Title: The start sprint: a working AI prototype or build plan in six days | AI Heroes URL: https://aiheroes.io/en/start-sprint Description: The AI Heroes start sprint: six days, fixed price, from €8,000, start within two weeks. A working prototype or build plan with the business case on a single page. # Six days. A fixed price. Then you know. The start sprint is the first step of every build. At the end of day six you know whether it can be done, what it costs and what it looks like. Plan a start sprint How the start sprint runs - 6 days: from kick-off to prototype or build plan - €8,000: from, a fixed price per start sprint - 2 weeks: after the first call you can start ## What you have in hand after six days What is on the table on day six depends on your question. It always comes with the business case on a single page: what the build costs, what it returns and when it pays for itself. - [A new AI tool](https://aiheroes.io/en/new-ai-tool) · A working prototype on your own data. Your team sees it work in the demo, before anyone decides to build. - [Replace old software](https://aiheroes.io/en/replace-software) · An architecture and a migration plan: what is new, what stays and in which order you switch over. - [Run AI locally](https://aiheroes.io/en/self-hosted) · A hosting design and a risk assessment: where it runs, who has access and what the AI Act asks. ## From intake to decision We do the work. From your side we ask for an intake beforehand, the documents and data we need, and the owner at the kick-off and the demo. 1. Beforehand · Intake · We sit down with the owner and the people who do the work. Together we decide what should be there on day six, and which documents and data we need for it. · From you: the owner and two or three people who do the work, half a day. 2. Before the start · You send us the material · Process descriptions, examples from the work and an export of the data. That way we build on your data and the way you work. · From you: someone who knows where everything is. 3. Day 1 · Kick-off · We go through what we have together and put the last questions on the table. Then we start building. · From you: the owner and one contact person. 4. Days 2 to 5 · Build or design · We build the prototype on your own data, or we design the new architecture or the hosting. The prototype is not yet connected to your systems; that happens in the build. · From you: the contact person, for questions along the way. 5. Day 6 · Demo, business case and decision · We show what is there, with the business case on a single page. You decide: build, adjust or stop. · From you: the owner and the people from the intake. Example ## From question to working prototype in six days Kwakkel BV wanted to see whether the manual admin work could go, and did not want to take a report's word for it. After six days a prototype was running on data from their own administration, with the business case on a single page. - 6: days to a working prototype Whatever the prototype is unsure about, it puts to a staff member. Kwakkel keeps the prototype, the plan and the business case, and decides when the build starts. [Read the case](https://aiheroes.io/en/cases/kwakkel) ## And after that - [If the build goes ahead](https://aiheroes.io/en/how-we-work) · A build has a fixed price per project, from €15,000. What you paid for the start sprint is deducted from it. We build in milestones, with a demo at every milestone. After delivery we keep maintaining and developing the system. - [If the business case does not add up](https://aiheroes.io/en/business-case) · Then we do not build. You keep the prototype or the plan and the business case. An honest decision after six days saves you a project nobody uses. ## Is this for you? ### Yes, if you - have a process, system or idea that costs money or holds back growth - have someone who can decide on the build - can supply the documents and data the work runs on ### Not yet, if you - first want to know where AI pays off in your organisation: start with an [exploration](https://aiheroes.io/en/business-case#exploration) - mainly want your team to learn to work with AI: see [AI training for your team](https://aiheroes.io/en/training) ## Frequently asked questions ### What does a start sprint cost? A fixed price, from €8,000, the same for all three ways in. The price is fixed before we start. If the build goes ahead, this amount is deducted from the build price. ### How soon can we start? Within two weeks of the first call. In that time we do the intake and you gather the documents and data. After your request you hear from us within 24 hours, usually with a proposal. ### What do we need to free up? Half a day for the intake, with the owner and two or three people who do the work. After that, the documents and data we ask for, the owner at the kick-off on day 1 and at the demo on day 6, and a contact person for questions along the way. We do the building. ### Does the prototype already work in our systems? Not yet. The prototype runs on your own data and follows the way you work. We connect it to your software in the build, together with the security and the roll-out. Until then the start sprint does not touch your live systems. ### What if it does not work in six days? Then you know after six days, and you know why. Sometimes a question turns out bigger than expected; the plan then says what it takes. If AI is not the answer, we say so. ### Is the price different per way in? No. From €8,000 for all three: a new AI tool, replacing old software or running AI locally. ### Can we skip the start sprint? For a build, almost never: the start sprint keeps us from building something whose business case does not add up. If you do not know yet where AI pays off, start with an [exploration](https://aiheroes.io/en/business-case#exploration). If you are looking for [extra developers in your team](https://aiheroes.io/en/extra-developers), we start with an introduction. [Training](https://aiheroes.io/en/training) or the [AI Act check](https://aiheroes.io/en/compliance) need no start sprint. ### Does it work for software without AI? Yes. We build what you need, with or without AI. The [INQ22](https://aiheroes.io/en/cases/inq22) web shop has no AI in it, yet we built it with AI. ### What happens after the start sprint? If the build goes ahead, you get a quote for the whole project. A build has a fixed price per project, from €15,000. What you paid for the start sprint is deducted from it. We build in milestones, with a demo at every milestone. After delivery we keep maintaining and developing the system; those costs are listed separately in the business case. If it does not go ahead, you keep the prototype or plan and the business case. ## Plan your start sprint Tell us what you want to build. You hear from us within 24 hours, usually with a proposal for your start sprint. [info@aiheroes.io](mailto:info@aiheroes.io) [+31 50 200 3373](tel:+31502003373) ### Book a free introduction - [Frans Hoorn Business case and scoping](https://calendar.app.google/juFpF3MDmikH4BVS8) - [David Homan Build, hosting and compliance](https://calendar.app.google/GcA1oBNwzyFZtW5W6) - [Jan Brusse Adoption and training for your team](https://calendar.app.google/un3fLvb7ht4f7PBWA)