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Why we ship in weeks, not quarters

Long timelines hide risk. Short ones surface it. Here’s how a six-week engagement stays honest from kickoff to launch.

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Marco Vieira

FOUNDER

22 Mar 2026

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01   Fixed scope, fixed price

02   Weekly demos kill surprises

03   The phases stay the same

A six-month build is a six-month bet that you understood the problem correctly on day one. You rarely did. The longer the timeline, the longer the gap between a wrong assumption and the moment you discover it.

We run tight engagements on purpose — usually around six weeks — not because we cut corners, but because short loops keep everyone honest.

Fixed scope, fixed price

Before anything is built, we scope it precisely and price it as a fixed number. No open-ended hourly meter, no surprise invoice. Constraints aren’t the enemy of good work; they’re what force the important decisions to happen early instead of late.

Weekly demos kill surprises

Every week, you see the real thing running — not a status update, not a slide. If we misunderstood something, you catch it in week two when it costs an afternoon, not in week six when it costs the project. There is no big reveal at the end, because by the end you’ve already seen it grow.

The phases stay the same

Discover, build, deploy, support. A week to find the leverage and scope it. A few weeks to build it in the open. A week to ship it properly. Then ongoing support while your team takes ownership. The rhythm is the same whether it’s an audit or an end-to-end system — only the middle stretches.

Speed isn’t the goal. Honesty is. Short timelines just make it harder to hide.

Marco Vieira

FOUNDER

Started Forja after watching too much good AI work die in committee.

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