B:Side Advisors
Scope My Sprint

Your workflow, built by senior operators. In 4 to 12 weeks.

You know what to build. We build it. Custom AI agents, workflow automations, and integrations your team actually uses on Monday. Fixed price $12,000 to $45,000. Acceptance tests written before kickoff.

Typical kickoff: 1 to 3 weeks after scoping call.

  • Fixed price, published. No retainer creep.
  • Weekly build demos. No black-box reveals.
  • Senior advisors from kickoff to handoff.
  • Written acceptance tests before we touch anything.

What ships in every sprint.

Six items. Every sprint. No add-ons, no "phase two" upsells, no discovery fees hiding in the footnote.

01

Kickoff doc with written acceptance tests

Before we write a line of code we agree on exactly what 'done' looks like. Signed by both sides.

02

Weekly build demos

Every Friday you see what shipped that week, running against your real data. Not a slide deck.

03

Integration in your real environment

We build inside your actual stack, with your actual tools and your actual users. No sandbox theatre.

04

Hands-on team training

Real working sessions with the people who will run it Monday morning. Not a PDF.

05

A written playbook your team owns

Documents a new hire can read on day one and understand the system. You keep this even if we never talk again.

06

30 days of post-handoff touch

We stay on call for 30 days after handoff. No extra invoice. We want the thing to work, not to exit.

How a sprint runs.

Four phases. One senior advisor on the file from Week 0 through handoff. No relay to a junior PM after contract signing.

01Week 0

Scoping

Free 30-minute call. We map your workflow, confirm fit, and draft acceptance tests. Fixed-price quote inside 48 hours. You sign or you walk.

02Weeks 1 to 2

Foundation

Access setup. Integration inventory. Baseline measurement. Data shape confirmation. Every dependency we uncover gets surfaced, not buried.

03Weeks 3 onward

Build

We build. You see a working demo every Friday in your real environment. Acceptance tests run against each increment.

04Final week

Handoff

Full team training. Playbook delivered. Acceptance tests pass on record. We stay reachable for 30 days post-handoff at no extra charge.

Sample scopes. Starting points, not contracts.

Typical sprint shapes we've seen. Your exact scope and price get defined in the 30-minute scoping call.

01$18K to $28K

Client intake automation

An AI intake agent that reads inbound forms, routes by matter type, drafts an opening response, and creates the case record in your practice management system.

Typical integrations
Practice mgmt (Clio / MyCase)Email / formsDrive / Notion
02$22K to $35K

Scheduling and dispatch

An availability engine that reconciles calendars, field capacity, and SLA rules, then books or reroutes without a human picking up the phone.

Typical integrations
CalendarField-service toolSMS / voice
03$15K to $25K

Invoicing and AR automation

A billing agent that generates draft invoices from time / job data, chases aged AR on a schedule, and escalates exceptions to a human.

Typical integrations
Ledger (QuickBooks / Xero)EmailBank feed
04$12K to $20K

Follow-up and reactivation

An outbound agent that re-engages dormant contacts with personalised copy, logs every reply into your CRM, and hands off to a human the moment interest warms.

Typical integrations
CRMEmail / LinkedInCalendar
05$20K to $32K

Operational reporting

A reporting layer that pulls from every system your team touches, normalises the numbers, and produces the Monday-morning report without anyone opening a spreadsheet.

Typical integrations
DatabasesSaaS APIsSheets / BI tool
06$15K to $45K

Custom AI agent inside an existing tool

A purpose-built agent that lives where your team already works (Slack, your CRM, your practice management tool) and does one specific job very well.

Typical integrations
Depends on host toolYour data sources

Illustrative. Final scope, acceptance tests, and price are set together in the scoping call before you commit.

Why we sprint at a fixed price.

Hourly billing rewards slow work. Fixed pricing rewards results.

Every sprint has a scope, a price, and a delivery date agreed before we start. If the work takes us longer than planned, that is our problem. Not yours.

The scope document is written in plain English with acceptance tests a non-technical operator can read. If a new requirement shows up mid-build, we either absorb it (small), defer it (medium), or price a second sprint for it (large). Every decision happens in the open, in writing.

Fixed vs hourlyOur stance
  • Scope driftCommonImpossible
  • Acceptance testsRarely definedSigned pre-kickoff
  • Overrun costYour problemOur problem
  • Weekly visibilityStatus decksWorking demos
  • Price visibilityUnder NDAPublished

What makes this different from a typical AI agency sprint.

Three specific commitments. Each one is the answer to a complaint we have heard from operators who got burned by an AI agency before.

01Commitment

A written scope. Before you sign.

Most agencies quote on a vibe, then invoice on an estimate. We write the acceptance tests with you first. If you cannot read them and say 'yes, that is done when those pass', we have not finished scoping.

02Commitment

Weekly demos. Not a big reveal.

Every Friday you see what actually ran that week, in your environment, against real inputs. If something does not feel right you catch it at day 5, not at day 55.

03Commitment

Vendor-neutral. We have no margin on your stack.

