Scope GroundOperated by Reality Contact, LLC

Technical discovery and estimate dossier

Ground the build range in the system that actually exists.

Scope Ground maps one critical workflow and three estimate-invalidating unknowns at no charge. The paid dossier connects current state, architecture options, technical probes, dependencies, work packages, assumptions, estimate range, and acceptance.

Free critical-path dependency mapSee the paid continuation
Example result

One workflow, three estimate-invalidating unknowns

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  1. WorkflowRequest to accepted recordThe end-to-end boundary includes human and system steps.
  2. Unknown 1Write API capabilityA safe probe can support or invalidate the option.
  3. Unknown 2Historical ID stabilityA sample export tests the migration assumption.
  4. Unknown 3Approval ownershipThe buyer must name the accountable decision path.
  5. RangeHeld pending evidenceUnknown architecture is not hidden inside contingency.
Illustrative nodes show the discovery structure. Actual options, dependencies, estimates, and authorization depend on buyer-supplied evidence and decisions.

A build estimate is fragile when the workflow is still implicit.

Unknown integrations, unstable identifiers, approval boundaries, migration expectations, and unspoken edge cases can change the architecture rather than merely add effort. A precise quote cannot repair a missing decision model.

Discovery makes the dependency chain inspectable. It records what is known, what is assumed, what evidence could resolve uncertainty, and which decisions remain with the buyer before work is authorized.

The free map finds the unknowns capable of changing the plan.

After secure intake, Reality Contact, LLC traces one workflow across people, systems, data, integrations, decisions, and acceptance, then identifies three unknowns that could invalidate an estimate.

The paid dossier resolves the highest-impact questions, compares options, builds the work breakdown and range, and returns the evidence, assumptions, holds, and acceptance scenarios behind the plan.

What comes back from the record

One workflow is mapped across users, systems, integrations, data, decisions, and acceptance, with three documented unknowns that could materially invalidate a build estimate and the smallest check for each.

Turnaround: The map is delivered within four business days after the target workflow, current-system description, known integrations, constraints, and estimate decision are confirmed.

Trace, test, estimate, and authorize

  1. Map the current workflow

    Users, systems, data, integrations, exceptions, constraints, owners, and the observable end state define the real boundary.

  2. Test material unknowns

    Small technical probes produce evidence about the interfaces, data, and dependencies most capable of changing the option.

  3. Build the conditional range

    Work packages connect to their basis, assumptions, exclusions, predecessors, acceptance, and low-to-high cases.

  4. Make the buyer decision

    You resolve holds, select or reject an option, approve acceptance, and authorize an internal plan or request for a statement of work.

There is already a market for this work.

The links below show existing providers and public reports from people who have dealt with the same problem. A source supports only the statement printed beside it.

SourceThe GOV.UK Service Manual says discovery should clarify user needs, wider context, constraints, opportunities, measures, and whether work should proceed before building begins.SourceThe U.S. Government Accountability Office publishes a cost-estimating guide organized around work breakdown, assumptions, data, risk and uncertainty, documentation, and estimate updates.ProviderYuke Discovery Sprint: $5,000 fixed for one week; the provider lists scope definition, stack choice, architecture decision, milestone plan, risk map, and a fixed build quote.ProviderSapient Codelabs Scoping Sprint: $2,300 fixed for a scoping sprint that the provider describes as producing a technical plan, prototype evidence, and fixed quote.

Why the check is free

The map is free because Reality Contact, LLC is testing whether exposing the estimate-invalidating unknowns gives accountable buyers enough evidence to commission a complete discovery dossier.

Free critical-path dependency map

One workflow is mapped across users, systems, integrations, data, decisions, and acceptance, with three documented unknowns that could materially invalidate a build estimate and the smallest check for each. The map is delivered within four business days after the target workflow, current-system description, known integrations, constraints, and estimate decision are confirmed.

Do not send private links or files through this form. If the service fits, a person will reply with a secure intake method and written deletion terms before you share private material.

Operated by Reality Contact, LLC. Prices are in United States dollars, and the refund condition appears beside the paid dossier. This technical discovery service does not replace the buyer's engineering, security, legal, procurement, finance, architecture, or production-readiness review. Estimate ranges remain conditional on the recorded option, assumptions, exclusions, access, dependencies, and acceptance scenarios.

Questions before you send anything

What do I send?

Do not send private links, files, credentials, recordings, architecture diagrams, contracts, or customer data through this public form. If the discovery fits, a person will reply with a secure intake method and written deletion terms before any private material is transferred.

What comes back for free?

One workflow is mapped across users, systems, integrations, data, decisions, and acceptance, with three documented unknowns that could materially invalidate a build estimate and the smallest check for each. The map is delivered within four business days after the target workflow, current-system description, known integrations, constraints, and estimate decision are confirmed.

Where does the service stop?

Reality Contact, LLC performs bounded technical discovery and estimation but does not guarantee cost or delivery dates, provide legal or procurement advice, select vendors for the buyer, authorize a build, certify architecture or security, or control requirement and dependency changes after the dossier date. The accountable buyer resolves listed holds, selects or rejects an architecture option, approves assumptions and acceptance scenarios, and decides whether to authorize an internal plan, request a vendor statement of work, narrow the initiative, or stop. This technical discovery service does not replace the buyer's engineering, security, legal, procurement, finance, architecture, or production-readiness review.

Free critical-path dependency map

One workflow is mapped across users, systems, integrations, data, decisions, and acceptance, with three documented unknowns that could materially invalidate a build estimate and the smallest check for each. The map is delivered within four business days after the target workflow, current-system description, known integrations, constraints, and estimate decision are confirmed.

Do not send private links or files through this form. If the service fits, a person will reply with a secure intake method and written deletion terms before you share private material.

Operated by Reality Contact, LLC. Prices are in United States dollars, and the refund condition appears beside the paid dossier. This technical discovery service does not replace the buyer's engineering, security, legal, procurement, finance, architecture, or production-readiness review. Estimate ranges remain conditional on the recorded option, assumptions, exclusions, access, dependencies, and acceptance scenarios.

Operated by Reality Contact, LLC.

Private system materials wait for secure intake and written deletion terms.

The accountable buyer selects the option and authorizes any next phase.

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