> QUEST_03: ADOPTION_SPRINT

Adoption Sprints: Execution With a Built-In Exit

A 2–12 week execution engagement that delivers the change — cloud migration, AI adoption, compliance automation — and is designed from day one to hand everything back to your team.

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PRICE
From $12,000 SGD — scoped after a conversation, with an indicative range up front
DURATION
2–12 weeks depending on scale and complexity
DELIVERABLE
The executed intervention plus full handover: documentation, artifacts, and a team that can carry the work forward
GOOD FOR
Cloud migration, AI adoption, compliance automation, workflow automation, refactors, process and policy changes

What an adoption sprint delivers

The outcome depends on your requirements. Past sprints have delivered custom tools, automations and workflows, refactors of existing systems, established and optimised business processes, and organisational consensus around new policies. Common themes:

  • Cloud adoption and migration — moving workloads deliberately, in an order tied to business priorities rather than vendor roadmaps.
  • AI adoption — putting AI into real workflows (with the data plumbing to support it), not proof-of-concept purgatory.
  • Compliance automation — building the evidence-collection and governance foundations for ISO 27001 and SOC 2 so audits become routine instead of fire drills.

Every sprint runs with regular status updates and finishes within the agreed timeline.

How we execute: the five stages

  1. 1

    CONTRACTING

    From rough problem statement to start-of-work

    You reach us with a rough problem statement and one representative's view of the current issues. We set up a meeting with your stakeholders to pin down the objectives of the engagement. If all goes well, we review the MSA, create the Statement of Work, and invoice a deposit — and we begin within three days of invoice payment and NDA signing.

  2. 2

    DISCOVERY

    System map with prioritised findings (1–3 weeks)

    We come in with your stated business objective in mind. We look at your documentation, code, and cloud infrastructure and compare them with your intuitions, and we interview you — or the roles in your in-house team — to understand context. We synthesise all of it into a system map with prioritised, actionable findings. If you've already run a Readiness Sprint, this stage is already done.

  3. 3

    INTERVENTION

    The work gets done — by us or by people you choose

    We define success criteria and metrics together and confirm we're working on the right thing. If needed and agreed upon, we introduce relevant people for the execution sprint — you can contract them individually or through us, it makes no difference to us. The work is delivered within the agreed timeframe.

  4. 4

    EVALUATION

    Did the work enable the outcome?

    We review the work done against the intended business objectives and ask one question: did it enable the intended outcomes? If it did, all good. If it didn't, we review what went wrong systematically and blamelessly, so your organisation learns from it. Either way, you get a written recommendation plan you can action based on what the sprint surfaced.

  5. 5

    EXIT

    Handover, handshake, and out

    We hand over all documentation and artifacts of the engagement, with sprints as checkpoints along the way. When we collectively feel your in-house team can handle the remaining work, we define an exit — and you're free to terminate at any checkpoint if you think we're not achieving ROI. You review the handover, we shake hands, and you move on to your next financial target.

Why we design our own exit

Most consulting models are incentivised to stay. Ours is incentivised to finish: align your business goals with your technology stack, level your team up along the way, and get out. That's not a slogan — it's the EXIT stage of the process above, with checkpoints where you can end the engagement. Read more in The Aijutsu Difference.

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