Sharpen the bet before you spend the engineering quarter.
Algoramming offers product design and consultation, and product strategy consulting, from Dhaka, Bangladesh for founders and teams across the UAE, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, the US, the UK, and Australia. We pressure-test the idea, scope the smallest valuable build, and turn it into a costed, prioritised roadmap before you spend an engineering quarter.
Before you build, get the strategy right. We help product teams find the right problem, frame the right bet, and design the smallest valuable slice to test it.
One senior team, one playbook, applied to the specialism your project actually needs. Each opens a full brief of its own: outcomes, deliverables, and the questions teams ask before signing.
A long-form view of what this service line actually means in practice, written for the people who buy it and the people who will live inside the product after launch.
Covered end to end4
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Product design and consultation before the build burns a quarter
Most products fail because they ship the wrong thing well. Product design and consultation exists to stop that from happening on your watch. Before you commit an engineering quarter, you should know which problem you are actually solving, who it is genuinely for, and what evidence would tell you that the bet is paying off. We work with product leaders, founders, and operators to sharpen all three. The output is a clear bet, the smallest valuable slice that can test it, and a written go or no-go you can take to your board without rephrasing later in the week.
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Prototype sprints that test the risky product bets first
We do not write fifty-slide strategy decks. We design and test the riskiest screens first, with real users, in two-to-three week prototype sprints. Opportunity solution trees, jobs-to-be-done interviews, and concept tests against working prototypes mean you find out whether the idea has legs before your engineering team builds it. When discovery says do not build this, that is one of the most valuable outcomes the engagement can give you. Killing a bad bet early saves quarters of work, and we will say it plainly when the evidence points that way.
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Product roadmaps your team can actually plan around
A roadmap that nobody trusts is just a wish list. Every product design and consultation engagement ends with a roadmap that maps cleanly to your team's actual capacity, ranked by impact and risk, with assumptions named in writing. We pair a senior strategist with a senior designer on every engagement so commercial intent and craft stay in the same conversation. We work alongside your product manager, not in place of them. Our job is to leave them with a sharper thesis, a defensible backlog, and a quarter they can plan with both confidence and humility.
Built for
Teams who recognise themselves here.
If one of these sounds like your situation, the rest of this page is calibrated for you. If none does, send a note anyway: we will tell you whether we are the right partner.
01Audience
Founders sitting on a bet they cannot yet articulate
02Audience
Product leaders deciding what their team should build next quarter
03Audience
Stakeholders weighing build, buy, or do-nothing
What you get
Outcomes, not deliverables.
We measure success in shipped value, not Jira tickets closed. Every engagement is anchored to a small number of outcomes both sides can defend.
Two-week shipping rhythm
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A crisp problem statement everyone on the team can repeat from memory
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An opportunity map ranked by impact and effort, with the riskiest assumptions surfaced
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A testable prototype of the smallest valuable slice, not a wishlist
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A go-to-market and metrics plan that connects design to revenue or retention
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A roadmap your engineering leads can actually plan a quarter around
What we deliver
Concrete artifacts, not slide decks.
These are the tangible things that land in your accounts at the end of an engagement. Everything lives in your repositories, your cloud, and your control from day one.
Ownership
Repositories, cloud, and domain stay yours
No proprietary tooling locks you in
Walk-away contract clause on every engagement
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Artifact
A sharpened problem statement and target user definition
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Artifact
A costed, prioritised feature backlog with risk ratings
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Artifact
A clickable prototype of the riskiest screens
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Artifact
A technology-choice memo with explicit trade-offs
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Artifact
A written go/no-go recommendation
How we engage
Three shapes, one quality bar.
Match the engagement model to where your problem is today. The team, the cadence, and the standards do not change between shapes.
01 · Engagement
Project
Fixed scope · fixed price
Discover, design, build, launch, and hand over. One number, one date, one team accountable from kick-off to keys.
Best for: Clear brief, real deadline.
02 · Engagement
Retainer
Monthly · rolling backlog
A fixed senior allocation each month against a re-ranked backlog. Ship what matters every two weeks and review the plan together.
Best for: Priorities shift faster than annual plans.
03 · Engagement
Embedded
Per-engineer · monthly
We embed in your Slack, your repos, and your sprint board, on-camera daily, treated as your team for the duration.
Best for: In-house engineers who need senior horsepower.
Our process
Discover → Design → Build → Launch → Support.
The same playbook on every project. Boring, on purpose. Predictable, by design. The bead below traces the path we walk together, every time.
01Discover
→
02Design
→
03Build
→
04Launch
→
05Support
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Discover
Stakeholder interviews, customer interviews, and a hard look at the numbers you already have.
Phase 01 / 05
2
Design
Opportunity solution trees, prototype sprints, and concept tests with real users.
Phase 02 / 05
3
Build
We pair with your team to ship the smallest experiment that proves or kills the idea.
Phase 03 / 05
4
Launch
We help you instrument, segment, and read the data without lying to yourselves.
Phase 04 / 05
5
Support
Quarterly product reviews: what to double down on, what to sunset, what to try next.
Phase 05 / 05
Our toolkit
Pragmatic tools. Senior judgement.
The 10 tools below are the everyday kit our team reaches for on this service line. None of them are sacred; every choice is justified against the problem in front of us.
Interface
Application
Data and APIs
Cloud and delivery
01Miro
02Figma
03FigJam
04Mixpanel
05Amplitude
06Notion
07Productboard
08Linear
09Maze
10Dovetail
Common questions
Things teams ask before signing.
Have a different one? Send a single email; we usually answer within a business day.
No. We work alongside your product team, not in place of it. Our job is to leave your PM with a clearer thesis and a roadmap they own.
02How long is a typical engagement?
A focused discovery is four to six weeks. A prototype sprint is two to three. Long retainers usually run a quarter at a time, with a clear exit ramp.
03What does a product design consultant actually do?
A product design consultant helps you decide what to build before anyone writes code. We sharpen the problem, map the opportunities, prototype and test the riskiest bets with real users, and hand back a costed roadmap and a clear go or no-go you can defend to your board.
04Do you work with clients in the UAE, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, the US, the UK, and Australia?
Yes. We work from Dhaka, Bangladesh with founders and teams across the UAE, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, the US, the UK, and Australia, running discovery and prototype sprints remotely with overlapping hours for interviews and reviews.
05How do you validate a product idea before we build it?
We test the risky assumptions first, not the whole idea at once. Jobs-to-be-done interviews, opportunity solution trees, and concept tests against a working prototype tell us whether the bet has legs in two to three weeks, long before an engineering quarter is committed.
06How much does a product discovery engagement cost?
It scales with how much research is needed and how many bets we test. A focused discovery or prototype sprint is a small fraction of a full build. We agree the scope and a firm number in a short scoping call before any work starts.
