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  • NEW PRODUCT

    For teams with an idea and a budget: discovery turns them into a scope, an architecture decision and a cost estimate the build can start from.

  • GROWING PRODUCT

    For products that grow faster than their roadmap: an audit shows where the architecture limits new features and what to change first.

  • LEGACY SYSTEM

    For systems that run critical business logic on outdated code: we map the risks and plan modernization in phases that keep operations running.

Why It Matters

What Product Strategy Settles Before Development

The problem goes beyond product development.  A well-thought-out product strategy removes uncertainty. Our approach aligns business objectives with scalable, robust, high-performance solutions, ensuring every stage—from development to deployment—is grounded in data-driven insights and industry best practices.

A product strategy settles the decisions that drive development cost: what goes into the first release and which architecture the product will grow on. With these decisions made up front, the estimate becomes a number your budget can rely on.

We adapt the work to your product’s stage.

New product: we define the scope and architecture before the first sprint.
Existing product: we find where the current architecture limits growth and plan the changes.
Legacy system: we assess the risks in the old code and plan modernization in phases.

What You Get After Discovery

Discovery takes 2 weeks. At the end, you receive:

  • Scope: features for the first release, prioritized together with your team
  • Architecture decision: the chosen approach and the reasons behind it
  • Estimate: development cost and timeline
  • Roadmap: release phases with milestones
  • Risk register: technical and delivery risks with a plan for each

The documents belong to you and can be used with any development team.

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What We Offer

Services We Provide

  • Product Discovery

    Your team faces important decisions that will determine success: Which features offer real value? Is the architecture scalable? Are we solving the right problem? Without clear answers, development becomes a guessing game that wastes resources.

    We conduct a rigorous product discovery process that combines market analysis, technical feasibility, and strategic alignment to ensure your product is viable.

    Our approach:

    • Business objectives. We conduct structured interviews to define key objectives and success metrics, ensuring product direction supports long-term growth.
    • Market validation. We analyze customer pain points, the competitive landscape, and industry trends to refine your unique value proposition and avoid feature overload.
    • Technical feasibility assessment. We assess infrastructure requirements, third-party integration, and scalability challenges to determine the optimal technology stack for sustainable growth.
    • Security and compliance planning. We assess regulatory requirements (ISO 27001, GDPR) and data protection measures to bolster compliance from the outset.

    Our solid product discovery phase removes uncertainty and lays the foundation for a scalable product.

  • Technology Roadmapping

    Build on a future-proof foundation.

    We design a technology roadmap aligned with your business goals, delivering scalable, secure, cost-effective solutions and ensuring your product can evolve.

    Our approach:

    • Defining the architecture strategy. We choose the architecture style for your stage of growth. For most new products, this is a modular monolith with clear boundaries between modules, which can be split into separate services later if load or team size requires it.
    • Selecting the right technology stack. We evaluate and recommend frameworks, cloud providers, and database solutions that are optimized for maintainability, security, and developer efficiency.
    • AI readiness. If AI features are on the roadmap, we decide early which data they will use and whether a hosted model or your own fits better. Both choices affect the data architecture and the monthly running cost.
    • Planning the infrastructure. We evaluate the need for cloud and on-premises solutions, containerization strategies (Docker, Kubernetes), and API integrations to improve system reliability.
    • Execution roadmap. We develop a phased roadmap with milestones, risk assessments, and scalability benchmarks that ensure seamless implementation and continuous optimization.

    Our well-structured technology roadmap provides a clear path to high-performance, future-proof product development.

  • UX/UI Prototyping

    Bridge the gap between vision and implementation.

    Rushed development without validated prototypes leads to costly redesigns, misaligned user expectations, and inefficient workflows.

    We develop real-world UX/UI prototypes that turn ideas into interactive, testable models and ensure seamless user experiences before writing a single line of code.

