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Services

What we build for you, and how we work with you: design, custom software, data analysis, AI and systems automation, each with a price agreed before we start, so you know the whole cost up front.

We won’t spend your money on social media marketing. Plenty of people will. We’d rather spend it on something you keep: your site, your records, your list.

What we build for you

Services
  1. Services

    Design

    Product, interface and brand design for organizations whose customers get a patchwork. Built and tested in weekly steps, at a price you agree first.

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    Software development

    Custom software built in small working pieces you can open and use each week, at a fixed price by the week.

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    Data analysis

    Research on your own records and on public data, with the source of every figure shown. One question, answered in a week.

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    AI and machine learning

    We test where a model helps in your own work before building anything, score it only on examples it never saw, and tell you plainly when it isn’t worth it.

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    Systems automation

    We connect the tools and records you already have so repeated work runs on its own, and every run leaves a record you can read.

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How we work with you

Paid engagements

Every engagement is one week at a time, from Wednesday to Wednesday, with a price and an end date agreed before it starts. Choose a service and play the week: four tracks, one side.

Design

  1. Define

    We agree the one question the week will answer, such as where your customers get lost, and the price, before the week starts.

  2. Design

    We draw the product, the screens and the brand so they hold together instead of reading as a patchwork.

  3. Develop

    We build what we design. Watching our own designs fail in use is how they get better before they reach you.

  4. Demo

    An answer to the one question, with what we expected and what would have proved us wrong written down first.

    You hold the files you can open: the drawings, the type, the color values and the rules for using them. If it earns more, a prototype you can click through and use comes next, and you can stop after any week.

Software development

  1. Define

    Most people start with an assessment or a prototype, agreed and priced before the week begins. The prototype is the first real piece.

  2. Design

    We choose the smallest piece that does one useful thing, so you can put it to use rather than wait and trust.

  3. Develop

    We build it over the week, and you can open what has been built at every step.

  4. Demo

    Each week ends with something you can open and use, and you decide then whether to go on.

    You hold the code and the records, written so someone else can take them over. We tell you what hosting, security and upkeep will cost you each month before you decide.

Data analysis

  1. Define

    Before the week begins, we write down what we expect to find and what result would show us wrong.

  2. Design

    We set the question against your records and the public sources, and keep a note of each figure’s source and date as we go.

  3. Develop

    Five working days in your records and in the public sources.

  4. Demo

    What we found, what it means, what we would do next, and anything that went against us.

    The report, the numbers and the sources are yours to keep and show anywhere, each figure with where it came from and the date. If the data doesn’t answer your question, the report says so, and you can stop there.

AI and machine learning

  1. Define

    Before the week begins, we write down what result would mean no, so the answer can’t be bent afterward to look like a yes.

  2. Design

    We keep some of your examples back where the model can’t see them, to score it on later.

  3. Develop

    We test the idea on your own work, and we show you what each model run costs before it runs.

  4. Demo

    An answer to the one question, scored only on examples the model never saw. When a model isn’t worth building, we say so plainly.

    You keep the examples, the scores and the code. If the prototype earns more, it is built in weekly steps, and you can stop after any week.

Systems automation

  1. Define

    We pick one repeated task, and write down what we expect to find and what would tell us we were wrong.

  2. Design

    We sit with the task as it really happens and count the places it is copied by hand.

  3. Develop

    The prototype automates that one task, working, for you to open and use. Anything that goes out under your name waits for your yes.

  4. Demo

    What we found, what it means, and what to do next, including the case where the answer is that it is not worth automating.

    The scripts and the records are yours, in files and folders you already use. If the prototype earns a second task, that is another week at the same price, agreed before it starts.

How it’s priced: A week costs $5,000: five working days, a price agreed before the week starts. An assessment is one week. The price is agreed before the week starts, and it is billed by the week. No retainer, and you can stop after any week. The first call is free.

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See it in practice: a website that sells the way an artist does, built week by week with an artist, and TerraQuotes, our own product for landscapers.