Rapid Application Delivery
AI MVP development
A first product surface with real users, built on evidence rather than on a roadmap slot
- Duration
- 4 to 8 weeks
- Ladder stage
- Proof
- NATIVE stages
- Target, Integrate, Validate
The situation
When this engagement is the right one
You need an AI-enabled product surface faster than your roadmap allows, and you cannot afford to spend the credibility if it lands badly. An MVP is not a smaller version of the plan. It is the smallest thing that produces a real signal.
You are probably seeing
- The engineering team is fully committed for two quarters.
- An investor conversation is scheduled and the surface does not exist.
- The feature has been specified three times and never built.
What we do
The work, in the order it happens
- 01Define the single signal the MVP must produce.
- 02Build the surface with instrumentation from the first commit.
- 03Ship to a bounded real-user cohort.
- 04Read the signal, then recommend continue, change, or stop.
What you get, and keep
- A deployed MVP with your own branding and auth.
- Instrumentation and a signal report after the first cohort.
- A handover pack for your engineering team.
Prerequisites
- A real user cohort available within the engagement window.
Not included
- We do not take on ongoing product ownership.
- We do not build an MVP with no route to real users.
Where this sits in the method
- TTargetChoosing the battlefield
- IIntegrateRewriting workflows and decision rights
- VValidateProve it before you scale it
Commercially this is a Proof engagement on the Proof, Product, Platform ladder.
FAQ
Questions we get asked
- Will our team be able to maintain it?
- Yes. Stack choice is agreed with your engineering lead before we start, and handover includes a working session, not a document drop.
Related engagements
Work that usually sits either side of this
Next step
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