4–8 weeks
To production
Fixed fee
No budget surprises
Production-grade increment
Not another prototype
Evidence pack included
Spec, tests, decision log
What separates delivery from drift?
Three questions reveal which side of that line you’re on: Where is the scope boundary? What happens when we miss? What does the board see when it is done?
Your pilot works. Your board wants it in production. Six months into implementation the scope has grown, the budget is gone and the original delivery team has moved on.
A production-grade increment in 4 to 8 weeks. Agreed scope, fixed fee. We own the delivery risk within that boundary.
You bring in a delivery partner. Three months of discovery later, you have a roadmap estimate, a slide deck and no working software.
No extensive pre-sales discovery. We scope the first Milestone, price it, deliver it. The next one is easier to price because we already know your codebase.
Something ships. Nobody can explain the architecture decisions, the test coverage is unclear and your security team is asking questions nobody prepared for.
Every Milestone delivers a complete evidence pack: specification, implementation documentation, test results and a decision log. Maintain it with your own team or hand it to ours. Your board can review it.
How it works: a Milestone, an increment, a decision
A focused, rapid delivery engagement with a production-grade outcome and a clear path to what comes next.
RDM is a fixed-fee, time-boxed rapid delivery engagement. The scope is bounded: one production-grade software increment per Milestone. Our proprietary methodology is built around short feedback loops, explicit quality gates and human-in-the-loop governance. Every increment is standardised, production-grade and fully documented, with no proprietary dependencies. AI accelerates how we deliver, not what we deliver: the increment may include AI features or be completely AI-agnostic, the choice stays with you.
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Step 1
Milestone readiness
We confirm the delivery boundary, review your architecture, technical context and documentation, and agree the acceptance criteria with your team. We use the available materials, validate critical gaps with your subject matter experts, and make any resulting assumptions, dependencies and risks explicit.
Deliverables: agreed scope document, acceptance criteria, architecture review summary, documented assumptions and dependencies, risk register, and delivery baseline. The Milestone begins once the delivery boundary, acceptance criteria, critical dependencies and required access are confirmed.
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Step 2
Set up: context and baseline
We set up the delivery environment, activate the relevant domain context pack, and configure the agentic SDLC workflow. The goal is to reach productive delivery in days, not weeks.
Deliverables: configured delivery environment, tailored domain context pack activated, refined and delivery-ready backlog for the first increment
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Step 3
Delivery cycles
Build cycles driven by agreed specifications, with continuous testing, human review and documentation. Working software is made available regularly for review and validation, making it the primary evidence of progress.
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Step 4
Quality and governance
Each delivery cycle is subject to explicit quality gates, including automated testing and human review. An automated test baseline is established from day one and maintained throughout the Milestone. Key architecture decisions, compliance considerations and technical trade-offs are documented and traceable.
Continuous UAT by your designated users is an essential part of the quality process. Each increment should be reviewed promptly against the agreed acceptance criteria, with feedback provided in time to be assessed and, where within scope, addressed in the following delivery cycles.
Deliverables: quality-gate results for each delivery cycle, maintained test baseline, reviewed UAT feedback and agreed follow-up actions, architecture and compliance decision log
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Step 5
Handover and continuation plan
You receive the production-grade increment, a complete evidence pack (specification, implementation documentation, test results, decision log) and a clear recommendation for the next increment or scale path. By default, we provide a deployment pack that enables your team to deploy the increment within your environment; production deployment and post-deployment validation can be included when agreed as part of the Milestone scope from the outset.
Deliverables: production-grade increment, agreed evidence pack, continuation recommendation
The right output for your role
The right output for your role
Not sure whether to start here or with a Value Prototype Sprint first?
If the direction is confirmed and the scope is defined, you do not need a validation sprint before you build. VPS is recommended, not mandatory.
