Most AI agency engagements take 8–12 weeks. Our productized agent build ships in two. Here's the operating model that makes it possible.
Most AI agency engagements are RFP-driven. A 60-page brief lands, the agency writes a 40-page response, scoping takes three weeks, and the first line of code gets written in week six. By week ten, the agent is a slide deck. By week sixteen, the project is parked.
We don't run that game. Phoenova ships AI agents in fourteen days for a fixed price. It works because the process is productized — same template, same milestones, same delivery rhythm every time.
Day 0 — Discovery
A free thirty-minute call. We ask three questions: what's the agent for, where will it live in your stack, and what's a successful outcome look like ninety days post-launch. We say yes or no within twenty-four hours. We say no a lot.
Day 1–2 — Sharp proposal
Fixed scope, fixed price, milestones, deliverables. One page. Sign and we go.
Day 3–7 — Build the core
- —Agent spec locked: tools, instructions, evals, hand-off rules
- —Anthropic Claude Sonnet 4 with structured outputs
- —Tool integrations against your real systems (CRM, email, calendar, internal DB)
- —First end-to-end run in a sandbox by Day 5
Day 8–12 — Eval and harden
We write twenty to fifty evals per agent. Real conversations, edge cases, abuse patterns. The agent doesn't graduate until it passes. We track regressions weekly forever.
Day 13–14 — Deploy + handover
Production deploy. Monitoring, logging, alerts. A one-page runbook. Thirty days of support included.
What we never do
- —Sell hours
- —Quote with ambiguous scope
- —Ship without evals
- —Hand over an agent without a runbook
Speed is a system, not a virtue. Productize the process and 14 days stops being remarkable.