pilot-to-production sprint

two weeks to ship your stalled AI pilot — or kill it with a clear post-mortem.

the problem

you built an AI pilot. it worked in demo. leadership was excited. then it stalled. maybe it's the data pipeline. maybe it's auth. maybe nobody knows who owns it. maybe the model output isn't reliable enough for production use.

the pilot isn't dead — it's stuck. and every week it sits there, it loses momentum and credibility.


what you get

one of two outcomes in two weeks:

outcome A: shipped. the pilot is in production — deployed, monitored, with real users. not perfect, but real. includes whatever it takes to get there: hardening the data pipeline, adding auth, fixing reliability, setting up monitoring.

outcome B: killed with clarity. if the pilot shouldn't ship, you'll know exactly why — and you'll have a written post-mortem documenting what worked, what didn't, and whether there's a viable path forward. no ambiguity. no zombie project.


how it works

day 1 — assessment session (4 hours): we dig into the pilot together. what's built, what's blocking, what's the real gap between demo and production. i'll give you an honest read: can this ship in two weeks, or are we looking at a kill decision?

days 2-9 — build sprint: i work on shipping the pilot, in collaboration with your team. daily async updates, mid-week check-in call. i'm hands-on-keyboard, not advising from the sideline.

day 10 — handoff session (2 hours): we review what shipped (or the post-mortem), walk through the code and infrastructure, and make sure your team can maintain it going forward.


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pricing

$10,000 — includes assessment session, two weeks of half-day sprints, daily updates, mid-week check-in, handoff session, and all code/documentation.

typical timeline: 2 weeks of half-day sprints. requires your team to be available for questions and decisions during the sprint.


other packages

assess: ai architecture audit · genai initiative prioritization · build vs buy analysis

build: idea-to-pilot sprint · mcp server build sprint

harden: ai governance layer setup


start here

book an intro call — 45 minutes, no cost. bring the pilot — we'll look at it together and i'll tell you honestly whether it's shippable in two weeks.