// Process · from brief to live

Four phases. Two to three weeks. No mystery.

Every build runs the same four-phase loop. You always know where we are, what's next, and what's blocking. No status meetings required — you'll see the work every step.

01 · Discovery

Understand the actual job, not the ticket.

We start with a 45-minute working session. You walk us through the workflow you want to fix. We ask the questions nobody else did — what does success look like at day 30, day 90, day 365? What have you already tried?

Deliverable: a one-page build brief with scope, non-goals, and success metrics.

Day 1–3
02 · Design

Ship a clickable prototype before writing production code.

Within a week you're reviewing a real prototype — the agent responding, the site rendering, the automation firing end-to-end. It's small, it's scrappy, but it's yours to break.

This is where we catch the mismatch between what you asked for and what you actually need.

Day 4–10
03 · Delivery

Build to production standards. No staging-forever.

Once the prototype's approved, we harden it: logging, error handling, rate limits, monitoring, docs. The thing you'll run for three years, not three weeks.

You get full access to the repo, the cloud project, and the credentials from day one.

Day 11–18
04 · Ownership transfer

Hand over the keys. Stay available.

We walk your team through the system — live, recorded, with written runbooks. Then we step back. You can hire us for maintenance at $50/mo if you want a second set of eyes, or you can run it yourself. No subscriptions, no lock-in.

Day 18–21
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