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App Corp
Full-service software engineering
Engineering your experience…
App Corp
Full-service software engineering
Engineering your experience…
The moment you sign with App Corp, a dedicated team is assembled around your project. Our structured onboarding programme eliminates ambiguity from day one — you'll know exactly who owns what, what gets built and when, and how we'll communicate throughout the engagement.
The moment you sign, a dedicated project manager is assigned and makes first contact within 24 hours. Your full cross-functional team is introduced and active within 72 hours — not weeks.
All client information shared during onboarding is handled under enterprise-grade confidentiality. NDAs are executed prior to any sensitive detail exchange. Your intellectual property, business logic, and strategic roadmaps remain strictly private throughout — and beyond — the engagement.
We've distilled years of client engagements into a battle-tested onboarding framework. Every phase has defined inputs, outputs, and owners — so nothing falls through the cracks and you're never left guessing what's next.
Within 24 hours of contract signature, your dedicated project manager makes first contact. Within 72 hours, a structured kickoff call is held with your full App Corp team — project manager, lead engineer, UX lead, and QA lead. We walk through your vision, define success criteria, establish tooling access, and agree on communication cadence.
Key deliverables
Our team immerses itself in your domain. Deep-dive sessions explore your users, competitive landscape, technical constraints, and integration requirements. The output is a shared understanding — not just of what to build, but why, for whom, and with which constraints. Technical architecture proposals are presented and iterated with your input.
Key deliverables
Your design system is established — typography, colour palette, spacing tokens, component library conventions — all anchored to your brand identity. High-fidelity wireframes for core user journeys are produced and shared in Figma for collaborative review and iteration. Nothing moves to engineering without explicit client sign-off.
Key deliverables
The engineering team sets up the full development environment — repository structure, CI/CD pipelines, staging environments, monitoring, and observability tooling. The product backlog is groomed and sprint-planned. The first user stories enter active development. Daily stand-ups begin; you have real-time access to the project board.
Key deliverables
The first meaningful, testable increment of your product is delivered. This is not a mock — it's real, deployed code in your staging environment. A structured review session walks you through every feature built against the original acceptance criteria. Feedback is incorporated in the following sprint. You see real progress, not slide decks.
Key deliverables
The onboarding phase transitions into the continuous delivery rhythm. Bi-weekly sprint reviews, monthly executive briefings, and quarterly strategic reviews keep alignment at every level. You're not just a client — you're a product partner. Every deployment, performance metric, and strategic decision is shared with full transparency.
Key deliverables
The more context you bring to the kickoff table, the faster we move. Here's exactly what to have ready — grouped by priority. Nothing on this list is a blocker; we can gather missing pieces iteratively, but having them upfront compresses your timeline significantly.
4 items
Business objectives and success metrics
What does success look like in 6, 12, and 24 months? KPIs you'll use to measure it.
Target audience and user personas
Who are your users? Demographics, pain points, goals, and existing behaviour patterns.
Competitor landscape
2–3 competing or comparable products — what you admire and what you'd do differently.
Brand guidelines
Logo files, colour palette, typography, and brand tone/voice documentation.
4 items
Existing systems and integrations
Any APIs, databases, CRMs, payment processors, or third-party services to connect with.
Infrastructure preferences or constraints
Cloud provider preferences (AWS, GCP, Azure), data residency requirements, compliance standards.
Technical constraints or legacy dependencies
Existing codebases, authentication systems, or non-negotiable technical decisions.
Security and compliance requirements
GDPR, SOC 2, HIPAA, PCI DSS, or other regulatory obligations your product must meet.
4 items
Feature wishlist or requirements document
Any PRD, feature list, or user story backlog you've already developed — any format is fine.
Design references and inspiration
Screenshots, URLs, or descriptions of products whose UX or visual design you admire.
Content inventory
Existing copy, images, data sets, or content structures that will populate the product.
Budget and timeline constraints
Hard launch deadlines, funding milestones, or budget ceilings to design around.
4 items
Domain and DNS access
Access to your domain registrar for DNS configuration and subdomain setup.
Cloud or hosting account access
Credentials or invites to your cloud account — we'll operate under least-privilege principles.
Analytics and monitoring accounts
Google Analytics, Mixpanel, Sentry, or other observability tools you want integrated.
Existing repository access
If there is existing code, access to the repository so we can audit before planning.
Nothing here is a hard blocker — we can gather missing items iteratively. The more you have ready, the faster we move in week one.
Every engagement at App Corp is staffed with a bespoke team — selected not by availability, but by relevance to your domain, stack, and scale requirements. These are the people who will be accountable for your success.
Your single point of accountability. The PM owns the project charter, manages scope, budget, and timeline, runs sprint ceremonies, escalates risks, and ensures the engineering team has everything needed to deliver without obstruction. Reachable within 4 hours on any business day.
Owns the technical architecture, code quality, and engineering velocity. Sets standards for the full-stack team, conducts peer reviews, approves all production deployments, and serves as the primary technical point of contact. Your escalation path for any engineering question or concern.
