Five phases. Sixteen weeks.
Most engagements run this shape — including SaaS-escape replacements, where Discovery becomes the fixed-fee audit and Build/Integrate map to the parallel-run cutover. Some are tighter, some longer; the rhythm holds. Discovery in writing, throwaway POC, weekly demos, clean handoff.
- Week 0
Discovery, in writing
One written brief. Stakeholder calls, data audit, a success metric you can measure quarterly. Output: a signed scope with numbers, not vibes.
- ✓ Written brief
- ✓ Data audit memo
- ✓ Signed scope
- Week 1
Throwaway POC on real data
Before committing weeks of build, we put something in front of you running on your actual data. If the POC fails, we stop and save everyone money.
- ✓ Notebook or prototype
- ✓ Go/no-go memo
- Weeks 2–10
Weekly demo, Slack all week
Real sprints producing real demos. Shared Jira, shared Slack, raw burndown. No status decks — the work itself is the status.
- ✓ Friday demo
- ✓ Deploy to staging
- ✓ Open repo access
- Weeks 11–15
Integrate + harden
Production wiring: auth, observability, runbooks, on-call. We pair with your team on the seams so nothing is mystery code.
- ✓ Prod deploy
- ✓ Runbook
- ✓ Dashboards
- Week 16
Clean handoff
Recorded walkthroughs, architecture doc, 30 days of co-pilot support. We want your team to fully own what we built.
- ✓ Docs
- ✓ Video walkthroughs
- ✓ 30d support
What we guarantee.
Not marketing. These are contract terms.
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Seniors only
The people in the sales call are the people on the keyboard. No bait-and-switch.
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Shared board
Jira, Linear, Notion — whatever you run. We work in your tool, not ours.
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Weekly demo
Every Friday. Fifteen minutes. Broken or working — we show what's real.
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Open repo
Your team has commit access from day one. No "we'll hand it over later".
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6-hour SLA
Every Slack message, every weekday. An engineer replies, not an AM.
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Stop clause
If the POC shows the idea won't work, we say so and invoice only what's shipped.