Week 1–3
Discovery & scope contract
Interviews, competitive scan, risk register, success metrics, and a written scope document with explicit out-of-scope list.
Product
MVP & Product Development
MVPs fail when scope tries to match a year-one roadmap. We anchor on a single Jobs-to-be-Done narrative, define non-negotiable compliance or billing constraints up front, and build the smallest vertical slice that delivers user value in production. Technical choices favor boring, well-supported stacks and explicit extension points (feature flags, modular services) so growth does not require a rewrite.
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When teams choose this
Situations we solve
- Investors need a live product in a fixed window—we time-box discovery and parallelize design with API stubbing.
- You must validate willingness-to-pay without building full entitlement systems—we integrate Stripe Checkout or Paddle with webhook-driven state.
- Post-launch learning is blocked because events were ad hoc—we ship a governed analytics layer from day one.
Engagement shape
How delivery typically runs
Week 4–10+
Build & integrate
Iterative releases to staging with demo cadence; integrate auth, payments, email, and minimum admin tooling required for operations.
Post go-live
Launch & learn
Production monitoring, funnel review, experiment backlog, and roadmap proposal based on data—not opinions.
Deliverables
What you can hold at the end
Product requirements & metric sheet
One-pager per major epic with acceptance criteria tied to measurable outcomes.
Production deployment
Live environment with backups, basic DR posture, and cost visibility on cloud bills.
Learning dashboard
Funnel and retention views with cohort definitions agreed with stakeholders.
Tooling
Stacks we commonly integrate
- Figma, Notion / Confluence, Jira / Linear
- PostHog, Amplitude, Mixpanel, Segment
- Stripe / Paddle for payments
- Feature flags: LaunchDarkly, Unleash, or PostHog
Outcomes
Metrics we align on
40–60%
Scope reduction vs initial wishlist (typical)
1–2 weeks
Time to first measurable funnel (post-launch)
Days vs months
Cost to change core assumption (with flags)
Field note
Seed-stage healthtech workflow tool
The team wanted scheduling, messaging, billing, and admin in v1; runway allowed eight weeks to show traction.
We shipped provider scheduling plus notifications with Stripe billing for one plan, deferred messaging to email handoff, and proved weekly active scheduling actions. The data supported a Series A narrative without a ground-up rebuild.
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