LabsSolution Blueprint
Solution Blueprint
A design, ready to build. Lab cycles, starting from two weeks, that turn an idea into an agreed vision, architecture, and roadmap, ready to move straight into rapid AI development.
Inside a blueprint
A design the people funding and building it can agree on.
Five parts, one buildable design. Where the choice matters, we set out the options side by side, from alternative architectures to a choice of technologies, so you decide with the trade-offs in view.
Vision
A clearly defined vision, with alternatives where they matter.
Roadmap
Sequenced from immediate next steps through development, deployment, and beyond.
Reference architecture
The services and recommendations needed to implement it.
Considerations
The engineering, ethical, legal, and regulatory factors it must account for.
Priorities
Scenarios across AI, data, and apps, so you know where to focus when.
From two weeks · options where the choice matters
When it fits
An idea needs a concrete, buildable design before development begins.
The architecture, alternatives, and plan are agreed by the people funding and building it.
Also available: UX design, within a cycle or on its own.
Where a blueprint sits
Then built by whoever fits
From our blueprints
What a Solution Blueprint can produce.
Every blueprint is shaped by the question in front of you, so not every one includes all of these, and many include more. Please pardon the redactions: they protect the confidentiality of the clients for whom this work was done.
Deliverable
Design prototype
Screens that show people how the solution will look and work, so they can react to it before any code is written.
Deliverable
Reference architecture
The components, services, and data flows needed to build it, mapped end to end, with what is optional and where each part is hosted.
Deliverable
Optional architecture
Alternative architectures weighed side by side. Here, open, Microsoft-based, and offline options, so each adopter could choose what fits its circumstances.
Deliverable
Roadmap and next steps
Milestones grouped by workstream and horizon, from building the foundation through to the pilot and beyond.
How it connects
On its own, or alongside a prototype.
We recommend whatever fits the question in front of you. A blueprint can stand alone, or run alongside a Rapid Prototype when you need evidence and a plan together. Once it’s agreed, you can build it with your own team, with your implementation partner, or with our Forward Deployed Engineers.
Solution Blueprint
“What should we build, and how?”
- Impact
- A vision, an architecture with the options weighed, and a roadmap to achieve it, because direction means little without one.
- Best when
- The idea is clear, but the design, and the choices behind it, aren’t yet.
- In practice
- Three blueprints, an agent library, and five priorities across three horizons, as published in The Frontier Campus.
Rapid Prototype
“Will it actually work?”
- Impact
- A build you can keep building on, whether an app, an agent, an integration, or an experience, with technical choices aligned to the real objective.
- Best when
- A promising idea needs evidence before you invest, sign a contract, or build big.
- In practice
- A public sector agency used our lab to cut the cost of a major solution from $20 million to $1.6 million.
Talk to us
What needs designing before anyone builds it?
Tell us about the idea and who needs to agree on it. We’ll help you shape a blueprint around the decisions in front of you.