What we do · Build

Prototype

Four weeks from idea to a working, clickable product your fee earners and clients can try, and the evidence to proceed, pivot or pause before a full build.

4 weeks3 phases1 validated concept
Week 1 · The scope

We cut the idea down to the journeys that prove it

A concept workshop with the partners and fee earners behind the idea: the core value for the end client, the two or three user journeys that show it.

Weeks 2-3 · The build

Real prototypes your fee earners can click through

Rapid agile sprints on the foundations we use in production: real screens, real flows and simulated matter data, reviewed with you every few days.

Week 4 · Validation

Fee earners and clients use it while we watch

Sessions with the people who would use it day to day, and a small group of trusted clients where it helps. Evidence gathering so you can see what works.

The verdict · Proceed, pivot or pause

A decision with the evidence attached

A validation report and a recommendation the partnership can act on as a next step.

The build · Four weeks

Idea to clickable in a month

Three phases, hard-scoped to four weeks: long enough to build something real, short enough that changing course costs a month at most. Each phase leaves a working document behind.

Phase 01 · Week 1

Cut the idea down until it fits four weeks

The concept workshop ends with an MVP specification that is deliberately small: the core value for the end client, the two or three journeys that prove it, and a Later list for everything else. That discipline is what makes the month possible.

  • Core value separated from the nice-to-haves
  • User journeys mapped with the delivery team
  • Technical feasibility checked before the build starts
Phase 02 · Weeks 2-3

Build the screens people will actually click

Two rapid agile sprints turn the specification into a working product: real screens, real flows and simulated matter data, built on the foundations we use in production. You see it working every few days and steer it as it grows.

  • Clickable end to end, on real devices
  • Reviewed with you every few days
  • Built to carry on into a full build
Phase 03 · Week 4

Put it in front of fee earners and clients

The people who would use it day to day work through set tasks while we watch, and a small group of trusted clients joins where it helps. Every task is timed, every hesitation noted, and the findings are written up with the evidence behind them.

  • Task-based sessions with fee earners
  • Trusted clients invited in where it helps
  • Usability and adoption findings written up
Session notes · Due diligenceTime on task
  1. Associate · Corporate

    Found the change of control consents without being shown where to look.

    Task 1 · 0:38
  2. Partner

    Wanted the red-flag report to go out on the firm's letterhead.

    Task 3 · 1:12
  3. Client · General counsel

    Asked what the non-compete means for the rest of their group.

    Task 2 · 2:05
  4. PSL

    Checked that the playbook wording matches the firm's precedent.

    Task 2 · 0:51
The verdict · End of week 4

Proceed, pivot or pause

The month ends with a recommendation the partnership can act on: proceed to a full build with the plan attached, pivot the concept with the changes named, or pause with the lessons written down for the next idea.

  • A recommendation with the reasons attached
  • A full build estimate if the answer is proceed
  • Every finding kept for the next idea
What you leave with

Evidence you can hold in your hand

  • MVP specification

    The core value, the features and the user journeys: the document a full build starts from.

  • The prototype

    A working, clickable product with the key features and client touchpoints. Yours to keep showing.

  • Validation report

    What users did, what they said and what the sessions show about adoption, analysed and written up.

  • The recommendation

    Proceed, pivot or pause, with the reasons attached.

From our work

The team that builds the prototype builds the product

Prototypes are built by the team that takes products to production, on the same foundations, so a proceed verdict carries straight into the full build. Every shortlisted team in the Global Innovation Accelerator left with a clickable prototype they had tested with real users.

Read the Accelerator case studyWhat a full build involves

Platform value prototyped
£5M+
Weeks, on average, to a prototype
4
UK firms among our clients
Top 20
The first step

Put your idea in front of users

Bring the idea and the people who would use it. We will bring the build.