The process at a glance¶
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P1["Free Consult"] --> P2["Demo deck"]
P2 --> P3["Sign and Pay Deposit"]
P3 --> P4["Work begins"]
P4 --> P5["Iterate on sprints"]
P5 --> P6["Pay the remainder"]
P6 --> P7["Handoff"]Free Consult¶
The consult is the design step. Nothing is built until the problem is agreed and the target is concrete.
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A["Request a Free Consult"] --> B["Describe the problem"]
B --> C["Name 3 screens to solve it"]
C --> D["Link 3 websites with a<br/>desirable interface for each<br/>screen listed above"]
D --> E["A beautiful solution,<br/>agreed before any code, in a working Demo deck"]Demo deck¶
Triggering the workflow provisions the real thing, not a mock-up: an application on the free tier of a cloud provider, with static hosting for the screens and a gateway for access control. It also generates the deck, and the deck embeds that live prototype — so it demos the product rather than describing it.
The prototype is not an open URL. Access runs through a sign-in gate, which is what lets you show it to a client, an investor or a colleague without publishing it to the internet. Someone without an accepted account is refused at the gate rather than shown a login form and a dead link. After the prototype is a statement of work (SOW) outlining the sprint iteration plan.
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A["Workflow triggered<br/>to create the Demo deck"] --> B["Provision on the free tier<br/>of a cloud provider"]
B --> C["Static hosting for the 3 screens"]
B --> D["Gateway for access control"]
C --> E["Prototype live at a private URL"]
D --> E
D --> F["Sign-in required:<br/>only invited accounts get in"]The demo deck slides describe the compelling need for the solution and it can be forwarded and read without anyone logging in.
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G["Generate the demo deck"] --> H["Slide 1: the problem, and the solution"]
H --> K["Slide 2: the live embedded prototype"]
K --> I["Slide 3: explain deploy it anywhere"]
G --> M["Slide 4: the statement of work with how many sprints and cost per sprint"]
M --> N["Slide 5: select a follow up date from a calendar, and enter your feedback, and click submit feedback"]
N --> L["Slide 6: thank you slide with a link to sign and pay deposit to start SOW"]
That last slide is the point of the whole exercise, to help the customer get to where they areaready to sign the SOW and pay a deposit. All slides before should help communicate the value that will be delivered once the work begins.
Sign and Pay deposit¶
The customer does not get into the prototype for free. The deposit is what buys access, and the work is delivered behind it.
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A["SOW reviewed in the deck"] --> B["Sign and Pay Deposit"]
B --> C["Deposit clears"]
C --> D["Work begins"]Work begins¶
The customer is added to the prototype as an admin, through the same sign-in gate. They are not given a link and a login form — they are made an accepted account, which is the only thing standing between them and the unfinished system.
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A["Deposit cleared"] --> B["Customer's account<br/>added to the allowlist"]
B --> C["Role: admin"]
C --> D["Customer signs in at the gate"]
D --> E["Tests the real system:<br/>every screen, every edge case"]
E --> F["Feedback goes into the SOW backlog"]Iterate on sprints¶
Delivery runs on a fixed rhythm, and the SOW estimate is a count of these.
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S["Sprint day"] --> R["Review day"]
R --> D{"Scope complete?"}
D -->|"No"| S
D -->|"Yes"| F["Ready for the final payment"]Pay the remainder¶
The final remainder is the second gate. Once it clears, cloning is unlocked.
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A["All sprints signed off"] --> B["Customer pays remainder"]
B --> C["Payment clears & Cloning unlocked"]Handoff¶
The customer runs it themselves, under their own accounts. We do not hand over a running instance; we hand over the stack, and where it runs is their choice.
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A["Cloning unlocked"] --> B["The stack is yours to run"]
B --> C["Deploy to a cloud provider:<br/>editing in the browser in about 5 minutes"]
B --> D["Host it on a server you already own"]
B --> E["Run it on a Raspberry Pi<br/>or other embedded device"]
C --> F["Full ownership"]
D --> F
E --> F