AI-assisted software delivery pilot

Prove the operating model on work that has to ship.

The Pilot applies governed AI-assisted delivery to one real, bounded project—from functional intent and specifications through implementation, independent review, testing, release, measurement, and handoff.

The flagship engagement

A production-bound proof, not an isolated demo.

The Pilot is for leaders who want evidence that a better delivery system works in their environment before asking multiple teams to change how they operate.

Starting investmentFrom $75,000
Typical delivery window8–12 weeks
Commercial boundaryOne bounded project or delivery team

The work

One connected line from intent to handoff.

01

Bound the proof

Confirm the business outcome, sponsor, systems, constraints, working team, acceptance envelope, and measures before implementation starts.

02

Specify and decide

Create build-ready requirements, architecture decisions, backlog, rules, and acceptance criteria connected to the work.

03

Implement under governance

Use the appropriate models and engineering tools per step while the principal architect retains authority over architecture and risk.

04

Review, test, and release

Run independent review against the specification, execute tests, resolve findings, and preserve release and ALM evidence.

05

Measure and transfer

Compare the result with agreed measures, document the operating routines, and hand the playbook and connected records to the client team.

Inspectable outputs

What supports the delivery claim.

The result is not only working software. The evidence and routines that make the result supportable remain connected to it.

Shipped increment

A reviewed, tested, production-bound increment of the real project—not a disconnected proof of concept.

Evidence chain

Requirements, architecture decisions, review findings, tests, risk dispositions, and release records traced to intent.

Measured result

A comparison against the acceptance conditions and practical measures agreed before implementation.

Reusable playbook

Roles, routines, controls, templates, and lessons the client team can apply after handoff.

Boundaries

What the starting investment assumes.

Client provides

A responsive sponsor, a real bounded project, access to systems and stakeholders, and commitment from the working team.

The Pilot includes

Specification, architecture, governed implementation, independent review, testing, release evidence, measurement, and handoff.

The Pilot excludes

Unbounded scope, proofs of concept with no production path, unrelated backlog, licenses, consumption, travel, and ongoing operations.

Complexity trigger

More systems, integrations, security review, migration, stakeholder delay, or material scope expansion results in a longer schedule and higher written price before affected work proceeds.

Fit

For sponsors prepared to prove and adopt a repeatable system.

The Pilot is not staff augmentation, generic AI-coding training, or a low-cost proof of concept. Principal architecture, explicit acceptance, working-team participation, and capability transfer are part of the engagement.