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Product discovery that ends in a buildable plan
Before a line of code, we map how work moves today and write down what the new system must do. You receive a blueprint any competent team can build from, ours or another.
What discovery produces
- An agreed problem statement
one page that your sponsor and your users both recognise.
- Current-state process maps
how orders, approvals or cases move today, taken from watching the work.
- A target architecture
the systems, the data each holds and how they connect.
- A plan in phases
each ends at a point where you can stop and keep what that phase produced.
What happens during discovery
- 01We watch the work. An architect and a business analyst sit with whoever runs the process, at your site or at our Noida office, and with the people who sign it off.
- 02We write requirements as statements a tester can check. "Approve the invoice in under two screens" can be tested. "Easy to use" cannot.
- 03We profile your data. We look at the real records, to see what a migration would face.
- 04We map the connections. We list every system the new one must talk to, and how each one talks.
- 05We try the risky part. Where a technical doubt could sink the plan, a short feasibility spike tests it first.
- 06We build the business case and the sequence. The plan says what comes first and what each phase is expected to return.
Discovery typically takes 2–6 weeks. A sponsor on your side who can decide keeps the work moving.
Why the requirements are written as tests
A requirement that cannot fail a test cannot be agreed on either. Written as statements, requirements tell the build team when a module is finished and tell your users what they were promised. A change request then has a clear line to point at. Each statement ties back to a step on the process maps, so nothing gets built that no one asked for.
The blueprint belongs to you
The documents are yours to keep whether or not we build anything. A competent team can estimate and build from them. You can ask two vendors to quote against the same blueprint and compare like with like, which is hard to do against a loose brief.
How discovery is priced
Discovery carries a fixed fee, agreed before it starts. We invoice it apart from any build, and we price later phases from the plan it produces.
When discovery is worth it
Discovery earns its fee when several departments touch the process, when old systems must keep running, or when two vendors have quoted very different scopes. For a small, single-team tool with a clear brief, planning inside the build phase is usually enough.
Where it leads
Teams often take the blueprint into custom ERP or another platform build. Others hand it to a vendor they already work with.
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