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How It Works

A GDS Alpha in one week. Not a shortcut. A genuinely different delivery model that preserves every human decision and assurance gate while compressing the work that can be automated.

Full GDS lifecycle coverage

One supplier from first user research through to live operation. The Alpha is where Infomax compresses six to eight weeks into one.

  1. 01

    Discovery

    User research, problem framing, journey mapping

  2. 02 · Signature

    Alpha

    One-week intensive: the Infomax signature

  3. 03

    Beta

    GDS-compliant component build and integration

  4. 04

    Live

    Continuous delivery and agentic support

The one-week intensive, at a glance

Five working days from Discovery handover to a GDS-assessment-ready Alpha. Human decisions and assurance gates are preserved throughout.

  1. Day 1

    Discovery handover & journey prioritisation

    Human-led

  2. Days 2–3

    Agentic prototype build

    Agent builds · team steers

  3. Day 4

    Validation, requirements & accessibility

    Human review

  4. Day 5

    Assurance pack & stakeholder playback

    Delivered

The one-week intensive, day by day

Five working days from Discovery handover to a GDS-assessment-ready Alpha. Larger or integration-heavy Alphas scale to two weeks, scoped at Discovery handover.

  1. Day 1

    Discovery handover and journey prioritisation

    Human-led, with the agent in support. The morning is a structured handover: existing user research, stakeholder assumptions, known constraints, in-scope systems. The afternoon maps and prioritises which user journeys to prototype, typically three to five depending on complexity. The week's prototype scope is set and signed off by end of day.

    Human-led. Agent supports synthesis and assumption mapping.

  2. Days 2–3

    Agentic prototype build

    Where the genuine compression happens. The agent builds working prototypes across the prioritised journeys at a pace a conventional human team cannot match. Each prototype aligns to GDS design patterns and WCAG 2.2 AA from the start, not retrofitted later. The team reviews and steers throughout. This is not unsupervised generation.

    Agent builds. Team reviews, steers, and signs off each journey.

  3. Day 4

    Validation, requirements, and accessibility

    User story refinement, requirements generation, accessibility review, and GDS pattern validation. The agent generates first-draft artefacts; the team reviews, refines, and approves. By the end of Day 4 the user story backlog and requirements pack are largely complete. WCAG 2.2 AA is checked and documented, not assumed.

    Agent generates artefacts. Humans review, refine, and decide.

  4. Day 5

    Assurance pack and stakeholder playback

    Assurance pack consolidation, Alpha-assessment readiness check, and stakeholder playback. The output is a complete, documented Alpha ready for GDS assessment: prototype, artefact pack, accessibility report, user research integration, and a clear path to Beta. Stakeholders see and approve the output on the day.

    Complete, GDS-assessment-ready output delivered.

Human-in-the-loop assurance

Across all Infomax agentic services, a human approves every production change. The agent does the diagnostic and development work; a named person remains accountable. In a regulated environment this is not a limitation. It is the reason the model is trustworthy.

Most delivery suppliers can write code. Far fewer understand the governance gates that determine whether a public health service can change at all. Infomax operates on both sides of that line.

  1. Agent proposes

    Prototypes, artefacts, requirements, and fix proposals at near-zero marginal cost.

  2. Human reviews

    Every output is reviewed by a named person before it is used, merged, or signed off.

  3. Human approves

    Nothing reaches production without explicit human approval. Every change is traceable.

Every change stays pending until a human approves it. The audit trail is complete, the rigour required for ISO 27001, DSP Toolkit, and NCSC Cyber Assessment Framework compliance.

Risk-graded delivery model

Pricing reflects where delivery risk sits at each phase. Fixed price where Infomax controls the variables; time and materials where the buyer does. This is a deliberate, mature position that government buyers recognise and trust.

Phase Pricing model Rationale
Discovery Fixed price Scope controlled; Infomax carries the risk
Alpha Fixed price Scope agreed at Discovery handover
Beta Fixed or T&M Buyer's choice as scope evolves
Live Fixed subscription or capped T&M Ongoing support layered on delivery

Ready to start your Alpha?

A discovery call is the first step: it requires no procurement process and commits to nothing. We scope from there.

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