Discovery Package for Web Portals
Define your scope, architecture, and roadmap before development begins.
Our Discovery Package is a structured process that helps organisations plan, validate, and define their web portal projects.
Whether you’re building a secure web portal, modernising legacy systems, or integrating with Microsoft Entra ID; our Discovery Phase provides clarity, cost certainty, and a validated technical approach.
Why a Discovery Phase Matters for Portal Development
Large digital projects fail when the scope is unclear or assumptions go unvalidated.
A professional Discovery phase aims to minimise this by:
- Defining project requirements
- Aligning stakeholders
- Mapping key user journeys
- Confirming technical feasibility
- Identifying risks early
- Setting realistic budgets and timelines
- Establishing a clear road map for delivery
This is best practice for Umbraco CMS, Umbraco Cloud, and Microsoft .NET development.
Customers have found this process to be well structured and helpful for making further investment decisions.
Your Discovery Phase
Our Discovery Package provides everything your organisation needs to confidently move into development.
- Business & User Requirements
- Functional Scope Definition
- Technical Architecture for Umbraco & .NET
- Risks, Dependencies & Assumptions
- Delivery Roadmap & Cost Estimate
We work with your team to understand:
- Project goals and business outcomes
- Primary and secondary user groups
- Stakeholder requirements
- Success criteria and KPIs
- Existing workflows and pain points
We document all high-level requirements, including:
- Key portal features
- Key user journeys and interactions
- Content structure for Umbraco CMS
- Non-functional requirements (security, accessibility, performance)
- Third-party integration points (CRM / ERP / other APIs / databases)
We design a recommended architecture for:
- Umbraco CMS structure
- Umbraco Cloud hosting and deployment
- Use of Microsoft .NET, Razor Pages, or React
- Authentication (Entra ID, Azure AD B2C, or external OAuth providers)
- Data flows and integration strategy
- Security and compliance considerations
This ensures your portal is scalable, maintainable and future-proof.
We identify:
- Technical constraints
- Integration challenges
- Change management risks
- Data sensitivity issues / GDPR Compliance
- Dependencies and unknowns
Identifying and addressing these early helps eliminate surprises later.
You receive a complete delivery plan:
- Fixed-price scope for the Demo / Proof of Concept (POC)
- Rough Order of Magnitude (ROM) for the full portal build
- Estimated timelines for all phases
- Support & maintenance considerations
This gives you everything needed to secure internal approval and budget.
A polished, board-ready document summarising:
- Requirements
- Technical approach
- Architecture
- Risks
- Estimated costs
- Timelines
Perfect for internal communication and decision-making.
Our process is ideal for organisations that are:
- Building a secure portal for staff, partners, or customers
- Migrating to Umbraco Cloud or modernising an older Umbraco site
- Developing a new application on Microsoft .NET
- Integrating with Microsoft Entra ID or custom identity systems
- Needing clarity before requesting internal budget
- Planning a demo / POC before a full build
Discovery requires 8–12 days of effort, delivered over:
- 2–6 weeks of elapsed time
This aligns with typical timelines for medium-complexity Umbraco and .NET projects.
Typical investment is £7,500 – £12,500
(Dependent on complexity and number of integrations.)
This pricing is consistent with industry standards for professional Discovery phases.
- Umbraco Silver Partner
- Specialists in secure Umbraco CMS and .NET portal development
- Lots of Experience with Umbraco Cloud, Azure hosting, Entra ID authentication and Microsoft Cloud Integration
- We have a Proven delivery of Discovery → POC → Full Build
- We strive for clear communication, strong documentation, predictable pricing.
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