How does Octalcode run an SI project?
Octalcode runs an SI project in three phases: discover and diagnose, advise and co-create, then build, ship and review. Discovery starts with the business problem rather than the tech stack: why it matters now, what doing nothing costs, and which success metrics the work will be judged on. It produces a written engagement memo, a build-vs-buy analysis and a model recommendation benchmarked on the client's data. Co-creation designs the architecture with the client's team, whether RAG, agents or fine-tuning, sets up the evaluation harness, chooses the vector store and maps risks across budget, integration, security and adoption. The client signs off the plan and phased roadmap before any production code is cut. The build phase runs in short sprints with demoable increments, continuous evaluation runs and red-team passes, ending in a clean MLOps handover. After go-live, an executive business review measures results against the agreed metrics and lines up the next phase.