[ 06 ] How we work

Audit → Design → Build →
Secure → Scale.

A five-phase delivery spine. Scope, budget, threat model and operational risk are all de-risked up front — you receive no surprise invoice, no surprise architecture, no surprise security review.

01

Phase 1 · 1–2 weeks · fixed fee

Discovery

Structured exploration of the business outcome, stakeholders, constraints, integrations, regulatory environment, and the 3–5 riskiest unknowns.

Output: scored backlog
Output: architecture brief
Output: Sprint-0 plan
Output: fixed quote for build
02

Phase 2 · 1–2 weeks

Sprint 0

Architecture spike, environment bootstrap, CI/CD plumbing, observability scaffolding. By the end of Sprint 0 we have a deployable skeleton we can trust.

Output: production-grade repo
Output: CI/CD + preview envs
Output: base observability
Output: security baseline
03

Phase 3 · iterative · weekly demos

Build

Agile sprints against the discovery backlog. Weekly demo + review + retrospective. Features ship behind flags, continuously — not in a big-bang release.

Output: working software weekly
Output: explicit acceptance criteria
Output: living documentation
Output: shared Slack / Teams channel
04

Phase 4 · 2–4 weeks · then optional run

Handover

Knowledge transfer sessions, runbooks, training, and — if it's what you need — a managed run contract so your team doesn't inherit an operational unknown.

Output: operations runbook
Output: training sessions
Output: architecture decision records
Output: optional managed run
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