From first call
to handover.
Every engagement follows the same shape, sized to the problem. You'll always know what's happening, what's next, and what it costs.
- 01 ~half a day
Discovery
We sit down with the people who feel the problem daily, not just the people who signed off on the budget. We walk your data, your existing tooling, and the constraints nobody wrote down: compliance, latency, who has to trust the output. If the honest answer is 'don't build this,' you hear that in the first session, not in month three.
- Problem, data, and constraint map
- Honest go / no-go recommendation
- Shortlist of open risks worth pricing in
- 02 ~3–5 days
Brief & estimate
Discovery becomes a document, not a memory. We write down the scope we're committing to, the architecture we intend to build, and the risks that could move the estimate. Then we price it against that document, not against a vague pitch. You can hold us to what's on the page.
- Written scope and success criteria
- Architecture and integration plan
- Risk register with mitigations
- Fixed estimate tied to the brief
- 03 ~2–6 weeks, shipping weekly
Build & ship
We build directly in your environment, against your data, from week one — not in a sandbox we hand over at the finish line. Every week you see working software, not slides. Where it's sensible, pieces reach production well before the engagement ends, so 'is this actually going to work' gets answered early rather than argued about later.
- Weekly working demos against real data
- A staging environment you can poke at
- Early production slices where feasible
- Running eval results alongside the code
- 04 ~1 week
Handover
The engagement ends with your team able to run the system without us in the room. We write the documentation we'd want if we inherited it cold, hand over the eval suite that proves it still works after you change something, and walk your engineers through the runbooks until they own the failure modes as well as the happy path.
- Documentation and architecture write-up
- Runbooks for on-call and common failures
- Eval suite handed over and explained
- A team briefed to own the system, not babysit it
What we hold ourselves to on every engagement.
These aren't values-page filler. They're the commitments that shape how each stage above actually runs, especially the last one: you leave owning the system outright. Consultants, not vendors with a kill-switch.
- 01
Build to ship, not to demo.
Every project leaves you with a system in production — not a deck in your inbox.
- 02
Boring infrastructure wins.
We use models like contractors use power tools. The interesting work is the system around them.
- 03
Eval-driven development.
If we can't measure it, we don't claim it. Every release rides on a test suite that mirrors the work.
- 04
Hand it back, properly.
Documented, observable, owned by you. Consultants — not vendors with a kill-switch.