What is the difference between an outcome-driven sprint, a pod and a managed SLA?

An outcome-driven sprint delivers a bounded result with a fixed finish state. A pod is a standing cross-functional team that works your backlog sprint after sprint. A managed SLA keeps a system running under response targets, month after month.

How much does a scope cost?

Scopes run on the Software Factory Delivery Plan, from $4,500 a month, down from the $8,000 list price a month for one active workstream. Your scope sets the delivery schedule and the total cost, not a separate price.

Can I run more than one scope at once?

You can queue as many scopes as you like. One active workstream delivers them in your priority order. To run several scopes in parallel, talk to Scrums.com about an Enterprise plan.

What if my work is not in the register?

Send it to us. Most work maps to an existing scope or a combination of scopes, and anything else is scoped into your Delivery Plan backlog with its own milestones.

How fast does a scope start?

Onboarding starts at checkout. Coding starts within 48 hours of access, and the team builds the first agreed deliverable within 14 days, or your first month is free.

Premade software scopes to help you move faster.

222 scopes, each with a defined finish state. Pick what you need, add it to your Software Factory Delivery Plan, and one team ships it from your backlog.

Start with an outcome222 scopes ↓

Launch something newMVPs, apps, portals and platforms52 Add AIAgents, copilots, RAG and LLM ops16 Fix and stabiliseRescue, bugs, debt and incidents10 Modernise and migrateLegacy, cloud and replatforms20 Secure and complyPen tests, identity and controls20 Scale and speed upPerformance, cost and reliability23 Run and maintainPods and managed SLAs32 Assess and planAudits, discovery and roadmaps19

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Now $4,500£3,750R79,000/ month~~Was $8,000£6,700R140,000~~

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What is a scope?

A defined piece of delivery work, with milestones and a finish state, run on your Delivery Plan.

What does it cost?

One monthly Delivery Plan for one active workstream. Your scope sets the schedule, not the price.

How fast?

Coding starts in 48 hours. First deliverable in 14 days, or month one is free.

How many?

222 scopes across sprints, pods and managed SLAs, or send us your own.

All scopes

222 scopes

Outcome sprintqaaccessibilitywcag
Accessibility Audit & Remediation
Test a live product or website for accessibility defects against WCAG and fix an agreed set of issues — with evidence you can stand behind.
In every plan→
Outcome sprintintegrationaccountingfinance
Accounting Platform Integration
Automate invoices, payments, customers, journals, or reconciliation data between your systems and an accounting platform. Finish state: the books updating themselves for the defined flows.
In every plan→
Outcome sprintdue diligenceauditm and a
Acquisition Tech Diligence
Investor-grade technical due diligence on a target codebase and team: AI-powered code analysis plus expert review of architecture, security, scalability, and engineering process — delivered as an investor-ready report on deal timelines.
In every plan→
Outcome sprintmanagedsupportsla
After-Hours Support SLA
Round-the-clock operational support for live software, combining your daytime team with a dedicated overnight team under per-client runbooks.
In every plan→
Outcome sprintaiagentsautomation
AI Agent Rollout
One operational AI agent deployed into a live workflow with governance and guardrails: workflow selection, agent build and integration, enterprise controls, and a measured rollout with hours-saved reporting.
In every plan→
Outcome sprintaidata engineeringml infrastructure
AI Data Infrastructure Foundation
Set up the data pipelines, versioning, feature flow, and storage patterns required for repeatable ML and AI work. Finish with an ML-ready foundation running in your cloud.
In every plan→
Outcome sprintaimlopsproduction
AI Feature Productionization
Take an existing AI proof-of-concept into monitored production with reliability, evaluation, security, and cost controls. Finish state: the demo that impressed everyone, now boring, monitored, and live.
In every plan→
Podworkshopdiscoveryai
AI Ideation Workshop
Facilitated 2-week workshops that align stakeholders, define goals, and produce an actionable design & development strategy.
In every plan→
Outcome sprintaillm opscost optimization
AI Model Routing & Cost Optimization
Route requests across models based on quality, latency, availability, and cost while tracking spend and outcomes. Finish state: the right model per request, spend visible per feature, quality protected by evaluation.
In every plan→
Outcome sprintanalyticsperformancebi
Analytics Performance Optimization
Speed up slow dashboards, queries, models, and refresh pipelines without changing the business definitions people rely on.
In every plan→
Outcome sprintmodernizationangularfrontend
Angular Framework Upgrade
Move an existing Angular application across major versions, remediating breaking changes and deprecated patterns along the tested upgrade path.
In every plan→
Outcome sprintapideveloper portaldeveloper experience
API Developer Portal
Design and launch a portal for API discovery, credentials, documentation, usage visibility, support, and onboarding.
In every plan→

