No surprises. No handoffs. Every phase has a clear owner and a clear output.
How Fordel scopes, ships, and supports AI products. The same engineer who scopes your project is the one who architects, writes, and ships it. AI tooling handles the parallel grunt work; every output reviewed and merged by the senior.
Scoping Call
30 minutesWe audit your existing systems, identify which workflows benefit from an AI agent, and pinpoint where AI creates measurable impact — versus where deterministic code is the right answer. The output is a written assessment you own regardless of whether we proceed.
- —Understand your actual problem, not the feature list
- —Identify the real complexity — where estimates usually break
- —Tell you clearly if something is outside our scope
Architecture
1–3 daysAI agents are state machines wrapped around LLM calls. We design the state machine, the failure modes, the human-in-the-loop checkpoints, and the integration surface — before any prompt is written. You receive the architecture document; build is contracted against it.
- —System design with explicit tradeoffs
- —Integration map — third parties, existing systems, data flows
- —Risk register: what could go wrong and how we prevent it
Build
Project-dependentAI-accelerated development with senior oversight at every step. Working software ships weekly — you see real progress, not status updates. Scope changes flagged before work starts, not after.
- —Weekly working software, not just updates
- —Scope change protocol: flagged and agreed before work begins
- —Async-first communication — you hear about blockers immediately
Launch
1–2 daysProduction deployment with monitoring, error tracking, CI/CD, and AI-specific guardrails — token budget alerts, model fallback chains, prompt regression tests. Launch day should be boring. If it is exciting, something went wrong in planning.
- —Production-grade deployment pipeline
- —Error monitoring and alerting configured
- —Runbook handed off — you know how to operate what we built
Post-Launch Support
30 days30 days of active support after every launch — covering monitoring, fixes, and the prompt regression / model deprecation work that AI agents specifically need. Your launch is the beginning of our accountability, not the end.
- —Active monitoring for the first 30 days
- —Bug fixes included — no change order for launch-window issues
- —Handoff documentation written for your team
Fixed scope, milestone-based delivery. Suitable for AI agent builds, MCP server projects, system overhauls, or major feature work. Architecture document produced before build starts.
Ongoing engineering capacity — architecture reviews, AI feature development, prompt and model maintenance, technical support. Fordel integrates with your existing team and process.
Technical strategy, AI readiness assessment, architecture review, model selection, build-vs-buy guidance. No code produced. Suitable for teams that need an outside senior perspective before committing to a direction.
- 01Hand off your project to a junior after the pitch
- 02Write a 40-page proposal before understanding your actual problem
- 03Disappear after launch and invoice for every subsequent question
- 04Pretend AI can solve problems where it cannot
- 05Inflate timelines to buffer for poor planning
- 06Run multiple projects simultaneously with degraded attention on each
Ready to start?
The scoping call is free, 30 minutes, and no obligation. You describe what you need — I tell you whether we can help and what it would take.
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