A4U® — Process
A boring process
that ships fast.
Strategy first, always. Two-week sprints. Demoable every Friday. We don't do retainers on vibes.
/ 01
Free intro
Discover & define
One week to interrogate the problem before we propose a solution.
~ 5 working days
What we deliver
- Goals, users, constraints, and success metrics on a single page
- A technical and creative scope written by the people who will do the work
- A fixed-price quote with no asterisks
- A clear answer on whether we are the right studio — and if not, who is
You walk away with
A scoped plan you can take to another studio if you choose to.
/ 02
Fixed scope, fixed price
Design & build
Two-week sprints, demoable every Friday, deployed to staging continuously.
8–16 weeks typical
What we deliver
- Identity systems and product surfaces, designed in the open
- Production code in your repository on your infrastructure from week one
- Weekly demo with the whole team — engineering, design, strategy
- A staging environment that mirrors production from day one
- No "design phase" then "dev phase" — design and build run in parallel
You walk away with
A working product on staging, every Friday, until launch.
/ 03
Forever-ish · cancel anytime
Launch & grow
Go-live, observability, performance, and incremental improvement.
Monthly engagement
What we deliver
- Production launch with monitoring, error tracking, and rollback rehearsed
- A monthly improvement cycle prioritised against your business metrics
- Quarterly architecture reviews so technical debt does not accumulate silently
- A team on call when something breaks at 2am
You walk away with
Kaizen — small, honest improvements shipped weekly, not heroic rewrites every two years.
A4U® — 07 / Let’s talk
Want to start with
phase one?
Phase one is free, and finishes in a week. You leave with a plan, regardless of whether you hire us.