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One system, shipped.
Fixed scope. Fixed price.

The highest-ROI system from your audit roadmap, built and shipped to production in weeks — no open meter, 100% your IP, live by the end. The on-ramp is the audit, so the scope and the number are real before we start.

Price
From $10K · fixed
Duration
Weeks to production
You keep
100% the IP
On-ramp
The $1,500 audit
/01 · Why this exists

Most AI builds die as prototypes that bill by the hour.

The audit hands you a roadmap; the Sprint is how the top item on it becomes a real, running system without an open-ended engagement. Fixed scope, fixed price, production-grade — because a system that only works in a demo isn't a system, and an hourly meter against a moving target isn't a plan.

1
System per sprint — the highest-ROI one
Fixed
Scope and price, set in your audit
Weeks
From kickoff to production
100%
Of the IP is yours
/02 · What's included

Four guarantees. One running system.

01

One system, scoped to a fixed price

The single highest-ROI system from your audit roadmap — a visibility system, a brand ontology, a content engine, or an agent — specified to a fixed scope and a fixed price before we start. You know the shape and the bill up front. No open meter, no surprise invoice.

Fixed scope · fixed price
02

Built to production, not a prototype

We ship the real thing — instrumented, tested, running on your stack — not a demo that impresses in a call and breaks the week after. "Live by the end of the sprint" is the definition of done, with the evals to prove it works.

Production-grade · tested · instrumented
03

100% your IP, portable by default

Everything we build is yours — code, graph, content, agent. It's model-agnostic and platform-agnostic where it can be, so it survives any single vendor and you can take it in-house whenever you want. No lock-in is a design constraint, not a promise.

Your IP · no lock-in
04

A clean handoff or a running start

At the end you have a working system and a documented handoff. Take it in-house, or roll into an Operating Partner engagement and we run and extend it. Both are fine — the sprint stands on its own either way.

Documented handoff · optional run

Which system gets built is decided in your audit — visibility, a brand graph, the Content Engine, or an agent.

/03 · How a sprint runs

Scoped, built, shipped — on a date.

No mystery, no drift. The audit did the diagnosis; the sprint executes a defined deliverable against a fixed timeline.

01

Scope, locked from the audit

We take the top-ranked system from your roadmap and specify it to a fixed scope, price and date. You approve the exact shape and the bill before any build starts.

02

Build to production

We build the real system on your stack — instrumented and tested — with evals proving it works on your actual cases, not a staged demo. Progress is visible the whole way.

03

Ship & hand off

It goes live, you get a documented handoff, and the IP is yours. Take it in-house, or roll into Operating Partner and we run it. Your call.

/04 · Not a dev shop

An outcome with a date, not hours against a moving target.

The pricing model is the tell: a sprint commits to a deliverable, a shop commits to a rate. One of those can drift forever.

System Sprint vs. a typical dev shop / agency
Typical dev shopPlanePaper System Sprint
Billed byThe hour, against a moving targetA fixed scope and a fixed price
Scoped byA sales call and a guessYour $1,500 audit
You receiveA prototype, oftenA production system, live
Built byA chain of contractorsThe engineer who stands behind it
OwnershipVaries — read the contract100% your IP, no lock-in
/ FAQ

Questions, answered straight.

Why do I have to start with the audit?

Because a fixed price requires a fixed scope, and an accurate scope requires understanding your business first. The $1,500 audit is how we earn the right to quote you a real number instead of a vague range — and how we make sure we're building the system that actually pays, not the one that's easy to sell.

It's also the lowest-risk way in: the roadmap is yours whether or not you sprint.

What does a sprint cost and how long does it take?

Sprints start around $10K and run a few weeks to production — the exact scope, price and timeline are fixed in your audit, where we've seen your actual systems. The commitment is to a defined deliverable and a date, not an open-ended hourly engagement that drifts.

What if the scope changes mid-sprint?

The scope is fixed precisely so it doesn't drift mid-flight — that's the point of doing the audit first. If something genuinely new surfaces, it becomes a clearly-scoped next sprint, not a quiet expansion of this one's bill. You never get a surprise invoice.

Do I have to keep you on to run it afterward?

No. The sprint produces a working system and a documented handoff that's 100% your IP. Most clients roll into an Operating Partner engagement so we run and extend it — but that's a choice, never a lock-in. Take it in-house whenever you want.

How is this different from hiring a dev shop or an agency?

A typical shop bills hourly against a moving target and hands you a prototype. A sprint is fixed-scope, fixed-price, production-grade, and scoped by the audit — and it's built by the engineer who'll stand behind running it, not handed down a chain of contractors. Outcome, not time.

/ Clearance

Get the roadmap first.
Then ship the system that tops it.

The $1,500 AI Brand Audit ranks your systems by ROI and scopes your sprint precisely — fixed price, fixed date, before you commit a dollar to the build.