Every engagement follows the same four-phase spine. Scope, budget and risk are all de-risked up front so you never receive a surprise invoice or a surprise architecture.
Phase 1 · 1–2 weeks · fixed fee
Structured exploration of the business outcome, stakeholders, constraints, integrations, regulatory environment, and the 3–5 riskiest unknowns.
Phase 2 · 1–2 weeks
Architecture spike, environment bootstrap, CI/CD plumbing, observability scaffolding. By the end of Sprint 0 we have a deployable skeleton we can trust.
Phase 3 · iterative · weekly demos
Agile sprints against the discovery backlog. Weekly demo + review + retrospective. Features ship behind flags, continuously — not in a big-bang release.
Phase 4 · 2–4 weeks · then optional run
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.