You cannot price what nobody has described.
A short, fixed engagement that turns a product idea into a Work Breakdown Structure, a spec set, and a clickable prototype. The estimate is the deliverable, and it is yours to keep.
- 25 to 40 story points
- Two to three weeks
- Credits toward the build
The problem
You want a fixed price. A fixed price requires a scope, and the scope is the thing you do not have yet. Most teams break that standoff by asking three firms for a free estimate and taking the lowest number. The lowest number usually understood the least.
A free estimate is worth what it costs. Nobody decomposes a system properly on speculation. What arrives is a guess wrapped in a contingency, and the contingency is what you argue about for a year.
This Pod inverts that. You buy the scoping work at a small fixed price. You get a real decomposition instead of a sales artifact.
- The estimate is produced by the team that would deliver the work
- Every item is sized in story points on the 1, 2, 3, 5, 8 scale
- You own the output whether or not you go on to build with us
What three weeks produces
What this Pod ships
Work Breakdown Structure
Every item of scope, decomposed and estimated in story points, with nothing larger than an 8 left standing.
Spec set
Inputs, outputs and edge cases for each item, written as a contract rather than a description.
Clickable prototype
The core flows, navigable, so direction is validated before a line of production code exists.
Costed phase plan
What Phase 1 contains, what it costs, and what a complete end-to-end product loop looks like.
How we get to a real number in three weeks
Scoping is the part of delivery that AI-First changes most. We estimate with ScopeGen AI, our own scoping tool. It turns a client conversation into an estimated work breakdown, calibrated against what each project actually took to deliver.
It is why work that used to take two months of billed discovery now takes under three weeks at a fixed price. This is not a lighter process. It is the same decomposition, run faster.
What it costs
25 to 40 story points, set by how many distinct user journeys the product carries. We quote it before work starts. It does not move once you approve it.
Build with us within 90 days and the Sprint credits in full against the first phase. That window is the same one banked points run on. Do not, and you still leave with a decomposition detailed enough to hand to anyone else. Both outcomes are fine.
- Points: 25 to 40, agreed before work begins
- Timeline: two to three weeks
- Credits in full against Phase 1 if you start within 90 days
- You own the WBS, the specs and the prototype on payment
What we need from you
One named decision-maker who can answer questions about the business, and about three hours of their time across the engagement. Access to anyone who owns a system the product has to touch.
That is the whole ask. You do not need a written brief. Producing the written brief is what you are buying.
Bring us the backlog.
In 30 minutes, we will show you what a Pod would ship first and how we would price it.