2 — 4 weeks
Research sprint
One blocked question, answered with a working prototype and a written verdict. Fixed scope, fixed price — and a natural on-ramp to building the product for real.
You need to know if it's possible.
Approach
Measured, then built.
Seven steps, in the same order, every time — idea to launch. Not because process is precious, but because skipping one is how AI projects quietly become nine-month experiments that never ship.
- First output
- Within 2 weeks
- Cadence
- Weekly demo, written notes
- Ends with
- A live product & a runbook
The engagement
- Step 01
Discovery
We start with the constraint, not the technology. What must be true for this to be worth doing — and what happens if it isn't.
Problem brief & success criteria - Step 02
Architecture
The system drawn before it is built. Layer by layer, with the trade-offs written down where they can be argued with.
Architecture & decision record - Step 03
Prototype
The riskiest assumption, built first and measured against a real evaluation set. Fast enough to be wrong cheaply.
Working prototype & eval harness - Step 04
Build
The prototype becomes a product. The whole thing — application, services, data layer — built out to the standard a real user base demands rather than the standard a demo survives.
Complete, working product - Step 05
Optimization
Down the stack. Quality, latency and cost pushed until the curve flattens and further effort stops paying.
Benchmarked performance envelope - Step 06
Production Deployment
Shipped with the unglamorous parts intact: monitoring, rollback, on-call notes and a team that can operate it without us.
Live system & runbook - Step 07
Continuous Improvement
Models move, data drifts, costs change. A cadence of evaluation and tuning that keeps the system from quietly decaying.
Ongoing eval & tuning cadence
Engagement models
Three ways to start.
Sized to the decision in front of you rather than the budget cycle behind it.
3 — 6 months
Product build
Zero to launch. We build the product end to end — alongside your engineers if you have them, on our own if you don't — and leave behind a team that can operate it.
You need the whole thing built.
Ongoing
Advisory retainer
Architecture review, model decisions, cost audits and a second opinion on the calls that are expensive to reverse.
You have the team, not the depth.
Next step
Start with a conversation.
Thirty minutes, no deck. We'll ask what you're building, where it hurts, and what you've already tried.
Typical reply within one working day.