From Idea to Prototype, a Co-Creation Workshop
Strategy & Consulting

From Idea to Prototype, a Co-Creation Workshop

What is this workshop

You know you need a digital product – a web portal, mobile app, e-commerce solution, or internal business tool – but are not sure about the implementation? In two intense days, turn an idea into a clear business case, a detailed action plan, and a clickable prototype – before you invest in actual development.

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Why Is Software Architecture and Discovery Essential Before IT System Development?

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A Clear Structure & Action Plan

By turning an idea into a business case and roadmap in just two days.

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A Working Prototype, Not Just a Plan

By delivering a clickable front-end demo of the screens and user flow within 5 business days after the workshop.

03
Avoid the Expensive Mistakes

By aligning business goals, the target audience, and technical capabilities before a single line of code is written, you will significantly reduce the risk of developing features that users do not need and optimize the overall product development time.

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Expert-Led, Both Sides of the Table

By working with two Cube Systems experts – a business & project lead and a technical lead – backed by Cube's 20+ years of digital product experience.

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Fixed Price, Free If You Build With Us

By paying a fixed €1900 + VAT, at no cost at all if you start development with us within 3 months.

What You Get From This Workshop

Expertise in technology development

We are not just facilitating the workshop but contributing with our 20+ years of digital product development experience and knowledge.

Business model mapping

Business goal, potential business model, unique selling points, target audience profiles, and a clear reason customers will pay for it.

Structure, priorities & plan

Mapped out customer experience using your solution and establish feature priorities to determine what needs to be developed first. A clear product structure and action plan for development.

A clickable demo prototype

An interactive prototype simulating the user experience—without backend, integrations, or AI—delivered within 5 working days of the workshop.

Why is Prototype Essential Before Development

Why is Prototype Essential Before Development

→ Pitch your idea to potential clients and gather genuine feedback.

→ Attract investors with a tangible demonstration of your idea.

→ Communicate the idea clearly to your project team.

→ Visualize the customer journey before committing to development.

→ Get accurate, comparable development quotes from technical teams.

For the SIXT+ car subscription solution, time-to-market was a critical factor. The research process and methodology organized by CUBE enabled us to identify the most effective solution for our business—one that allowed us to achieve our short-term goal of quickly launching sales via a pilot project (MVP), while also establishing a foundational platform and a plan for the product's effective long-term development. We value the fact that we collaborate as partners, rather than in a traditional client-vendor relationship.
Egons Silenieks,
Chief Technology Officer
Sixt Baltics and Finland
Egons Silenieks

What the Research Says About This Approach

47%

Of unsuccessful projects fail to meet their goals due to inaccurate requirements — preventable with structured pre-development planning.

Project Management Institute

43%

Failed VC-backed startups cite poor product–market fit as a reason for shutting down. The workshop assesses product viability within target audiences.

CB Insights

10%

A typical project's budget should be invested in UX design and prototyping per long-running usability research.

Nielsen Norman Group

Projects involving this workshop
All work
Sixt+ car subscription
Service that combines the best of car rental and car leasing
Augļu serviss
Daily ordering, live inventory and personal offers for a fresh produce supplier
Improving Latvija.lv portal
One unified access point for government services scattered across 49 portals and data sites

A Real Case: Prototyped, Sold!

A client needed a furniture production management system. The prototype demonstrated basic processes and UI design, convincing both the internal team and future partners from the USA.

A Real Case: €40K Investment, Saved

A client prepared to invest approximately €40,000 in a new digital platform. The workshop structured business processes, prioritized goals, and assessed ROI. After reassessing, the client chose to modernize the existing platform instead, saving the planned €40,000 development investment.

A Real Case: Trust, Regained

A prospective client was reluctant to initiate a large digital project due to previous negative experiences with IT developers — miscommunication, wasted time, exceeding costs, unsatisfactory functionality, and blame-shifting. They viewed the workshop as a test: could we understand their needs and deliver their vision? The workshop restored their confidence in IT services and, since they chose to continue, testing compatibility cost them nothing.

Prototyping Workshop Process: Step-by-Step

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Day 1 – Idea & Direction

Defining your business goal for the new product, its potential business model, unique selling points (USPs), target customer profiles, and a clear reason customers will choose and pay for it (a value proposition).

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Day 2 – Structure & Priorities

Mapping out how customers will actually use the product step by step (business processes / workflows), and setting priorities (a roadmap) for what to build first.

03
Prototype Delivery

Within 5 business days after the workshop, you receive a clickable demo prototype (screens and user flow – no back-end, integrations or AI) along with a clear structure and action plan for development.

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Future Cooperation

If within 3 months you decide to continue our cooperation in building this digital product, our agreement will include a starting discount equal to the cost of the workshop.

Frequently Asked Questions

Any software your business needs to start, run or grow – for example, a digital platform, business tool, mobile app, self-service web portal, e-commerce solution or software as a service (SaaS).

A prototype is a simplified, clickable front-end demonstration of your product's screens and user experience. It shows how the product will look and feel before you invest in full development, lowers the risk of building the wrong thing, lets you pitch the idea to clients and investors and gather real feedback, and gives your team, partners, and technical vendors a concrete way to understand, react to, and price the idea.

No! The prototype is a front-end, clickable demonstration of the screens and user flow – it's designed to validate the idea and user experience, not to function as real software. Connecting it to a real database, APIs, AI models, or automations happens during the development phase.

It is recommended to build a prototype for around 5–15% of a project's total budget. The prototype is used as a "proof of concept" of the idea within the company, refining the functions, and convincing third parties (partners or investors).

The two-day workshop and the developed prototype have a fixed price of €1 900 + VAT. If you start the development of the resulting digital product with Cube Systems within 3 months of the workshop, you get a starting discount equal to the cost of the workshop.

From your side: up to 4 people who can speak openly about the business idea, goals, target customers, and competitors – typically the people who will actually drive the product forward internally. From our side: two Cube Systems experts – a business & digital project lead, and a technical lead.

A clear product structure (wrapped in nice presentation slides), an action plan for development, and a clickable demo prototype – delivered within 5 business days after the workshop.

A developer without a clear brief has to guess at scope, priorities, and edge cases – which usually means exceeding the projected time and costs, fixing misunderstandings and retrofitting new functionality. The workshop removes that guesswork upfront, so the resulting development quote and timeline are based on a real, validated plan rather than wrong assumptions.

Even a clear idea benefits from stress-testing. Our experts ask the questions that are easy to miss internally, turning a general idea into a structure detailed enough to plan, scope, and price actual development. Since the workshop is essentially for free if you decide to continue working with us, taking it is a sensible first step to understand both your process and the experience of working with our team.

Let's Talk Prototyping

Renārs Jansons
Renārs Jansons
Head of Sales