We are not a reseller for any tool. No kickbacks. If an open-source library is the right answer, we will use it. If a specific commercial vendor is the right answer, we will tell you why, and you will pay them directly.

Pricing, published. Middle tier is most common.

Three bands inside the published $12K to $45K range. The scoping call produces your exact tier in writing before you commit.

Band 01
01
Timeline4 to 6 weeks

Single workflow, single entity

5 to 25 people · 1 workflow · light integrations

Fixed price
$12,000
Best for

Owner-led operations with one focused workflow to automate and a small tool stack.

Most common
02
Timeline6 to 9 weeks

Multi-workflow or integration-heavy

20 to 60 people · 2 to 3 workflows · 4+ integrations

Fixed price
$25,000
Best for

Professional-services firms, practices, and ops-heavy SMBs with a moderately complex stack.

Band 03
03
Timeline9 to 12 weeks

Multi-entity or regulated / complex

60 to 100+ people · multi-location · regulated data

Fixed price
$45,000
Best for

Multi-location or regulated businesses where the integration surface and governance needs are real.

Every band includes
  • Kickoff with written acceptance tests
  • Weekly build demos
  • Integration in your real environment
  • Team training sessions
  • Written playbook
  • 30 days post-handoff support
  • Scope guarantee
Credit from audit

If you did the Readiness Audit with us, the audit fee credits 100% against your first sprint within 90 days of delivery. You pay $0 net for the audit that got you here.

Who a sprint is right for. And who it is not.

We say no to engagements that are not a fit. It saves everyone time.

Right for a sprint
  • You have one or more workflows you already know you want automated
  • 5 to 100 employees and $1M to $50M in revenue
  • A leader who can give us 2 to 3 hours a week for demos and decisions
  • Willingness to let us into real tools, not a sandbox
Not for a sprint
  • Pre-revenue startups with no operations to automate yet
  • Enterprises with a mature in-house AI function already
  • Buyers looking for a tool recommendation to purchase today without building

If you are not sure, start with the Readiness Audit or a free 30-minute scoping call. We will tell you honestly.

Scope guarantee

If we miss the acceptance tests, we keep building at no extra charge.

The acceptance tests are written with you before kickoff. They are plain English. Either the sprint passes them or we stay on until it does. You do not pay twice for the same deliverable.

The honest limit

We do not guarantee business outcomes downstream of the build. If the tool passes its acceptance tests but your team does not adopt it, that is a change-management problem our Managed retainer can help with. Not a software bug.

Trigger
Acceptance test failure
Remedy
Keep building. No second invoice.

What happens after handoff.

Some clients move straight onto Managed Services so the work we built keeps running as models and vendors shift underneath. Some take the playbook and run it internally. Some pause. All three are acceptable. The playbook is yours either way.

Three outcomes we plan for
  1. A
    Onto Managed
    We keep the deployment running and expand it quarter by quarter.
  2. B
    Internal ownership
    Your team runs the playbook we wrote. We stay reachable for 30 days.
  3. C
    Pause
    Ship the sprint, lock the system in place, and come back next year.

Frequently asked questions.

Seven questions from most scoping calls. If yours is not here, bring it up on the call.

01What is the difference between the Readiness Audit and a Sprint?
The Audit tells you what to build. The Sprint builds it. The Audit is the diagnostic phase (2 to 4 weeks, $3,500 to $8,500 fixed). The Sprint is the build phase (4 to 12 weeks, $12,000 to $45,000 fixed). If you did the audit with us, the fee credits 100% against your first sprint.
02Do I need an Audit before a Sprint?
No. If you already know the scope of what you want built, start with a Sprint. The Audit is for when you are still deciding what to automate first, in what order.
03How fast can we start?
Typical kickoff is 1 to 3 weeks after the scoping call. If scope is simple and access is ready, we can start within 5 business days.
04What happens if scope drifts mid-sprint?
The acceptance tests we signed at kickoff are the scope. A new requirement that shows up mid-sprint gets one of three answers in writing: absorbed (small), deferred (medium), or priced as a second sprint (large). No silent scope creep, no surprise invoices.
05Who writes the acceptance tests?
We draft them during the scoping call in plain English. You read them, push back where they are wrong, and sign. They are written so a non-technical operator can confirm 'yes, this is done' when they pass.
06Do you need access to our production systems?
Usually yes. We build in your real environment because sandbox builds break the week after handoff. We use read-only access where possible, scoped credentials always, and document every access in the handoff.
07What tools do you use?
Whatever actually fits your stack. We are vendor-neutral. Typical short-lists include OpenAI / Anthropic models, n8n / Make for lightweight orchestration, custom TypeScript for anything serious, and your existing SaaS tools for integrations. We do not resell any of them.

Scope your sprint.

Free 30-minute scoping call. Fixed-price quote in writing inside 48 hours. We tell you honestly whether we are the right fit.

Senior advisor on the call. No sales rep. Written quote inside 48 hours if we are a fit.

What we decide together
  • 01
    The exact scope
    Acceptance tests in plain English, signed by both sides.
  • 02
    The fixed price
    Which band you land in. No retainer creep.
  • 03
    The start date
    When we begin and when you get the first demo.