AI Prototype-to-Production Sprint · 2 weeks
Move one stuck AI prototype
to production
in two weeks.
For VP Eng, CTO, and Head of AI at Series B–D and mid-market engineering teams whose AI prototype demos beautifully on Tuesday and won't ship on Friday. One feature. Hardened. Deployed. Source code in your repo.
$25K flat · Three June slots · Code on day one · Refund if week-1 fails
What you walk away with
- A working prototype hardened to production-readiness — one specific feature, end-to-end, deployed to your staging or sandboxed prod environment.
- A written production roadmap — what it takes to scale this to full users: infra, evals, observability, costs, dependencies. Named and specific.
- A 30-minute walkthrough recording you can send to your CEO or board.
- Source code in your repo, owned by your team, with commit history attributed to a named engineer. No agency black-box.
The risk reversal
Half up front. Half on delivery. If at the end of week one you don't have a working prototype in your hands, the engagement ends and the first half is refunded. You keep what was built. I keep my name off the second invoice.
That clause exists because most AI engagements bury accountability in retainers and discovery phases. This one doesn't. Week one produces working code or it produces a refund.
Live in production
Click any of them.
They all work.
The reason the sprint is priced at $25K isn't market positioning. It's that I've shipped this problem enough times to know the actual cost of two weeks of senior engineering focus on one stuck prototype.
How the two weeks run
Code on day one.
Deployed by day fourteen.
Day 1
Kickoff
60-min call. Lock scope, data access, prod target, and the eval signal.
Day 5
Working demo
Running prototype in your hands. Refund clause fires here if it slips.
Day 10
Deployed
Pushed to your staging or sandboxed prod. Smoke-tested with real data.
Day 14
Walkthrough
30-min recording, production roadmap, source in your repo.
The Day-5 working demo is the gate. If it slips, the engagement ends and the first $12.5K is refunded. You keep whatever was built.
Anti-positioning
What this sprint is
deliberately not.
Not consulting
No discovery phase. No “let me get to know your team for a week.” Kickoff call Monday morning, code Monday afternoon.
Not staff augmentation
Two weeks, then out. The engineer who wrote the code isn't living on your Slack for three months. You get the artifact, not a permanent dependency.
Not a strategy deck
The deliverable is a running system, not a PDF. Roadmap document accompanies the code — but the code is the headline.
Not for pre-seed / seed
You need real data, real users, and a real production environment. If you don't have those yet, this isn't the engagement — and I'll tell you that on the 15-minute call.
The whole thing in three numbers
Days
From kickoff call to a deployed reference implementation. Fixed start, fixed end.
Flat
Half on start, half on delivery. Refund of the first half if week-1 doesn't produce a working prototype.
Engineer
The senior engineer writing every line is the same one on the kickoff call. No handoffs, no offshore team, no agency markup.
Book the 15-minute fit call
Tell me about the prototype that's stuck.
One screen. Then a calendar link. I'll reply personally within a few hours — usually faster.
Most useful thing you can put in the message: one line on what the prototype does, and one line on what's stopping it from shipping.
Already know it's a fit? Grab a 15-minute slot directly →
Who's writing the code
The engineer, not an agency.
I'm Kevin Champlin. 28 years engineering production systems for Fortune 500 (Wells Fargo, a global apparel brand, a top-five North American beverage company) and mid-market businesses that needed AI to actually ship. The sprint is me on the keyboard. Not a delivery team. Not a partner-handoff. The engineer whose name is on the code.
— Kevin Champlin
Engineer on every line of code