GATEWAY
03 · Validate

Proof of Concept

Resolve the critical technical or operating question before committing to production.

A controlled implementation with explicit success criteria, technical evidence and a recommendation for the path to production.

Start here when

Match the engagement to the decision in front of you.

  1. 01

    A critical privacy, performance, integration or operating assumption remains unproven.

  2. 02

    Decision-makers need inspectable evidence before approving a production programme.

  3. 03

    The target architecture needs testing against a real institutional workflow and environment.

Typical working group
  • Product owner
  • Architecture and engineering
  • Security
  • Operations
  • Control owners
Gateway's role

Validate the hardest question, not a generic demo

Every PoC begins with a falsifiable question and an evidence plan. Scope stays narrow enough to produce a useful production decision.

  1. 01

    Set the question and boundary

    Define the workflow, environment, integrations, participants and assumption being tested.

  2. 02

    Agree success criteria

    Specify functional, control, performance and operating evidence before implementation begins.

  3. 03

    Implement and observe

    Build the controlled path, exercise failure modes and preserve attributable test evidence.

  4. 04

    Make the production recommendation

    State what was proven, what remains unresolved and whether to proceed, revise or stop.

What you receive

A tangible basis for the next institutional decision.

Gateway designs focused proofs of concept around real institutional requirements, including privacy, identity, interoperability, migration, settlement and infrastructure performance.

  1. 01PoC scope and test architecture
  2. 02Named success and failure criteria
  3. 03Controlled implementation
  4. 04Technical and operating evidence pack
  5. 05Risk and assumption register
  6. 06Production recommendation
Exit criteria

The critical question has an evidence-backed answer and the institution can make an explicit production, redesign or stop decision.

Validate with Gateway

A controlled implementation with explicit success criteria, technical evidence and a recommendation for the path to production.

Exit criteria: The critical question has an evidence-backed answer and the institution can make an explicit production, redesign or stop decision.