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Health Match 360
Rapid validation of a therapist matching web app with a Product Design Sprint.
Rapidly validate your product with thoughtbot Ignite
You can’t seem to get that new product out of your head but before you move forward, you and your stakeholders need to understand whether there is a real market need. With rapid validation and prototyping, thoughtbot Ignite’s early-stage product strategists will work with you to quickly prove whether or not to advance to the MVP stage, and get you started.
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thoughtbot helped us quickly build the groundwork for our product, which enabled us to fundraise earlier, and for a larger round. If we hadn’t worked with them, we could be a year behind where we are today.
Engineering Manager, Healthify
Learn and iterate
Use design thinking to zero in on the right product, the right way, fast
You don’t have the time and money to waste on overly complicated user research cycles and elongated development timelines. And you don’t need to.
You can learn whether your product concept is a market fit and ready for rapid prototyping on the order of days, not months. thoughtbot product consultants have facilitated hundreds of successful Product Design Sprints to help entrepreneurs hone in on the optimal direction for their products.
When we came to thoughtbot, we just had an idea on paper. They helped us figure out this market and product together.
Cofounder, SplitFit
Team enablement
Collaborate with a dedicated, experienced team
Coordinating with an offshore team is a challenge at best and wrangling a team of freelancers can be infuriating. thoughtbot’s team of agile, user-centered product experts don’t just do the work, we do it with you. You’ll be able to lean on our experience working together and we’ll provide the foundational work to make your product successful. Throughout the project, we’ll empower you to take over our processes independently.
You’ll learn about product validation, user research, design thinking, user testing, prototyping, product design, foundational technical decisions and much more.
Action plan
Product strategy that will align your stakeholders with confidence
Your team, including investors, needs a clear strategic vision with the research to back it up. Proof of defined user needs combined with actionable next steps for web or mobile development is the foundation of any successful product organization.
thoughtbot will help you package all of your learnings and plans in a way that’s easy for the whole team to understand and act upon.
thoughtbot Ignite Services
Learn more about a few of our team's specialty areas
Product Design Sprints
Product Design Sprints are essential starting points when kicking off a new feature, workflow, product, business, or solving problems with an existing product.
Design Research
Before starting to build products, we conduct research to ensure that users' problems are worth solving.
Bring your business online
We build reliable, intuitive web products and services for local businesses, enabling them to adapt and thrive in a changing environment.
We liked that thoughtbot didn’t tell us what to build. They included us in the planning and design process the entire way. We scoped the product features and came to conclusions together about the product.
Co-founder, Hotshot
Case Studies
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Real Simple Energy — Transforming algorithms and a vision into a customer-ready product.
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OneYum — Crafting a prototype to secure funding.
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Purpose-built
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Before you MVP
Here are some of the questions thoughtbot asks early-stage entrepreneurs to see if they are MVP ready.
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