phoenix://mvp.sprint
A productised engineering sprint for pre-seed and seed founders who need to ship before their next board meeting. Fixed scope. Fixed price. AI-native delivery.
30 minutes · no pitch · we work out whether the Sprint fits your build
Recognised by Clutch · Brighton · 2026
> founder.background — not a client list
ScienceBank
Josh's own company · AI for academic publishing · ongoing
Harvard Medical School lab at Mass General Brigham
Josh's own consultancy · since 2020 · named inventorship
Neither of these is a Phoenix Solutions engagement — they are the founder's own company and his own consultancy, listed because they are where the method came from. The client work is under NDA and lives, anonymised, on the case studies page.
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Start with a Sprint. Attach Phoenix AI if it fits. Continue on retainer if it works.
A shipped MVP at the end of four weeks. Not a prototype, not a slide deck — a working product on your stack.
AI capability bolted onto your MVP — during the Sprint, after it ships, or as a follow-on engagement.
Ongoing technical leadership for founders who shipped with us and need a senior engineer in the room.
phoenix://how.it.works
The Sprint isn't a single tool or a clever trick. It's a system — tooling, scaffolding, and scope discipline working together.
> 01_scope
We start with a scoping call. Not a sales call — a working session where we decide what fits in the window and what doesn't. The Sprint isn't about doing more in less time. It's about doing the right things, ruthlessly, and cutting the rest.
> 02_build
AI-native delivery does the heavy lifting. Reusable scaffolding skips the boilerplate. Scope discipline keeps the build inside the window. The result is a real engineering sprint at a price point that used to be impossible — because the work that used to take sixty working days now takes twenty.
> 03_ship
At the end of the Sprint, the MVP is deployed to your stack with handover docs. You own the code. From there: attach Phoenix AI for an integrated capability, continue on a Fractional CTO retainer, or take it from here yourself. No lock-in either way.
Solo lead. Trusted collaborators when scope demands. You always know who's on your project.
phoenix://case.studies
Two recent Sprints. Both under NDA, both anonymised. Four weeks is the commitment, not the average — one of these had a working MVP in the founder's hands at the end of week one.
Pre-seed · Retail AI
NDADay one: historical sales data and an ERP they could export from. No code, no models, no interface. Shipped in four weeks — a deep ML pipeline feeding a Claude interpretation layer. Cut on the scoping call: multi-warehouse, the CEO's dashboard, and three of the four integrations they had already paid for.
Read case study
Pre-seed · Consumer AI
NDADay one: Figma designs, no code, no model chosen. Working MVP in one week — upload a photo, upload a garment, see yourself wearing it. Cut on the scoping call: the fifty-brand catalogue, accounts, the web version, and the share function the founder wanted most.
Read case study
phoenix://founder
Joshua Sandhu has founded multiple ventures across AI, blockchain, and data. Some were acquired, some were sold, some are still running. The thread across all of them is the same: ship the version that matters, cut everything else, and prove the thing works before scaling it.
He still leads ScienceBank, an AI platform built by academics, for academics — closing the language and accessibility gaps in academic publishing. Since 2020 he has also worked, in his own name, as a contract engineer for a Harvard Medical School lab at Mass General Brigham, on algorithm development against high-sensitivity healthcare data — with named inventorship on the resulting work.
Phoenix Solutions is the productisation of that method. The shipping cadence that used to take sixty working days now takes twenty — because the tooling changed, the scaffolding compounds, and a decade of engineering judgement decides what to leave out. Pre-seed founders don't need another agency. They need someone who has shipped, sold, and stayed.
· 10+ years engineering · Multi-time founder · Ventures across AI, blockchain, data
phoenix://faq
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