Process
From audit to autopilot in weeks
Four stages, no surprises, and an exit at every one of them. This page is the whole method — there is no proprietary framework being withheld until you sign.
How it works
From audit to autopilot in weeks.
Fixed scope. One fixed price. Working software every week. You always know what ships next and what it saves.
Audit
Week 0 · FreeThirty minutes on where your hours actually go. I map the repetitive workflows, time them, and score each one by what automating it would return. You keep that map either way — including the honest note on which processes to leave alone.
Blueprint
Week 1A written proposal: what gets built, which systems it touches, what it costs to run each month, the timeline, and one fixed price for the whole engagement. Nothing starts until you approve it. The price does not move unless you change the scope.
Build
Weeks 2–4I design, build and test inside your own accounts, with evaluations and guardrails on anything using a language model. You see working software every week rather than a status update — which means you can redirect early, while redirecting is still cheap.
Run & improve
OngoingLaunch, monitor, iterate. Thirty days of support included with every build. After that: take a care plan, hand it to your own team using the documentation, or run it yourself. All three are genuinely fine.
Why trust a new studio
No client logos yet. Commitments instead.
Lytheo is new, and pretending otherwise would be the fastest way to lose your trust. So here is what goes into every engagement agreement — enforceable, not decorative.
You own everything
Code, workflows, prompts and documentation transfer to you in writing on final payment. Everything runs in accounts registered to you. There is no Lytheo platform you must keep paying for to keep what you bought.
The audit is free, and yours regardless
You leave the first call with a written map of your automatable workflows and what each is worth — whether or not you hire me. If the honest answer is that nothing is worth automating yet, you get that in writing too.
One fixed price, agreed up front
No hourly billing. No change fees for my own misestimates. The price moves only if you change the scope, and only with your written agreement first.
You pay against working software
Milestones are demonstrable systems, not percentages of elapsed time. Nothing is invoiced before it ships.
Your data stays yours
Enterprise API tiers where your inputs are excluded from model training. Least-privilege access. An NDA signed on request before you tell me anything sensitive. On exit, credentials revoked and my working copies deleted.
No lock-in, no notice period
Care plans run month to month. Cancel whenever you like, keep everything, and I hand over cleanly to whoever comes next.
Questions
The things people actually want to know
It gets fixed at no extra cost. The engagement is priced as a fixed scope, so my own misestimates are my problem, not an invoice. The weekly review exists precisely so a wrong direction is caught in week two rather than week five, when correcting it is cheap for both of us.
That is normal and it is handled explicitly. A scope change is quoted separately, in writing, before any work on it starts — so the original price still holds for the original scope and you decide whether the addition is worth it. Nothing gets silently absorbed and nothing appears on an invoice you did not agree to first.
You do, from final payment. Ownership of the custom code, workflows, prompts and documentation transfers to you in writing, and everything runs in accounts registered in your name. There is no Lytheo platform in the middle that you would need to keep paying for to keep using what you bought.
Realistically, two to four hours in the audit and blueprint stages, then about thirty minutes a week to review what shipped. The heaviest ask is at the start, because getting the process map right is what determines whether the build is worth anything.
Then that is what the audit says, in writing, with the reasoning. It has no cost to you and you keep the assessment. A free audit that always concludes you should buy something is not an audit, it is a sales call with a different name.
Yes, before you share anything sensitive, and at no cost. Send yours and I will sign it, or ask and I will send a straightforward mutual one. I would rather you were candid about how your business actually works than careful — the audit is only as good as what you can tell me.
Ready to get the hours back?
A free 30-minute audit call. You leave with a written map of your automatable workflows and what each one is worth — whether we end up working together or not.
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