# What do you get from a 2 week Blueprint?

In 2 weeks you get a business case, a working prototype and a fixed build price. The case shows what the tool saves and what it costs. Your team clicks through the prototype. The proposal fixes the price and timeline. It costs $3,500 at the founding rate, credited to the build. You keep the case and the prototype.

By Surinder Thakur, AI Product Designer. Published 31 Oct 2026. Updated 1 Nov 2026. Topic: [Building an AI tool](https://www.surinder.design/work?type=building-an-ai-tool).

## What happens in week 1?

We understand the work and decide what the agent does. I study how the task runs today, who touches it, and what it costs.

Then we agree what the agent will do, inside which rules, and where a person decides. Week 1 ends with a demo meeting and the business case in numbers.

## What happens in week 2?

I build the prototype and your team tests it on real cases. Week 2 ends with the final meeting and the clickable prototype.

The walkthrough is the proposal meeting. It sets what gets built, the fixed price and the timeline.

## Why a prototype and not a roadmap?

A roadmap describes the tool. The Blueprint lets your team try it. Feedback on a prototype is concrete, because people react to what they used.

That is also why the build price can be fixed. The hard questions get answered in the prototype, before the build starts.

## What if the Blueprint says not to build?

That is a good result. You keep the business case and the prototype.

Learning it cost $3,500. A build would have cost $30,000.

## In 1 picture

2 weeks, 2 meetings, and 3 things you keep.

1. Week 1: How the work runs today, and what it costs
2. Demo meeting: What the agent does, its rules, where a person decides
3. Week 2: A prototype your team clicks
4. Proposal: A fixed price and timeline

## Next questions

- [What if the build does not pay off?](https://www.surinder.design/work/what-if-the-build-does-not-pay-off): Then you find out in the Blueprint, before the build spend.
- [What does a custom AI tool cost?](https://www.surinder.design/work/what-does-a-custom-ai-tool-cost): A custom AI tool or agent costs from $20,000 to build here.
- [How do you use AI to design and build a tool?](https://www.surinder.design/work/how-i-use-ai-to-design-and-build): AI runs inside every step, from research to shipped code.

## Questions that lead here

- [Should we build a custom AI tool or buy SaaS?](https://www.surinder.design/work/build-or-buy-an-ai-tool): Buy SaaS when your process matches how the tool works.
- [Why hire 1 senior instead of an agency?](https://www.surinder.design/work/why-one-senior-instead-of-an-agency): Count the layers between you and the person building. An agency quote pays for account managers, project managers and handoffs before anything works.

Page: https://www.surinder.design/work/what-you-get-from-a-blueprint