You have a problem, not a brief
Something is costing you time, money or quality, and you can’t yet say what should be built to fix it.
The Opportunity Sprint
Find the one thing worth building. See it working first.
Three focused days with your team, then a working prototype, a prioritised roadmap and a costed plan. You keep all of it, whether or not we build anything next.
Book the free 30-minute call How the three days work It starts with a free 30-minute call. Nothing is sold on the call.
The problem it solves
Most businesses don’t lack ideas. They lack evidence.
Most businesses know something is costing them: knowledge stuck in documents and people’s heads, a process that eats the week, a platform nobody uses. What they can’t yet say is what to build, what it’s worth, or whether it will work in their conditions. So they wait, or they buy a project scoped on guesswork.
A paid, fixed-scope step between a free conversation and any build. Grant works with your people on your real documents, systems and workflows, picks the strongest opportunity with you, agrees how success will be measured, and builds a working prototype of it. You leave with evidence, not a recommendation.
Who it’s for
For any bigger piece of work, before the budget is committed.
A platform, a learning programme, a custom tool or an AI system. AI is used where it earns its place, and the answer is sometimes simpler.
You need a case for the budget
A board, an exco or procurement wants evidence before money is committed, not a vendor’s promise.
You’ve been burnt before
A pilot, a platform or an agency delivered activity but no result, and you won’t pay for that twice.
It’s not the right step if
- You already know exactly what you want built. Skip the Sprint and we’ll quote it.
- You want a quick brochure site or a one-off piece of content.
- You want a strategy deck to file. The Sprint ends with something working.
How it works
One question, three days, one proof.
- Before
One question
A short call with the person who owns the problem: the one business question the Sprint answers, who should be in the room, and what we may see. Nothing new to prepare.
- Day 1
Map
Time with the people who do the work: how it’s done today, where the knowledge sits, which systems it runs through, and where time and errors go.
- Day 2
Weigh
Every opportunity weighed on value, feasibility and risk, including what information would move where. We agree the one to prove, and the measure that will show it worked.
- Day 3
Shape
The prototype designed with the people who will use it, and what it must demonstrate settled. We close with the person who owns the decision.
- The week after
Prove
The prototype, built against your real material, with the roadmap and implementation plan, walked through with your team.
What you keep
Yours, whether or not we build anything next.
The prototype is built against the highest-priority opportunity, using your real material. It is a working demonstration rather than a production system, and it exists so the opportunity can be judged on evidence rather than description.
The plan is written so anyone could build from it. If you go ahead with us, the build is quoted from it.
You leave with
- An opportunity mapWhat’s possible across the area we looked at, and why most of it can wait.
- A prioritised roadmapWhat to do first, second and later, and what each is worth.
- One working prototypeProof that the top opportunity works with your material and your people.
- A success measureHow you’ll know the build worked, agreed before anyone spends on it.
- An implementation planA cost range, timeline, assumptions and risks for building it properly, with us or anyone else.
- A data handling noteWhere your information would go, and what stays inside your environment.
Terms under review. Fee, participants, preparation and what you keep if you do not proceed: being settled for the repositioned offer.
How it differs
You pay for an honest answer, not a pitch.
Compared withThat gives youThe Sprint gives you
The free 30-minute callA conversation about fit. Free, and nothing is sold.Three days inside your business, with your people and your material. Paid, so the answer isn’t a pitch.
A strategy reportRecommendations on slides.Recommendations and a working prototype, so the top idea is judged on evidence.
An agency’s free discoveryA scope written to win the build.A plan you own and can take to anyone. The answer may be “don’t build this”.
A vendor’s pilotOne tool looking for a use.The use first, then whichever tool fits it, AI where it earns its place.
Where it sits
Three steps, and you choose each one.
Free
A 30-minute call
Is this worth a Sprint? Bring one problem. Nothing is sold on the call.
Paid, fixed scope
The Opportunity Sprint
Three days with your team, then the prototype and plan the week after.
Only if you go ahead
Build and run
Quoted from the Sprint’s plan, built into your systems, and kept working.
Questions
What people usually ask.
What does the Opportunity Sprint cost?
The terms are being settled for the current offer. Book the free call and we’ll tell you exactly where they stand.
What do we keep if we don’t go ahead?
Everything: the opportunity map, the roadmap, the prototype, the success measure, the implementation plan and the data handling note. The plan is written so anyone could build from it.
How much of our people’s time does it take?
The person who owns the problem joins the opening and the close. The people who do the work spend a few hours each with us during the three days. We agree who before we start.
Is it only for AI?
No. It’s the first step for any bigger piece of work: a platform, a learning programme, a custom tool or an AI system. AI is used where it earns its place, and the answer is sometimes simpler.
What happens to our information?
We agree what we may see before the Sprint starts, and map where information would go before anything is built. Nothing leaves your environment unless you agree it can.
How is the build priced afterwards?
From the implementation plan: a cost range with the assumptions stated, then a fixed quote if you go ahead. Work is priced on outcomes and deliverables, never by the hour.
Start with one problem and 30 minutes.
Book the free 30-minute call30 minutes with Grant Slabbert, who leads every Sprint. Or send a short message instead