04 — Product Development

Prototyping & Feasibility

Choose the right product before you commit budget and capacity. We validate concepts against market signals, unit economics and manufacturability, with prototypes and small-batch trials to verify demand, price, quality and compliance.

You get an evidence-based go or no-go decision and a realistic path into production — rather than a launch that discovers its cost structure in month three.

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Your challenges

What's holding you back right now?

  • Plenty of ideas, no clear winner and no agreed way to pick one.
  • Unit economics and the achievable target price are still uncertain.
  • Manufacturability and sourcing risk have not been assessed.
  • The compliance and certification plan has visible gaps.
  • There is no hard evidence to put in front of the board.
When it matters

You'll benefit when you are…

  • Comparing product concepts or variants
  • Testing willingness to pay and the viable price range
  • Running design-to-value workshops
  • Deciding make versus buy for key components
  • Validating materials and candidate suppliers
  • Planning tooling and first-article testing
  • Sizing initial volumes and the capacity to support them
Outcomes

What we deliver

An evidence-based go/no-go

A clear decision backed by data and by tests rather than by conviction.

A unit economics model

Bill of materials, conversion cost, price and margin scenarios in one place.

A manufacturability assessment

Design-for-manufacture and assembly review, plus supply readiness.

Customer-validated prototypes

Trials that verify value, quality and real usage rather than stated preference.

A compliance and risk plan

Certification, labelling and safety actions mapped and sequenced.

A board-ready business case

Investment, milestones and decision gates defined.

Decide with confidence which product is genuinely worth building.

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What makes us different

Augment Cloud experts at your service

  • A hybrid team spanning product, operations and supply chain.
  • Design-to-value and cost-to-serve modelling rather than estimation.
  • Vendor-neutral assessment with specifications and tests we own.
  • Small-batch trials that de-risk the decision before major spend.
  • A clean handover into PLM and manufacturing.

Decisions grounded in your own data

We combine market signals with cost and capacity models to show realistic outcomes rather than best cases. Teams get one version of the truth, faster iteration, and explicit trade-offs between price, quality and time to market.

Where it accelerates learning, VERITICO contributes demand, inventory and pricing insight to support new product decisions — without locking you into bespoke code you then have to maintain.

Case studies

Validated before committed

AutoStore feasibility for Schneider Electric

Feasibility study validated AutoStore for the CEE DC and quantified a capacity uplift up to 300%.

+300% capacity uplift quantified Show full case study →

Logistics strategy for Bonavita

10-year logistics strategy validated. Export outsourcing recommended over new construction.

10-year strategy · Lower long-term risk Show full case study →

Automated warehouse design for Sportisimo

Growth-ready logistics strategy and automated warehouse concept with footwear sorter and e-shop line.

4-year payback · Growth-ready warehouse Show full case study →
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Worth building, or worth stopping?

Both answers save money if you reach them early. Tell us the concept and we will show you what evidence would settle it.

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