Building and Scaling a Mobile Startup with an Agentic SDLC
Overview
Hirro needed to go from zero to a production mobile app faster than the market could wait. ImagineX embedded an agentic AI framework powered by Claude Code — collapsing sprint cycles from weeks to hours, shipping a production React Native app in 6 days, with Claude completing 80% of the core build before human refinement began.
Problem
No codebase, no architecture — everything built from scratch
Full-stack complexity: video pipeline, AI matching, mobile, and cloud functions in parallel
Market window demanded a working product in days, not months
No established process for sustaining velocity without accumulating critical technical debt
Solution
ImagineX introduced an agentic AI development loop powered by Claude Code — replacing multi-week sprints with same-day delivery cycles. Claude Code drove 80% of the core app build, freeing the team to invest reclaimed time into UI/UX refinement and UAT hardening. React Native, Firebase, and a layered architecture handled the full-stack surface: video pipeline, AI matching, and cloud functions.
Outcome
Production v1.0.0 shipped in 6 days — first commit to semantic release tag
87% reduction in sprint cycle time; requirements to working implementation averaged 10.2 hours
~10x feature throughput vs. solo developer baseline across 4 complete sprints; all figures from git history
Claude Code completed 80% of the core app build, freeing the team for UI/UX refinement and UAT preparation
Agentic schedule slack enabled Full Beta on iOS and Android, plus bonus scope: Admin Portal, Admin Dashboard, white-label scaffolding, and an ATS integrations PoC
Services
Data & AI Innovation
Quality Engineering & Automation
Product Management & Design
Agile Delivery & Transformation
Technologies Used
Claude Code
Gemini
Google Vertex AI
Google Perspective API
Google Vision API
React Native
Firebase
Firebase Remote Config
Banuba SDK
TikTok Login Kit + Business SDK
Algolia
GitHub
