Diagnosis & rollout
When Should Custom Software Begin with Paid Discovery?
Decide whether a project is ready for planning and estimation or needs workflow mapping, data inventory, and a small pilot to reduce complex delivery risk.
A project with clear requirements and acceptance criteria can move directly into planning and estimation. Paid discovery becomes useful when roles, data sources, business rules, and existing systems create uncertainty. The customer's difficulty is often knowing the desired outcome without understanding how data, exceptions, and ownership affect cost. AgentTech discovery turns those unknowns into workflow maps, a data inventory, priorities, and an acceptance-ready scope.
First determine whether the project is ready to plan
An initial consultation confirms the business goal, primary users, existing tools, budget, and timing. Clear boundaries, data sources, and acceptance criteria can move directly into planning and estimation.
When several roles, tools, data sources, or exception paths are involved, deeper interviews and current-state mapping may be needed before translating symptoms into features.
What AgentTech discovery delivers
Diagnosis is not a decorative presentation. It creates the shared baseline for investment and scope, showing where the problem occurs, why one workflow comes first, and how improvement will be measured.
For example, if a company wants to connect LINE, spreadsheets, and an existing ERP, AgentTech would not assume a full rebuild. Interviews with sales, service, and finance would identify shared fields, exception paths, and data ownership before proposing one workflow to validate first.
- Current-state workflow, roles, and system boundaries
- Duplicate work, delay, errors, and opportunity-cost analysis
- Data and tool inventory
- Priorities, pilot scope, and acceptance metrics
- Delivery options, risks, timeline, and estimating basis
Diagnosis also identifies what not to build
Sometimes the right answer is configuration, data governance, or delaying automation until a workflow stabilizes. That is valuable because it keeps budget away from the wrong problem.
Even if another team performs the implementation, a clear diagnosis should remain useful for comparing proposals and handing work over.
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