Five stages from a paid audit to an agent ready for live traffic. Nothing carries over on trust, and the first two are fixed price: stop after either and you keep everything we produced.
The same sequence on every engagement, however long it runs. Each stage has an exit gate, and each one ends in something you can hold.
A paid two-week audit of your processes, data and systems. We come back with a ranked list of what AI should touch — and what it should not.
Exit gate
Claude writes the code and composes the interfaces, against a locked architecture and inside a design system that already exists. That is the difference between generation that compounds and generation you throw away.
A draft’s path to main
A real tool definition, not pseudocode. The lines that matter are the authority limit, the required trace and the two escalation paths. All four come from the architecture document, and none is the model’s to choose.
Generation is fast enough to outrun review, so the constraints live in the repository rather than in anyone’s head: one committed file, read by every assistant that touches the codebase, and checked again by CI on the way in.
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A rule that only lives in a review comment holds until the week everyone is busy. These fail the build, which is the only enforcement that survives a deadline.
Indicative, not contractual. Evaluation runs inside every build sprint; the evaluate stage is the formal pressure test before go-live, and operations has no finish line. Drag the week to see what you hold at any point.
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Stop point: fixed price, keep everything Target: pilot ready for real traffic
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Three commercial shapes, one for each phase. None of them is an hourly rate.
Fixed price
Two weeks, priced before they start. You keep the audit and the ranked backlog whether or not you continue with us.
Fixed scope per phase
Each phase priced against the architecture discovery produced, so the number is attached to something written rather than to a guess.
Monthly retainer
Scaled to traffic rather than headcount: tracing, drift alerts, cost dashboards and a place on the on-call rota.
No hourly billing, anywhere
Every phase carries a number agreed before it starts, and nothing enters scope without a written estimate first.
Each one will cost us work we could otherwise win. That is how you know they are meant, and not just written down.
Discovery ends with a list of what to automate and a list of what to leave alone. The second list is the one that earns the fee, and we put it in writing whether or not it is welcome.
The questions that decide whether the first two weeks are worth booking. Anything else, ask us directly.
Yes. Discovery and architecture are each fixed price, and you keep everything they produce: the audit, the ranked backlog, the architecture document and its cost model. There is no obligation to continue with us.
Bring one process you think an agent could run.
We'll tell you straight whether it's worth building — and what it would cost if it is.