"Discovery" is a word that has been used to sell a lot of meetings. Ours has a fixed output, and the client owns all of it regardless of what happens next.
The five deliverables
- The process as it works today, written down from watching it, not from being told about it.
- Flows for the paths that matter, at a level of detail an engineer could implement from.
- An architecture sketch, including the integrations and their measured behaviour.
- A data model at the level of entities and relationships.
- A sequenced plan with a demo date on every sprint and a price that does not move.
Why the price can be fixed
Because the unknowns were spent in the same week they were found. Fixed price goes wrong when the number is set before anyone understands the problem; then the studio pads and every change becomes a negotiation.
Fixed price is not a pricing trick. It is what becomes possible once the scoping is real work.
The section clients read twice
Out of scope. Listing what will not be built is the fastest way to surface the assumption someone was carrying silently, and it always surfaces at least one.