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Delivery and governance model

Checked twice. Owned by you.

How an Algobain engagement runs: senior engineers direct the work, agents do the volume, a named person approves every consequential action, and the code, cloud and IP stay yours.

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Two-week fixed-fee assessmentThen a dedicated senior team, then managed operations. Exit at any point.

01Delivery process

Senior engineers direct the work. Agents do the volume.

Every Algobain engagement runs on an agentic delivery process. A small senior team sets the architecture and makes the decisions, while fleets of AI agents do the parallel work: exploring the codebase, drafting options, writing tests, reviewing changes and checking results.

Agentic delivery process
Senior engineer Sets architecture, decides ExploreDraft optionsWrite testsReview Test gate Red, then green Review gate Against the request Production With its record Blocked, returned to the agents Decision record, kept as the work happens Fig. 2
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01

Parallel, not sequential

Work that used to queue behind one engineer runs as several agents at once: three design variants in an afternoon, a migration explored from every angle before a line is committed. Calendar time compresses by [X]%.

02

Fewer hours per outcome

Agents absorb the exploration, boilerplate and regression work, so you pay for senior judgement, not volume. Typical delivery cost is [X]% below a conventional team of equal seniority.

03

Checked twice, every change

Nothing ships without a failing test written first, a passing run after, a review against the original request, and a gate that blocks if anything existing broke. Visual work is matched against an approved baseline before it is called done.

04

A record you can audit

Every decision, test result and approval is logged as the work happens. Your team inherits a system with its reasoning attached, not a hand-off deck.

Who does what in the delivery process
RoleDoesDecidesNever
Senior engineerAlgobainSets the architecture, directs the agents, reviews every change against the request.Design, trade-offs, what is ready to ship.Hands the system to a bench after launch.
AgentsAlgobain fleetExplore the codebase, draft options, write tests, review changes, check results.Nothing consequential. They propose; people decide.Merge or deploy past a failed gate.
Named ownerYour teamOwns the approval gate for consequential actions in production.Approve, decline or return each proposal.Loses sight of the record behind a decision.

02Engagement path

Three phases. A decision at the end of each.

You commit one phase at a time, with a document in hand. Nothing in phase one obliges you to phase two.

I

Architecture assessment

Weeks 1 to 2 · fixed fee

A senior team studies the system, the data and the constraint, signs the NDA first, and writes down what should be built, what should be bought and what it is worth.

The engineers who write the assessment are the engineers who would build it.

Decision pointProceed to a dedicated team, take the roadmap elsewhere, or stop. No lock-in.

Deliverables

  1. a
    Written roadmapSequenced work with the dependencies called out.
  2. b
    ROI estimateThe number the system will be held to.
  3. c
    Build-versus-buyWhere an existing product is the better answer.
  4. d
    Fixed-fee proposalScope and team for phase two.
II

Dedicated senior delivery team

Week 2 onward · minimum three months

Architecture first, in weeks two to four: target design, data contracts, governance and the approval-gate map. Then the team ships to production in increments, every change checked twice.

You see working software in production, not a status slide.

Decision pointMove the system into managed operations, or take it in-house with its record and runbooks.

Deliverables

  1. a
    Target architectureDesign, data contracts and the approval-gate map.
  2. b
    Production incrementsShipped in your repositories and your cloud.
  3. c
    Test suite and gatesEvery change red, then green, then reviewed.
  4. d
    Decision recordEvery decision, test result and approval.
III

Managed operations

Ongoing

The team that built the system runs it: monitoring, retraining, incident response and cost control, with 99.7% uptime across the production AI systems we operate today.

Decision pointReview at each [term]. Exit with everything you need to run it yourself.

Deliverables

  1. a
    Monitoring and on-callSenior engineers on the rota, not a ticket queue.
  2. b
    Retraining and drift checksModels kept within agreed thresholds.
  3. c
    Incident reportsCause, fix and the record behind both.
  4. d
    Cost controlA cloud bill you can defend.

03Governance and reporting

A cadence your board and your auditor can both read.

AgentPROPOSES GateNAMED OWNER ActionEXECUTES DECLINED, LOGGED, RETURNED DECISION RECORD

Human in command.

Every consequential agent action passes an approval gate that a named person owns. The agent proposes, the gate decides, and the record stays. Procurement and security teams get the paperwork before the demo.

NDA firstSigned before you share a single detail.
GDPR-compliant deliveryData minimised and processed where you say.
SOC 2-aligned practicesAligned, not certified. We say so plainly.
DPA on requestFor EU and UK entities, at engagement start.

Reporting cadence

Every forum has an owner, an agenda and a written output.

Continuous
Decision record and audit log, written as the work happens. Approval queue for every consequential action.
[Weekly]
Delivery review with your product owner: increments shipped, gates passed and blocked, decisions needed.
[Monthly]
Steering review: roadmap against the ROI case, cost, risk and changes to scope.
[Quarterly]
Operations review under managed operations: uptime against target, incidents, retraining, cloud cost.

04What you own

Your code. Your cloud. Your IP.

We build inside your estate, not ours. If you stop working with us, the system, its record and the means to run it stay with you.

Your estate
Code, in your repositories Cloud, in your accounts IP, assigned to you Scoped access Fig. 4
Code
Written in your repositories from the first commit, with its tests and history.
Cloud
Provisioned as code in accounts held in your name. We operate with scoped, revocable access.
Intellectual property
Assigned to you [terms per master services agreement, to confirm].
Decision record
Every decision, test result and approval, exportable at any time.
Runbooks
How to deploy, monitor, retrain and recover, written as the system is built.
Exit
No lock-in. Take the roadmap, the system and the record at any phase.
Security, privacy and the DPA
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[Photo placeholder] Steering review

Start with the assessment.

Two weeks, a fixed fee and a written roadmap. A senior engineer replies to every request within 48 hours.

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