Week one
Idea to POC
We frame the hypothesis, pick the constraints that matter, and put a working proof of concept in your hands within one week.
Prototype to prod.
We prove new initiatives in weeks. Your engineers never leave the roadmap.
Est. 2024
Your team ships. We prove what is next.
Every company carries a list of initiatives it cannot start. The AI feature, the platform migration, the integration a customer keeps asking for. Each one needs a real research phase, and the only engineers qualified to run it are the same engineers keeping production alive. So the initiative waits, or it lands on a team already at capacity and both the roadmap and the research come out worse.
The initiative you want most? We take it and prove it.
Point us at a new initiative and we do the research, build the working prototype and put it in your hands in weeks, with no headcount to approve and no invoice until it works. Your engineers never leave the roadmap they are already accountable for.
What you get back is a decision backed by working software instead of a slide deck, plus a prototype, the toolchain to build it on and a specification your team can start from the moment you say go.
Six layers, one deposit.
Rock strata form in order, each layer settling on the one below. An initiative forms the same way. Enter at whichever layer you need and stop at any of them: each one leaves you something you own.
001 Technical Discovery The bedrock: we frame the question, map the constraints and the prior art, and tell you within days whether the idea is worth building — and what to build it with. 002 Applied Research Algorithms, models and experiments run against your real data, benchmarked so the result is defensible — and taken to filing-ready for your patent counsel if it turns out to be novel. 003 Rapid Prototyping A working prototype in your hands in a week: real interface, real data path, real enough to demo to a customer and decide on. 004 Proof of Concept The prototype put under real load, real cost and real security review against criteria agreed up front, so the go or no-go call rests on evidence. 005 Specification & Handover Where the initiative leaves us: your team receives the spec they build from — decision records, contracts, the toolchain we recommend, runbooks and a reference implementation that already runs. 006 DevOps & Platform Engineering The layer everything else ships through, and the one you can engage on its own: pipelines, environments and observability, plus the release standards that make ownership stick in a team that has been running the same system for years.
We do not build on guesses.
Experiments run against a fixed evaluation harness with a recorded baseline, so an improvement is a measured delta and not a demo that happened to go well.
Every layer earns the next.
A layer closes only when its exit criteria are met and written down: discovery on a costed trade study, research on a benchmarked result, prototyping on a deployed URL, proof on the pass criteria agreed before we started.
That is why the answer holds.
What you receive is reproducible by someone who was not there: the experiment log, decision records carrying the alternatives we rejected, the toolchain, the runbooks and an implementation that already runs.
See it work first.
You do not buy a proposal from us. We agree what would count as proof, we build it, and you watch it run before any money changes hands. Payment is the moment the code and the spec become yours.
Costs you nothing
- The scoping call, and a written summary whether you hire us or not
- Building the prototype
- Running it on our infrastructure while you evaluate it, up to $100 of cloud spend
- The demo, and an honest verdict when it does not work
Payment unlocks
- The source repository, transferred to your organisation
- The implementation spec: decision records, contracts, toolchain, runbooks
- A walkthrough with the engineers who will own it
Scope is agreed at the scoping call. Proofs run on our infrastructure; where one needs more than $100 of cloud spend, that cost is yours. Platform work starts the same way: the audit of your delivery workflow is free, the remediation is not.
Prove it in weeks, not quarters.
Days 8 to 30
POC to proof
The prototype goes under real load, real cost and real security review against the criteria we agreed, so the go or no-go call rests on numbers.
From day 30
Proof to handover
Your team receives the repository, the decision records, the contracts and the runbooks, and we walk them through it until they own it.
The numbers we work to
- from idea to a working proof of concept
- 1 week
- from idea to a working proof of concept
- from proof of concept to a proven go or no-go
- 30 days
- from proof of concept to a proven go or no-go
- from merge to production on the pipelines we build
- 11 min
- from merge to production on the pipelines we build
- business days at most before you hear back from us
- 2 days
- business days at most before you hear back from us
A working POC in one week, without a hiring round.
Bring us the problem. We will bring the team, the plan and the first working version.
Book a scoping callThe scoping call is free, and if we are not the right team for your problem, we will say so in that call.