    Our approach:

    • User research and persona development. We conduct in-depth stakeholder interviews, surveys, and behavioral analysis to define user needs, problems, and expectations.
    • Wireframing and low-fidelity prototypes. We create quick wireframes to sketch user flows, navigation structures, and screen layouts, then refine key interactions before starting visual design.
    • High-fidelity interactive prototypes. We develop clickable, production-ready prototypes that simulate real user interactions and allow teams to validate concepts without development effort.
    • Usability testing and iteration. We perform heuristic evaluations, A/B testing, and user feedback loops to eliminate friction points and increase engagement.
    • Design system and component libraries. We create scalable UI kits, design systems, and reusable component libraries that bolster visual consistency.

    A solid UX/UI prototyping phase eliminates guesswork, minimizes redesign costs, and ensures that every interaction improves usability, engagement, and product success.

  • Architecture Audit

    Make your product future-proof.

    Outdated systems and ad-hoc scalability solutions often lead to performance bottlenecks, security vulnerabilities, and excessive maintenance costs.

    We conduct a comprehensive architecture audit to identify structural weaknesses, security gaps, and optimization opportunities, aligning your technology for long-term growth.

    Our approach:

    • Structural assessment. We check how the system is split into modules or services and whether those boundaries match how the business works. We also review how components communicate and where the database or cloud setup limits growth.
    • Dependency analysis. We review legacy code, third-party integrations, and dependency management to eliminate redundancies and improve maintainability.
    • Identification of security and compliance risks. We assess authentication mechanisms and encryption standards to identify vulnerabilities and regulatory gaps.
    • Review of DevOps efficiency. We assess CI/CD pipelines and cloud architecture to identify automation opportunities.
    • Optimization roadmap. We deliver a detailed architecture improvement plan, including refactoring recommendations, migration strategies, and incremental scalability improvements to future-proof your system.

    Our well-executed architecture audit provides clear insights, ensuring your product remains competitive, secure, and adaptable to evolving business needs.

  • Technology Realignment

    Modernize your stack and scale efficiently. We design and implement a structured technology realignment strategy to improve performance, maintainability, and future expansion.

    Our approach:

    • Technology stack assessment. We assess programming languages, frameworks, libraries, and third-party services, identify obsolete dependencies, and recommend modern alternatives.
    • Infrastructure and cloud. We compare your current hosting with cloud and hybrid options and estimate each option’s monthly running cost.
    • Data architecture and API integration review. We optimize database structures, API efficiency, and service communication to ensure seamless integrations and lower latency.
    • Customization for security and compliance. We adapt security controls to ISO 27001, GDPR, and SOC 2 standards and implement encryption, access control, and zero trust security frameworks.
    • Implementation roadmap and phased execution plan. We define a low-risk migration strategy that prioritizes key upgrades, maintains system stability, and minimizes disruption.

    Our well-structured technology realignment improves scalability, security, and system efficiency, ensuring your product remains future-proof without unnecessary rework.

  • Product Evolution

    Maximize scalability, drive innovation, and secure market leadership.

    As user expectations evolve, a lack of modernization drives higher churn, operational inefficiencies, and rising maintenance costs.

    We implement a data-driven product development strategy that ensures seamless expansion, optimized performance, and continuous market relevance.

    Our approach:

    • Strategic feature development. We conduct in-depth behavioral analysis, user segmentation, and A/B testing to prioritize the features that drive adoption, retention, and monetization.
    • Advanced system scalability. We assess and reengineer monolithic architectures, database sharding, and API performance to eliminate bottlenecks and enable seamless growth.
    • Automated deployment optimization. We refine CI/CD pipelines, Infrastructure as Code (IaC), and Kubernetes-based orchestration to shorten release cycles.
    • AI features. We assess which parts of the product benefit from AI, for example, search over your own data or automation of repetitive user tasks. Each feature gets a per-request cost and a metric to measure performance.
    • Strengthening security and compliance. We implement continuous threat detection, upgrade encryption protocols, and automate compliance validation to ensure product integrity.

    Our approach ensures your platform is designed for growth, optimized for efficiency, and built to outperform the competition—not just today, but for years to come.

