Choose your critical path
Next Mile blends our services to meet your moment, revealing your critical path to efficiency and effectiveness at any stage. All engagements have proven to save 5–10x multiples on subsequent design, build, and maintenance costs.
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Start right
Win before you build
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Go faster
Avoid pitfalls, accelerate progress
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Change course
Guidance through tricky corners
Activate
Start down the best path
$10k–50k (2–6 weeks)
Help your initiative realize its full potential
Here’s what happens:
Problem and approach
- >Digital concepts need detail to justify investment
- >First steps can make or break your idea
- >We analyze your needs in depth
- >We initiate and guide appropriate first steps
- >Your teams make tangible progress quickly
Key activities
- >Concept generation and mission identification
- >Requirements definition and workstream planning
- >Next phase forecasting
Key outcomes
- >Defined concept and first-phase plans
- >Clear steps from concept to launch
- >Confidence to pursue or halt further development
Monetize
Find the right digital business model
$20k–50k (3–6 weeks)
Know how digital will make you money
Here’s what happens:
Problem and approach
- >Making digital valuable can be excruciating
- >Your customer relationship holds the answers
- >We've experienced every digital business model
- >We generate options for you
- >You get a feasible monetization plan
Key activities
- >Premise, intended experience, and context intake
- >Opportunity mapping and prioritization
- >Business model vetting and selection
Key outcomes
- >Monetization approach and justification
- >Value delivery plan and rationale
- >Articulated path to revenue or savings
Prove
Pressure test your digital concept
$20k–45k (3–6 weeks)
Build certainty and buy-in before committing
Here’s what happens:
Problem and approach
- >Technology programs shouldn't be so risky
- >Feasibility can be determined quickly
- >We evaluate options against business goals
- >We design and/or perform conclusive tests
- >You garner insight that solidifies your concept
Key activities
- >Premise, requirement, and context intake
- >Technical and business model evaluation
- >Hypothesis and key question drafting
Key outcomes
- >Evidence that guides decision
- >Solution and strategy rating
- >Critical insights, choices, and gaps briefing
Architect
Turn your concept into a sustainable solution
$20k–80k+ (3–9 weeks)
Get the detailed map to your digital destination
Here’s what happens:
Problem and approach
- >You have a vetted digital concept
- >Modern architectures need systems expertise
- >Next Mile lives multi-system digital
- >We architect some or all of your solution
- >Your program gets built without waste
Key activities
- >Experience and interface requirements definition
- >Data capture, transmission, and compute planning
- >Build/buy and IP planning
Key outcomes
- >Technical architecture and requirements
- >Hardware, software, and support estimates
- >Sustainable build recommendations
Bid
Frame your solution for realistic execution
$15k–30k (2–6 weeks)
Get competitive, comparable bids
Here’s what happens:
Problem and approach
- >Requests for proposals produce huge variance
- >Projects must be concrete and communicable
- >Next Mile eliminates request ambiguity
- >We drive the bidding process
- >You receive competitive, relevant project bids
Key activities
- >Translate needs into meaningful requirements
- >Propose ideal providers and process
- >Run vendor and bid solicitation
Key outcomes
- >Unambiguous, appealing project requirements
- >True engagement from vetted vendors
- >Can't-lose options, objective recommendations
Drive
Steer with veteran digital management
$10k–30k (per month)
Keep execution on-track and on-strategy
Here’s what happens:
Problem and approach
- >Good intentions don’t keep digital on track
- >Experienced perspective prevents gridlock
- >Next Mile combines systems and tactical skills
- >We manage or coach your product or program
- >You reach your digital destination safely
Key activities
- >Product, program, or release management
- >Vendor or team management
- >Coaching and mentorship
Key outcomes
- >Insight into present and future challenges
- >Managed product or offering roadmap
- >A safe trip to launch
Structure
Focus delivery programs on maximum impact
$10k–30k (per month)
Increase digital team, tool, and process efficiency
Here’s what happens:
Problem and approach
- >Software delivery is more than engineering
- >Delivery needs controlled inputs and outputs
- >Next Mile knows what makes engineers successful
- >We systematize your delivery engine
- >You release quality code repeatedly
Key activities
- >Intake delivery program context
- >Diagnose process, design, engineering, and release
- >Fix misfiring or missing capabilities
Key outcomes
- >Know why things work and don't work
- >Implemented disciplines that create efficiency
- >Mitigated issues, stronger releases
Optimize
Rehabilitate an underperforming digital initiative
$20k–50k (per month)
Boost asset performance and stop crises
Here’s what happens:
Problem and approach
- >Delivery problems escalate requiring intervention
- >When crisis strikes, you must break the cycle
- >Next Mile calms and evaluates your situation
- >We resolve symptoms and root causes
- >Your initiatve delivers expected value
Key activities
- >Honest tech, team, process, and offering evals
- >Clearly define the scope, approach, and rules
- >Optimize appropriately, undo impediments
Key outcomes
- >Stabilized digital delivery program
- >Incremental peformance gains
- >Realized productivity, tangible outputs
Migrate
Identify your ideal technologies
$15k–35k+ (3–4 weeks)
Build a system that propels your business
Here’s what happens:
Problem and approach
- >Technology shouldn't restrict your potential
- >Ensure that technology serves your needs
- >Our multi-system insight clarifies choices
- >We architect an ecosystem that empowers you
- >You amplify reach, efficiency, and efficacy
Key activities
- >Current state intake for business and customers
- >Translate aspirations to requirements
- >Link needs to technologies, distill options
Key outcomes
- >Migration plan, approach roadmap
- >Options, paths forward, implications of each
- >Recommended priority actions
Adapt
Adjust trajectory without starting over
$15k–50k (3–6 weeks)
Gain traction on a better path
Here’s what happens:
Problem and approach
- >Your program should change course, not slow down
- >Expertise and finesse make rapid change possible
- >Next Mile audits your situation against your goals
- >We define a focused path foward
- >You spark relevance and re-engagement
Key activities
- >Goals, plans, tech, and/or team audit
- >Change forecast, selection, and implementation
- >Veteran management through transitions
Key outcomes
- >Traction and momentum in an improved direction
- >Observations, analysis, and recommendations
- >The path forward in 5 critical tasks
Pivot
Right the ship and salvage sunk costs
$30k–60k (3–5 weeks)
A steady hand when you need it most
Here’s what happens:
Problem and approach
- >A digital product or program isn't working
- >Empathy and experience stabilize crises
- >We bring team, technical, and business acumen
- >We resolve challenges together
- >You reboot progress and stop digital stress
Key activities
- >Triage, cause analysis, hard conversations
- >Technology and operations management
- >Guidance through a difficult moment
Key outcomes
- >Critical actions, right now
- >Audit findings and recommendations
- >Revamped delivery program
Modernize
Reinvent your offering with modern digital
$25k–60k (3–6 weeks)
Compel existing and new customers
Here’s what happens:
Problem and approach
- >Your customers or teams need something better
- >Elegant digital can improve their experience
- >Next Mile helps you see past the status quo
- >We transform your best instincts into digital action
- >You create headway with viable offerings
Key activities
- >Current state, value prop, and hypotheses
- >Internal strategy, external research, lessons learned
- >Product and offering definition
Key outcomes
- >High-level concepts for new offerings
- >Clear next actions for your team
- >Attainable digital opportunity