AI Pilot Sprint · Method step 02
One workflow. Live in production. Measured against numbers you already track.
We take the highest-ROI item on your roadmap and make it real — built with your team, shipped in your accounts, and judged against a baseline we capture before writing a line of anything.
From $15,0004–8 weeksFixed price after scope doc
Audit fee credits 100% toward the sprint within 30 days.
What's included
Everything a pilot needs to prove itself.
The reason most pilots fail isn't the technology — it's a missing baseline, a fuzzy scope, and nobody trained to run the thing. We ship all three.
01
A baseline, before we build
We measure how the workflow performs today — hours, volume, error rate — so 'did it work?' has a number, not a vibe.
02
One workflow, shipped live
Built, integrated with the tools you already use, and running in production with the people who own the work.
03
A scope document with teeth
Most AI projects die by scope creep. Ours is fixed-price against a brutally specific scope doc — changes become written line items you approve, never surprises on an invoice.
04
Training for the operators
The two-to-five people who run this workflow get trained on it, on their real work — not a generic demo.
05
30 days of support
We stay through the awkward first month — tuning, fixing, and adjusting as reality pushes back.
06
A written go/no-go
Results against baseline, honest verdict, and what we'd do next. If it didn't earn its keep, we say so — and you still own everything.
How it runs
Four to eight weeks, demoed weekly.
You see progress every week. The length depends on integration depth — the scope doc fixes it before we start.
Week 1
Baseline & spec
We pick the workflow (usually the top item from your audit), capture the baseline numbers, and lock the scope doc together.
Weeks 2–6
Build, with your team
We build in your accounts, demo weekly, and adjust with the people who'll run it. No disappearing for a month and unveiling a surprise.
Final week
Measure, train, decide
Results against baseline, operator training, documentation handoff, and the go/no-go conversation — expand it, run it as-is, or stop.
Fit
One real workflow beats ten ideas.
This is for you if
- You have an audit roadmap — or one obvious, painful workflow everyone complains about.
- You can name the people who'd run this every week, and they can give us a few hours.
- You want it measured against real numbers, not launched and forgotten.
- You want to own the result — accounts, code, prompts, docs — from day one.
This is not for you if
- The goal is a demo for the board rather than a workflow for the business.
- Nobody inside the company can own it once it's live.
- You need five workflows at once. Start with one — that's the point of a pilot.
- The workflow touches money or customer data and you want zero human review. We don't build that.
FAQ
Before you ask.
Do we need the audit first?
It's the best path — the audit picks the highest-ROI target and its fee credits 100% toward the sprint. If you already know exactly what you need built, we start with a paid scoping week instead and lock the same kind of scope doc.
What if the pilot doesn't beat the baseline?
Then the go/no-go says no-go, with the numbers and the reasons. You keep everything we built and documented. A clean, cheap 'no' on one workflow beats a slow expensive 'maybe' across ten — that's what pilots are for.
Who owns what we build?
You do, entirely. It's built in your accounts under your name from the first day — code, prompts, automations, documentation. Fire us the day after launch and it keeps running.
What tools do you build with?
Whatever earns its place: your existing stack wired together, an off-the-shelf tool where one genuinely fits, or custom software where owning it beats renting it. We take no commissions on anything we recommend, so the answer is never influenced by a kickback.
Does our team need technical skills?
No. We design for the team you have — the operators run the workflow through the tools they already know, and anything technical is documented well enough for a future hire or contractor to maintain.
What does 'from $15,000' actually depend on?
Integration depth, data messiness, and how much production hardening the workflow needs. You get the exact fixed price with the scope doc before we build anything — the 'from' never moves after that.
Ready to make one of those experiments actually yours?
Book a 30-minute call. We'll tell you whether a sprint is the right next step — or whether you should start smaller.