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Strategic software you set aside shipped as working software in weeks.

Pick one outcome from your stalled roadmap. We deliver it against your contracts, demoable by week two. A small senior team, AI-augmented.

1–4 weeks
Typical engagement window from kick-off
Fixed price
Outcome-led, not capacity
Week 2 · 4
By week 2 a working prototype; by week 4 go-live readiness
01 — Throughput

Important initiatives don't die from neglect — they die from a roadmap that still assumes yesterday's throughput.

A small senior team using AI-augmented engineering can turn agreed scope into a working prototype on the order of weeks — at a fixed price. The remaining question is whether your approvals, dependencies, and funding rhythm assume an older, slower cycle.

When the board commits but the operating rhythm still goes at yesterday's speed, initiatives rarely explode—they drift. The bill keeps landing as vendor capacity, internal coordination, and manual work scales with volume — while the proposed benefits wait on the next gate.

Dependencies and fuzzy ownership are ordinary at enterprise scale; they are background, not destiny. What changes outcomes now is a small senior team that ships a working slice in weeks — spec written as we build, delivery compressed into weeks, so capital and priority calls meet evidence early — not another long forecast.

Where we have delivered, the lever wasn't a rallying call across the organisation for an all-hands-on-deck effort. It was a small senior crew using AI-augmented engineering to move faster through specification, build, and validation — still accountable, still calm. Delivering an artefact people can touch. That is how we work.

02 — How a sprint works

One to four weeks. Fixed price outcomes. Prototype early; go-live readiness without dragging the calendar.

Week 1
Scope & contracts
We'll pick the one or two user journeys that matter, agree interface contracts with your teams, and lock the scope.
Week 2
Working prototype
AI-augmented build with senior oversight: something stakeholders can run through—not slideware. Rapid mapping exercises to existing systems; reduced or bypassed dependencies so momentum holds.
Weeks 3–4
Ready for go-live
Hardening, automated checks, and a clear handover so the slice can ship when you pull the trigger—or we'll scope the next critical journey if you need more runway.
03 — The model

A smaller delivery model produces different economics.

Enterprise software without the enterprise-agency cost structure. Small senior teams and AI-assisted engineering mean we can often deliver work at a fraction of conventional SI cost — without trading away engineering quality.

Three senior people versus a seven-to-fifteen-person bench. Weeks versus quarters. A fixed outcome rather than selling bodies. The price difference is a consequence of that shape, not a discount on the same engagement.

Conventional SI model
Protopia model
7–15 person delivery team
2–4 senior people
Multi-quarter programme
1–8 week focused delivery
Capacity / day-rate commercial model
Fixed outcome
Large coordination overhead
Direct senior ownership
Six-figure, multi-month SI quotes
A fraction of conventional delivery cost*

*From delivered work already on this site. The pensions engagement ran about six working days against typical systems-integrator estimates of six to twelve months. The media engagement used a three-person senior squad in place of a seven-to-fifteen-person SI bench. Client names are available during diligence, subject to permission.

04 — Recent work

Anonymised by request — we will walk you through the detail on a call.

Media measurement · Global

Enterprise-scale mobile and web while backends dragged.

Twenty-two end-to-end journeys across iOS, Android, and web, aligned to GraphQL contracts through rapid mapping exercises to existing systems, with reduced or bypassed dependencies where APIs slipped. Roughly three hundred automated checks and deployment into enterprise cloud — delivered in weeks with a three-person senior squad instead of a seven-to-fifteen-person systems-integrator bench.

Journeys22
Tests~300
Core team3 seniors
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Pensions · UK

Policy logic compressed from multi-month estimates to days.

Four days turned regulation into executable rules and fifteen synthetic scenarios before build. Two days co-building with their technical lead, then a same-day extension when leadership added Ill Health Retirement — three hundred thirty-seven scenarios validated end-to-end in roughly six working days total.

Elapsed time6–7 days
Scenarios337
Typical SI quote6–12 mo
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Longer anonymised stories are on Pattern stories.

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