Value Prototype Sprint
Consider Value Prototype Sprint first if:
- You cannot yet define what the smallest valuable increment looks like
- A backlog exists, but key assumptions haven't been tested yet
- You need a business case or implementation roadmap before internal approval
- Stakeholders need to see working look and feel before committing to build
- You want to estimate effort and delivery risks before starting implementation
- The idea is clear but the production path is not
Rapid Delivery Milestone
Start directly with Rapid Delivery Milestone if:
- You have a selected use case or defined proaduct increment ready to move to production
- Requirements, a backlog or an RFP already exist
- An in-house PoC or prototype already exists and the direction is confirmed
- You are confident in the business value of the increment
- Stakeholder alignment is in place and someone can make scope, priority and acceptance decisions
- Your environment, repository and CI/CD access can be made available
- You know what the smallest valuable increment looks like and want it delivered, not debated
Future Processing: a strategic partner with deep delivery experience
We take responsibility for the outcome, not just the time
Time-and-materials delivery shifts risk to you. You pay for effort; you own the result, including what goes wrong. Unlike a traditional fixed-price project, a Rapid Delivery Milestone does not require you to define and commit to the entire solution upfront.
The engagement is divided into short, independently valuable Milestones: each one delivers a production-grade increment at a fixed fee and ends with a decision point: continue, stop, reprioritise, pivot or expand.
If we underestimate something within the agreed scope, that is our problem to manage. After delivery, the next increment is easier to price accurately because we know your codebase, your architecture context and your team’s decision cadence.
Production delivery in a regulated environment is not the same as a fast demo
Cheaper automation can move quickly in a sandbox. Taking software live in an insurance, financial services or heavily regulated environment is a different challenge entirely: legacy system integration, auditability requirements, compliance sign-off, data governance and a test baseline the board can review are not sandbox problems.
It requires deep experience delivering enterprise-grade systems, domain knowledge, delivery discipline and accountability that extends beyond go-live.
Domain context from day one
We have built an Insurance domain context pack that reflects our long-standing experience delivering systems for the insurance sector and the expertise of our domain specialists: business and technology knowledge, delivery assumptions, vocabulary and risk awareness built up over years of insurance projects.
It is available from the start of a Milestone engagement, reducing ramp-up and improving specification quality in a domain where the difference between a claim and a liability matters to your compliance team.
Expand without reopening the entire project
The Rapid Delivery Milestone approach is designed as a series of building blocks. Each Milestone has a predefined scope, a defined delivery window, predictable pricing and a measurable outcome.
Adding a new capability is straightforward: it fits into one additional Milestone. After every Milestone, you decide whether to continue, stop, reprioritise, pivot or expand. That decision is made with a working product in hand, not a status report or a project forecast.
The AI Delivery Engine is our methodology, not our marketing
The AI Native SDLC workflows, quality gates, domain context packs and delivery tooling we use are Future Processing IP. They allow us to fit more production-grade value into a 4-to-8-week window: not as a promise, but as a measured improvement against your delivery baseline. Any speed improvement we communicate is tied to your specific baseline or our own delivery evidence. We do not sell generic multipliers.
Delivery standards you can inspect
Our engineering practices, quality gates, agentic workflow patterns and delivery standards are documented and available for review before you commit. This is not a pitch deck; it is the framework that governs how we work on your increment.
Discover the value we delivered
Core management system development and a go-live with 0 critical defects
Revenue increase from £1M to £5M for one of the products, accelerated go-to-market goals, and improved insurance trading efficiency
Creation of a new claims management system with data migration of tens of thousands of transactions within around 1400 claims
Scope and what's included
What is included in every Milestone
- Bounded production-grade software increment
- Specification pack and delivery evidence
- Agentic SDLC workflows for specification, build, test, review and documentation (Future Processing IP: methodology and tooling remain with Future Processing)
- Quality gates and automated test baseline
- Domain context pack where applicable
- Implementation documentation and decision log
- Continuation recommendation: next increment, scale path or support and maintenance
After every Milestone, you decide
Each decision is made with a production-grade software artefact in hand, full delivery evidence and a clear recommendation from the team that built it.
- Continue: move into the next Milestone, building directly on what has been delivered
- Stop: take the increment and evidence pack, no further commitment required
- Reprioritise: adjust the scope of the next Milestone based on what you have learned
- Pivot: redirect the next increment towards a different part of the solution
- Expand: add a new capability as an additional Milestone, scoped and priced on its own terms
Pricing: three fixed-fee bands, not a day rate
RDM is priced within three fixed-fee bands based on scope and delivery complexity. An initial scoping call helps us understand the expected outcome, delivery boundary and key dependencies.
We then run a lightweight internal presales assessment to confirm the appropriate band and fixed fee. We come back to you with the recommended option, the reasons behind it and any key assumptions affecting the price.
