The situation
Most software does not fail in code.
It fails in early decisions. That is where business needs, customer expectations, system constraints and solution delivery fall out of alignment. The gap makes change slower, riskier and costlier than it should be.
AI does not change this. It raises the stakes. The faster a delivery team can move, the more an early misalignment costs. And in a regulated business built on sensitive data, speed without domain-expert control becomes a liability.
The four weeks
What happens in the four weeks.
Together we find where the work actually gets stuck. Volume, delay and error accumulate at one step more often than across a whole process.
Then we design the smallest version that changes that. Low effort and big impact first, because something small running in your business teaches you more than something large in a plan.
To decide with confidence, these have to be aligned before anything gets built.
- What the business actually needs
- What your customers expect
- What your systems allow
- What delivery will really cost
In a regulated business, three more: AI model output validation, cybersecurity and the evidence your team and an auditor will ask for.
Validation is designed at the same time as the workflow, so the proof that it works and the evidence an auditor asks for become one deliverable rather than two projects.
What you get
Version one, scoped and priced.
A shorter, more predictable and safer path to the outcome you own. What version one does, what it costs to build, what it costs to run and what is deliberately left out until you have seen it work.
Software your people trust and that stays compliant and secure.
The list of what is not in version one does more than it looks. It is what stops scope expanding before anything has been proven.
After the four weeks
Then Helmes builds it.
Version one is quoted from what these weeks produce. The teams are Helmes teams, built for business-critical systems in regulated industries. I am accountable for how they perform, which is the same reason I can tell you in the first weeks when something is not worth building.
Once version one is running you can see what it returns. That is when you decide the scope of version two.
What it costs
A fixed price for the four weeks.
30,000 EUR plus VAT. Version one is quoted separately, so you never commit to a build before you know its shape.
Stop is one of the possible outcomes. If the workflow is not worth changing yet, four weeks is a cheap way to find that out.