Velocity Pod Standard
Scaling Engine.
2–3 epics shipped per 2-week sprint. Architect-led.
actually get
Series A+. Roadmap is active, parallel work streams, the architect needs to own coherence across 2–3 epics per sprint without becoming the bottleneck. The Standard Pod gives you a full architect day allocation, sprint planning + retro included, optional architectural review per sprint.
3-sprint minimum at €24,000 gives you 6 weeks of high-throughput delivery — replaces traditional staff augmentation without the hiring overhead, scope ambiguity, or hourly billing surprises.
Hard limits
- Epics per sprint2–3
- Sprint cadence2 weeks fixed
- Architect time1 FTE equivalent
- Minimum commitment3 sprints (6 weeks)
In every Velocity Pod Standard
- Everything in Pod Lite
- 2–3 epics per sprint (vs 1)
- Full architect day allocation
- Sprint planning + retro included
- Optional architectural review per sprint
Explicit exclusions
- Single-sprint engagements (3-sprint min)
- On-call / 24x7 incident response (custom add-on)
- Net-new product launches (use MVP Sprint)
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 active roadmaps. Series A+ companies who need ongoing architect-led delivery without a full-time hire.
Bootstrapped teams needing only 1 epic/sprint (use Lite). Teams needing 24x7 on-call (custom).
Upsell trigger: Need 3–5 epics + ongoing infra → Pod Plus → Velocity Pod Plus
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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