  • Reconnect Business Priorities

    Align technology with business goals, unleash growth, and maximize ROI.

    Outdated systems often outgrow their original purpose, creating misalignment between technology, business goals, and market demands. As organizations evolve, outdated software architectures, operational inefficiencies, and technical limitations slow down decision-making, hinder innovation, and drive up costs.

    We conduct a holistic assessment of business and technology alignment and ensure that modernization efforts directly contribute to growth, efficiency, and competitive position.

    Our approach:

    • Assessment of stakeholder alignment and business objectives. We sit down with executives, department heads, and operational teams to define strategic goals, key priorities, and expected business outcomes.
    • Technology-enabled value attribution. We assess the limitations, inefficiencies, and hidden costs of legacy systems and identify areas where technology can improve performance, reduce overheads, and drive innovation.
    • Analysis of operational bottlenecks. We analyze inefficient workflows, data silos, and process dependencies to uncover automation opportunities, performance gaps, and cost-saving measures.

    When business goals don’t align with modernization efforts, companies get caught in a cycle of high operating costs. We ensure every modernization initiative is grounded in business logic, cost efficiency, and long-term scalability.

  • Identify Legacy Gaps and Tech Debt

    Uncover hidden risks, eliminate inefficiencies, and regain development agility.

    In most legacy systems, some business logic lives only in the code, and some of the libraries it relies on no longer receive updates. We find these areas and estimate what each one costs you in development time and risk.

    We conduct a comprehensive assessment of technical debt and legacy systems and create a clear modernization roadmap without disrupting ongoing operations.

    Our approach:

    • Dependency mapping. We map what each part of the system connects to, including integrations nobody documented. Your team knows in advance what a change will affect.
    • Outdated components. We list the frameworks and libraries past end of support and estimate the work each upgrade takes. Code without tests or documentation goes on the same list, because it is the riskiest to change.
    • Security and compliance gaps. We check how the old code handles authentication and access, compare it with the standards that apply to you, such as ISO 27001, GDPR, or SOC 2, and rank the gaps by severity.
    • Detection of performance bottlenecks. We profile, optimize queries, and stress-test infrastructure to isolate latency issues, storage leaks, and inefficient processing.
    • Strategic plan to address tech debt. We prioritize critical fixes, low-risk optimizations, and long-term architecture upgrades, gradually reducing tech debt without disrupting operations.

    At the end, you get a list of fixes in priority order, with an effort estimate for each.

  • Define Transformation Roadmap

    Modernizing legacy systems is a high-stakes initiative. Unplanned migrations lead to service outages, security breaches, and escalating costs, jeopardizing business continuity.

    We develop a precisely structured, risk-minimized transformation roadmap that ensures a controlled transition, business continuity, and maximum long-term benefits.

    Our approach:

    • Technology and business alignment assessment. We conduct stakeholder interviews, map system dependencies, and analyze business impact to align modernization efforts with operational goals and revenue drivers.
    • Architecture and migration approach. We define the target architecture and the migration pattern. In most cases, we replace legacy modules one at a time behind a stable interface, so old and new parts run side by side until the switch is complete.
    • Planning phased migration. We structure phased rollouts, blue-green deployments, and parallel-run strategies to minimize downtime and operational risk while ensuring a smooth rollout.
    • Risk management strategy. We implement automated rollback mechanisms, disaster recovery frameworks, and real-time monitoring to protect critical systems from unexpected outages.
    • Benchmarking performance, costs, and security. We perform load testing, cost optimization models, and compliance validation to ensure that the transformation delivers measurable efficiency gains and regulatory compliance.

    Poor execution not only impacts ongoing operations, but also jeopardizes future scalability, innovation, and competitive advantage. Our structured transformation roadmap ensures every decision is data-driven, every milestone is optimized, and every risk is mitigated—delivering a future-proof system that accelerates business growth without disruption.

Our Digital Product Strategy

How Discovery Works

Discovery follows the same six steps for new products, growing products and legacy systems. The depth of each step depends on what already exists.

01.

