Our methodology

Before we write any code,
we learn your business.

We want to know where data goes missing, what gets rebuilt manually every week, and what your team has quietly learned to work around. That's where every engagement starts.

00 30 min · Free

Discovery call

A 30-minute call. No sales pitch. You tell us what's broken, what's slow, what your team dreads doing every Monday. We listen, ask questions, and give you an honest read on whether we can help. If we're not the right fit, we'll say so.

You describe the real situation, including the parts that feel embarrassing to admit
We tell you honestly if we're the right fit or not
You leave knowing what to do next, whether that's us or someone else
Deliverable

An honest answer on whether we can help and what that might look like.

01 Week 1

Business mapping

We map everything: where your data lives, where it goes, where it disappears. We talk to your team, not just your leadership. By the end of week one, we know exactly which workflows are costing you the most in time, errors, and stress.

Full picture of your data sources and how they connect
The 3 workflows that are costing you the most
An honest AI readiness score, with the gaps named clearly
Deliverable

A prioritised list of the top automation opportunities, with honest effort and impact estimates.

02 Weeks 2–6

Foundation work

This is where we fix things. The integration that's been broken for months. The report someone rebuilds manually every Friday. The workflow that falls apart whenever someone's on holiday. We automate the expensive stuff first, in open-source tools you own from day one.

Top workflows automated and live. No more manual babysitting.
Data sources talking to each other reliably
Code in your repo, tools you control
Deliverable

Your highest-priority workflows automated and running in production, with monitoring.

03 Week 6+

AI, when you're ready

Now we talk about AI. An LLM on clean, reliable data does remarkable things. An LLM on messy, disconnected data just sounds confident while being wrong. We make sure you get the former, and we help you tell the difference.

AI built on a foundation it can actually trust
Concrete metrics so you know if it's actually working
Feedback loops so it gets better over time
Deliverable

AI features that work because the data underneath them is solid.

04 End of engagement

Handoff

We write the docs, record the walkthroughs, and train your team on every tool we've introduced. Our goal is to make ourselves unnecessary. Most of our clients can extend, debug, and evolve the system on their own. That's the point.

Your team trained on every open-source tool in the stack
Docs and runbooks they'll actually use
Optional ongoing support. Most clients don't need it.
Deliverable

Runbooks, docs, recorded walkthroughs, and a team that knows how to operate what we built.

Ready to start at Phase 00?

The discovery call is free and takes 30 minutes. We'll tell you honestly whether we're the right fit. If not, we'll say so.

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