Phases you can interrupt.

We want the unvarnished version: current tools, who touches the data, and what breaks on a busy Tuesday. We don't start with framework dogma; we map the actual bottleneck.

You get more than one technical path. Each path has cost, lock-in, and what it is bad at. You choose with the architectural tradeoffs visible upfront.

Scope, payment, and intellectual property are contracted per phase so nobody is arguing from memory. Clean boundaries ensure aligned incentives from week one.

You see verifiable progress weekly. Founders and operators get concise updates in business language. Engineering commits and pipeline status stay transparent.

Repository, environments, credentials, and operational runbooks. Production access and final source follow the paid phase. That is how both sides stay clean and autonomous.