What You Get
- 12-week pilot (full lifecycle)
- ISO 42001-aligned methodology
- Evaluation-first development
- Complete documentation for compliance
- Direct founder access
- £25,000 fixed price
Pilot Partnerships
Build production AI with us. Enterprise methodology at 50% rate.
Q1 2026 - 3 SLOTSWe're taking 3 organizations to co-build their first AI pilot. You get enterprise frameworks and direct founder access. We get proof and case studies.
What We Get
- Case study rights (anonymized if you prefer)
- Honest feedback on methodology
- Testimonial if successful
- Reference calls (1-2 future prospects)
WEEKS 1-2
Assess
Evidence-based readiness, use case validation, data baseline.
WEEKS 3-4
Design
Architecture, evaluation plan, security controls, governance.
WEEKS 5-8
Build & Evaluate
Golden dataset first, MVP development, continuous evaluation.
WEEKS 9-10
Deploy
Pilot rollout (5-20% users), monitoring, training.
WEEKS 11-12
Graduate
Graduation assessment (4 criteria), documentation handover, scaling roadmap.
Graduation Criteria
Four dimensions determine whether we graduate to production, extend together, or terminate with a partial refund. Evidence beats optimism at every stage.
Performance
- Task success ≥80%
- Quality metrics (faithfulness ≥0.85)
- User satisfaction (CSAT ≥4.0/5)
Operational
- Latency within SLO (p95 <1.5s)
- Cost per operation within budget
- System uptime ≥99.5%
Risk
- Zero critical incidents
- OWASP LLM controls validated
- Compliance requirements met
Scaling
- Path to 100% rollout documented
- Runbooks complete
- Team trained and confident
- Pass 4/4 → Graduate to production
- Pass 3/4 → Graduate with conditions
- Pass 2/4 → Extend 4 weeks (no extra cost)
- Pass <2/4 → Terminate (50% refund)
£25,000 Fixed Price
Co-invested pilot. Enterprise rigor.
Includes
- 12-week pilot (all phases)
- 3 Excetra founders' time
- All methodology templates
- Documentation and training
- 4 weeks post-pilot support
Your Responsibility
- Cloud infrastructure (~£2K-5K)
- LLM API costs (~£3K-8K)
- Your team time (2-3 people, 10 hrs/week)
Total budget: £30K-38K for 12 weeks
Payment Schedule
- £8,000 at kickoff (Week 1)
- £8,000 at build start (Week 5)
- £9,000 at deployment (Week 9)