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AI Deployment Sprint

One costly workflow becomes a production AI agent running inside your existing systems in six weeks, needing under 15 hours of your team's time. Fee from £24,000 / $32,000 — always capped at 25% of the first-year value mapped in scoping. If the agent hasn't covered its fee within 90 days of go-live, we keep working at no charge until it has.

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Most AI projects end with a prototype in a slide deck and a handover document nobody reads. The AI Deployment Sprint ends with a production agent running inside your existing systems — integrated with the tools you already use, run by your team, paying back its fee. We measure whether it does.

The sprint starts from the scoping call. We baseline the fully-loaded cost of the target workflow and map its first-year value. The sprint fee — from £24,000 / $32,000 — is always capped at 25% of that mapped value. If we cannot map at least 4× the fee in first-year value, we tell you not to buy.

Two delivery tracks, one price frame. Built for you: our forward-deployed engineer embeds in your team and ships it. Built with you: your team builds alongside us in working sessions and paired sprints so the capability stays in-house when we leave. You choose at scoping.

The sprint runs for six weeks and needs under 15 hours of your team's time across the whole engagement — not a second-job commitment. We build on the stack you already run. No migrations, no new platforms, no change-management programmes.

The stack we ship covers every layer: scoping and baseline value model, agent build in your systems, full integration with no migration required, a team enablement session, 30 days of post-go-live optimisation, a governance pack, and the measurement dashboard we both use to track the payback metric.

Payback guarantee: if the agent hasn't covered its fee in measured value within 90 days of go-live, we keep working at no additional charge until it has. That is not a marketing line — it is written into the engagement letter.

We are founder-led. Two sprint slots per month is the real constraint. If the timing is right, book the free scoping call and we will tell you honestly whether your target workflow is the right candidate.

Related case studies

From our track record.

The AI Operating System

AI

Challenge

An 8-figure DTC brand was drowning in fragmented information across messaging, email, calendars and a dozen spreadsheets. Decisions waited on someone stitching the picture together by hand.

What was built

A unified AI operating system: a knowledge layer wired to 15-plus tools, 40-plus custom skills, and scheduled automations that read across the business and write daily and weekly executive briefings.

Outcome

  • 15+ tools unified
  • 40+ skills in production
  • Reviews fully automated
  • Hours of synthesis → minutes, automated

Customer Service AI

CS

Challenge

Support volume swung three to five times higher in peak season. Scaling headcount for the peaks was slow and expensive, and quality slipped under pressure.

What was built

A customer-service AI strategy and tooling stack: response automation, AI triage and storefront chatbot integration, all chosen against clear ROI criteria so a lean team could absorb the spikes.

Outcome

  • Ran like 4x the team size at peak
  • No added headcount
  • Faster responses at peak
  • ROI-led tool choice

Unified KPI Command Center

Data

Challenge

Key metrics lived in six spreadsheets owned by different people on different cadences. Consolidated reporting was a manual weekly grind with no on-demand view.

What was built

A KPI intelligence layer: specialised skills pulling live data from all six sources, covering supply chain, finance, service and growth across four trading entities, orchestrated into one view.

Outcome

  • 6 sources unified
  • 4 entities consolidated
  • Friday reconciliation → one-line request
  • Snapshot in under a minute, on demand
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