Orlisses
Process

A process built for real products, not decks.

Six stages, one team. Nothing gets handed off between strategy, design, and engineering — the same people carry the product from discovery through scale.

  1. 01

    Discover

    Understand the business, users, opportunity, and constraints.

    We spend the first weeks understanding how the business actually works: who the product serves, what it competes with internally, and which constraints are real. The output is a shared understanding, not a document nobody reads.

    • Stakeholder interviews
    • User research
    • Opportunity map
    • Constraint review

  2. 02

    Define

    Establish scope, requirements, architecture, priorities, and roadmap.

    Scope becomes explicit. We define the product requirements, the architectural direction, and the sequence of releases — including what is deliberately excluded from the first version.

    • Product requirements
    • Architecture direction
    • Release sequence
    • Roadmap

  3. 03

    Design

    Develop user journeys, wireframes, interfaces, and interactive prototypes.

    Design moves from journeys to structure to interface. Prototypes are used to settle disagreements early, while changing direction is still inexpensive.

    • User journeys
    • Wireframes
    • UI design
    • Interactive prototype
    • Design system

  4. 04

    Build

    Engineer the frontend, backend, APIs, infrastructure, and integrations.

    Engineering runs in short cycles with working software at the end of each one. Infrastructure, testing, and integrations are part of the work, not a phase appended to it.

    • Frontend
    • Backend & APIs
    • Integrations
    • Infrastructure
    • QA

  5. 05

    Launch

    Test, deploy, monitor, and prepare the product for real users.

    Release is treated as an operation: staged rollout, monitoring in place before traffic arrives, and a rollback path that has been tested rather than assumed.

    • Release plan
    • Monitoring
    • Analytics
    • Support handover

  6. 06

    Scale

    Analyze usage, improve performance, expand features, and support growth.

    After launch the questions change. We work from real usage: what people do, where they stop, and which improvements are worth the next cycle of investment.

    • Usage analysis
    • Performance work
    • New capabilities
    • Ongoing engineering

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