ENGAGEMENT

Discovery Phase

A short, fixed-price engagement (Wavect: 2 to 3 weeks, 3,500 EUR) that ends with a signed architecture, milestone plan, and a fixed-price build offer.

Last reviewed: 2026-05-24 byKevin Riedl wiki β†—

Discovery is the work that has to happen before a fixed-price build can be quoted honestly. It produces four artifacts: a software architecture, a milestone plan, the critical technical flows, and a launch plan. From those, the vendor can quote a real fixed price.

Wavect runs discovery as a 2 to 3 week fixed-price engagement at 3,500 EUR. If you continue with us for the build, the discovery fee is deducted from the first invoice. If you do not, you keep all four artifacts and can take them to another vendor.

The reason we charge for discovery: free scoping work is either dishonest (the vendor recovers the cost in the build estimate) or low-quality (the vendor rushes it because it is not paid). Charging fixes the incentive.

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Free scoping is either dishonest (the vendor recovers the cost in the build estimate) or sloppy (the vendor rushes it because it is unpaid). A paid discovery gets you four real artifacts you can take to any vendor, and aligns incentives toward useful output.
At Wavect you keep the architecture, the milestone plan, the technical flows, and the launch plan. You can take them to another vendor and ask for a competing build quote. We would rather lose a build than ship one we cannot stand behind.
Two to three weeks for most SaaS or web3 builds. Longer when there are regulatory, hardware, or research dimensions. Anything shorter is probably a sales call dressed up as discovery; anything longer is the vendor billing for discovery what they should be doing in build.