Clearly defining your product ideas
The discovery phase refines vague ideas and identifies your requirements. Resulting in a structured plan prior to development.
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Our case studies
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Our clients say
Total reviews
45+
Average rating
4.9 
Source
Sheamus McGovern 
Founder & CEO at ODSC
“What stood out most about Ralabs was their attention to detail and ability to keep the project on time and budget. The end client was happy with Ralabs’ work. The team performed exceptionally and delivered high-quality work.”
Ollie Maitland 
Co-Founder & CPO at Capitalise
“We’ve worked with Ralabs to add an additional team alongside our core engineering and products teams. They have worked closely with us becoming fully integrated with us and delivering an excellent standard of architecture and engineering expertise.”
Jeff Wallace
Co-Founder at Silicon Valley in Your Pocket
“We are thrilled to have such a knowledgeable, skilled and collaborative team in Ralabs as we build our business into the future. They helped us to create an excellent solution, one that met our early pilot needs but that was also scalable to meet our long-term requirements.”
Aaron Brooks
Managing Director and Co-Founder at WayThru Innovations
“Big shoutout to Ralabs for their outstanding support! The team’s commitment to our projects has been remarkable, and we’ve found a great partner in them. The Team Lead’s dedication is commendable, ensuring smooth collaboration.”
Rhodes Kriske
Marketing Director at WayThru Innovations
“Ralabs consistently delivers high-quality outputs, and they’re able to mitigate any risks to the web app. The team is responsive from a project management standpoint, and internal stakeholders are particularly impressed with their innovative approach to design.”
Michael Brady 
COO at CR2
“Ralabs’ developers have succeeded in furthering the development process, resulting in a faster product launch. The team is talented and engaged, making for afree-flowing engagement. Their involvement was critical in helping us deliver our products to the market.”
Ian Atkins
Co-Founder & COO at Choosing Therapy
“Ralabs truly cared about the products being built and the mission of ChoosingTherapy.com. Working with Ralabs feels like your working with an extension of your own team. Every team member was invested in our mission.”
Jonas Bertelsen 
Chief Product Officer (CPO) at Cludo
“Working with the team was an experience in precision, expertise, and dedication. Their technical acumen ensured our GPT-Powered Q&A Chat was not only functional but ahead of the curve. We are proud to have collaborated with such a proficient team.”
Sam O’Brien
Co-Founder & Product Lead at Fillit
“Ralabs’ efforts resulted in the integration of DocuSign into the client’s contracting process, onboarding a new client in multiple markets, and clearing a backlog of tickets. The team’s project management, proactive approach, timeliness, and communication were hallmarks of their work.”
Steven Flynn
CEO, Founder at Skytango
“All problems from a previous developer were solved by Ralabs, resulting in a stable system that has improved the overall platform. Ralabs made the collaboration an effortless process for a competitive price.”
Muhamad Gamal El Dean
Senior Project Manager at APC Ltd.
“Working with Ralabs was a great experience. They helped us connect several systems, ensuring our data stayed synchronized across all platforms we use. “
Alina Tivadar
Associate Project Manager at APC Ltd.
“Ralabs was recommended by our network, and they turned out to be exactly what we needed. Their relevant experience and domain knowledge matched everything we were looking for. “
Matthew Rossi
CEO at Katara AI
“Working with Ralabs has been a great experience. The team helped us successfully launch our agentic workflow automation platform. Their team, especially their brilliant Go engineer, greatly improved our development processes and took on leadership role.”
Gil Plotnizky
Co-Founder and Director at Equilibrio
“We had an amazing experience working with Ralabs.org on our website from day one, their team was professional, efficient, and truly understood our needs—covering everything from design to operations, reservations, and financial integrations with third-party software.”
Dr. Philip Cabréus
Founder & CEO at Atlas Well
“Thanks to Ralabs’ efforts, the client has achieved a 99% system uptime and enhanced security. The team has also streamlined the client’s CI/CD pipeline, allowing them to push new features weekly and secure paying customers after the launch.”
Michael Stone
Head of Engineering and Product at StrideUp
“The team has communicated fantastically and provided timely deliverables throughout the engagement. Ralabs’ flexibility is a hallmark of their performance.”
Artem Arutyunyan 
Head of Digital at Media Development Foundation
“With our High-load News Media project, we have reached our goals to increase analytics by rebuilding the infrastructure, boosting the performance of the website, and improving the news cloud panel for our journalists. Hromadske.ua is extremely thankful and satisfied with the costs spent since the results we gained are perfect.”
Step away from guesswork and into a more carefully structured discovery approach
Using collaboration, we eliminate assumptions, ensuring clarity from the onset of the project.
Business analysts, designers, developers, and managers collaborate to conduct research, providing a sustainable roadmap.
01
To back up bold ideas
Before you start investing in a new product, learn everything about the risks, goals, and what is going on with the market.
02
To broaden new ones
Have a wild idea but wonder if it’s possible to code it to life? We’ll get you a tech pro who will walk you through the process.
While ambition drives vision, our dedicated team ensures execution.
