AI Pod

Your first AI system in production. In six weeks. Fixed price.

Tried AI and still have nothing useful in production? Most AI projects die between the pilot and the rollout. The Pod exists to prevent exactly that.

Request a Fit Call

30 minutes, free. Sometimes the answer is no.

4–6

weeks from kickoff to production

€21,000

fixed-price pilot, from

2–4

seniors in the Pod — no bloat

100%

your IP: code, prompts, infra

The Pod

Small team. Senior only. No bloat

[ Always-on ]

AI Architect

Senior engineer with production LLM experience. Owns architecture, evaluation strategy and the hard decisions.

[ Always-on ]

1–2 AI Engineers

Build and ship weekly. Agents, RAG, integrations, pipelines — AI-assisted delivery as the default.

[ On-call ]

Product Designer

Included when the system has a user-facing side. No design theatre, just usable interfaces.

[ Per-sprint ]

Specialists

Data engineering, MLOps, security — pulled in exactly when the sprint needs them.

Principles

How the Pod works

Production, not pilots

The deliverable is a system with real users and real data — not a demo that dies in a slide deck.

Humans design, AI executes

Senior engineers with the Claude Code certificate make the decisions; AI handles the execution speed. That is why the Pod is small and fast.

You own everything

Code, prompts, evaluation sets, infrastructure — all yours from day one. No dependency by design.

Evals & observability built in

Every system ships with traces, metrics and an evaluation layer. You can see what the AI does and prove it works.

How it starts — and what it costs

Transparent, staged, low risk

Fit Call

Free 30 min

With an engineer, not a salesperson.

What you get:

  • A straight answer whether your problem fits a Pod — sometimes it is a no.
  • Which models and stack fit your case: Claude, RAG, agents — or something simpler.
  • The recommended first step and a rough budget range.
  • Data and compliance questions answered: EU hosting, self-hosted, GDPR.
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Discovery Sprint

€6,000 1 week

Fee fully credited toward the pilot.

What you get:

  • Workflows mapped, data checked.
  • Architecture drafted, pilot scoped.
  • Clickable frontend prototype — see the system before you buy it.
  • A written report you keep either way.
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Retained

€19,000 / month

Cancel monthly.

What you get:

  • Weekly releases — the Pod keeps shipping features.
  • We propose improvements ourselves and deliver them.
  • Roadmap review with you every month.
  • Priority response when something breaks.
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Is this for you?

The Pod works when four things are true

[ KPI ]

One defined, measurable business problem

A KPI to move, not a vision deck.

[ Data ]

Access to the data and systems

The AI has to touch real inputs from week one.

[ Decisions ]

A decision-maker involved

Weekly, not quarterly.

[ Users ]

Willingness to ship during the pilot

Real users see the system before the engagement ends.

Not sure? That is what the free Fit Call is for — and "this is not a fit" is an answer we actually give.

Case study

A fleet-management platform

Invoice intake was manual: PDFs uploaded, split and retyped by hand. We built AI-powered document processing with human review only for edge cases.

Read the full case

[ Processing per invoice ]

minutes of manual workseconds, automated

[ Manual data entry ]

the default for every documentexception — flagged edge cases only

FAQ

Common questions about ai pod

What if the Discovery Sprint shows it is not feasible?

Then we tell you, in writing, with the reasons — and you do not buy a pilot that would fail. You keep the discovery report either way.

Which AI models do you use?

Claude is our default — we are experts in the Anthropic ecosystem — but the architecture stays model-agnostic. EU-hosted or self-hosted setups where compliance requires it.

Who owns the IP?

You. Code, prompts, evaluation sets, infrastructure configuration — everything the Pod builds is yours, from the first commit.

What happens after the pilot?

Three options: the Pod continues on retainer, your team takes over (we hand off with docs and training), or both — a shrinking Pod while your people ramp up.

How can you promise a fixed price?

Because the Discovery Sprint removes the unknowns before we commit. That is what it is for — and why its fee is credited toward the pilot.

Fit Call

Book a free 30-minute Fit Call

We reply within 1 business day.

Or email us directly: hello@valueadd.ch

Six weeks from now this is either live — or honestly declined

The Fit Call tells you which. Free, 30 minutes, with an engineer.