A4U — Process

A boring process
that ships fast.

Strategy first, always. Two-week sprints. Demoable every Friday. No open-ended retainers.

/ 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
  • A weekly demo with the people doing the work — design and engineering together
  • 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
Ongoing · 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
  • Architecture reviews so technical debt does not pile up silently
  • A direct line to the people who built it when something breaks
You walk away with

Kaizen — small, honest improvements shipped weekly, not heroic rewrites every two years.

What engagements look like

No surprises. Here's how most projects are shaped before anyone signs anything.

Fixed-price project
$25k – $150k

A defined scope, a fixed price, and a delivery date that doesn't move. Best for: new products, redesigns, and discrete feature builds where the requirements are clear enough to scope. We write the spec together in Phase 1 — you approve it before any work starts.

8–16 weeksScoped upfrontNo change-order surprises
Sprint retainer
Scoped per sprint

A committed engineering capacity every two weeks — your sprint, your priorities, our team. Best for: ongoing product development, team augmentation, and situations where the backlog evolves faster than a fixed scope can track. Priced by the capacity you commit; 30 days' notice to wind down.

Two-week sprints30 days' noticeDefined velocity
Discovery only
Free

Phase 1 — the scoping week — is free regardless of whether you hire us. At the end you have a written technical and creative spec, a fixed-price quote, and a clear answer on whether we're the right team. No obligation, no drip campaign.

~5 working daysNo commitmentSpec is yours to keep

These are shapes, not menus. Every project is scoped from scratch — we don't sell packages. If your situation doesn't fit either shape cleanly, tell us in the contact form and we'll figure out what makes sense.

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.