Velocity Pod Lite
Steady Throughput.
1 epic shipped per 2-week sprint. Architect-led.
actually get
Post-MVP. The roadmap has one clear epic per sprint and you don't need a full Pod. Velocity Pod Lite gives you a half-allocation architect shipping 1 epic every 2 weeks — fixed-price, scoped at Sprint 0, daily commits, Friday demos, Slack-first.
3-sprint minimum gives you 6 weeks of steady throughput at €15,000 — cheaper than hiring a senior contractor for the same period and predictable in a way hourly billing never is.
Hard limits
- Epics per sprint1
- Sprint cadence2 weeks fixed
- Architect time0.5 FTE equivalent
- Minimum commitment3 sprints (6 weeks)
In every Velocity Pod Lite
- 1 epic per 2-week sprint, scoped at Sprint 0
- Architect-led, no PM layer
- Daily commits + Friday demos
- Slack-first communication
- Runbook updates per sprint
Explicit exclusions
- Single-sprint engagements (3-sprint min)
- On-call / 24x7 incident response
- Net-new product launches (use MVP Sprint)
- Hourly billing
Opinionated by default
One default stack for 80% of builds. Same stack shipped wintura.ai. Same stack the architect knows cold and has a runbook for at 3 a.m. When you swap pieces, the timeline goes up — the scoping call surfaces the swap before work starts.
Operational rhythm
Not a process for show — the scaffolding that keeps a fixed-price engagement on track when life happens. Same rhythm across every Lift, Sprint, and Pod.
Daily commits
Every weekday, to a branch you can pull and run locally.
End-of-day async videos
3–5 min Loom summarizing decisions and blockers — review on your schedule.
Friday demo on Zoom
30 min walkthrough of what shipped that week — questions answered live.
Slack-first, decisions in 24h
Our workspace and yours linked. Questions get answered in a day, both directions.
Concrete deliverables
No slide deck. No "phase 2 proposal." The list below is what hits your repo, your inbox, and your stack on the last day of the engagement.
Most agencies say "fixed price" and reserve the right to add a change order the moment the brief shifts. Soatech doesn't.
The way fixed price stays honest is by being unreasonable about scope. The scoping doc lists every flow, every screen, every integration. If something isn't on that list, it isn't in this engagement. If you discover during the build that you need it, the current scope ships as planned, and v1.1 begins after handoff — at the next tier's price, or as a follow-on Feature Sprint.
This sounds rigid. In practice founders consistently report it's the most valuable thing about the process — the discipline of saying "v1.1" thirty times across six weeks is what keeps the timeline honest.
Post-MVP teams with one clear roadmap epic per sprint. Bootstrapped teams who need steady velocity without committing to a Standard Pod budget.
Teams with parallel work streams (use Standard or Plus). Single-sprint emergencies (use Feature Sprint).
Upsell trigger: Need 2–3 epics per sprint → Pod Standard → Velocity Pod Standard
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Skip the sales reps. Book the Architect directly.
30 minutes. Scope your project with a senior architect — the same studio that shipped wintura.ai. Your assigned architect is confirmed after scope sign-off.
30-min Blueprint scoping call
Direct line to the Architect. No SDR. No nurture sequence. Confirmed within 24 hours.
- CET available · async time-zone friendly
- Calendar invite + Google Meet auto-sent
- Blueprint fee converts to Sprint One
- 30 minutes · free