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The method

Discover. Build. Evolve.

Three phases. One team from kickoff to handoff. No junior account managers parachuted in between.

The methodv.2026
PhasesThree
Delivery~90 days
TeamSenior, start to finish
QuoteFixed, in writing
01 / The three phases

How a build actually runs.

The same three phases on every engagement, in the same order. No phase gets skipped, and none runs forever.

01

Discover

learn the business first

We learn the business before we touch the technology. Where the time goes, where the money leaks, where a person is doing work a machine should be doing.

  • Workflow + cost mapping
  • Where AI actually pays
  • A plan you own
02

Build

inside your real operation

We build inside your real operation, not a sandbox. Small, working, tested. You watch it run and earn your trust before it touches anything that matters.

  • Small, working, tested
  • Runs in your real stack
  • Trust earned before it matters
03

Evolve

as the work changes

Businesses move. We tune, extend, and retire systems as the work changes, so what we built stays useful instead of becoming the next thing you work around.

  • Tune and extend
  • Retire what is done
  • Stays useful over time
02 / The first 90 days

What happens in the first 90 days?

Weeks 1–2: we walk the workflows with the people who run them and put a cost on each one. Weeks 3–10: we build and test inside your live operation, proving each piece before it touches anything that matters. Weeks 11–12: we train your team and hand everything over — you own all of it. Price quoted in writing before week 1 — see the Implementation Sprint spec or the price list.

03 / The promise

What we promise. And what we don't.

The list on the left is what we sign up for. The list on the right is what no honest AI shop should ever claim. If one does, ask harder questions.

What we promise

  • Prices on this page, in plain numbers: no discovery call required to learn the cost
  • Fixed scope and a fixed price agreed before we start
  • The advisor who scopes your project is the one who builds it
  • Vendor-neutral recommendations, including the free tool when the free one wins
  • A human who can explain, question, and overrule every system we build

What we don't promise

  • Guaranteed ROI numbers: we quote ranges; real results depend on your execution
  • Magic in a couple of weeks: real implementation runs about 90 days per workflow
  • That AI is right for you right now: sometimes the honest answer is “wait a quarter”
Start here

Every engagement starts with a free 30-minute AI Opportunity Assessment. A senior advisor walks your workflows and tells you what is worth automating, and what is not. We reply within 24 hours.