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Scopes by service

How scopes work

Three ways to run a scope

Every scope is milestone-based, SLA-backed and delivered from your Delivery Plan backlog in the Software Factory.

Fixed outcome, fixed finish state

Outcome-driven sprints

A bounded piece of work with an agreed finish state, such as an MVP live with users or an API serving real clients. Milestones are agreed before work begins.

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Embedded capacity

Pods

A standing cross-functional team, such as QA, platform or commerce engineering, that works your backlog sprint after sprint.

See 17 pods ↑

Run it for you

Managed SLAs

Ongoing upkeep under response targets: maintenance, OS updates, uptime, observability and release QA, month after month.

See 6 SLAs ↑

222Scopes in the register

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A scope is a defined piece of software delivery work with an agreed finish state and milestones, such as a production-ready SaaS MVP, a cloud migration or a QA subscription. You add scopes to your Delivery Plan backlog and one Scrums.com team delivers them in priority order.

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One plan · every scope

Every scope runs on one Delivery Plan

Core costs ~~Was $8,000£6,700R140,000~~ now $4,500£3,750R79,000/month for one active workstream. Queue as many scopes as you need; one team works them in your priority order.

Add this scope to your backlog. Your delivery owner confirms the scope with you, and the team delivers it.

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One plan for your software backlog.

Now $4,500£3,750R79,000/ month~~Was $8,000£6,700R140,000~~

One active workstream. Managed delivery.

Coverage

ScopesWeb Mobile Backend AI Data

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Billed monthly · excl. VAT/sales tax · onboarding starts immediately after checkout

Included every month

Delivery owner. One accountable owner scopes this work and runs the team that delivers it.

One backlog across your development priorities. You set the order; requests are scoped and delivered one workstream at a time.

Visibility. Milestones agreed up front. Progress, pull requests and releases live on the Scrums.com Platform.

Ownership. Code, data and documentation are yours from day one, with handover included.

Work is scoped and delivered within your plan’s capacity. Priorities can change; additional parallel workstreams require more capacity.

First-month benefits

14DAYS

First-delivery guaranteeThe team builds your first agreed deliverable within 14 days of scope and access being confirmed, or your first month is free.

$500 in AI infrastructure catalog creditsMONTH 1

Annual-plan benefits$10,000 in specialist services

Technical Assessment & Delivery RoadmapWe review your systems, rank your priorities and agree the first deliverable.

CI/CD & Quality Pipeline SetupYour pipelines, environments and quality checks, set up and handed over to you.

You buy monthly delivery capacity, not a fixed project price. Infrastructure usage and third-party services are billed separately. Full Delivery Plan coverage and terms →

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Day 0Scope and access confirmedOnboarding starts at checkout. You confirm the scope and share repos and environments.

Within 48 hoursCoding startsThe team starts work in your repositories.

Within 14 daysFirst deliverable builtThe first milestone of this scope, agreed in writing.

If it does not shipYour first month is freeYou do not pay for month one.

The first deliverable is agreed in writing before the clock starts. The clock starts when scope and access are confirmed. Applies to the first deliverable on a new plan.Read the full Delivery Plan terms →

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Scopes by service

Three ways to run a scope

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What if my work is not in the register?+

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Every scope runs on one Delivery Plan

One plan for your software backlog.