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A business succession planning platform, built from scratch: quiz, reports, payments, dashboard, all live.

Full MVP
Quiz engine, scoring logic, gated reports, payments and dashboard, all shipped.
Concept to live
Built and launched from a standing start.
Stripe integrated
Payments live and working from day one.
Admin dashboard
Full operational control handed over with the platform.

Client context

Successioned is a business succession planning platform, founded by Anesan Naidoo. The product's job is to help business owners work out what happens to their business when they eventually step away, starting with a diagnostic quiz that scores where they actually stand today.

The challenge

This wasn't a website brief, it was a product brief. A working quiz engine with real scoring logic, gated reports that only unlock once a user has answered the diagnostic, payment processing to charge for the deeper reports, and an admin dashboard so the business could actually see and manage its own users. None of it existed yet. It needed to be built from a blank canvas, and it needed to work correctly the first time, not iterate its way there in public.

What we built

We built the entire platform from scratch: the quiz engine and its scoring logic, gated report delivery tied to quiz results, Stripe payment integration for the paid tier, and an admin dashboard giving the Successioned team full visibility and control over their own platform. Database architecture through to the front end, proof of concept through to a live, working product.

Results

Successioned went from concept to a fully functional, live platform, with every core piece (quiz, scoring, gated reports, payments, admin dashboard) shipped and working. The founder's own read on the build: the quality and the speed of delivery were beyond what he expected from a boutique team.

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โ€œNorthstar built our entire platform from scratch, quiz engine, scoring logic, gated reports, Stripe payments, admin dashboard. The quality was exceptional and the speed was something I didn't expect from a boutique team. It genuinely felt like they cared about the product.โ€

Anesan Naidoo, Founder

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