Specialized
Productized Solutions
The thing your team keeps rebuilding for every client becomes something you license.
What this engagement is
Services businesses often solve the same problem for the tenth time and realize it's a product. The gap between the tenth bespoke build and a licensable one is mostly architectural, and it doesn't close by accident: tenant isolation, configuration surfaces where customization used to be code, self-service onboarding, and metering that tells you what to bill.
We start with a commonality analysis across your past implementations — what was identical every time, what varied, and what should become configuration. That analysis decides the architecture, and it frequently surprises: the variation clients paid for is often smaller than it felt, and most of it can become settings rather than code.
The platform parts that are painful to retrofit — tenancy, provisioning, plan limits — are built first. The engagement ends with one real customer onboarded through the self-service path while we watch, because an onboarding flow nobody has completed is a hypothesis, not a feature. You leave with a licensable product, its commercial mechanics wired in, and the documentation to operate it.
Who this is for
- Consultancies rebuilding the same solution for each new client
- Companies with an internal tool competitors have asked to buy
- Industry specialists with domain expertise and no software product yet
What you get
- Multi-tenant application with per-tenant isolation
- Configuration layer replacing per-client code changes
- Self-service onboarding and provisioning flow
- Usage metering and licensing enforcement
- Deployment pipeline and operational documentation
Scope
Exactly what the quoted price covers
The scope document for this engagement lists both columns below in writing. Nothing moves between them without a conversation.
Included in the engagement
- Commonality analysis across your previous implementations
- Multi-tenant architecture with data isolation and tenant-level configuration
- Self-service onboarding, provisioning, and tenant admin
- Metering, plan limits, and licensing enforcement
- One real customer onboarded through the self-service path before handover
Not included
- Your pricing strategy and sales motion — we'll advise, but you decide
- Payment processor fees and billing platform costs
- Ongoing product development after the first tenant is live
Working together
What we need from you
Fixed dates only hold when both sides show up. These are the commitments we ask for in exchange for ours.
- 01
Access to two or three past implementations and the people who delivered them
- 02
A candidate first customer willing to onboard through the new flow
- 03
A decision on what the product will and won't do for tenants
Process
How it runs
- 01
Commonality analysis
Across your past implementations: what was identical, what varied, and what should become configuration.
- 02
Platform build
Tenancy, configuration, and provisioning built first — the parts that are painful to retrofit later.
- 03
Commercial mechanics
Metering, plan limits, and licensing enforcement wired in and tested.
- 04
First tenant
One real customer onboarded through the self-service path, with us watching, before handover.
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Scope a productized solutions engagement.
Send us the situation in a few sentences. You'll get a scope, a price, and a date back — or an honest no.