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Launch A Product

Launch your product with our full-service design and development option, efficiently transforming your idea into a market-ready solution.

Building software products in the energy industry is risky.

So many seemingly obvious ideas struggle to get past the Pilot stage due to technical, regulatory, or organizational surprise

Common energy software building risks

Lack of problem & solution clarity means building the wrong thing for the wrong people.
Misaligned goals & expectations across stakeholders means messy products and missed targets.
Committing to building something without derisking major potential technical hurdles mean budget and timelines slips.

From Ideation to Live Product Delivery

A project cadence that works for all stakeholders

Phase One

Design

We dedicate time to deeply researching stakeholder and user needs to ensure our solutions are perfectly designed. We allocate a third of our schedule to the Design phase, which consists of market research, product definition, and UI/UX design. Good design is essential for success; without it, we risk building the wrong solution - whether it's in user experience, database schemas, or even operational frameworks.

Phase Two

Development

The Development Phase is when our engineering team goes into deep focus to translate designs into a functioning product that is 90% complete, so that stakeholders can start providing feedback as soon as possible.

Other teams wait until a product is pixel perfect before sharing with stakeholders. We believe that's too late. It is often more valuable to user test a near-final product than it is to wait until it's pixel-perfect. Our approach is key to ensuring our ability to meet our partner budget, scope, and timeline expectations.

Phase Three

Delivery

Delivery doesn't just happen in a split second when a developer presses a LAUNCH button. All too often clients change copy, designers tweak views, PMs add features, and developers optimize code. Ignoring that Delivery is a phase and not a singular moment in time is why so many deadlines are missed.

To launch the best products we can, we give Delivery a full third of our time. By giving it the space it deserves, we test the final product on real users and make the high-value modifications that only become obvious when a product is live.

Schedule a chat with us and we'll share other ways we ensure top notch delivery.

How Long Does This Initiative Typically Take?

Clarity in Scope and Timeline

Ensure your projects are viable and stay on track with clear timelines and defined scopes. We prioritize transparency from start to finish - here's what to expect:

3 to 6 Months

Time To Launch

Live Product

Final Output

Iterate & Scale

In Subsequent Phases

F.A.Q.

Frequently asked questions from past clients

Organizations that have a product or product-dependent idea but lack the team availability or skills to make it a reality come to us.

Our senior team of energy industry Product Managers, Software Developers, and Designers will guide you through every step of the way towards achieving your vision.

We'll help you start on the right foot from the start by taking you through a custom-tailored program to set a product strategy & vision, create an implementation plan, and then develop & launch your product in efficient, prioritized phases.

A dedicated Bellawatt team of Product Managers, Software Developers, and Designers will collaborate closely with you as we take you through our proprietary program of research and development to efficiently and effectively launch your product.

We typically take clients through a Discovery, Design, and Launch program, and optionally pursue subsequent phases of work to continue to optimize on the product using our continued research, analytics, and findings. Each phase of work will have discrete deliverables that start with discovery & planning and culminate in well-designed and tested live products.

Our deliverables include a comprehensive Implementation Plan, which features findings from customer and stakeholder in-depth interviews, a clear product vision, and a scoped, actionable product roadmap in discrete phases.

In Design we will provide high fidelity design prototypes that have been usability tested with staff and customers in conjunction with gathering feedback from you and your team.

Then we will develop, test, and launch the first and subsequent versions of your product. After launch, we can optionally maintain any product we build for you. As you can see, we intend to be a close partner with you and your team from the early idea days to later generations of increasingly successful products.

Given the complexity of products can vary significantly, we'll need to work closely with you to understand and scope the effort. That said, we have a history of researching and launching simple products in less than three months, and full-featured complex products like PG&E's Guide (guide.pge.com) in 5 months.

Partners can tell us what they're timelines are, and we'll work with you to make a plan to confidently meet them. Bellawatt prides itself on never having delivered a product late.

“Bellawatt has been an excellent energy software partner- they took our need to connect devices all over our service territory and boiled it down into easy-to-use, efficient, and streamlined software that helped make our project a reality.”

— Brian Callnan

VP Power Resources & Access, NHEC