Our comprehensive approach minimizes uncertainties by thoroughly vetting the product idea through market research, competitor analysis, and stakeholder feedback. This proactive strategy mitigates the likelihood of costly revisions or market misalignment. By understanding customer needs and industry trends early, you reduce the chance of launching a product that underperforms or fails to meet expectations.
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PRODUCT DISCOVERY SERVICE
What we offer
Product discovery is a starting point of digital product development. It’s a complex process that includes several stages – each one with its purposes and outcomes. The uniting mission is to define and understand the end user and develop an app that fits the market, meets user expectations, and remains competitive.
The discovery phase reveals all the strongest and the weakest sides of your product idea. Working with them eliminates turnarounds in the future, removes unnecessary features, improves the design, and reduces other time and money-consuming actions. After the discovery process, you’ll have an outline for the main features of your product, prototypes, cost and time estimates, and team composition recommendation.
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Our product discovery services
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Product discovery phase
Discovery phase services for product development have, at their core, thorough research to clarify your product’s vision, target audience, and market landscape. We identify potential challenges and opportunities, ensuring your product finds its niche. This research serves as the foundation for all future product decisions, guiding strategy and execution.
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Proof of concept
Prototyping and testing validate your concept early on. By assessing core functionality and identifying potential risks, we help mitigate unnecessary costs and mistakes. Early testing ensures that your decisions are informed, reducing the chance of missteps later in the development process.
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UI/UX prototyping
Our UI/UX prototyping process brings your product to life before its official release. Providing discovery phase services, we focus on creating intuitive, user-friendly designs, relying on continuous user feedback to refine and enhance the product. Each iteration brings the product closer to market-readiness, making it more competitive and user-oriented.
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MVP development
We develop and launch a Minimum Viable Product (MVP) to gather real-world user feedback. This input allows for rapid iterations, enabling us to refine features and add functionality as needed. Our Agile approach to discovery phase services ensures flexibility, allowing your product to evolve effectively based on user insights.
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Software audit
Our software audit process ensures the highest levels of maintainability. We conduct a comprehensive review of the software’s architecture, infrastructure, and codebase. By addressing audit recommendations early, we improve your software’s reliability and long-term performance.
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Software development consulting
With our product discovery software consulting, you get expert recommendations tailored to your project. We offer clear, actionable advice on technology stacks, methodologies, and best practices. This guidance helps streamline the development process, ensuring you’re prepared for a successful market entry.
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Product discovery service: Deliverables you will get
As a result, after a project discovery stage, you get from us certain deliverables. They will be your road map during the development process and all the decisions regarding it.
Interactive prototypes
The core pages of your product and its functionality are tested with clickable prototypes. The pages look exactly like the ones of the future app. The prototype development relies on a deep UX analysis.Time and cost estimates
The time and cost estimate we provide you with is complex but easy to understand. It’s decided by features so that you can be flexible and completely aware of all the parts of the development process, and manage your investments properly. -
Core features
We provide you with a list of the main functionality of your product. With it, you can enter the market and start collecting feedback and getting your audience. All the additional and optional features might be added as updates.
Team composition recommendation
Having a core features list, we can get a picture of a tech stack and give you recommendations for composing a development team. We rely on your resources and time and cost estimates.Product specification
It’s a complex, detailed, and well-structured document that outlines the idea of the product and its purpose. It includes the requirements we’ve discovered, data we’ve collected, and lists we’ve composed during product discovery services.
Benefits of our product discovery service
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Lower risks
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Reduced cost
Focusing on essential features during the initial stages allows for smart budgeting and resource allocation. Our phased development strategy enables you to launch quickly, learn from real user feedback, and scale the product later without wasting resources on features that don’t add immediate value. This lean approach helps control costs while still delivering impactful product discovery solutions.
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Data-powered decisions
Our in-depth analysis, from market research to user persona development, empowers you with actionable insights. You’ll have a clear understanding of your target market and user expectations, enabling you to base product decisions on hard data rather than assumptions. This allows for a more strategic roadmap that adapts to evolving market conditions.
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Clear estimate
We provide precise timelines and cost projections broken down by key milestones and deliverables. This enables more effective project management, including aligning with investors, planning marketing initiatives, and preparing for product launch. Transparency in these estimates allows for better risk management and informed decision-making throughout the product lifecycle.
Our product discovery process
Don’t rely on guesswork
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Daryna Chorna
Customer success manager
What our clients say
4.8
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Berkeley Lights
VP of Software
USA
“Blackthorn Vision has been involved from the beginning. They’ve done almost all the software development on this product. Their professionalism distinguishes them. Blackthorn Vision’s teammates are good listeners and good workers.”
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ANC
Chief technology officer
USA
“They work to help develop our company instead of only being a third-party service provider. As a result, they've become a part of our company, which is very cool. Blackthorn Vision has shown that they're willing to go beyond the call of duty to do their job.”
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Sensia
Digital Architect, Web-Based IoT Platform
USA
“The quality of the work and engagement has been so good. They go beyond simply executing a task, story or test and are genuinely interested in understanding what the end user wants/needs.”
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Index.dev
Director of Technical Recruitment & AMD Team
UK
“One of the most impressive facts about Blackthorn is that they are very sustainable and stable partner. Good communication, good dedication for their job, and taking a lot of responsibility on their project.”
What makes us a great choice for product discovery services
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Dedication to client’s success
We are not just another product discovery services provider; we are your strategic partner. Our team immerses itself in your project, working alongside you to drive success. By anticipating potential roadblocks and providing proactive solutions, we ensure your project stays on course. Our focus is on long-term value creation, ensuring that your business scales and succeeds. That’s why our customer satisfaction score reaches 95% with an average engagement of 5+ years.
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Proven
expertiseWe’ve been building up tech expertise since 2009. With over a decade of industry experience, Blackthorn Vision’s experts possess the technical and strategic know-how to navigate complex development challenges. Our proficiency extends beyond conventional technologies, enabling us to offer cutting-edge solutions tailored to your industry’s specific needs. This versatility ensures that you benefit from software product discovery services that best align with your goals.
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Unique
talentsWe cultivate talent that pushes boundaries and embraces innovation. Our recruitment practices ensure that only top-tier engineers, with both academic excellence and hands-on experience, join our ranks. Additionally, we foster continuous learning and development within our team, ensuring our talent stays ahead of industry trends. Our high retention rates demonstrate a workplace where passion and expertise thrive.The pursuit of excellence earned us a reputation as a reliable employer that keeps retention at 87%, with 1/5 of employees engaged for 7+ years.
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Strong corporate
cultureOur collaborative, values-driven culture is central to how we operate. We believe that open communication fosters innovation and accountability. Our team is committed to building meaningful, long-term relationships with clients, driven by shared values of integrity, transparency, and commitment. This cultural alignment makes us a product discovery services partner you can trust from the first meeting to project completion and beyond.
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Product discovery: FAQ
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What is product discovery?
It is the first stage of product development. This stage intends to collect information about the project to define its vision, aims, and scope. After the product discovery, software development goes smoothly, and the client saves significant costs and time.
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How much time does the product discovery services take?
Usually, product discovery services last from several weeks to several months. This time depends on the complexity of the project you need to discover and the specifics of the market you are about to enter.
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What problems can solve the product discovery service?
Product discovery services help you validate your business idea and clarify the value you can bring to customers. It saves you from unnecessary costs and resources spent on building unimportant features.
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