Embedded AI Product Build
One accountable path from wedge to shipped software.
For a validated product wedge with a named owner: architecture, engineering, evaluation, deployment, and handoff — run as a monthly mandate or a fixed sprint, scoped after a wedge review.
§ 01 — What's included
- One named product wedge with an explicit product owner on your side
- Sequenced milestones with acceptance tests, not a promised headcount
- Production-quality code, integrations, evaluation, and observability sized to the scope
- Human approval boundaries wherever the workflow needs judgment, not just automation
- Documentation and a real handoff — software you can run without us if you choose to
Ready when you have
- A wedge already scored or reviewed — see the Product Wedge Review
- A named product owner with a weekly acceptance window
- Access to the data, systems, and people the build depends on
- A decision-maker who can approve scope changes without a committee
Not the fit
- An open-ended staff-augmentation request billed by the hour
- "Add AI" with no wedge, owner, or acceptance criteria named
- Guaranteed throughput, 24/7 delivery, or parallel-team promises
- A build you want cheap rather than right
Wedge not scoped yet? Email the workflow that hurts or start with the Product Wedge Review.
FAQ
Questions this pattern has to answer.
Is this a monthly mandate or a fixed sprint?
Either, depending on what the wedge needs. A recurring monthly mandate suits ongoing product work with a moving milestone list; a fixed-scope sprint suits a bounded deployment with a clear finish line. The Product Wedge Review is where that shape gets decided.
Who owns the code and the data?
Ownership, data access, reuse rights, and any pre-existing components are named explicitly in the signed scope before work begins. The applicable agreement — not this page — controls those rights.
How much of the team is agentic vs. human?
Senior engineering judgment owns architecture, review, and every ship decision — nothing goes out unreviewed. Agentic build loops handle the around-the-clock drafting: code, tests, docs, and variants, inside logged guardrails.
What does 'evaluated' actually mean here?
Acceptance tests defined before the build starts, a value ledger that shows whether v1 is earning its keep, and human approval gates wherever a wrong output would be expensive. Built is not the same claim as deployed, and deployed is not the same claim as adopted — we track the difference.
Next step
Score the wedge before you build.
Bring the workflow, owner, data, and proof line. The review turns that into a build, fix-first, or don’t-build call.