Technical Discovery and Product Scoping in Bristol

Typically 3-5 days, depending on the scope of what you're building and how quickly your team can make decisions. If you're scoping a simple MVP for a web app, it might be closer to 3 days. If you're modernising a legacy system with multiple integrations, allow 5 days. We schedule blocks of 4-6 hours per day so your stakeholders can keep working on other things.

That's actually the best time to run discovery. We help you stress-test the requirements you do have and identify the gaps. We'll ask whether you're solving a real problem or chasing a feature. Discovery forces prioritisation early, which is exactly when it's cheapest to change your mind. We output a prioritised roadmap with clear phases so you can launch fast and add features based on user feedback.

Yes, and legacy systems need discovery most. We'll review your current architecture, database, and dependencies to understand what's safe to change and what needs to stay. That informs whether you refactor, re-platform, or rewrite in phases. Legacy discovery is often longer (5-7 days) because you need to understand what's actually in the system and what debt exists.

Core stakeholders: your founder or CTO, a product owner, and someone who knows your current systems (if you have them). Include a finance person if budget constraints are real. The more decision-makers present, the faster we move because we're not waiting for sign-off via email. We typically meet 4-6 hours per day so people aren't exhausted and can still handle urgent issues.

We won't tell you who to hire or who to outsource to, but the discovery brief we produce is exactly what a vendor needs to bid fairly. Many clients use it to run a proper RFP process. Some decide to hire in-house based on the roadmap. Others engage our nearshore team in Spain or Ukraine to extend their capacity. The brief removes the guesswork, so you pick based on fit and trust, not because you don't know what you're asking for.

A technical brief (5-15 pages, depending on complexity), architecture diagrams, a prioritised roadmap with phases and effort estimates, a data model sketch, integration points mapped, and a summary of decisions and trade-offs. All in plain language, not jargon. You own these documents. Share them with your board, investors, in-house team, or a vendor. They're yours to use.