My team and I have a medium sized dev shop from Southern California. We've been using Scaphold in production now for several months, and have been absolutely blown away by how much more efficient we've become. All projects in the pipeline will be using Scaphold going forward. Take my money.
Without disclosing anything proprietary, I challenge you to describe your "MVP in Three". In other words, what are the three most important value-creating activities your app will facilitate?
Not really that unreasonable, but maybe a bit high. I'd be more than willing to bet that if you down-scope your feature set by 10%, you'd cut development costs by 50%. What exactly are you building?