A fixed-scope, one-week engagement with a senior US engineer. We agree on a single, concrete deliverable up front — that sets the hours, and the hours run on one of our plans. You get a working thing at the end, not a slide deck.
We scope the sprint around a single concrete result so the week stays focused and the outcome is unambiguous. The deliverable sets the hours — and the hours map to a plan.
A functional proof of the concept you're unsure about — an integration, an automation, a service — running against realistic inputs, so you can see it actually work.
A rehearsed, step-by-step migration plan — validated on a dry run, with rollback steps — so the real cutover is a known quantity instead of a leap.
A high-availability architecture, built enough to demonstrate: we take out a node in front of you and show the system recover — not a diagram, a live failover.
Indicative shape — we adapt it to your deliverable, but the arc is always the same: decide, build, prove.
Lock the single deliverable and success criteria, agree access, and design the approach.
Implement the prototype, migration, or HA setup as code — with you in the loop, not in the dark.
Exercise it for real: run the migration dry run, load-test the prototype, or kill a node and watch it recover.
Walk-through, a runbook your team can use, and an honest recommendation on what comes next.
Continue on a plan, take the runbook and run it yourself, or stop here. No lock-in either way.
The sprint is designed so you come out ahead even if we never work together again.
Then that's the finding — and a valuable one. We scope tightly on Day 1 precisely so the deliverable is achievable in the week. If we hit a genuine blocker, you get a clear written account of what it is and what it would take, not a vague "needs more time."
Yes. Everything is built as code and handed over, so if you move onto a monthly plan the sprint's output is the foundation, not throwaway. There's no lock-in either direction.
That's exactly why it runs on a plan. Up front we agree the single deliverable and estimate the hours; that maps to a plan tier — most sprints fit Pro (10 hrs), an HA build usually fits White Glove (25 hrs), a small one fits Starter or Drop-In. Preset hours, preset price — no bespoke number invented on the spot, and you approve the tier before we start.
Same hours, different shape. A sprint compresses a plan's hours into one focused week aimed at a single defined deliverable, with scoping and a proof step built in. Open-ended Drop-In hours are better for small, well-understood tasks with no discovery needed.
Usually within a week or two of agreeing the scope, depending on the calendar. Get started and we'll confirm the deliverable, the matching plan and the timing.
Tell us whether you want a working prototype, a tested migration runbook, or an HA design with a live failover demo. We scope the hours and the matching plan — then we get to work.