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Four plain templates and checklists for briefing, scoping and choosing a software team. No sign-up and no email gate: tick them off here, copy them, or download them as Markdown.

Start with the brief Read the guides

01TemplateBest for: before you contact a team for the first time

Project brief

A one-page brief that gets you a useful first answer from any software team. Rough answers are fine.

The goal

What do you want to achieve, and why now?
How will you know it worked?

The users

Who will use it?
What do they do today instead?

What already exists

Existing systems, code or tools the new work must connect to
Anything that must not change

Constraints

Deadlines or events that shape the timeline
A budget range, if you have one

Anything else

Examples you like, and what you like about them
Past experiences or concerns we should know about

02ChecklistBest for: before you commit to a plan or a price

MVP scoping checklist

Decide what goes in the first release, and what honestly does not. Most MVPs are late because the scope never got cut.

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The problem

The scope

Success

Practicalities

03ChecklistBest for: while you compare teams or quotes

Questions to ask any software team

Ask these of every team you consider, including us. Good teams are happy to answer them plainly.

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Process

Ownership

Money

Quality

Fit

04TemplateBest for: when something you use is not working

Problem report

Fill this in and a bug can usually be found in one round instead of three. Works for any software, not just ours.

What happened

Product or project, and whether it is live or a test version
What you expected to happen
What happened instead

When

When it started
How often it happens

How to reproduce it

The steps, in order, if you know them
The device, browser or app version

Evidence

Error messages, logs or screenshots

Impact

How many people or how much work is affected
How urgent it is, and why

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Send it to us and we will take it from there

Paste your brief into the contact form, or tell us what template you wish existed. Either way, a real person reads it.

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