Translates your business requirements and user needs into pixel-perfect, accessible, and delightful product experiences. Owns the design system, all Figma deliverables, and user research synthesis. Collaborates closely with your stakeholders on every design decision before engineering begins.
Maintains the integrity of every release. Owns the test strategy, automated test suites, manual exploratory testing, performance benchmarking, and accessibility auditing. Nothing reaches staging or production without QA sign-off. Every sprint ends with a comprehensive quality report shared with you.
Ensures your product is observable, resilient, and scalable from day one. Owns CI/CD pipeline configuration, cloud infrastructure provisioning, security hardening, monitoring, alerting, and cost optimisation. Guarantees your infrastructure meets your stated SLAs with automated recovery mechanisms.
Your strategic partner beyond the day-to-day. The CSM facilitates monthly executive briefings, manages renewal and expansion planning, coordinates feedback loops between your team and engineering, and ensures the product continues to evolve with your business needs long after the initial build.
We don't deliver work in one monolithic release at the end of a project. Every phase produces concrete, reviewable artefacts — so you have visibility, can provide feedback, and can course-correct early when the cost of change is low.
Project Charter
Scope, objectives, constraints, success metrics, and team RACI in a single signed document.
Technical Architecture Document
Proposed stack, data models, infrastructure topology, and integration map with rationale.
User Research Report
Synthesised findings from user interviews, competitive analysis, and market research.
Risk Register
Identified risks, likelihood, impact assessment, and mitigation strategies.
Design System (Figma)
Complete token-based design system: typography, colours, spacing, components, and usage guidelines.
High-Fidelity Wireframes
Pixel-perfect Figma screens for all primary user journeys, annotated with interaction notes.
Interactive Prototype
Clickable Figma prototype covering the critical user paths, ready for usability testing.
Accessibility Audit
WCAG 2.2 AA compliance report with remediation notes embedded in the design file.
Production-Ready Codebase
Well-structured, documented, and tested source code transferred to your repository with full history.
CI/CD Pipeline
Automated build, test, and deployment pipeline with branch protection rules and rollback capability.
API Documentation
OpenAPI/Swagger spec for all endpoints, with usage examples and authentication details.
Sprint Release Notes
Human-readable per-sprint changelog summarising what was built, fixed, and deferred.
QA Test Report
Full test run results, coverage metrics, performance benchmarks, and regression test suite.
Infrastructure Runbook
Step-by-step operational guide: deployment procedures, rollback steps, monitoring setup.
Security Review Report
OWASP-aligned security audit findings with severity-ranked remediation checklist.
Launch Readiness Checklist
Comprehensive pre-launch verification against agreed acceptance criteria before go-live.
All artefacts are handed over to you at each phase milestone. Full IP transfer is executed upon each invoice milestone payment.
Unclear communication is the root cause of most project failures. Our communication framework is designed to eliminate ambiguity, create accountability, and ensure that every stakeholder — on both sides — has the information they need, when they need it.
Async-first stand-up shared via Slack by 10am. Covers what was completed, what's in progress, and any blockers. Client stakeholders receive a daily thread summary if opted in.
Full teamStructured working demo of sprint output against the original acceptance criteria. Every feature is demonstrated live in the staging environment. Feedback captured and prioritised in the next sprint.
Team + ClientYou have permanent, real-time access to the project board — every task, its status, assignee, and linked pull requests. No waiting for a status update when the answer is always available.
Client & TeamStrategic-level briefing covering progress against the roadmap, spend-to-date vs budget, key decisions in the upcoming period, and any strategic input required from your leadership team.
Exec + CSM + PMShared Slack workspace from day one. Dedicated channels for general discussion, engineering, design, and urgent escalations. Response SLA: 4 business hours for standard messages, 30 minutes for critical.
Whole teamDeep-dive strategic alignment session covering product health metrics, roadmap evolution, technology trends affecting your product, and commercial review. Sets the direction for the next quarter.
Leadership both sidesComplete this brief intake form to initiate your onboarding. Your project manager will receive it immediately and make contact within 24 hours to schedule your kickoff call and introduce the team.
What happens after you submit
Project manager assigned
A dedicated PM is assigned to your account the same day and makes personal first contact within 24 hours.
Full team introduced
Within 72 hours your complete cross-functional team is assembled and introduced — engineer, designer, QA, DevOps.
Kickoff call scheduled
A structured kickoff call is scheduled within 72 hours. Calendar invite, agenda, and pre-read sent in advance.
All information shared here is handled under strict confidentiality. NDAs are executed prior to any sensitive exchange. Your business logic, roadmaps, and IP remain entirely private throughout and beyond the engagement.
Fields marked * are required. This takes under 3 minutes.
Transparency is core to how we work. These are the questions every new client asks during or after kickoff — answered fully so you can move forward with complete confidence.
Can't find your answer?
Include any outstanding questions in your project summary when you fill out the intake form. Your assigned PM will address every one of them in the kickoff call.
Start your onboarding