Your POC, by design.
Built around how your teams already work.
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Our belief
We run designed POCs.
Not extended demos. A structured simulation of real work – short enough to respect your time, broad enough to feel representative, rigorous enough to predict how adoption will actually go.
You did not get where you are by following bad practices. So we will not ask you to change them. We will learn how your teams plan, track, report, and review – then configure our product to support that exact rhythm. You should feel like you are using a polished version of your own world, not someone else’s.
What a designed POC means
Three things we hold ourselves to.
Short
A focused timeframe, not an open-ended evaluation.
POCs that drag lose momentum. We structure ours to demonstrate value quickly – with a defined start, middle, and end.
Representative
A sensible cross-section of roles, not a one-person walkthrough.
Adoption is rarely one person’s story. We simulate how the product lands across a meaningful sample of your team.
Predictive
Reasonable assurance that adoption will land, before you commit.
By the end, you should know where stickiness will be fast, where it will need support, and what rollout would actually look like.
The journey
Your journey.
Four phases, designed to flow into each other. Each one does a specific job.
01
Discovery
We listen.
Focused conversations to understand how you plan, track, report, and review today. We ask for redacted samples of your real artifacts.
02
Configuration
We build around you.
We translate your terminology, mirror your workflows, and create a personalized one-pager for each participant.
03
Test drive
You drive.
Each participant works through their one-pager in their own rhythm. We run office hours. The product meets your real work.
04
Readout
We decide together.
A month-end and QBR simulation. A closing session where you rate. A readout answered against the criteria we set together upfront.
The differentiator
Your people. Personalized one-pagers.
Typically three to ten participants – the roles that matter most to how you operate. Each gets a simple one-page overview of their work inside the product, in your language. Not a generic product tour.
Examples only – pick the roles that matter to how you operate.
D daily · W weekly · M monthly · Q quarterly
This is your personal one-pager for the POC. It mirrors how your week actually runs at NovaTide – the same rituals, the same reviews, the same numbers – but inside our product. Work through it at your own pace. You are not learning the product; you are doing your job, and seeing how it feels.
Daily
~10 minutes, mornings
Open Western Europe – Live Pulse. Glance at last 24h: ride volume vs forecast, driver utilization in Berlin / Amsterdam / Paris, top 3 cities by surge minutes, cancellations.
› WE Pulse
Scan flagged incidents overnight – anything tagged safety or service-disruption. Acknowledge or escalate to your GMs. Incident . Flagged · HR
Weekly
Monday / 9:30 / Friday calls
Run your Monday Ops Review with the 6 City GMs. The view is pre-built: WoW supply, demand, completion rate, NPS. Click into Lyon – it’s running 4pp below forecast on driver hours.
› Reviews › We Monday
Friday: Status note up to the COO. Auto-drafted from the week’s signals – review, edit, send. The format mirrors what you currently send via Slack.
› Reports › Weekly Status
Monthly
First Friday
Month-end close on regional KPIs. Sign off on completion rate, gross bookings, market share. Your variance commentary flows directly into the Exec pack – no re-keying.
› Close › We Region
Initiative check-in on the three regional bets you own this quarter (Driver Onboarding 2.0 · Airport Routing · Off-peak Pilot). Each has a status pulse, a blocker view, and a forward-looking ask.
› Initiatives › Owner › AS
Quarterly
Month 1 / Month 2 / Month 3
Build your QBR narrative for the Exec team. Pull the auto-generated regional summary, layer your story, drop in two case studies from the cities. The deck builds itself from the data you’ve already signed off through the quarter.
› QBR › WE Q4
If you get stuck
Open office hours during the test drive – drop in any time, no booking required. Or message your CS contact directly.
Nothing here should require training. If it does, that’s signal to the design.
What we will ask you at the end
Two questions only: How natural did this feel for your role? And where would adoption stick or stumble across your team if we rolled this out tomorrow?
Test drive
You drive. We observe and support.
Participants work through their one-pagers in their own rhythm. We stay close without hovering.
Kickoff
The team together. We show that the environment mirrors your world. One-pagers go out.
Solo Test Drive
Each person works their one-pager at their own pace. Open office hours from us.
Checkpoint
Unblock questions. Catch anyone quietly struggling before it becomes a problem.
Cadence Simulations
Month-end close. QBR rehearsal. The product earns its place in your rhythm.
Closing Session
Group walkthrough of what you experienced. You rate usability. You predict adoption.
The readout
The readout. Against your criteria, agreed upfront.
Alignment
We capture.
At the start, we write down the exact questions your leadership will ask you about this product. We agree the decision criteria before we configure anything.
No surprises. No gotchas.
Readout
We answer.
The readout walks through every criterion, one by one, with specifics drawn from your own test drive. Adoption predicted by role. A rollout plan that extends – not restarts – what you built.
Making it land
What tends to help this work best.
None of these are mandatory. They are what tend to make POCs like this land well – flex them freely to what suits you.
01
A handful of participants
Typically three to ten people, across the roles that matter most to how you operate. Wider breadth gives richer feedback.
02
Focused conversations
A short series of discussions on how you plan, track, report, and review. As many or as few as feel useful.
03
Redacted sample artifacts
A real status report. A plan. A review deck. A dashboard. The more real your samples, the more your world we can mirror.
04
A sponsor sanity-check
A brief review before we configure. Your sponsor catches anything we have misread about your terminology or workflows.
05
Attendance at key moments
The kickoff, a checkpoint along the way, and the closing session. Engagement at these is what shapes the feedback.
06
The right audience for the readout
The people whose input matters in the decision. Whoever they are, wherever they sit – we will make it work for them.
Your outcomes
What you walk away with.
Regardless of the decision you make at the end, you leave the POC with these.
A tailored environment
Configured in your terminology, mirroring your hierarchy and workflows. Not a sandbox – your world inside our product.
Personalized one-pagers
A simple one-page overview for each participant, showing how their everyday work looks inside the product. Nothing heavy, nothing to learn.
An adoption prediction
By role, with specifics. Where stickiness will be fast. Where enablement will be needed. Grounded in observed behavior.
A rollout plan
If you choose to continue with us, the plan extends the work done during the POC. You do not start from zero.
Ready?
The first step is an alignment conversation – to understand the people, the decision, and what success looks like for you.