Talk to the engineers.
No sales layer, no discovery call before the discovery call. Pick whichever channel you actually use — the same two people read all of them.
Brief
Outcome, constraint, stack.
Three lines is plenty. We would rather read the real problem than a filled-in template.
Not sure what to ask for?
Answer six questions instead.
The teardown gives you the engagement that fits, the biggest risk in your setup and the next three steps — without talking to anyone. It will also tell you when the honest answer is that you do not need us yet.
Tear down my productStraight answers.
The questions we get before a first call.
How do you price the work?
Hourly rates by role, quoted from a template. Fixed-price is available once discovery is done and scope is frozen.
How long do projects take?
Most production systems land in 4–16 weeks. The calculator on /pricing gives a range from the same model we use internally.
Who owns the IP and the models?
You do. Full transfer of code, weights, documentation and runbooks.
How do you handle sensitive data?
Least-privilege access, isolated environments, and no training on your data for anyone else. We will work inside your VPC when that is the constraint.