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Pay for outcomes.
Not for the time.

Four commitments hold every engagement: the price ties to the deliverable, the pod absorbs delivery risk, composition — senior experts plus orchestrated agent capacity — is declared in the proposal, and the pod-day is the unit.

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customer-portal · day 5

07:42

Commits

14

Tests passing

286 / 286

Deliverables accepted

8 / 13

Pod-days to date

5.0

staging.customer-portal

  • Closed #214 — broker quote-import, including the legacy CSV path. Behind the brokers.import.v2 flag.
  • Decision recorded: keep the SAP idoc bridge as-is for v1; revisit when claims volume crosses 4k/day. Captured against deliverable D-09.
  • Up next: D-10 policy-document download, signed via portal token. Demo Loom posted by midday.

Indicative daily artefact. Every engagement produces one before standup, every working morning.

What is in here

Senior experts on every job

1–3experts

Each pod is 1–3 senior experts directing purpose-built agents. Composition stated in every proposal.

Proposal back the next day

24hours

A self-driven assessment turns into a fixed-price proposal — outcome pod or day-rate pod — by the next business day.

Live in weeks, not quarters

3–8weeks

Daily evidence from the first business day. You see the work, not status updates.

The unit of delivery

One pod. One project.
One decision to buy.

A pod — one to three senior experts plus orchestrated agent capacity, sized to the engagement. You buy what the pod produces, not how many hours each individual logs.

  1. What you receive

    Working software

    Code in your repository, staging environments you can open, tests that pass, and documentation produced alongside the build. A fourteen-day warranty on accepted deliverables.

  2. Cadence

    Days, not quarters

    Most engagements complete in three to eight weeks. Daily evidence is verifiable on the morning after. Weekly scope reviews are available; never required.

  3. Commercial model

    Pods, two engagement shapes

    Day-rate pod: a fixed pod-day rate against a defined composition — one to three senior experts with orchestrated agent capacity. Outcome pod: a fixed price for a defined deliverable by a defined date; the pod bears the delivery risk. Stop a day-rate pod with one business day of notice; pause briefly when needed. Specific pricing is stated in the proposal.

Capabilities

Six platforms. Senior depth on each.

Each platform is led by a senior expert with depth on it. Inside every engagement, human judgement directs orchestrated agent capacity working as one pod — the expert sets the bar; the agents carry the throughput.

What we deliver

Two paths in. One delivery model.

Most engagements look like one of the four bespoke shapes on the left or one of the accelerators on the right. The shape is named, sized, and sequenced before work begins.

Bespoke shapes

Scoped to your context

01

Customer portals

4–8 weeks

Authenticated client surfaces with billing, document access, and self-service flows. Replaces or extends a Salesforce or ServiceNow front door.

02

System integrations

3–6 weeks

Salesforce ↔ SAP, ServiceNow ↔ Workday, custom event pipelines. Idempotent, observable, and explicitly tested under failure.

03

Data migrations

4–8 weeks

Schema-aware moves with parallel-run validation, reconciled balances, and a signed cutover. Rollback is rehearsed before it is needed.

04

Operational dashboards

3–5 weeks

Decision-grade dashboards on top of warehouse, OLTP, or hybrid sources. Definitions captured against the metric, not the chart.

The artefact

The same artefact, every day.
Sharper as the engagement compounds.

The hero shows day five. Below is the same project at day eighteen — at handoff. The shape never changes; the scope it evidences does.

customer-portal · day 18

07:38

Commits

6

Tests passing

412 / 412

Deliverables accepted

13 / 13

Pod-days to date

18.0

cutover.customer-portal

  • D-13 accepted — SLA dashboard signed off by the COO against the sample-week backbook. Final scope item closed.
  • Cutover dry-run complete: parallel-run reconciled, rollback rehearsed, runbook checked into /ops.
  • Up next: handoff packet — repository transfer, runbooks, on-call contact for the 14-day warranty window.
  • 01What was built — code committed against named deliverables
  • 02What is checked — tests passing on the behaviour that matters
  • 03What you can click — a staged URL kept fresh across the build
  • 04What was decided — captured against the deliverable, not buried in a doc
  • 05Where we are — scope velocity, written plainly

How a pod operates

A delivery rhythm.
Engineered for evidence.

