An AI Pod ships production software against a committed scope, priced in story points, in two-week cycles. You approve the estimate before work starts and watch points turn into shipped features every week.
An AI Pod is how Koombea sells custom software development. Most development contracts sell you access to people. You pay for hours, you manage the team, and you carry the risk if the work takes longer than anyone guessed. An AI Pod inverts that. You buy a defined quantity of delivered scope at a price you agree upfront.
This works because AI runs across the whole lifecycle rather than sitting beside it as a helper. Scoping, specification, implementation, test generation, and deployment are all AI-First. That compresses delivery enough that we can commit to a price instead of billing you for the discovery.
One cycle, drawn
Step 01
A short call where you say what matters most. The planning that follows is ours to run, not yours to attend.
Step 02
Each item becomes a contract of inputs, outputs, and edge cases, estimated in story points.
Step 03
Implementation runs AI-First. Generated tests and automated reviews gate every merge.
Step 04
Reviewed work deploys to production. At the end of the cycle you see it demonstrated and accept it, and the report shows what your points bought.
Best when you know what you want built. We break the work into a full Work Breakdown Structure, price it in story points, and deliver in phases. Phase 1 always gives you a complete end-to-end product loop, never a foundation stub.
Best when the roadmap is still moving. You commit to a monthly point capacity across one or more delivery lanes and re-prioritize the queue in any Priority Sync. Capacity moves up or down as the roadmap does.
A point is our unit of delivered work, estimated on a 1, 2, 3, 5, 8 scale that weighs functional scope, integration complexity and testing needs. The steps are deliberately uneven: an 8 is not eight items of work, it is one item nobody should pretend to have sized precisely.
Every estimate is yours to approve before work begins, and every invoice states the points delivered against the balance remaining.
Each disc is drawn to the size of its own point value.
Most software work arrives in a shape someone has built before. We scoped the twelve shapes we deliver most often and published the point range for each one, so you can price the work before booking a call.
Three of them cost between 15 and 50 points and end in a costed Work Breakdown Structure you own. That is the cheapest way to find out what your real number is.
If you have an internal engineering team, a backlog you already own, and you need capacity rather than an outcome, a Pod is the wrong shape. You want Staff Augmentation, where engineers embed in your team at an agreed hourly rate and you direct the work.
If a Priority Sync feels premature, take the AI readiness assessment instead. It scores where your business stands on AI and what to do next, with no call attached.
Twelve scoped Pods, each with its point range published upfront.
The published standards behind the delivery model, and the twelve systems a project actually is.
Story points, two-week cycles, and continuous deployment inside them.
Four dimensions, scored on evidence, with a ranked gap list at the end.
Capacity tiers, banked points, and the 90-day expiry, stated plainly.
Time and materials, metered AI tooling, and an AI Pod, side by side.
Vibe coding gets you to “it works.” Something has to get you past it.
In 30 minutes, we will show you what a Pod would ship first and how we would price it.
