Setting your project up for success from the start

You've got a great idea - let's make it a reality

You’ve spotted a gap in the market, or a problem that needs solving. You’ve come up with an idea for a game-changing digital product to solve that problem – you want to change the world!

And we want to help you.

From idea to validation in a matter of weeks

Building the right product, fast.

Collectively, we have a century’s worth of experience in building, launching and scaling apps and can take your vision and turn it into a working MVP in under 16 weeks.

We kick off every project with an intensive discovery session – to minimise the risk of building the wrong thing and get everyone on the same page.

Rapid launch of a fully functioning product – we can launch any MVP in 12-16 weeks. If we’re late, we will work for free!
No nasty surprises – we’ll commit to a fixed price allowing you to easily budget for product development.
Experience and focus – we’re a team of expert developers, committed to continuous improvement and learning.
Launch and beyond – our work doesn’t stop at launch day, and we’ll continue to support you and scale your product as your business grows.

We call this journey from idea to validation the Pragmatic Launch – a proven process we’ve refined working on projects just like yours over the last decade.

“CookiesHQ helped us create a new, ambitious project from scratch. They were really invested and truly shared our vision. They are pragmatic, highly competent and – crucially – nice to work with!”
- George Rendel, Founder of Examfit

What to expect?

Our app development process

We have a simple four step process to help you build and launch your big idea – on time and in budget. You can feel confident that you’ll see real progress happening from day one, and you’ll always be kept in the loop on the development of your app through weekly meetings as we build.

STEP 1: THE DISCOVERY SESSION

Get to know each other

We start with a discovery session – a day of exploring your product idea together with our designers, developers and business experts.

We’ll examine your proposition: Target market, features, monetisation model, metrics, growth plans.

The aim is to validate all aspects of your project and ultimately, determine what should be, and more importantly what shouldn’t be included in your MVP.

We know there’s significant risk in building the wrong thing. This is why we believe this is the most important phase in any project.

You can read more about the Discovery Session here.

STEP 2: TECHNICAL DELIVERY PLAN

A clear plan of action

Following our discovery session, we produce a technical delivery plan, detailing user stories and our recommended choice of technologies and software, as well as an outline of the design and development sprints.

Your project requirements and your users come first when determining our recommendations for the tech stack. We will build a pragmatic launch plan, taking into account your deadlines and budget.

Technical recommendations, Epics and Features plan, high-level user flows and hight-level database schema, everything is included, so we’re sure we’re both inline with the product that needs building.

With a strong plan in place, you now have a clear idea of how we intend to bring your concept to life.

An in-depth paper documenting prioritised sets of user needs, tech specifics and business goals.

STEP 3: The Agile Build

Working together

The next step is to find the right people to work on your project. Our teams usually include a back-end developer, a front-end developer, a designer and a project manager, who work by your side for the whole duration of the project.

Working according to an Agile methodology in two-week sprints, we start to build your app one story at a time. You will be able to follow our progress in real-time thanks to our daily release to your test environments. You will meet multiple times a week with our project manager and at least once per sprint with the whole team to ensure that, not only your product is moving in the right direction, but also to ensure that our team is constantly aligned with your goals and can take a proactive approach in their recommendations.

You will get to know us, we will get to know you, and, together we will build something successful.

STEP 4: LAUNCH & BEYOND

Maintenance & support as you scale

The launch of your project doesn’t bring our collaboration to an end.

When your application is launched, as your technical partners, we will help you analyse user feedback, refine future development phases and scale your product based on your business and customers needs.

We typically work on further improvements in 10 days sprints, launching new features incrementally. We’re also sometimes called be represented as CTOs on investment deck.

Then, when the time comes to build your own in house team, we will help you recruit the right people and ensure a smooth handover. And you can feel confident knowing we’ve built a codebase they’re going to love working on.

We continue to be part of your story and offer our full support once your product goes live.

“Right from the initial session, it was clear that CookiesHQ were the right choice. Their openness is invaluable, far removed from a conventional ‘client-agency’ dynamic.”
- Jon Fletcher, Co-founder of Big Clean Switch

Tell us about your project...

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