Feasibility Studies
What we do
Capital deployed on an unvalidated technical hypothesis is capital at risk. Our feasibility studies provide the technical certainty that founders, CTOs, and investors need before committing engineering resources. We evaluate architecture options, estimate development and infrastructure costs, surface hidden risks, stress-test scaling assumptions, and deliver a clear recommendation on whether and how to proceed. The goal is to give you the technical certainty required to make the right decision with confidence.
Architecture Exploration
Evaluation of multiple technical approaches with honest trade-off analysis covering performance, cost, complexity, team skill requirements, and vendor lock-in risk. We present options with clear pros, cons, and our recommended path so you leave with a decision and a clear rationale behind it.
Proof of Concept Development
Rapid, targeted prototyping to validate critical technical assumptions before committing to full development. We scope POCs to the minimum experiment that answers the key question, build them in days, and document findings with enough rigour that the results are trustworthy.
Cost & Timeline Modelling
Infrastructure, development, and operational cost projections based on realistic usage scenarios, not best-case assumptions. We model costs across cloud providers, estimate team size and composition requirements, and project how costs scale with user growth or data volume increases.
Pre-Build Technical Validation
Structured validation of critical technical assumptions before committing to full development. We test API integrations, benchmark model performance, stress-test database configurations, and evaluate third-party service reliability to surface risks that would otherwise emerge mid-build.
How we work together
Hypothesis & Success Criteria
We work with you to articulate the core technical hypothesis and define measurable success criteria. What does the system need to do? What throughput, latency, accuracy, or cost targets must be met? What regulatory or compliance constraints apply? These criteria become the evaluation framework for every architectural option we assess.
Technical Investigation
Architecture exploration across multiple approaches, evaluating trade-offs between build complexity, operational cost, time-to-market, and long-term maintainability. Where critical assumptions are uncertain, we build targeted proof-of-concept prototypes to validate them - testing API integrations, benchmarking model performance, or stress-testing database configurations.
Risk & Cost Analysis
Identification of technical risks ranked by probability and impact, estimation of development costs across team configurations, and projection of ongoing infrastructure and operational expenses. We model multiple scenarios - optimistic, realistic, and worst-case - so you can make investment decisions with a clear understanding of the range of outcomes.
Recommendation Report
A comprehensive document with our recommendation, supporting evidence, alternative approaches considered and why they were rejected, and a proposed implementation plan with phased milestones. If our recommendation is not to proceed, we explain why and suggest alternative approaches that might achieve your underlying objective.