Services, phase 01 of 04
Assess
We dissect your challenge to find the real problem hiding beneath.
Relevant for → Regulatory compliance→ Fintech and trading→ US to EU expansion
Scope
What we do
Deep discovery that surfaces hidden complexity, regulatory constraints, and architectural debt before a single line of code is written.
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Assess
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02
Architect
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03
Build
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04
Evolve
- Stakeholder interviews
- Regulatory research
- Integration mapping
- Compliance gap analysis
- Technical due diligence
- Build-vs-buy analysis
- Vendor evaluation
- Risk assessment
- Architecture review
- Technology stack evaluation
Deliverables
What you leave with
- Technical specification document
- Architecture blueprint
- Regulatory requirements checklist
- Risk matrix
- Implementation roadmap with milestones
- Budget framework
- Vendor recommendations
- Go/no-go decision criteria
- Typical timeline
- 2-4 weeks
Why this phase matters
Most failed projects fail before coding begins.
Requirements documents miss regulatory constraints, architecture decisions get made without understanding integration complexity, budgets rest on assumptions, and timelines ignore how long compliance approvals take.
We have seen companies burn €200K rebuilding systems that were architected without proper discovery. The Assess phase exists to make sure that does not happen to you.
In regulated industries, getting it wrong costs money and more: compliance violations, failed audits and delayed launches compound quickly. A thorough assessment surfaces these risks while they are still cheap to address.
We have spent fifteen years watching what breaks, what scales and what regulators actually check. That experience goes into assessments that document requirements and anticipate problems.
Featured case study
wb-check.de
Before building Germany’s first automated transparency register tool, we spent 6 weeks mapping every regulatory requirement, edge case, and integration point.
Regulatory compliance
- Compliance violations
- Zero
- Verification time
- Weeks → minutes