Services

Get the domain model clear before you buy more software.

This is Hadto's front-end design offer. It fits buyers whose domain matters, is named badly, or is spread across too many systems and teams. The goal is a model and system design another operator can inspect, challenge, and keep using.

Problems this fixes

The business language goes soft right where the system needs precision

Teams keep using the same words for different states, roles, documents, or decisions, so each implementation inherits ambiguity instead of clearing it up.

Software and AI work starts before the model is stable

A buyer may know they need new workflows, automation, or reporting, but the project still stalls because nobody has defined what the system must answer or which artifacts are canonical.

Derivative reports are becoming the contract

When a summary, export, or local schema becomes the memory of the business, handoffs get fragile and downstream changes silently break upstream meaning.

Deliverables

  • An evidence-backed domain map covering entities, states, roles, events, documents, and the important constraints between them.
  • A competency-question pack that defines what the future system must be able to answer and what counts as a usable answer.
  • A system-design memo that makes source-of-truth boundaries, reporting layers, automation boundaries, and review gates explicit before implementation starts.
  • A stakeholder review package that lets leaders approve the model and the boundaries in plain language before money gets spent on build work.

Buying shape and price posture

This offer is for buyers who need the operating model clarified before implementation money is committed. It is priced like a bounded design engagement, not an open-ended advisory retainer.

  • Format: Front-end design engagement that produces a domain map, competency-question pack, and source-of-truth memo before build work starts.
  • Typical timeline: Usually 3 to 6 weeks depending on how much of the domain still needs to be named and reviewed.
  • Budget posture: $9,000 to $18,000 depending on domain breadth, stakeholder count, and the number of systems or reports that need source-of-truth decisions.
  • What changes price: Price moves up when the business model spans more teams, more conflicting reports, or higher-stakes system replacement decisions. It stays lower when the buyer needs one bounded model and one review cycle before implementation.

Worked example

Worked example: a multi-system operator stuck before a platform rebuild

A service business wants to rebuild its customer platform and add AI support, but leadership cannot agree on what counts as an active job, who owns status changes, or which system is the source of truth for pricing, fulfillment, and customer commitments. Every planning session turns into a naming argument.

The engagement turns that argument into a reviewable domain package. Leaders get a domain map, a competency-question pack, and a system-boundary memo that says which system owns each decision and which downstream reports are derivative. That clears the path for implementation without guessing.

Proof artifacts you can review

Decision packet

A stakeholder packet that lists the entities, states, roles, and source-of-truth decisions that require executive approval before software work starts.

Competency-question pack

A concrete set of business questions the future system must answer, with examples of what a usable answer looks like in practice.

System-boundary memo

A memo that shows where reporting ends, where source systems begin, and which automation boundaries are safe versus risky.

Why this is a real offer

  • The platform currently covers 417 out of 417 competency questions across Hadto's current modeled surface.
  • The work starts from explicit questions and reviewable artifacts instead of intuition dressed up as discovery.
  • The current public research already shows both repeatable packaging in home services and differentiated depth in professional services.
  • Hadto's public ontology notes keep tying the method back to business transfer, handoff clarity, and source-of-truth discipline.

Qualification notes

  • Best before a platform rebuild, workflow automation push, AI rollout, or major data cleanup effort.
  • Use it when stakeholders cannot agree on entities, states, roles, or source-of-truth boundaries.
  • Fits buyers who need a reviewable design package, not a vague discovery phase.

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A design engagement for teams that need the business model, system rules, and source-of-truth boundaries clear before software, automation, or AI work moves ahead.