From a first opportunity session to handover, our process moves in clear, defined increments. Every phase has a concrete output. You can stop after any of them — what we have built is yours.
Our process is built around shipping working systems, not producing reports. Each phase has a fixed duration, a single accountable lead and a written output you can act on without us. You commit to one phase at a time, and we earn the next one.
A typical engagement runs eight weeks from kick-off to first live module, then continues in two-week cycles. The phases below describe the full arc. Most clients enter at phase one; some bring a defined brief and start at phase three.
A thirty-minute call with a senior engineer. Bring a workflow, a brief or simply an unresolved question. We listen, ask the right questions and tell you, honestly, whether there is AI leverage worth pursuing — and where there is not.
We embed for a few focused days with the people who run the operation. We map workflows down to the task level and surface the use cases that genuinely pay back — scored by business value, feasibility, effort and scalability.
The shape of the system, decided before a line of production code is written. Agent topology, data flows, integration points, validation gates and human-review surfaces. We commit to architecture in writing.
A working slice of the system, end-to-end, against real data. Not a slide demo: actual code, actual eval runs, actual integration with at least one upstream system. The point is to learn fast and de-risk the production build.
Spec-driven engineering against the architecture committed in phase three. We ship one production-grade module per two-week cycle, with full observability, evaluation gates and operational documentation. Every cycle ends in a live deploy — never a demo.
The system has to live with your team — not with us. Documentation, training, runbooks, hand-off rituals are explicit deliverables. We are not done when the system is live; we are done when your team can ship the next change without us, and we stay available for the questions that come up later.
No multi-year contracts, no exit penalties, no licence on the artefacts. Each phase produces something your team can use without us — by design.
From phase four onward, the work runs in fixed two-week cycles. Each cycle has the same rhythm — planning Monday, working middle, demo and decision Friday — and the same artefacts. Predictable cadence is how we keep complex engineering boring on the outside.
A written one-pager: scope, definition of done, risks, owner. Signed off in the morning, work starts the same afternoon.
A 20-minute review: what's shipped so far, what's slipping, what needs a decision. No status theatre — we adjust the cycle if necessary.
Live demo against the eval set, deploy to production, written cycle close. Next cycle's plan starts as a draft the same evening.