Demo / Proof-Of-Concept Package for Web Portals
Validate your portal solution early with a working prototype.
Bring Your Portal Vision to Life — Before Full Development Begins
The Demo / Proof of Concept phase is where ideas become real.
Using the outputs from Discovery, we build a focused, functional demonstration of your new web portal or application.
This allows stakeholders to experience core features, validate assumptions, and test technical integrations — before investing in a full build.
Preliminary work on the Brand and User Experience brings an idea to life.
This is perfect for organisations building secure portals on Umbraco, Umbraco Cloud, Microsoft .NET, and integrating with Microsoft Entra ID or external identity providers.
Why Create a Demo / POC?
A POC is the safest and fastest way to confirm:
- The solution will work technically
- Key integrations (e.g., Entra ID) behave as expected
- Your content and workflow ideas make sense
- Stakeholders understand and support the vision
- Early user experience challenges are identified
- The full build estimate is accurate and predictable
It reduces risk, speeds up delivery, and ensures alignment across your organisation.
It provides the data needed to make the investment decision to build the full portal.
Build Your Demo
Our Demo / POC phase focuses on bringing the most important parts of the project to life.
1. Working Prototype or Demo Application
2. Technical Validation
3. Stakeholder Review & Feedback Sessions
4. Refined Scope & Updated Estimates
You will have a fully validated plan for the production build.
Depending on your needs, this may include:
- Authentication via Entra ID or external identity providers
- A sample Umbraco content structure
- One or more working user journeys
- Early UI layouts / wireframes
- Example integrations or API calls
- Demo data for testing user flows
The goal is to prove feasibility quickly.
We confirm:
- That the architectural approach is sound
- How the portal performs on Umbraco Cloud
- How integrations behave (APIs, CRMs, data sources)
- Any early constraints that might impact the full build
- Security and authentication behaviours
This eliminates unknowns before major development begins.
We run guided demo sessions with:
- Business owners
- IT teams
- Content teams
- Security or compliance stakeholders
This ensures everyone sees how the portal will function and can share early feedback.
After validating the prototype, we update:
- The full build pathway
- Timeline and delivery phases
- Detailed cost estimates
- Identified risks & mitigations
You will then have a fully validated plan for the production build.
- Development of core demo features
- Integration testing (e.g., Entra ID login)
- Early content modelling in Umbraco
- Initial UX designs (where relevant)
- Technical feasibility validation
- Demo walk-through sessions
- Updated project plan & costings
- POC deployment on a test environment (Umbraco Cloud)
To keep the POC lightweight and fast, we only do enough to demonstrate the identified priority items. So the POC does not include:
- Production-quality code
- Full site implementation
- Final UI design
- End-to-end content structure
- Complete testing suite
- Multi-browser, accessibility, or performance testing
These are included in the Build phase.
Most POC engagements run over:
- 3–6 weeks of elapsed time
(depending on integration complexity and the number of user journeys selected)
This aligns with industry norms for medium-scope portal prototypes.
Typical investment is £10,000 – £25,000
(depending on scope, number of integrations, and functional depth)
POCs involving Entra ID, external APIs, many user journeys or more complex workflows tend toward the upper range.
Organisations who want to:
- Validate feasibility before committing to a full build
- Demonstrate early progress to senior stakeholders
- De-risk technical integration and authentication
- Gather early feedback from users or departments
- Build confidence in Umbraco / .NET as the platform
- Umbraco Silver Partner
- Specialists in secure Umbraco CMS and .NET portal development
- Lots of Experience with Umbraco Cloud, Azure hosting, and Entra ID authentication
- We have a Proven delivery of Discovery → POC → Full Build
- We strive for clear communication, strong documentation, predictable pricing
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Let's talk about your demo
Ask about your demo and we will get back to you (usually within 48 hours)