The 4-Hour Build Sprint / Initial cohort
Don’t hire us yet.
Give us four hours.
Bring one real process your team hates. If it’s a strong fit, InteractiveInfo will spend up to four development hours building a working proof of a better way — outside your live systems, on representative data. Then you decide whether it should go into production.
One process · One 30-minute interview · Up to four development hours · No production access required
AI changed the economics of development. Based on our own development experience, four focused hours today can produce the kind of prototype that could have represented roughly $15,000 of custom development two years ago. That leverage is why proof is cheap for us to give — not why our work is cheap.
The wager
Why are we willing to do this for free?
Because four hours costs us far less than it used to — and proves far more. In our own development experience, the output of a focused four-hour AI-assisted sprint today can resemble work that could have represented roughly $15,000 of custom development two years ago.
We would rather spend that leverage earning your trust than spend weeks selling you. The comparison is about our development effort, not a promise of savings in your business.
We’d rather spend four hours building than four weeks selling.
Two ways to buy custom software
Why sit through weeks of discovery before you see anything?
The old model
- 01Discovery workshops
- 02Requirements document
- 03Proposal and estimate
- 04Budget approval
- 05Weeks before anything works
Our proof model
- 0130-minute process interview
- 024-hour AI-assisted build sprint
- 03A working proof you can click
- 04Then decide whether to fund production
Before anyone asks about access
No production access required.
The 4-Hour Build Sprint happens outside your live systems. Representative data, screenshots, sample PDFs or emails, sanitized exports, a process description, or a short screen-share are enough to prove the workflow.
We do not need ERP credentials, database credentials, production network access, or production customer data for the proof — unless you independently choose and approve it.
Business case first. Integration project second.
- Representative or sanitized samples
- Screenshots or a short screen-share
- A process description in plain English
- No production credentials, no live data
Best sponsors: CEO / President / COO / CFO / VP Operations / Controller / GM / business-unit leaders who own the outcome.
How the two stages separate
Prove the value, then engineer the production path.
Stage 1
Business proof
Up to four development hours · outside production
- A business sponsor describes the bottleneck
- Representative or sample data only
- Isolated prototype, or a mocked integration boundary
- A working proof in up to four development hours
- No production deployment
Stage 2
Production implementation
Only if the proof is worth pursuing
- Bring in IT, security, and architecture as appropriate
- Decide authentication and integration boundaries
- Decide hosting, data handling, ownership, and support
- Fixed production scope and price before implementation
What qualifies
Selective and bounded, on purpose.
We’re looking for established businesses with a repetitive process that materially matters — the kind of work where a better system changes the week, not the mood.
Strong fit
- Staff re-keying the same information between ERP, CRM, and accounting
- A spreadsheet that quietly runs an important part of operations
- PDF, email, order, or document intake handled by hand
- Routine customer-service workflows that span several systems
- Reconciliation, reporting, or approval processes that stall
- An internal tool your team keeps saying they wish existed
- Repetitive work where a human should only handle the exceptions
- Decision velocity: a business sponsor can give us enough representative information to build a safe proof this week
Not a fit
- Consumer startup or app ideas
- Vague “build me an AI chatbot” requests
- Full production systems dressed up as a free sprint
- Work with no meaningful operational value behind it
- Concepts that can only be demonstrated inside live production systems
If demonstrating the concept would require procurement, vendor onboarding, security review, legal review, or production access first, a conventional scoped engagement is usually the better route — larger organizations often start there, and that’s fine. If it isn’t a fit for a sprint, we’ll say so plainly and tell you what we would do instead.
What we build in four hours
Something that runs, not a slide about something that could.
Working prototype web app
A screen or small tool your team can click through.
Agentic workflow proof
An event arrives, an agent takes the right steps, a human approves.
Automation
The manual keying, chasing, or copying removed end to end.
Mocked or API-backed integration
Real API where access exists, mocked where it doesn't.
Document or data processing proof
Your sample PDFs or exports turned into structured data.
Interactive internal tool
The thing the spreadsheet is pretending to be.
We mock integrations or work from representative data. The goal is to prove the workflow and the value — not to stand up production infrastructure in an afternoon.
01 / Input
“Here is the event the ERP would send.”
02 / Logic
The agent or workflow validates it and acts on your rules.
03 / Output
“Here is the exact transaction we would send back.”
That mocked boundary demonstrates the whole workflow without touching anything in production.
Working with your technology team
We don’t replace your IT team.
Your internal technology team has priorities. We handle business problems that may not be at the top of their backlog, prove whether the idea is worth pursuing, and then collaborate with the right technical people to put it into production correctly.
We prove the business case before asking IT to support another project.
Who’s building it
This isn’t our first software project. It’s a faster way to start one.
InteractiveInfo has been delivering custom business software since 1994 — line-of-business applications, ERP-connected integrations, workflow and approval systems, reporting, quality and safety systems. The sprint lowers the cost and time of proving a direction. It doesn’t replace the engineering judgment that turns a proof into production software.
AI multiplied our leverage; it didn’t create our expertise. Business case first. Integration project second.
Founded 1994 · Incorporated 1999
What experience decides
- What to automate — and what to leave human.
- Where a prototype ends and production engineering has to begin.
- How to hand over software your team and your IT group can live with.
Not included
- Production deployment
- Large data migration
- Security or compliance certification
- Unlimited revisions
- Extensive third-party integration work when access isn't ready
- More than four development hours
What you provide
- One 30-minute process interview
- A business sponsor who owns the outcome
- Someone who actually understands the workflow
- Representative or sanitized documents, data, or screenshots — no production credentials
- Candid feedback on what we build
- Permission for an anonymized case study if it works — named and public only by mutual agreement
What you receive
- A working proof or prototype wherever practical
- A short recorded walkthrough of what it does
- A recommended production architecture and next step
- A rough implementation scope
- No obligation to proceed
Before you fund anything
Prove the idea before you fund the project.
No proposal first
Nothing to review, sign, or negotiate before the sprint runs.
No obligation after
Keep the walkthrough and the architecture note either way.
Unconvincing? Stop there
If the proof isn't compelling, that's the end of it.
Convincing? Then scope it
We move to production scope and fixed pricing, in writing.
One thing to be clear about: what you get from a sprint is a prototype and a proof. It is not production-ready software, and we won’t pretend otherwise to win the next step.
Apply
Challenge us with your mess.
Takes a few minutes. The process description matters far more than the polish of your answers.
After the sprint
Five stages. You can stop after any of them.
- 01
Show us the mess
Free
One process, plain English. We tell you what we see.
- 02
4-Hour Build Sprint
Selected companies · free proof
Up to four development hours turning that process into a working proof.
- 03
Production Blueprint
Paid · only if needed
Architecture, scope, and sequencing written down. Fee can later be credited toward a build.
- 04
Production Build
Fixed scope · fixed price
Built in increments your team uses early, handed over with documentation and code you own.
- 05
Expand into agentic systems
Ongoing
Connect the rest of the business and let routine work execute inside your rules.