Proof of Concept
One goal, a fixed deadline, a result in writing. We test it on your system and your data. A negative result is still a result. And we stand behind it too.
The same question returns before every significant technology decision: will this work on our landscape, with our data and our interfaces. An answer from a vendor deck settles nothing, because it describes somebody else's system. A Proof of Concept gives you an answer tested on yours, before anyone signs a project contract.
Goal
One sentence that can be settled: what has to work, and under what condition. Not “we will explore the options”, but for example “the conversion completes inside a weekend window, with no data loss”.
Criteria
We agree up front what counts as success and what counts as failure. Without that, every PoC ends in the word “promising”.
Schedule and budget
A start date, a report date and a number, agreed before the first line of code. Usually a few weeks, with a weekly checkpoint. A PoC that keeps growing stops being a PoC and becomes a project without a contract.
Environment
A separate AWS account, rebuildable from code, deletable with one command. Nothing is left behind in your infrastructure.
Build and measure
We build the smallest thing that settles the goal, and measure exactly what the criteria named.
Result and decision
The report says plainly whether it worked, and why. If it did not, you have the answer for a fraction of the cost of the project that would have failed.