Implementation Sprint: your top opportunities, live in 2 to 6 weeks.
The Opportunity Assessment tells you where the hours go. The sprint is where they come back. It is a scoped 2 to 6 week engagement that takes the top items from your findings memo and turns them into working changes, built alongside the people who will use them, not around them.
Every sprint is quoted as a fixed price before anything starts. Most land between a few thousand dollars and the low five figures, depending on what the assessment finds.
Scoped per engagement
What a sprint covers
One sprint usually takes on two or three opportunities from the memo. The common shapes:
- An AI assistant set up inside the work your team already does: drafting quotes, answering the same customer questions, summarizing job notes.
- An automation that moves information between two systems so nobody types it twice.
- A process change that removes steps, followed by the tool that supports the shorter version.
- A small dashboard or report that replaces the spreadsheet somebody rebuilds every Monday.
If the fix turns out to be a bigger piece of software, we scope that as its own build. See workflow automation and custom software.
Week by week
Sprints vary with what is on the list, but a four-week sprint tends to run like this.
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Week 1: process first
We map the workflow as it actually happens, cut the steps that should not exist, and agree on what the new version looks like on paper.
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Week 2: setup
Tool selection, accounts, and connections to the software you already pay for, such as QuickBooks, Google Workspace, or Microsoft 365. We build the first working version and test it with one person.
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Week 3: rollout
The rest of the team starts using it on real work. We sit with them, on site or over video, and fix what breaks.
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Week 4: documentation and handoff
Plain-English instructions, a short training session, and a check that the hours are actually coming back.
A two-week sprint compresses this for a single opportunity. A six-week sprint is two or three larger ones in sequence.
What you get
- Your highest-payoff opportunities, built and running
- Tools chosen for your workflows, not our favorites
- Plain-English documentation your team can actually follow
- Your team trained on what we built, before we leave
- A fixed price, quoted before anything starts
Why we start with the process, not the tool
Automating a bad process gives you a fast bad process. Most of the waste we expect to find is not a missing tool. It is a handoff nobody questioned, a form that asks for things nobody reads, or an approval that exists because of a problem from years ago.
Cutting those first means the tool has less to do, costs less to set up, and is easier for the team to keep using. We wrote more about this in Do you need new software or a better process?
For most businesses, the sprint is the end of the engagement. Some will want us to stay in their corner as tools and teams change. That is the ongoing support retainer.
Questions we get
Do we need an assessment first?
Usually, yes. The Opportunity Assessment is how we know what to build and in what order. If you already have one clear, specific problem, we can sometimes scope a sprint from the intro call.
What does a sprint cost?
It depends on what the assessment finds. Most sprints land between a few thousand dollars and the low five figures, and we quote a fixed price before anything starts.
Who needs to be involved?
The owner for about an hour a week, plus the two or three people who do the work. We build with them, so their time is the part that matters most.
What if the team stops using it?
That is the failure we design against. Every sprint ends with training and documentation, and we check in two weeks after handoff. If something is not sticking, we find out why and fix it.
Ready to move from someday to this month?
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