Business Analyst
Expertise in data collection, Interpretation, and solution formulation. Engaged in finding suited solutions for your business.
Solution Architect
Identifies technical solutions for your product, complementing the business analysis.
UI/UX Design Lead
Specializes in creating stand out mockups and prototypes using Figma.
Engagement Lead
Aligns your requirements with the team’s capabilities.
Project Manager
Oversees project timelines and ensures deliverables are met.
| Tech Consultation | Project Scan | Product Discovery | Proof of Concept / MVP | |
| A free of charge consultation followed by some tech suggestions. | A tech audit aimed to define the points of improvements followed by an action plan on how to implement them. | A deep research to get you started on the custom software development process in the most productive way. | A limited-budget working product/solution that provides immediate value quickly, while minimizing costs. | |
| Overview | ||||
| Duration: | 1 week | 1-3 weeks | 3-5 weeks | Let’s talk |
| Price: | Free | 3k USD* | 5k USD* | |
| Payment terms: | 50% upfront | 50% upfront | ||
| Features | ||||
| Tech expert consultation | ||||
| Risks and limitations review | ||||
| UI/UX review | ||||
| Code & Antipatterns review | ||||
| Infrastructure & CI/CD check | ||||
| Ralabs Tech Quality Standard audit | ||||
| Tech stack definition | ||||
| Team composition proposal | ||||
| Tech requirements definition | ||||
| High level architecture creation | ||||
| Business Analysis report | ||||
| User experience research | ||||
| Design concept (1-2 pages) | ||||
| Milestones definition | ||||
| Ballpark Project estimate | ||||
| PoC creation and validation | ||||
| Architecture definition | ||||
| Clickable UI/UX prototype | ||||
| High level tech suggestions | |
| Tech expert consultation | |
| Risks and limitations review |
| Duration: | 1 week |
| Price: | Free |
| High level tech suggestions | |
| Tech expert consultation | |
| Risks and limitations review | |
| UI/UX review | |
| Code & Antipatterns review | |
| Infrastructure & CI/CD check | |
| Ralabs Tech Quality Standard audit | |
| Tech stack definition | |
| Team composition proposal |
| Duration: | 1-3 weeks |
| Price: | 3k USD* |
| Payment terms: *Free if we carry on | 50% upfront |
| High level tech suggestions | |
| Tech expert consultation | |
| Risks and limitations review | |
| UI/UX review | |
| Code & Antipatterns review | |
| Infrastructure & CI/CD check | |
| Ralabs Tech Quality Standard audit | |
| Tech stack definition | |
| Team composition proposal | |
| Tech requirements definition | |
| High level architecture creation | |
| Business Analysis report | |
| User experience research | |
| Design concept (1-2 pages) | |
| Milestones definition | |
| Ballpark Project estimate |
| Duration: | 3-5 weeks |
| Price: | 5k USD* |
| Payment terms:*Free if we carry on | 50% upfront |
| High level tech suggestions | |
| Tech expert consultation | |
| Risks and limitations review | |
| UI/UX review | |
| Code & Antipatterns review | |
| Infrastructure & CI/CD check | |
| Ralabs Tech Quality Standard audit | |
| Tech stack definition | |
| Team composition proposal | |
| Tech requirements definition | |
| High level architecture creation | |
| Business Analysis report | |
| User experience research | |
| Design concept (1-2 pages) | |
| Milestones definition | |
| Ballpark Project estimate | |
| PoC creation and validation | |
| Architecture definiton | |
| Clickable UI/UX prototype | |
| Let’s talk | |
FAQ​
The Discovery Phase is a process that takes place before kicking off the project. In the other words you can call it sprint ZERO. This phase is sure to help the team to understand the scope of the project, your target audience and what it takes to deliver a successful outcome. Spent time on preparation lead to much more efficient time to market.
The business analysis report identifies the technical and non-technical (business) requirements of a solution. It is an evaluation of current goals and how to reach them, what need to be included, milestones, scope decomposition and high level estimates of efforts.
Three choices you have for a design concept:
- UI design in Figma (1-2 pages)
- Detailed wireframes illustrating the main flow
- Comprehensive informational structure
It’s popular to opt for the first two, but our designers recommend beginning with the third for a holistic view.
We want to make sure your project is built right. That’s why we do a technical audit, with an internal custom tool that evaluates the engineering practices, methodology, UX/UI design, database infrastructure, quality assurance, security architecture, and much more.
“Free if we proceed” entails the initial evaluation phase. If you choose to progress, this amount is credited to future invoices, essentially serving as an advance payment.
Skipping out the discovery phase could initially appear cost-effective. Our experience shows this could lead to increased expenses and potential project setbacks.
The price of our digital product discovery services is influenced by several factors, such as your project’s scope, functionality, intricacy, and the research duration. On average, the discovery phase accounts for 10 to 40% of your total project budget.
Product strategy services, known as the discovery stage, are usually conducted by such experts as business analysts, senior software developers, UI/UX designers, and project managers.
The number and type of people involved in your project are completely dependent on your project’s objectives. The team you choose should be able to share your project vision and build up a clear project management process to tailor all the development stages later on.