"Scoping sprint" can mean almost anything, depending on who's selling it — sometimes it's a single call with a follow-up email, sometimes it's a month of workshops that produces a slide deck nobody references again. Ours is neither. It's ten working days with a fixed structure, a fixed price, and three specific things waiting for you at the end: a clickable prototype, a written technical plan, and a fixed quote for the real build.
Here's what actually happens across those ten days.
Days 1–2: discovery, and the one-feature test
We're not interviewing you about your company's vision — that part you already have. We're running your feature list through the same test any founder can run alone: what survives "would someone pay for this alone," "does the product stop existing without it," and "can you say it in one sentence with no and." Where the earlier version of your idea was eight features, by the end of day two it's one flow, written down, that you and we both agree is the actual MVP.
Days 3–5: the technical plan
With one flow fixed, the architecture decisions get made: what the one real external integration is, what auth and data model the flow actually needs, what's genuinely out of scope for v1 and why. This isn't a 40-page document. It's specific enough that a different engineer could pick it up and build from it without a call to ask what we meant.
Days 6–8: the clickable prototype
Not a finished product — a prototype that lets you click through the one core flow start to finish, so you (and anyone you need to convince: a co-founder, an investor, your own doubt at 2am) can feel what it actually does before committing real budget to building it for real.
Days 9–10: the fixed quote, and the handoff
Everything from discovery through the prototype gets priced into one number for the full build — Liftoff, Altitude, or Orbit, depending on what the scope turned out to need. You own the prototype and the technical plan either way. If you decide not to continue with us, that's not a loss; it's a scoped brief and a working prototype you can take anywhere.
What Forecast is actually for
It's the gate between "I have an idea" and "I have a quote I can plan a runway around." At $2,500–$4,000 for two weeks, it's priced to be a real decision point, not a sales funnel dressed up as a discovery call — and it's the reason every quote we give after it holds. You can't fixed-quote what hasn't been scoped. Forecast is where the scoping happens.