01. Stakeholder interviews

We interview the people who own the business goals and the people who own the code, then agree on what success looks like for the product.

02.

02. Current state review

For an existing product, we review the code and infrastructure to see what can stay and what limits growth. For a new product, we study competitors and user needs instead.

03.

03. Solution options

We prepare two or three architecture options and show the trade-offs of each in cost and delivery time.

04.

04. Scope and priorities

Together with your team, we split features into what the first release needs and what can wait for later phases.

05.

05. Estimate and roadmap

We estimate development cost and timeline and lay out the releases as phases with milestones.

06.

06. Handover

You receive all documents and a walkthrough session, so your team or any vendor can start development from them.

  • 01. Stakeholder interviews

  • 02. Current state review

  • 03. Solution options

  • 04. Scope and priorities

  • 05. Estimate and roadmap

  • 06. Handover

Engagement Models

Engagement Options From Discovery to Delivery

01

Discovery Sprint

A short, separate project with its own budget. It gives you the documents to plan development, whichever model you choose next.

02

Project-Based Delivery

For products with a scope fixed during discovery. Devox builds the release and manages delivery against the agreed plan.

03

Dedicated Team

For products whose priorities will keep changing after the first release. A team formed around the discovery roadmap works as part of your company and adjusts the plan phase by phase.

04

Build-Operate-Transfer (BOT)

For companies that plan to own their engineering team in the long run. Devox hires the team, builds the product with it and then transfers the team and its processes to your company.

05

Staff Augmentation

For companies with an in-house team that needs extra roles to deliver the roadmap. Devox adds engineers with the specific skills the plan requires.

Value We Provide

Benefits

01

Architects who know where products hit their limits

Discovery is led by a solution architect who has worked with new products, scaling platforms, and legacy systems. They start with the points where products usually reach their limits, from data growth to third-party integrations, and build the architecture decision around them.

02

A direct opinion on scope and feasibility

When research indicates that a feature needs a different approach or that the idea needs another round of validation, we say so during discovery. At this stage, a change of course affects the documents. After development starts, the same change affects code and the release plan.

03

A budget you can defend

The estimate splits the cost by release and links each number to the decision behind it. When investors or the board ask why the first release costs what it does, the answer is already in the documents.

04

A phased plan that keeps the current product running

For growing products and legacy systems, we split changes into phases ranked by business risk and effort. Each phase is planned to leave the system in a working state, so operations continue while the architecture changes.

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A computer vision SDK for predicting road user behavior and enhancing driver safety.

Additional Info

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  • CUDA
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  • Conan
  • TensorRT
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Additional Info

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  • YAML rule engine
  • React 18
  • PostgreSQL
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  • Prometheus
  • Grafana
  • SAML SSO
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United Kingdom United Kingdom

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FAQ

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  • How does your approach differ from internal strategic planning?

    An internal team knows the product well and often has decisions already made about it. We come in without those commitments, review the architecture and the market with fresh eyes, and compare your plans with what we have seen work in similar products.

  • How do you ensure that the strategy remains flexible as market conditions change?

    The roadmap is split into phases, and each phase ends with a review point. There, you can change priorities based on user data or market shifts while the rest of the plan stays in place.

  • What is the real ROI of investing in a structured digital product strategy?

    Discovery costs a small share of the build and prevents the most expensive kind of rework: changing scope or architecture after development has started. You also get an estimate you can plan your budget around.

  • How do you balance speed with long-term scalability?

    We separate what the first release needs from what the product will need at scale. The first release gets only the necessary features, and the architecture leaves room for later phases so your team can extend it.

  • What happens after implementation? Do you offer long-term support?

    A strategy without evolution is a burden. We don’t just deliver a plan; we ensure it adapts as your business evolves. Whether through ongoing consulting, technical audits, or optimization frameworks, we provide structured mechanisms for continuous improvement. The result is a dynamic strategy — one that grows in capability, increases in effectiveness, and stays aligned with your goals at every stage. Reach out, and let’s engineer your next advantage.

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