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Research, spec, architecture, UX and the build, done end to end by one person. Fixed price, a working demo every Friday, and no handoffs between contractors.
Most 4-week Sprints land at $30–40K. Full 6-week engagements with HITL, audit logging, and multi-agent orchestration scale to $50–60K. Fixed-price after the Week 0 scope lock — no hourly surprises. Milestone payment: 30% kickoff / 30% Week 3 demo / 40% handoff. You don't prepay future work.
2-hour deep-dive. I write a 1-pager: user journey, non-goals, success metric. You sign off. If we disagree on scope, this is where we find out — at no cost.
User interviews, system walkthrough, architecture memo. Framework choice, state schema, tool list, eval strategy, cost projection. You approve before code.
Core path live by end of week 2 (ugly but functional). Real data + edge cases in week 3. Friday demos with traces and eval scores — not a black box.
Latency tuning, cost optimization, UX polish, observability dashboards. Production quality.
Human-in-the-loop on high-risk actions. Documentation, runbook, 8-hour training session. Production deploy with you. 30 days of bug-fix support starts.
Default stack: LangGraph for stateful orchestration (cyclical graphs + checkpointer = free crash recovery), Claude Sonnet for complex reasoning + Haiku for classification/FAQ routing, MCP-native integrations so you don't pay the N×M integration tax. Every build ships with LangSmith tracing from day one and a 25–30 golden test eval suite — most teams skip this and that's why their agents silently regress every model release. The eval harness is the moat, not the framework.
Real questions from scoping calls. If yours isn't here, ask it on a free 30-minute call.
Open-ended engagements have no forcing function to ship. A fixed-price Sprint forces both of us to scope tightly upfront and ship in 4–6 weeks. If we discover mid-Sprint that the scope is wrong, we pause, re-scope, and you decide whether to continue. No hourly meter running while we figure it out.
An AI agency quotes you 4 contractors (designer, PM, architect, engineer) at ~$115K and 5 months — most of which is handoff overhead. I do the same work end-to-end as one person. Same outcomes, half the cost, half the time, zero handoff failures. The trade-off: I won't scale beyond 2 active Sprints at once. If you need a team of 20, hire the agency.
That's the Production Audit + Rescue lane, not a Sprint. Sprint = build something new. Audit = diagnose what's failing in something existing. Both are real engagements; pick the one that matches your situation.
Yes — for engagements over $50K I bring in pre-vetted contractors from the Ayraxs talent bench. I stay senior judgment + architecture; they handle volume. You still get one point of contact (me) and one accountable architect (me).
Yes. I'm based in Pakistan and work across US, EU, and MENA time zones. 2–3 hours of overlap with most clients during build sprints.