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 go live 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. We keep our 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 we've solved this problem enough times to know the actual cost of two weeks of principal 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 us get to know your team for a week.” Kickoff call Monday morning, code Monday afternoon.
Not staff augmentation
Two weeks, then out. The team that 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 — explore our AI Audit first, or we can discuss it 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.
Principal lead
The principal engineer on the kickoff call leads the team that builds it, with every change reviewed before it goes live. No offshore handoffs, no agency markup.
Two weeks
Demo on Monday.
Production by Friday.
Not ready for a Sprint?
Start with the free AI Opportunity Map or read our technical notes.
Ten specific places AI quietly pays for itself in a business like yours — with the exact workflows and the three places it almost never works, so you don't waste a quarter finding out. Written by the team that builds the Sprints. One email, one link. No sequence.
Need an architectural code review first? Check our AI Audit. Building SaaS or web applications instead? Explore our software products portfolio, learn about custom web design & engineering, or see how our managed platform operates.
Production Engineering Deep Dives
Book the 15-minute fit call
Tell us about the prototype that's stuck.
One screen. Then a calendar link. We'll reply 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 going live.
Already know it's a fit? Grab a 15-minute slot directly →
Who's writing the code
A principal-led team, not an agency.
Kevin Champlin, founder and principal engineer, has 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 go live. Kevin leads the sprint and our AI engineering team builds it with him, every change reviewed. No partner-handoff. A named principal engineer is accountable for what goes live.
— Kevin Champlin
Principal-led on every sprint