Once the fee is confirmed, it stays fixed for that Milestone: no retroactive renegotiation within the agreed scope, and no surprises on invoicing.
Straight answers to the real objections
Is this only for AI products?
No. Rapid Delivery Milestone accelerates production-grade software delivery for any bounded increment. The scope may include AI features, but the core value is a combination of pace, engineering discipline and governance, backed by deep delivery experience, not fast output alone. Workflow tools, portals, modules, admin dashboards and modernisation increments are all valid scope.
Can you guarantee faster delivery?
We can guarantee faster delivery on an engagement level – it’s decided on an individual project basis. For RDM we provide a clearly bounded outcome, a defined delivery timeframe and a fixed fee. Our agentic SDLC, short feedback loops, continuous testing and human review are designed to maintain delivery momentum while protecting quality. You know what will be delivered, by when and for what price.
You are not committing to a large engagement to find out if this works. Try us on one Milestone: you get a production-grade increment, full documentation and an evidence pack, so you can take the result and move production elsewhere if you choose to.
We already have developers. Why not just use our internal team?
This is not staff augmentation. You do not receive additional development time; you receive a bounded outcome with architecture accountability, quality gates, an automated test baseline and a delivery evidence pack your board can review. If your internal team is stretched or blocked on a specific increment, we take that increment to production.
RDM can also provide a practical reference point for AI-enabled delivery. By comparing the Milestone results with your team’s existing estimates or historical delivery data for comparable work, you can see where AI-supported workflows reduce effort, shorten feedback loops or limit rework. The increment is then handed over with the agreed documentation, delivery evidence and a clear continuation plan.
A startup can do this cheaper.
For a standalone demo or an undocumented prototype, that may be true. For a production-grade increment in a regulated environment (legacy system integration, full auditability, compliance sign-off, a test baseline your security team will approve), the delivery assumptions are different. We bring 25+ years and 900+ projects of software delivery experience, now combined with AI-native workflows: the judgment stays, the ramp-up shrinks. We add controlled autonomy, domain context and human-in-the-loop governance at every stage. The first Milestone is priced to prove the approach, not to win a price comparison.
What will the full solution cost?
We price the first bounded increment. After delivering it, the next increment or scale path is significantly easier to estimate accurately, because we know your codebase, your architecture decisions and an established delivery cadence. Committing to a full transformation price before a single increment is delivered is false precision. It tends to mean either inflated buffers on our side or unexpected scope changes on yours.
What if the scope turns out to be more complex than we expected?
Complexity within the agreed delivery boundary is our risk to manage. If you need to change scope during the Milestone, we flag the impact transparently and agree together: adjust budget, adjust scope, or carry the change to the next increment. We do not absorb unlimited scope silently, and we do not surprise you with it at the end of a sprint.
Can you price the full roadmap now?
We can provide an indicative roadmap budget or pricing range, but we only confirm a fixed fee for the next Milestone. Committing to a full roadmap price before the first increment is delivered means either building in significant contingency or transferring significant risk to you. Fixed-fee confirmation requires validated scope, confirmed integrations, compliance requirements and agreed acceptance criteria for that specific increment. You get budget visibility for the roadmap and price certainty for the next Milestone.
We already have an RFP. Is this still relevant?
Yes. If you already have an RFP or defined solution requirements, Rapid Delivery Milestone changes your delivery model, not your business objective. We review the RFP, confirm the delivery boundary and acceptance criteria, and divide the implementation into a sequence of independently valuable Milestones.
Each Milestone has an agreed scope, a defined delivery window, a fixed fee and measurable acceptance criteria. After every Milestone, you can continue, reprioritise, expand or stop based on working software and current business priorities, without committing to the entire roadmap upfront.
Why not validate the idea with a proof of concept first?
If your direction is not yet validated, the right starting point is a Value Prototype Sprint: a separate, bounded engagement that delivers more than a prototype. It produces implementation discovery, a high-level backlog, an implementation roadmap, preliminary effort estimation and the business case materials needed for internal approval.
Rapid Delivery Milestone picks up from a confirmed direction. You do not need to complete a Value Prototype Sprint first; if you already have defined requirements, a backlog or an RFP, you can start directly with a Milestone.
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