Ben Fisher

AI Product Sprint

Ship a working AI product in 14 days so you can make a clear call on your next $500k AI bet.

I help $5M–$75M+ companies de-risk big AI bets with 2-week Sprints. Almost everyone starts with a $2.5k AI Diagnostic so we only sprint on the bets worth sprinting on.

Already crystal clear on your bet?

How we work together

Step 1

Quick triage call

20–30 minutes, free. Are we a fit, and is there a real $500k+ bet?

Step 2

AI Diagnostic

$2.5k. Pressure-test the bet, define a tight 14-day scope, and build a simple value model so you know whether a Sprint makes sense.

Step 3

2-Week AI Product Sprint

$40k. Ship a working product you can test internally and with friendly customers, then decide: double down or kill it.

Important: If we decide to Sprint, 100% of your $2.5k Diagnostic fee is credited toward your Sprint when you start within 30 days.

The problem

You have a big AI bet. You’re stuck between “go big” and “do nothing.” You don’t want to spend $250k–$500k and 6 months to find out if it’s real.

  • You have a high-upside AI product idea stuck behind an overloaded dev team
  • You’re nervous about burning $250k–$500k on an AI initiative without a real test
  • You don’t have a single owner who can think like CTO + CEO + builder and just ship

Who this is for

CEOs, GMs, or COOs at mid-market tech, media, or agency companies (or business units inside larger groups) with $5M–$75M+ ARR who:

  • Control the budget for a specific $500k+ AI or SaaS bet
  • Know their market cold, but haven’t shipped much SaaS themselves
  • Want to test before they commit, not after

What you get in 14 days

In 14 days, you get a working AI-powered product plus everything you need to decide if this bet is worth real money:

  • A working AI-powered product you can test internally and with friendly customers (not yet hardened for full production)
  • Code structured so your team can extend it or throw it away (we decide which in scoping)
  • Docs + Loom walkthrough for your team
  • A simple rollout + measurement plan so you can prove or kill the bet fast
  • An honest backlog of what’s left if you decide to harden and scale

Inside the Sprint

Day 0

Scoping

2–4 hour deep-dive to define the single outcome, constraints, and success metric. We agree in writing what is in and out of scope.

Week 1

Build

I architect, build, and integrate. You get async demos/check-ins; minimal meetings.

Week 2

Refine & handoff

Testing, polish, deployment, docs, Looms, and handoff.

What happens after

  • Kill it — You spent $40k instead of $500k to learn this bet wasn’t worth building. Budget redeployed to better opportunities.
  • Double down & scale — Run additional Sprints to take the product from staging to production, or hand off to your team with a clear roadmap.
  • Team upskill — Your team takes over with docs, Looms, and a codebase built to be understood, not just to work.

How I build

AI-assisted, not “vibe-coded”

  • Standard, boring stack (TypeScript, Next.js, Postgres, etc.) so your team isn’t stuck with weird tech
  • In scoping we decide whether this is a validation v1 (disposable) or a foundation v1 (meant to be extended), and I architect to that
  • AI is used as a power tool to speed up well-understood engineering work (scaffolding, refactors, tests), not to blindly generate systems

Result: a light, well-structured codebase with clear seams, so your team can iterate or replace pieces without being trapped in my head.


Investment & terms

  • AI Diagnostic: $2.5k — pressure-test your bet, define scope, build a value model.
  • 2-Week AI Product Sprint: $40k — fixed fee, 50% on signing, 50% before final handoff.
  • Scope is locked to the agreed brief. Any new ideas: “We can either swap that in for something not started yet, or add another 2-week Sprint at the same rate. Which do you prefer?”
  • 14 days of post-Sprint bugfix support included.
  • If you start a Sprint within 30 days, your Diagnostic fee is fully credited.

You’re not buying code. You’re buying speed, judgment, and single-threaded ownership: one person doing what normally takes a PM, architect, lead engineer, and a month of meetings.

I’ve built technology used by teams at

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Start with an AI Diagnostic

Most engagements begin here. In a focused diagnostic, we’ll pressure-test your AI bet, define what a Sprint would look like, and build a simple value model—so you only Sprint on bets worth sprinting on.

If I don’t think we can de-risk a real $500k+ AI bet, I’ll tell you. A high success rate matters more to me than adding another logo.

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