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PEARL CODE

Clear From First Conversation to Production

Our four-stage engineering methodology is designed for predictable delivery, zero surprises, transparent sprint demos, and ironclad technical documentation.

PHASE 01

Technical Discovery & Architectural Blueprint

Before writing any code, we conduct thorough technical discovery. We analyze your transaction loads, third-party payment rails, sensor telemetry constraints, and database relationships.

Phase Deliverables: Functional Technical Specification (FTS), Database Entity-Relationship Diagrams (ERDs), API Interface Contracts, and Cloud Deployment Plan.
PHASE 02

Figma Design Systems & Hardware Breadboards

We translate specifications into interactive visual artifacts. Software products receive high-fidelity, clickable Figma prototypes with complete design tokens. Hardware products receive breadboard circuit verification and sensor signal analysis.

Phase Deliverables: Clickable Figma User Flows, Design Token System, Firmware Benchmarks, and Client UX Signoff.
PHASE 03

Agile Production Sprints & Firmware Flashing

Development operates in disciplined two-week sprints. Every pull request undergoes peer review, automated unit tests, and nightly integration builds. Clients receive weekly video demos and staging environment access.

Phase Deliverables: Clean Git Repository with TDD test suites, MTN MoMo & Airtel Money Sandbox integrations, Bare-metal C++ firmware builds, and staging demo reviews.
PHASE 04

Production Hardening & Full Code Handover

We conduct load testing under simulated peak concurrency, configure multi-region Kubernetes clusters, harden firewalls, and execute live data migrations. Upon launch, we conduct team knowledge transfer and transfer 100% of IP and assets.

Phase Deliverables: Production Cluster Deployment, Zero-Downtime CI/CD Pipelines, SRE Monitoring Dashboards, and Complete Source Code Handover.

Zero Black-Box Engineering

You have full visibility into your codebase, sprint velocity, and hardware lab tests at all times.

Shared Slack & GitHub

Direct asynchronous communication with the actual engineers writing your code. No bloated agency account managers translating technical requirements.

Bi-Weekly Working Demos

At the end of every two-week sprint, we demo working software deployed on staging or live hardware running on our test bench.

Guaranteed Milestone SLAs

We anchor each project to concrete delivery milestones with clear acceptance criteria and zero ambiguity on scope completion.

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