Discovery & Data Foundation
Hour-scoped discovery that ends with a data model, integrations map and a roadmap you can build against. Milestone invoice.
Most builds go wrong before the first line of code: the data lives in four places, nobody has checked whether the vendor's API exists, and the roadmap is a wish list. Discovery & Data Foundation fixes that first. We interview the people who do the work, map the systems and spreadsheets you run on today, verify what each one can export or connect to, and design the data model the new platform will stand on. It ends with a phased roadmap and a fixed-price scope for phase one — a plan you can build against, with us or with anyone.
Size it to fit.
A first estimate from this service’s base price. A specialist on the development & technology bench reviews it and sends the real scope. Nothing is charged.
What you get.
Why start here
A platform is only as good as its data model. If customers, jobs, prices and invoices are shaped wrong at the start, every screen built on top inherits the mistake. Discovery is the cheapest place to learn that the ERP has no API, that two teams use the same word for different things, or that the real bottleneck is a hand-off nobody wrote down.
What we do
Working sessions with the people closest to the work; a current-state map of every system, spreadsheet and manual step; a hands-on check of each integration point — credentials, exports, API limits; and a data model reviewed with you line by line. A dependency we cannot verify yet goes on the risk register with an owner, not into the plan as an assumption.
What you leave with
A system and data map, an entity-relationship model, an integrations inventory with access confirmed or flagged, a risk register, and a phased roadmap where phase one carries a fixed price and later phases carry ranges. The documents are yours, written so another team could pick them up.
