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Our process starts with alignment

Our Strategic Alignment process uncovers the challenges, opportunities, and requirements that shape your product’s path to success. This structured, collaborative phase transfers knowledge, builds shared context, and defines your MVP and beyond. Through focused sessions and hands-on collaboration, we deliver clarity around scope, timeline, and resources, resulting in a Product Development Plan that accelerates scalable growth.

But the real impact goes deeper. This process often sparks new insights, sharpens priorities, and builds lasting confidence across teams and investors alike. It’s how we turn uncertainty into direction and set every project on a clear, confident path forward.

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A roadmap that moves with you

Our Product Development Plan is a living guide, continuously reviewed and refined to keep your team aligned as your product evolves. Each plan documents the strategy, architecture, and roadmap needed to move from concept to scale with precision and purpose.

  • Identify core problems, define a long-term vision, and translate it into an actionable plan with achievable milestones.

  • Prioritize features, sequence initiatives, and align cross-functional teams to turn your vision into execution.

  • Evaluate your systems to identify gaps in scalability, performance, and compliance — then define a foundation for long-term growth.

  • Outline milestones across quarters, including key features, improvements, and the timing and resources needed to deliver.

  • Create a hiring plan that scales with your product, defining who to hire, when to hire, and how to balance internal and external teams.

  • Develop a financial model that supports your roadmap, projecting development costs, team expansion, and future investment needs.

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Will Harris, Executive Director | WCCN

“Mile Marker helped our organization understand what a path forward from our aging infrastructure technology could look like. It gave our team the opportunity to identify and discuss our real pain points with an experienced tech facilitator, and Mile Marker gave our team many ideas we have never considered before.”

Your expertise drives the process

Our process works because it’s built on collaboration. You’re the expert in your market, and we’re the experts in building scalable software. Together, we ask the right questions, uncover opportunities, and shape the best solutions through transparency and shared insight.

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Collaboration

This is a highly collaborative process built around your input — your vision guides every decision.

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Time Commitment

Typically, the workshop includes about six hours of meetings and ten hours of asynchronous work to refine outcomes.

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Homework

Targeted exercises deepen our understanding of your product and customers, helping us make the most of every working session.

Benjamin Taft, Co-Founder | TRT Speech Labs

“I showed your product development plan to my Technology Advisor. He was blown away. He literally used the word "unicorn" in our conversation. Based on the strength of your work and his recommendation, we have successfully raised funds.” 

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Our Strategic Alignment process meets you right where you are. We’ll help you refine your vision, define your MVP, and set a smart, strategic course from idea to launch.

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