Starting small

Try us on somethingthat is already finite.

You should not have to buy a quarter of delivery to find out whether a firm is any good. Two of the six engagements are fixed in scope before they start, which makes either of them a complete piece of work and a short way to find out how we operate.

The two smallest ways in

Fixed scope,fixed window

4-6 weeks · Priced Outcome

Vibe Code Rescue Sprint

Turn a prototype, stalled build or inherited codebase into a tested, deployable foundation.

Choose this when

  • A funded prototype is nearing real users
  • A handover failed or releases are unstable
  • Security and dependencies are unknown

You getRisk and dependency triage, tests, CI and a deployable build, and a prioritized handover document.

Scope a rescue →

4-8 weeks · 2-3 specialists · Priced Outcome

AI Integration Sprint

Claude, OpenAI, Gemini or whichever model fits, wired into a workflow people already use. Vendor choice follows the outcome, not a partnership badge.

Choose this when

  • You have a defined use case and a live product
  • Accuracy, latency or cost needs proving first
  • It must reach production, not a prototype

You getModel selection and an evaluation harness, a cost ceiling with approval gates, and production rollout with monitoring.

Scope an AI integration →
Why fixed scope

What makes these twosafe to start with

01

The scope is settled before you commit

Both engagements are quoted after we have read the code or the use case, not before. What is in and what is out is written down while you can still say no.

02

The window is short enough to judge

Four to eight weeks is long enough to ship something real and short enough that being wrong about us is survivable.

03

It ends with something you own

A deployable build or a production integration, in your repository, documented. Not a report and a proposal for the real work.

04

Nothing obliges you to continue

Most clients do continue, into a pod or Product Care. That is a decision made after the work rather than a condition of starting it.

Questions

Before you committo anything

It is retired. It existed to make a large, vague engagement feel small, and the six engagements are no longer vague: each names its scope and window, and all six are priced the same way, with the work and its cost written down for approval before anything starts. The two fixed-scope sprints do the same job without being a separate product.

If you have working software that you do not trust, a Vibe Code Rescue Sprint. If you have a live product and a defined AI use case that has to reach production, an AI Integration Sprint. If neither description fits, the intro call is a faster way to find out than reading both pages.

Like every other engagement: Priced Outcome. Start with a free initial audit. We assess the scope, the stage the application is at, the condition of the codebase, the team the work needs and how it runs in production, then set out the proposed work and its cost upfront for your approval before delivery begins. For a rescue sprint the audit reads the repository first, because fixing a price before looking is how a rescue turns into an open-ended bill. For an integration sprint it covers the use case and its accuracy, latency and cost requirements.

You find that out in the first week, in writing, rather than in the last one. The sprint still delivers what it was scoped to deliver, and what remains is described with the order to do it in, whether or not we do it.

Yes. The intro call costs nothing and is meant to leave you with a clearer problem whether or not you hire us, and the initial audit after it is free as well - you see the scope and the cost before you commit to a sprint at all. The ROI calculator is the other thing worth doing first, because it tells you what an outcome would have to be worth.

Work out what an outcome is worth first

The shapes

What a first engagementcommits you to

A team against a roadmap

Senior capacity inside your codebase, moving a roadmap week after week.

Commitment
3 months minimum
Price basis
Priced Outcome
Suits you when
  • The work is continuous, not bounded
  • Recruiting would cost a quarter
  • You want the same people throughout
Engagements

Ownership after launch

Monitoring, patching, upgrades and a named engineer for live software.

Commitment
Ongoing, cancellable
Price basis
Priced Outcome
Suits you when
  • It is live and business-critical
  • Nobody owns it out of hours
  • The risk needs an owner
Engagements

One agreed price for an agreed outcome, quoted after a free initial audit and approved before delivery begins.

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Working out whetherit is worth building

Start with the smallest thing that is real

One finite piece of work.Then decide about the rest.

Tell us what is unstable or what has to reach production. We will come back with which of the two fits and what it would be priced on.