See it work before you commit to building it.
Altamira's Rapid PoC pipeline turns a brief into a working, deployed prototype in a day or two — something to react to, not a slide deck. Approve it, and it moves straight into the full AI SDLC to become the real thing.
What this covers: MVP development and rapid prototyping — for teams who need to see an idea work before they commit budget to building it properly.
Where this fits
Foundation has three steps, and they answer three different questions. AI Transformation Advisory answers should we build this at all, and what's the plan. This page answers the question that comes right after: does the idea actually hold up once it's real. AI-Accelerated Software Delivery and AI Squads answer the one after that: let's build the real thing.
You don't have to come through Advisory first. Most people land here already knowing what they want to try — a new product idea, a feature nobody's validated, a pitch that needs something more convincing than a deck. This page is for proving it before either of you commits to more than a prototype takes.
How the Rapid PoC pipeline works
This isn't a scaled-down version of the full AI SDLC — it's a separate, lighter track built for one job: get something real in front of you fast, without the overhead a production build actually needs.
You tell us the idea and what "working" would need to look like to mean something — no formal requirements document, no signed-off architecture.
A fast, lightweight build against that brief. No code review, no generated test suite, no design validation — the checks that make the full AI SDLC production-grade are deliberately skipped here, because this isn't production work.
The prototype goes live somewhere you can actually use it, not a local demo on someone's laptop. You react to something real, not a description of it.
If it holds up, it moves into the full AI SDLC — the same gates and review discipline as every other Altamira build — and becomes the thing you actually ship. If it doesn't, you've spent a day or two finding that out, not a quarter.
Nothing from this track ships to production as-is. A prototype that's approved gets rebuilt on the full pipeline, not promoted directly — the speed here comes from skipping the checks that don't matter yet, not from cutting the ones that do once it's real.
Why this offer
You're reacting to something working, not reading about what it might do.
This is the same Rapid PoC track built into the AI SDLC — not a stripped-down showcase built to look good in a pitch.
An approved prototype moves straight into the full AI SDLC with the same team and context — no re-scoping, no starting over with someone new.
Finding out an idea doesn't hold up costs a day or two here, not the months it costs to find out mid-build.
Three places this shows up most
Building something else entirely? The pipeline above works the same way regardless — these three are where we see it most often, not the only shapes it takes.
Proven, not promised
A prototype in a day or two is Altamira's target for how this track runs, not a claim proven identically on every engagement — the same honesty the full AI SDLC's timeline claims carry on the AI SDLC page. What's not a target: the mechanism itself is live and running today, not a roadmap item — a real, lighter pipeline built for exactly this job, not the full AI SDLC with steps quietly skipped and called a prototype.
You already know AI is the right fix and just want the real thing built — that's a more direct path through AI-Accelerated Software Delivery or AI Squads, not a prototype first. Not sure AI is the right fix at all yet? Start with AI Transformation Advisory's readiness assessment instead — this page is for testing a shape you've already chosen, not choosing one.
Already have something built — even a rough one — that's already proven the idea and just needs to become production-ready? That's Prototype to Production instead: this page is for testing an idea that hasn't been proven yet, not hardening one that already has.