Discovery & requirements
1–2 sprintsDeconstruct the operational bottleneck and determine technical feasibility before committing to a build.
Key activities
- Stakeholder interviews to map existing manual workflows, decisions, and pain points.
- Source data hygiene inspection, schema evaluation, and volume/cardinality analysis.
- Evaluation of deterministic code versus AI automation trade-offs. Not every problem needs a model.
- A preliminary architecture draft and explicit interface boundaries.
Deliverable
Technical requirements specification and discovery summary