Stage 2 · Design

Blueprint

Blueprint is intended to help shape and review a configuration: devices, accessories, software and how they fit together.

Status: Planned. This page describes the intended design.

The problem

A solution can look right on paper and still fail on delivery day: a missing accessory, software that does not support the device, or a dependency nobody checked.

Those gaps usually surface after the customer has already seen a price.

Inputs and outputs

Goes in

  • Confirmed requirements and open questions from Discover
  • The catalog of devices, accessories and software the seller is authorized to offer
  • Known site, network and usage constraints

Comes out

  • A configuration brief for a person to review
  • The components each choice depends on
  • Requirements checked against authoritative sources, with anything unverified identified
  • Validation questions to answer before pricing

How the work moves

  1. Match

    Map each requirement to candidate devices and software.

  2. Complete

    Add the accessories and dependencies each choice needs in order to work.

  3. Check

    Check the relevant requirements against authoritative sources and identify what cannot yet be verified.

  4. Resolve

    Get answers to the open validation questions, or carry them forward clearly labeled.

An example

Fictional example. The company, people and details are invented to show the shape of the work.

For Harbor Line Studio, the configuration brief proposes one shared device per floor. It adds the finisher the office manager asked about, notes that the scan-to-folder workflow depends on their file server's settings, and raises one validation question: do they still need fax?

The fax requirement stays an open question until the customer confirms it.

Where a person decides

A person approves the final configuration. Blueprint is intended to suggest and check; the seller is accountable for what is proposed.

Where a requirement cannot be verified, it is identified as unverified rather than assumed to work.

What it hands on

The intended output is a reviewed configuration brief, with dependencies and open questions attached, so pricing can start from what is actually proposed. The four programs are at different stages; this describes the intended workflow, not a live integration.

Discuss your workflow

Tell us where the work slows down between the first conversation and the customer's decision.

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