Rellborne

We research, build, and operate focused businesses.

We start by understanding how a business actually works today, then build and operate a product only once the problem — and the demand for solving it — is real.

What we do

How Rellborne operates

Research first

We study how a business or industry actually operates before assuming we know the problem. That means direct conversations with real business owners, not desk research alone.

Validate before building

An idea earns real investment once it shows real evidence: a business owner willing to pay, pilot, or commit — not just polite interest or a working prototype.

Build and operate

What survives validation gets built properly and operated on an ongoing basis, with software and automation handling as much of the repetitive work as can be done reliably.

Our businesses

Focused products, operated independently

Each business under Rellborne solves a specific problem for a specific kind of customer. Each has its own offer, positioning, pricing, and customer segment.

Our portfolio includes businesses at different stages of development and validation.

Meterly
Usage-based billing for indie SaaS

Meterly is being built for indie and small SaaS teams that want a simpler way to meter customer usage and support usage-based pricing without building the entire metering layer themselves.

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Forge
A personalized 90-day plan, built with AI

Forge is a $29 personalized digital product designed around a buyer's goal, current obstacle, and preferred working style. The system creates a tailored 90-day plan designed for automated digital delivery.

Details coming soon
Framed
Before-and-after content for local trades

Framed turns a contractor's or service business's own job photos into polished, ready-to-post before-and-after social content, complete with captions and hashtags. The business supplies photos from a completed job; Framed delivers content ready to publish.

Details coming soon
Research

How we research

Rellborne spends time understanding an industry before proposing a solution to it. Right now that includes direct conversations with independent business owners in home services and logistics — HVAC, freight, and restoration — about how they currently handle things like estimates, follow-up, dispatch, and day-to-day operations.

If you received a research email from Rellborne, this is why: we're trying to understand how the work actually happens, not sell you something in the first conversation.

About

About Rellborne

Rellborne is founder-led and operated by Nayab Hassan. The operating approach is to treat every business idea as a hypothesis until it's supported by evidence — a real customer, a real transaction, a real willingness to pay — rather than a working prototype or a good idea on its own.

Contact

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General inquiries

Research & outreach

If you received a research email from Rellborne, or want to take part in a research conversation: