Sprint Studio / How we work

Scoped in weeks. Shipped in sprints.

The pod, the cadence, the channel, the handover — how a Sprint Studio engagement actually runs from the kickoff call to the day we hand you the runbook. No project managers between you and your engineer. No fortnightly status meetings about status.

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Four people. All senior.

A standard build runs with this pod. Internal tools and rescues run with a tighter pod (one or two seniors). We won't silently add a junior to the team to pad margin.

Lead engineer

Owns the build.

The senior engineer who scoped the work is the same one shipping it. They're in your Slack, on the weekly call, and on the engineering decisions.

Full-time on engagement
Second engineer

Senior, not junior.

Pair-programs and reviews. Splits the build with the lead; covers when the lead is on a call; takes the “hard half” so the lead can hold the shape of the whole thing.

Full-time on engagement
Designer

UX + UI, in the loop.

Embedded from week one, not handing you a Figma over the fence. Works in the same channel as the engineers; iterates on real UI rendered in real code, not on flats.

~50% of engagement
Founder on rotation

Skin in the game.

One of Sprint's two co-founders — Oli Yeates or Nathan Smith — is on every engagement: scoping, architecture call, handover. Not a sales role; an “is this the right thing to build” role.

~10% of engagement

A real Monday-to-Friday looks like this.

Every sprint runs on the same rhythm — predictable enough that you can plan around it, loose enough that we can absorb a real meeting if you need one.

Day
What happens
Why this shape
Mon
Sprint plan + start of work. 25-min call with you, lead engineer, designer.
Sets one priority, one second, one stretch. Anything else gets noted for next sprint, not pushed in.
Tue
Build day. Async in Slack. PRs flowing.
No meetings unless you call one. The engineer is shipping, not status-reporting.
Wed
Build day. Optional walkthrough at end-of-day if there's a decision worth your input.
Mid-sprint check-in catches a wrong turn before it's a wrong sprint.
Thu
Build day. Polish. QA. Boring final 10%.
The slice gets ready for Friday, not deployed at 4:55pm on a Friday.
Fri
Demo Loom + one-page note. Slice shipped to staging. You watch on your own time.
No 90-min “sprint review”. The Loom is shorter and more honest than a meeting.

The channels we actually use. All three.

We use your channels, not ours. Slack Connect into your workspace; GitHub on your org; calendar on your domain. Where you live, we live.

Slack

The main channel.

One shared channel per engagement. The lead engineer is in it. Async by default; quick voice huddle if the thread gets long.

Daily — async
GitHub

Where the work lives.

Your org. Your repo. We work on branches off main; PRs reviewed by the second engineer; CI green or it doesn't land.

Daily — async
Calendar

Two recurring slots.

25 minutes Monday for the sprint plan, optional 25 minutes Wednesday if there's a decision worth your input. That's it.

~50 minutes/week

Got something worth shipping?

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