Four phases, each with a measurable artefact. Decisions are recorded against the deliverable. Status emerges from the work itself.

  1. 01

    Scope the outcome

    A self-driven scoping session converts your request into a delivery brief: systems in scope, constraints, risks, and an explicit definition of done.

  2. 02

    Assemble the pod

    A pod — one to three senior experts plus orchestrated agent capacity — works on your outcome only. Pod composition and pricing are stated before work begins.

  3. 03

    Ship evidence daily

    Every working morning, before standup: committed code, passing tests, a live staging environment, and a written record of every decision. You read the work itself.

  4. 04

    Hand off cleanly

    Accepted work transfers with code, runbooks, tests, and full repository history. You operate what was built without ongoing dependency on us.

Engagement shapes

Two ways to buy a pod.
Both share the same model.

Same talent. Same orchestration. Same delivery economics. The difference is procurement — fixed price for a defined deliverable, or a defined day rate for continuous output.

01

Fixed term

Outcome pod

Fixed price for a defined deliverable by a defined date. Used when scope is definable upfront and the buyer wants total cost certainty. The firm bears the delivery risk.

Best for
Portals, integrations, migrations, dashboards — work whose shape is knowable before it begins.

02

Fixed-term or ongoing

Day-rate pod

Priced per pod-day with defined composition. Used when scope is genuinely fluid — ongoing operations, embedded engineering, exploratory product work, modernisation programmes whose shape evolves.

Best for
Continuous output where the work direction shifts faster than a contract change-order can keep up.

Discovery pod · 3–5 days, day-rate priced, onsite or remote

Optional bridge when scope genuinely needs scoping. Output is a proposal for the main engagement. We resist anything longer.

The alternatives

The unit you buy.
The party that bears the risk.

A pod sells the outcome — or a fixed pod-day — and absorbs the delivery variance. The two columns to weigh against any path on the table.

  • Big 4 consultancyBuy · HoursRisk · Buyer — change ordersSpeed · MonthsCadence · Slide-deck status
  • Mid-tier consulting firmBuy · HoursRisk · Buyer — overrunsSpeed · Weeks–monthsCadence · Weekly status call
  • AI-flavoured consultancyBuy · HoursRisk · Buyer — variableSpeed · Weeks–monthsCadence · Weekly status call
  • In-house hireBuy · SalaryRisk · Buyer — permanent headcountSpeed · 6-month rampCadence · Stand-ups
  • Independent contractorBuy · HoursRisk · Buyer — single-threadSpeed · Single-threadCadence · Ad hoc
  • nterprise.aiUsBuy · Outcome or pod-dayRisk · Pod — outcome, or shared on day-rateSpeed · DaysCadence · Daily verifiable progress

Comparison is illustrative; day-rate ranges and engagement shape are stated in the proposal.

Governance

Speed a board can approve.
Engineered, reviewed, signed off.

The engineering substrate is new. The acceptance bar is the same one your CIO already trusts. Six commitments hold across every engagement.

Data residency by default

Cloud regions chosen explicitly against the engagement. Residency captured in scope. No silent placement decisions.

Senior review on every change

A named expert signs off the pod’s output. The acceptance bar does not move with the substrate.

Clean transfer of intellectual property

Repositories transfer to your GitHub on handoff. Code, history, and runbooks come with you.

Your data is not training data

No model training on client code, conversations, or context. Disclosed in the Terms of Service.

Indemnity and liability

$1M–$2M professional indemnity in place from the first engagement. Liability capped at fees paid.

Quality gates do not yield

Tests, security scan, expert review, named acceptance — required before any deliverable ships.

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An instant
assessment.
A proposal
within a day.

Free. No commitment. No sales call. The assessment is self-driven — pod composition, scope, and price land on the next business morning.

Methodology

What you will receive

  • 01A fit decision — yes, no, or honestly why not
  • 02A first-cut scope with cost, sequencing, and named risks
  • 03Pod composition stated explicitly — senior experts and orchestrated agent capacity, sized to the engagement