Every engagement runs on the same operating system — a fixed-scope pilot, a build phase paid in two-week cycles, and a scale phase that runs as long as it earns its keep.
Two weeks, one price, one question we're proving.
Staff+ engineers and operators on the call from day one.
Code, models, and creative ship into your repos as we build.
The same four phases run every engagement, from a 14-day pilot to a multi-year retainer. The duration changes; the shape doesn't.
Ten working days. One question we're proving the answer to. A go/no-go memo on the desk by Friday of week two — and the code in your repo regardless of which way the decision goes.
Outcome brief signed. Access provisioned. Squad assigned.
Six 30-min interviews with your team. Repo + data walkthrough.
Smallest provable slice locked. Success metric named.
Internal review with your tech lead. Risk register opens.
8-minute build plan circulated. Demo cadence scheduled.
Squad pairs into your repo. CI green by end of day.
Measurement wired in before the feature. We can't ship blind.
30-min live demo to stakeholders. Adjustments logged, not litigated.
Feature flag flipped on for an internal cohort.
One-page memo: what we built, what it moved, what comes next.
Four meetings per cycle. No status reports, no project-manager handoffs — the people doing the work are the ones in the room.
20-min standup. Last week's metric, this week's target, the one thing in the way.
Working session. We look at the build in your environment, not in a deck.
Live demo (15min). Retro (10min). One-page memo posted in Slack.
Half-day with your CTO. Where we're tightening, where we're cutting, what comes off the plan.
We commit into your repo, ship through your CI, and post our standups in your Slack. No “GalacticAITech project room”. If we use a tool you don't, we'll tell you in the kickoff.
Every commitment below appears in our standard contract. If we miss one, we name it in the next retro and credit the cycle.
No "discovery surprises". The number we quote on Friday is the number you pay.
If the pilot doesn't earn the next phase on its merits, you keep the code and we shake hands.
Day one. Not at handoff. Every commit signed, every PR reviewed by your reviewer of choice.
Your engagement partner stays the same from kickoff to off-ramp. No re-introductions.
Every build cycle has a named metric, and we publish the number in your Slack on Fridays.
Median tenure on your project is 8+ years. No bait-and-switch after the SOW signs.
A 30-minute call is enough to scope a fixed-price pilot. We'll send a one-page brief within two business days, and you'll know what the first two weeks look like before you decide to spend a dollar.