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Prove it before you build it

AI pilots rarely fail on the model. They fail where they meet your systems — so that is the part we test, in four weeks, before anybody commits a budget.

See what you get

Sanity Check

£1,250

One day · no code

An honest answer about whether your idea is worth building, before you spend anything on it.

For a business where £18,000 is not a proportionate way to answer the question. You describe the problem, we look at how you work and what you would actually need, and you get a written recommendation: build it, don’t build it, or here is the cheaper thing to do instead.

If it is worth building, the note says roughly what that involves and what it would cost — whoever ends up doing it.

Most smaller businesses do not need a prototype. They need somebody competent to tell them honestly whether the idea is sane, and that is a day’s work rather than a month’s.

Prove

£18,000

Four weeks · fixed scope, fixed price

£10,000 if you agree to be a reference

A working proof of concept, the documentation to get it approved, and an honest verdict on whether it should be built.

Most prototypes only work while the person who built them is holding the mouse. This one is walkable end to end, including the wrong turns — so your champion can take it into a steering group without us in the room.

It runs on a real URL and talks to one of your real systems, because that is where pilots actually die. A prototype that touches nothing has not tested the thing that kills projects.

What you get

A walkable prototypeEvery journey, not a happy path. It survives someone else driving it.
Deployed, not localRunning in your cloud or ours. Not a laptop demo, not a design file.
One real integrationSingle sign-on, Teams, your ticketing system — whatever proves it fits your estate.
A solution design documentArchitecture, data model, sequence diagrams, user journeys.
A production routeWhat it would cost, how long it would take, and where the risk sits.
A verdictIncluding “don’t build this”, where that is the honest answer.

Design Authority

From £1,500 per month

Runs as long as your build does

Your technical voice in the room while somebody else does the building.

Once a supplier is building it, you need someone who can tell whether the work is any good — and who has no stake in the invoice. We wrote the design document and know what the proof of concept established and what it did not.

Design authority, reviewing architecture, output and estimates, and being the technical voice when you are being told something expensive. Roughly a day or two a month.

It also stands on its own. If a build is already underway and you are not sure it is going well, you do not need a proof of concept first.

Build

Priced per engagement

Selective

Sometimes the right answer is that we build it. Taken where the pace and shape genuinely fit.

Fixed scope, an agreed response time rather than implied availability, and deployed into your environment with the documentation to hand on.

This is deliberately not what we are chasing. The moment we are bidding for every build, the verdict on the proof of concept stops being worth anything.

We don’t build it, so the verdict means something

A proof of concept from the firm that wants the build contract carries an obvious incentive, and everyone in the room knows it. We aren’t bidding for the build — there is no contract to lose, so there is nothing riding on the answer.

Which is why a proof of concept can come back negative. When it does, it has done its job: finding out for £18,000 beats finding out for half a million and a year.

Two prices, and you choose

A proof of concept is £18,000, and nothing about your project is ever mentioned publicly. Or it is £10,000 if you are happy to be named, quoted, and to take the occasional reference call.

Our existing client work is all under non-disclosure, so we cannot show it. Rather than pretend otherwise, we would rather pay for the ones we can — and you get the benefit.

The reduced rate is conditional on the testimonial being provided, and that is written into the engagement. If it cannot be, the balance becomes payable.

Range

What else we build

The three offerings above are what you can buy off the page. They are not the limit of what gets built — the same person designs it, builds it, deploys it and documents it, so nothing is subcontracted and nothing is handed over half-finished.

Full product builds — web, iOS and Android, front to back
Document and PDF extraction into structured data
Classification, triage and routing inside existing systems
Retrieval and knowledge systems over your own documents
Custom model training where an API call will not do the job
Infrastructure, deployment and the pipelines underneath
Microsoft 365 and Azure estate work — tenancy, identity, Graph
Security and compliance documentation as a deliverable

Got an idea and a budget conversation coming?

Four weeks from now you could have something you can walk your board through — and an honest answer about whether it is worth building.

Talk it through See what you get