Predictable delivery, from first sketch to scale.
Krapton runs every engagement on the same six-step rhythm — built to keep timelines honest, quality gated and surprises out of your inbox. Here's exactly what you get at every stage.
The lifecycle in one frame
One continuous track from idea to scale.
Six phases, one rhythm. Each phase has explicit deliverables, a duration band and a quality gate before the next phase unlocks.
- 01DiscoverDiscovery & Strategy3–5 days
- 02DesignArchitecture & UX Design1–2 weeks
- 03BuildAgile Development4–16 weeks
- 04VerifyQA, Performance & SecurityContinuous
- 05LaunchDeployment & Go-Live2–4 days
- 06ScaleSupport & Continuous GrowthOngoing
Six-step process
What happens, week by week.
Click through each phase or let it auto-advance — the visual on the right is unique to each stage of the engagement. Hover anywhere on the showcase to pause.
Discovery & Strategy
We start by understanding your business, users and constraints — not by guessing the stack.
- Stakeholder interviews & goals
- Competitive & technical audit
- Success metrics defined
- Product brief signed off
Deep-dive · phase by phase
Six deliverables. Six accountabilities.
Every phase ships a concrete artefact, has an owner on our side and clears a gate before the next phase unlocks.
- DiscoverDiscover3–5 days·4 deliverables
Discovery & Strategy
We start by understanding your business, users and constraints — not by guessing the stack.
- Stakeholder interviews & goals
- Competitive & technical audit
- Success metrics defined
- Product brief signed off
- DesignDesign1–2 weeks·4 deliverables
Architecture & UX Design
Solid foundations — design systems, API contracts, schemas and infra topology before a line of code.
- High-fidelity Figma flows
- System & data architecture
- Component library / design tokens
- Sprint plan & RACI matrix
- BuildBuild4–16 weeks·4 deliverables
Agile Development
1–2 week sprints, daily standups, shippable demos every Friday — your team sees real progress every week.
- CI/CD from sprint #1
- Feature flags & branch previews
- Code reviews + RFCs on PRs
- Weekly progress demos
- VerifyVerifyContinuous·4 deliverables
QA, Performance & Security
Quality is gated, not crossed-fingers. Every release goes through automated, manual and performance checkpoints.
- Unit + E2E test coverage
- Lighthouse / Core Web Vitals gate
- OWASP Top-10 review
- Load & accessibility audits
- LaunchLaunch2–4 days·4 deliverables
Deployment & Go-Live
Zero-downtime cutover with clear rollback plans, runbooks and 24/7 monitoring on day one.
- Cloud infra (AWS/GCP/Azure)
- Observability & alerting
- Runbooks & on-call rota
- Release notes & handover
- ScaleScaleOngoing·4 deliverables
Support & Continuous Growth
Beyond launch — monthly retainers, performance optimisation, feature add-ons and stack modernisation.
- SLA-backed support
- 24h incident response
- Quarterly tech reviews
- Roadmap & growth backlog
Every release must clear these gates.
Quality is gated, not crossed-fingers. Numbers, not vibes — every score below is enforced in CI on every push to main.
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coverage
findings
Operating principles
Non-negotiables on every engagement.
The process is the surface; these are the rules underneath. They're what make the process actually predictable instead of just nicely diagrammed.
- P/01
Fixed-scope, fixed-budget
Phases are scoped before kickoff with a written SoW. No surprise change orders mid-sprint.
- P/02
You own everything, day one
IP transfer signed before commit #1. Code, docs, design files and infra are yours — transferable, unencumbered.
- P/03
Senior-only delivery
Every engagement is led by engineers with 5+ years of production experience. No juniors billed as seniors.
- P/04
One PM, one Slack channel
A single dedicated project manager owns delivery. No vendor sprawl, no chasing inboxes.
FAQ
Process questions, answered.
Same process. Your project.
Tell us what you're building and we'll come back within 24 hours with a tailored plan, milestones and a senior engineer ready to start.