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What it looks like when an AI agent development company argues against its own scope
We told a client not to have us build the core of their product and about a fifth of the scope went elsewhere. Two cases from our own MVP projects.
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We told a client not to have us build the core of their product and about a fifth of the scope went elsewhere. Two cases from our own MVP projects.

Quotes for the same MVP land anywhere between a few thousand dollars and a quarter of a million, and every one of them is honest about something different. Scope drives the number, not the hourly rate, and scope is yours to set. Here is what has to ship in version one, what safely waits, and how to work out your own range before you talk to anyone.