For startups From ~6 weeks You own the code Scoped sprints

AI for startups.
Shipped in weeks.

Startups do not have a procurement process. They have a burn rate and a board meeting. We scope work to fit both — a working system in weeks, priced against the milestone it unlocks.

WHAT STARTUPS ACTUALLY NEED

Something real to show

A demo that survives a hostile question from a technical investor. Not a Figma flow, not a wrapper around a single prompt — a system that does the thing on real data.

Senior judgement, briefly

The decisions that matter in an AI product get made in the first three weeks: retrieval strategy, evaluation approach, where the model boundary sits. Getting them wrong is expensive and hard to see until later.

To not hire yet

A senior AI engineer is a long search and a large permanent cost. Before product-market fit, borrowing that capacity is usually the better trade.

HOW WE WORK WITH STARTUPS

Clear scope, honest estimates,
code you keep.

Time-and-materials suits the agency and nobody else when runway is the binding constraint. We scope startup work as fixed sprints against a written outcome, so the number on the invoice is the number agreed at the start of the sprint.

Everything ships into your repositories and your cloud accounts from day one. There is no proprietary platform, no runtime dependency on us, and no licensing that turns into a line item forever. If your first engineering hire wants to take it over in three months, that is a supported outcome — we write handover documentation as part of the work rather than as a paid extra.

We will also tell you when a project does not need us. A meaningful share of "we need an AI feature" conversations resolve to a well-chosen off-the-shelf tool plus a week of integration, and saying so on the first call costs us a project and earns the next three.

~6 weeks

QUESTIONS

QUESTIONS — 5

A focused six-week MVP typically lands in the €30–60k range depending on integration count and how much data preparation is needed. An investor or board demo is smaller — usually €8–20k over two to three weeks. Our pricing page carries the current bands — rough estimates from past work, not fixed prices. If your budget is materially below that, say so early: sometimes the scope can be cut to fit, and sometimes the honest answer is that we are the wrong shape of vendor for you right now.

Entirely. It ships into your GitHub organisation and your cloud accounts as we build, not in a handover at the end. Infrastructure is defined as code so it is reproducible without us. There is no platform fee, no licence and no runtime dependency on our infrastructure.

That is usually the best arrangement. Your team knows the product and the domain; we bring the AI-specific decisions — retrieval design, evaluation, model selection, cost control — and transfer them deliberately. The aim is for teams that pair with us to be self-sufficient within a couple of months, and we treat that as the successful outcome.

Startups pivot; that is not a failure mode to be penalised. Sprints are scoped in short increments precisely so a change of direction costs one sprint rather than a contract renegotiation. We would rather re-scope at a sprint boundary than deliver something you no longer need.

If that is genuinely all your problem needs, we will tell you and you should not pay agency rates for it. What justifies engineering is everything around the model call: retrieval over your own data, evaluation, cost control at volume, handling the cases where the model is wrong, and the product surface that makes it usable. That is where the difficulty and the defensibility live.

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