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Most software projects fail before anyone writes code

Because nobody agreed precisely enough what was being built. So every engagement starts with a paid Discovery Sprint, which scopes what gets built and how. If you go ahead, the fee comes off the project.

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Discovery Sprint

Two weeks, £4,500.

Understanding what actually happens.

We sit with the people who do the work, not just the person commissioning it. We map the process as it really runs, including the parts held together by spreadsheets and habit. Where the build touches an external system, we test what that system actually permits, rather than what its documentation claims.

Turning that into something you can build from.

We write the specification, design the system architecture, and price the build. You get a walkthrough at the end of the fortnight, and time to ask questions about anything in it.
What you own

What you own after two weeks

A technical specification detailed enough to build from
The system architecture
An integration feasibility assessment, including what will not work and why
A risk register
A fixed price for the build

All of it is yours whether you build with us or not. If you take it to another developer, it will work for them too. We would rather lose the build than have you commit to something nobody scoped properly.

See what one looks like
The build

Project Build and Production Build

The price is fixed before anything starts, and it is built to the specification you already have.

Work is delivered in milestones. At each one you get something you can actually use and judge, not a progress percentage. You see it, you tell us what is wrong, we fix it before we move on. The last milestone is not the first time you find out what we built.

Changes

When something needs to change

It always does. Requirements shift, a regulator moves, someone spots a better way halfway through.

Every change is written down, with what it costs and what it does to the timeline, and nothing is implemented until you have said yes. That is not bureaucracy. It is so the fixed price stays meaningful and so nobody discovers a bill at the end that they did not agree to.

Handover

When the build is done you get the running system, the source code, the deployment setup, and documentation written for whoever maintains it next, which may not be us.

We do not build things that only we can look after. If you want to take it in-house or hand it to another supplier, you should be able to.

The running systemDeployed and live
100%
The source codeEverything we wrote for you
100%
The deployment setupInfrastructure and configuration
100%
DocumentationWritten for whoever maintains it next
100%
After it ships

Care Plan

Uptime, security patching, dependency updates, and the regulatory changes that arrive whether you budgeted for them or not. Includes an allowance for small changes.

Capacity Retainer

Five days a month reserved for you, rolling three-month minimum. For when the work is continuous rather than a project with an end.
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Tell us what is not working.

Thirty minutes, no deck. Tell us what is not working and we will tell you whether we are the right people to build it.

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