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Engagement

Four formats, each with a defined end

Every stage is scoped and priced in writing before it starts, and every stage ends with something you can read: a scope, a measurement, a running slice or a runbook. Stopping after any stage is a legitimate outcome, not a failure.

Discovery sprint

Two to four weeks to turn an idea into a written scope, a data inventory and a go/no-go decision. Fixed price, no commitment afterwards.

fixed fee, quoted per scope

Includes

  • Process map and scope
  • Data inventory
  • Hosting recommendation
  • Decision on feasibility

Pilot

One process, one user group, quality measured on your own cases. Ends with a working slice and the numbers needed to decide about production.

fixed fee per stage

Includes

  • Working slice on your data
  • Evaluation set and scores
  • Failure-mode list
  • Demo to the user group

Production build

Hardening, permissions, monitoring, rollout and documentation, delivered in stages with a demo at the end of each one.

fixed fee per stage

Includes

  • Production deployment
  • Monitoring and alerting
  • Runbooks and training
  • Regression suite

Support

A monthly engagement after launch: monitoring, re-evaluation, incident handling and small changes.

monthly retainer

Includes

  • Monthly quality report
  • Re-indexing and re-evaluation
  • Incident response
  • Named engineer

Prices depend on the number of systems involved, the state of the documents and the hosting constraint. The discovery sprint is what turns those three into a number we can stand behind.

Questions we are asked before the first call

Do you work with our existing systems, or do we have to move?
We integrate with what you run. Replacing a system of record is almost never part of an AI project, and the cost of doing it usually dwarfs the benefit.
What if the data cannot leave our environment?
Then the model runs inside your environment. We deploy open-weight models in your cloud tenant or on your hardware, and state the accuracy trade-off in writing before the work starts.
How do you prove the system is good enough?
With a test set built from your own cases. Retrieval and answer quality are scored separately, and the same suite runs on every change so a regression is visible immediately.
Can we sign an NDA before sharing documents?
Yes, and it is normal at this stage. Say so in the enquiry form: we will sign yours or send ours before any detail is exchanged.
Do you take fixed-price work?
Stages are fixed price and agreed in writing before they start. The discovery sprint exists to make that number reliable instead of optimistic.
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