Diagnosis
before solution.
We read how your business actually runs, then build the smallest thing that takes the work back. Four stages, each starting with a working session on the real operation, not a requirements document.
How does an engagement actually run?
Every neu Intelligence engagement runs through 4 stages — assess, prototype, build, run — and starts with a working session on the real operation rather than a requirements document. The assess stage produces a diagnosis: what the process costs today, where the hours leak, and which single piece is worth automating first.
A prototype follows, shown early enough to be argued with. Clients typically see a working version in their own sandbox by week 3, and a first build goes live with real users between weeks 3 and 4. Build means wired into the stack you already run and proved against your bar, not a demo. Run is the part most studios skip: the system stays monitored and keeps being refined after launch. Nothing is quoted before the diagnosis, because a fixed price on an undiagnosed problem is a guess with an invoice attached. The same clock told week by week — what a rapid AI MVP ships in, and where “weeks” honestly stops — has its own page.
How we work.
// Process- 01
Book a free call.
Start with a free 30-minute review. We look at the task or idea, where AI could help, and a practical next step.
Today - 02
We prototype it.
Agree the scope, price and success checks. Then test the first version against the work it needs to do.
Within a week - 03
We finalise the plan.
We agree what ships, what doesn’t and who signs off. Then we build inside your tools and show you progress every week.
A few weeks - 04
We ship.
Connect the agreed tools, check the handoffs, and roll out the working system with your team.
Launch day - 05
We keep going.
Keep improving it with agreed support, or take it in-house with documentation and a handover.
Monthly retainer →
Book a free call.
Start with a free 30-minute review. We look at the task or idea, where AI could help, and a practical next step.
- A 30-minute call, free
- A straight answer: is AI the fix?
- Next steps in writing
The method.
// MethodWe map the whole business — what’s stuck, and what can scale.
Before we propose anything, we read it — five moves, in order.
- DiscussThe problem as you see it.
- ObserveHow the work actually runs, end to end — people and systems.
- MeasureWhat the friction costs, and what a fix is worth.
- LocateWhere the problem really comes from.
- NameThe smallest thing that fixes it.
You see the proposal running, not described in a deck.
The whole point is a shared picture before the real work begins.
- RenderThe idea becomes something you can actually use.
- RespondYou tell us what feels right and what does not.
- AlignWe settle on the exact thing that gets built for real.
We build the working thing — and it’s already running when we hand it over.
Not a sandbox or a demo — the actual system, in your actual infrastructure, passing your actual bar.
- WireWe connect it into your real stack, not a sandbox.
- ProveIt passes your standards, not our demonstration.
- ShipIt’s live in your team’s hands, nothing to assemble.
It runs, and we keep making it better.
Production is the start of the partnership, not the end.
- RunThe system is live and doing its job.
- MonitorWe watch it closely, alongside your people.
- ImproveWe refine and extend it as the work shifts.
How we work with you.
- 01The first call is free, and you leave it with a straight answer.
- 02Nothing is quoted before the diagnosis.
- 03A fixed price, agreed before we build.
- 04Your code is on your GitHub from day one.
- 05A working version in your sandbox by week three.
- 06A demo every Friday. No surprises on the invoice.
- 07Built inside the tools your team already uses.
- 08If it isn’t worth building, we say so.
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Bring us how it runs today.
Thirty minutes on your actual operation. You leave with a diagnosis, and the smallest thing that fixes it.
tash@neu.ie
Working with teams in Ireland and worldwide.
Free 30-minute AI review.