistent panels, comic lettering, and camera motion — assembled into vertical reels.

18art styles
65characters
54locations
comic.reelai.shop ↗Case study →
Prompt2YT home page
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Prompt2YT
AI YOUTUBE STUDIO · 2026
in-house build

Type a prompt, upload a video — long-form YouTube, generated.

Script, visuals, voiceover, and edit from one chat — with retention pacing and direct publishing.

69themes
4Kexport
16:9long-form
prompt2yt.online ↗Case study →

The team

Small team. Senior hands. Every discipline in-house.

Founder-led and deliberately small. The same people who run our own products build yours — no outsourcing, no juniors learning on your budget.

01

Product engineering

Full-stack Next.js, TypeScript, and Postgres — auth, billing, dashboards, and the core flows your users pay for.

02

Design & frontend

Brand, UI, and marketing sites that load fast and convert. Designed and coded by the same team, so nothing gets lost in hand-off.

03

AI & media pipelines

LLM, image, video, and voice pipelines with queues, cost caps, and retries — the engine behind ReelAI, ComicReel, and Prompt2YT.

04

Cloud & reliability

Edge and GPU infrastructure, CI/CD, monitoring, and on-call — the same setup that keeps LumaPlay streaming at under 14ms.


One stack. Proven across every product we run.

Boring, ruthless, well-documented. The same toolkit behind every project.

Deploys today

Same pipeline you'll be added to — preview on push, prod on merge, instant rollback.

Llumaplay#a39f12● 21 May · 15:48
Cclient · acme#bd0017● 21 May · 14:02
Rreelai#7e2c41● 30 March · 11:46
Cclient · vox#3aaaaa● 11 Feb · 09:31
Llumaplay#22aa90● 01 Feb · 22:18

Our toolkit

Chosen because it lets a small team move faster than a large one — and because it scales when traction hits.

Next.jsTypeScriptPostgresPrismaRedisStripeVercelEdge fnsCloudflare R2OpenAIReplicateLinear

AI pipeline · ReelAI / ComicReel

The render engine we bring to every AI product we build for you.

› job render-reel id=ld_44ax2
storyboard 6 cuts · 12s
motion-pass 94 frames @ 60fps
beat-sync aligned · BPM 124
budget $0.04 / $0.50 cap
status ready
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SutraCore · founder-led product engineering

Led by a founder with 15+ years shipping production web apps, SutraCore has grown into a small senior team running four live products with real users and real revenue. We take on a limited number of client projects each quarter, so every one gets the team's full attention.

Based Mumbai, IN · UTC+5:30
Stack Next.js · TS · Postgres
Team Small · senior · in-house
Status Taking new projects

FAQ

Questions founders ask us first.

What is SutraCore?

SutraCore is a founder-led product engineering company based in Mumbai, India. We build and run our own SaaS products — LumaPlay, ReelAI, ComicReel, and Prompt2YT — and build custom SaaS and AI products for startups and businesses.

How big is the team?

We're a small, senior team of up to five people covering engineering, design, AI pipelines, and cloud infrastructure. Every project is led by the founder, and you talk directly to the people building it.

What does a project cost?

Projects are fixed-price after a free scoping call. A SaaS MVP starts from $6,500, a custom AI product from $4,200, a landing + onboarding build from $2,800, and fractional CTO support from $3,000 a month.

How long does it take to launch?

A typical SaaS MVP goes live in about 4–6 weeks, a landing + onboarding build in about 2 weeks, and a custom AI product in 3–8 weeks. You get preview deploys daily and production deploys weekly.

Who owns the code?

You do. At handoff we document the stack and transfer the repository, infrastructure, and keys to you — or stay on as your fractional CTO team if you prefer.

Do you work with clients outside India?

Yes. We work remotely with founders and teams worldwide from Mumbai (UTC+5:30), with async updates on Linear and a Loom walkthrough every Friday.

Have an idea? Let's see if we're the right team to build it.

30-minute scoping call, no pitch deck required. If it's not a fit, we'll tell you who to talk to instead.

4 SaaS products live
8+ client launches
99.98% uptime · prod
15+ years shipping
Founder-led team · 0 middlemen