A section through the SAIF machine, with Align, Design, Equip and Deliver as three bays inside itSAIFALIGNDESIGNEQUIPDELIVER
METHODOLOGY · SAIF · GLASS FACTORY

Align. Design. Equip. Deliver.

Every engagement runs on SAIF: four phases, five gates, and an audit trail you can inspect at any point. Nothing advances on an opinion, and the source is in your repository from day one.

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The SAIF method

What each phase ends with.

Four phases, five gates, each ending in a signed artefact. Align, Design and Equip happen once. Deliver repeats until the outcome is met.

Phase 01

Align

Map the estate, model the cost of doing nothing, and interrogate the brief until the ambiguity is gone. A fixed-fee two-week diagnostic gives your board a ranked opportunity backlog, a five-year TCO model and a delivery recommendation. Scope and budget are fixed before a line of code is written.

  • Value model
  • Fixed scope + budget
  • Agreed outcome and guardrails
Phase 02

Design

Decide the architecture in the open, before anyone builds. One shared vocabulary, five architecture layers written to one shape, data, application, integration, technology and security, and a contract for every boundary. Nothing is assumed and nothing is left for the build to discover.

  • Shared glossary
  • Five architecture layers
  • Interface contracts
Phase 03

Equip

Build the factory that builds the product. Tests, evals, agent instructions and gates, stood up before the first feature ships. This is the phase that makes the handover real: what we set up here is what your team runs after we leave, and it is the one a traditional integrator never names.

  • Eval harness
  • Agent instructions
  • Gates and runbook
Phase 04

Deliver

Ship in rounds against the outcome, until it is met. Test-first delivery on SAIF, two-week cadence, every round gated before it ships, and you own every line from day one. Three paths depending on what you are starting with: IGNITE for net-new, REFORGE for systems you own, LIBERATE for SaaS you rent. Cutover is glass-walled, with no big-bang risk.

  • Source day-one
  • Gated rounds
  • Handover certification

AI-native, not AI-enabled.

An AI-enabled system is yesterday's software with a model bolted on. An AI-native system is architected around intelligence from the first line: reasoning at the core, your data grounding it, governance walled around it. The difference shows up in what the system can do — and in what it costs you to run.

If you have met forward-deployed engineering: SAIF is that shape — embedded engineers who own the outcome — with the build glass-walled so you can inspect any step.

Three routes in

Which path your build takes.

Build what's new

IGNITE

Build the AI capability your stack was never designed to do.

Rebuild what you own

REFORGE

Rebuild the systems you own on an AI-native core.

Replace what you rent

LIBERATE

Replace the SaaS you rent with a system you own.

The four service lines

What each service line exists to prevent.

Plan, Build, Run and Transfer are what you buy. They are not the SAIF phases above: SAIF is how the work runs inside an engagement, and these are the commercial shape of the engagement itself. Each one exists because of a specific way enterprise programmes go wrong.

  • Plan

    Advisory & Assessment

    SAIF phaseAlign

    Most transformation programmes fail in the planning phase.

    An independent view. Not a vendor pitch.

    Calculate your SaaS waste
  • Build

    Our delivery framework

    SAIF phaseDeliver

    Most enterprise software delivery does not produce ownership.

    You own it. From Sprint 0.

    Explore delivery
  • Transfer

    AI Enablement

    SAIF phaseCompletes Deliver

    Most enterprise engagements never actually end.

    Built in from the start.

    With Yallo Talent & Academy
  • Run

    Managed AI Services

    SAIF phaseAfter Deliver, optional

    Most AI projects fail in production, not in development.

    Named people. Not a ticket system.

    Explore
Numbers that matter

What SAIF pays back.

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0 Per-seat feesPer-seat fees
Questions before the diagnostic

Four answers, no fine print.

A working build against your own systems in two weeks. Fixed scope, fixed bill. After that, Deliver ships working software every two weeks on SAIF, and nothing ships without your sign-off at each Glass Factory gate.

Then we say so. Align is paid, fixed-scope, and includes a written debrief whether the answer is build it or don't.

You do. We pair with your team; we don't run parallel programmes. Every choice is yours, and every choice is logged in the Glass Factory.

Handover. Your engineers operate the system. We're available on a managed-services contract if you want us; we're gone if you don't.

See SAIF in one conversation.

Thirty minutes. Your stack. Our method.